1. You unwrap gifts very carefully, so you can save and reuse the wrapping (and especially those ribbons)

 2. When there is a sale on toilet paper, you buy 100 rolls and store them in your closet or in the bedroom of an adult child who has moved out.

 3. You keep a thermos  of hot water available at all times.

 4. You save grocery bags, tin foil and tin containers. You use the grocery bags to hold garbage.

 5. You hate to waste food:
 a) Even if you are totally full, if someone says they're going to throw away the leftovers   on the table, you'll finish them. Your mum will give a lecture abut starving kids in Africa.)
 b) You have tupperware in your fridge with three bites of riceor one leftover chicken wing.

 6. You don't own real Tupperware-only a cupboard full of used but carefully rinsed
 margarine tubs, take out containers and jam jars.

 7. You have a collection of minature shampoo bottles that you take every time you
 stay in a hotel.

 8. You wipe your plate and utensils or wash them in a small basin of hotwater you eat
 everytime you go to a restaurant.

 9. You own a rice cooker and a slow cooker.

10. You wash your rice at least 2-3 times before cooking it.
 11. You fight (verbally) over who pays the dinner bill.

12. You have a teacup with a cover on it.

13. If you're under 20, you own a really expensive walkman. If you're over 20, you own a
 a very expensive camera.

14. You're a wok user.

15. You only make long distance calls after 7 p.m.

16. You prefer your shrimps with heads and legs still attached - it means they are fresh.

17. You never call your parents just to say hi.

18. If you don't live at home, when your parents call, they'll ask if you have eaten, even if
 it is midnight.

19. Your parents tell you to boil herbs and stay inside when you get sick. They also tell
 you not to eat fried foods or baked foods because they are heaty ('yeet hay' in Cantonese).

20. You e-mail your Chinese friends at work, even though you only sit 10 feet apart.

21. You always cook too much.

22. You eat every last grain of rice in your bowl, but don't eat the last piece of food on
 the table.

23. You starve yourself before going to 'all you can eat' buffet.

24. You know someone who can get you a good deal on jewelry or electronics.

25. You own your own meat cleaver and sharpen it.

26. Your tooth-paste tubes are squeezed paper-thin.

27. You wrap with napkins all the knives, spoons and forks of the airline that you fly on
 and put in your travel bag as souvenirs.

28. You never forget to take with you all the unused bath and facial tissues when you check out from the hotel because you believe that you have paid it all.

29. You will laugh at ypurself when you read all of them

30. And you will always be proud because you are Chinese. If you are laughing, you
 should be proud being one.