Mark Cuban used this grocery store hack to get cheap food when he was broke (via CNBCMakeIt)
Cuban, who lived in a three-bedroom apartment with six roommates at the time, didn't just look for deals on food, though. He told Maher that while he needed to get to and from his bartending gig and make it to job interviews, he couldn't afford a car.
Cuban had "credit cards cut up" and "bill collectors" on his trail, he told Maher. But one day, he was with his friends when he saw an abandoned vehicle on the side of the road. They pulled over, and the car seemed to be in good shape. Better yet, it was unlocked and had a thick envelope full of loan papers on the front seat.
"It wasn't f—ed up," Cuban explained. "I knew from my own personal experience someone abandoned it because they couldn't make the payments." He took the papers and called the bank the next day. Cuban asked if he could take over the payments, and the bank agreed. Other 20-somethings wouldn't likely be able to copy his roadside strategy, he told Maher. After all, not everyone can rely on finding a working car left untouched on the side of the road. Plus, Cuban pointed out that it's nearly impossible these days to avoid anStill, Cuban has said in the past that his days of scraping by helped motivate him. "I had nothing.
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