When you don't have many resources, you don't have many options. So sometimes you just gotta throw your hands up and do things the cheap way because you just gotta get it done.

These people all shared their life hacks for squeezing the most out of the absolute least and getting away with things when life doesn't give you much to work with.

Some people might try to shame these folks for their thriftiness, but they're the true superheroes. Superman could never stretch $1 into five Big Macs.