Stingiest thing you've seen stingy people do

s14driftking · 31-05-2010 1:31pm

brillant thread

jellybeans · 31-05-2010 9:42pm

Mossy Monk wrote: »

In fairness I wouldn't pay for bottles of wine drank by others

on that topic I hate going out for meals with big groups of people, Im a vegetarian and don't drink so I always get stung. The last time I was out on a work night I got a starter of hummos and bread dip and for my main i ordered a salad (they brought me a starter portion) and it cost me 55 euro! I was rightly cheesed off because they spilt the bill NO MATTER WHAT you've eaten on drank

jellybeans · 31-05-2010 10:05pm

Biggins wrote: »

She had her own income. believe it or not, she was a cleaner (on top of unemployment benefit)! The husband was also sending home money when he was in the army.

She was also stingy with her own time with her kids.
She never took them anywhere (the first time my wife travelled anywhere was with me to Dublin! Then the first time she was out of the country was when I took her up to Newry. She was in the car with my mother and myself and she admitted "This is the first time I've been out of the republic"), the mother never taught them how to cook, they had to learn themselves. Never taught them any skills, they had to learn EVERYTHING from their aunts and that included all about the female growing up problems.
The mother was stingy to the core about everything she did and time spent!

I hate the ground she walks on. One miserable stingy bitch.

she just sounds like a $hit mother, I wouldn't necessarily call her stingy just an absolute waste of space!

mal1 · 31-05-2010 10:12pm

jellybeans wrote: »

on that topic I hate going out for meals with big groups of people, Im a vegetarian and don't drink so I always get stung. The last time I was out on a work night I got a starter of hummos and bread dip and for my main i ordered a salad (they brought me a starter portion) and it cost me 55 euro! I was rightly cheesed off because they spilt the bill NO MATTER WHAT you've eaten on drank

yeap, that's unfair. I would speak up if i saw that happening.

I went out with a group of friends and we decided to pay for our own meals and drink but to give 10% of the total bill as a tip and just to split the 10% equally between all. One of the crowd wasn't happy and wanted to pay just 10% of his own dinner. Now that's what i call mean!

_sparkie_ · 06-06-2010 5:28pm

wow, i just read this whole thread. it took me like two weeks but it was well worth it. better then paying to see a funny movie in the cinema:D

Elzer · 06-06-2010 6:41pm

These are all mad..... But i went to oz in 1989 and went to Adelaide for the Grand Prix (Before it was moved to Melbourne), There were 5 of us and we only had the money for my sister and i, So i went in got the stamp on my hand and then went back out to the car and wet the stamp and transfered to all the others hands so they could to get in...... mad but well worth it and yes it worked.........:D:p:cool:

Elzer · 06-06-2010 6:52pm

Heres another....... My brother in-law always says he will lend my partner money so he can go for a drink with him, So my partner takes him up on the offer only to be stuck all night drinking at the pace of his so kind brother........(he's a very slow drinker) so my partner was not able to get his own drink at his own pace....... Needless to say he has never taken him up on the offer again........lol:p

Bonavox · 06-06-2010 6:57pm

Awesome thread is awesome.

The Big Red Button · 06-06-2010 7:01pm

Elzer wrote: »

Heres another....... My brother in-law always says he will lend my partner money so he can go for a drink with him, So my partner takes him up on the offer only to be stuck all night drinking at the pace of his so kind brother........(he's a very slow drinker) so my partner was not able to get his own drink at his own pace....... Needless to say he has never taken him up on the offer again........lol:p

Ummmm ... who are you saying is the stingey one here?!

WIZE · 06-06-2010 7:16pm

Elzer wrote: »

Heres another....... My brother in-law always says he will lend my partner money so he can go for a drink with him, So my partner takes him up on the offer only to be stuck all night drinking at the pace of his so kind brother........(he's a very slow drinker) so my partner was not able to get his own drink at his own pace....... Needless to say he has never taken him up on the offer again........lol:p

Beggers cant be choosers

yuloni · 06-06-2010 8:59pm

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veryangryman · 06-06-2010 10:24pm

Condi wrote: »

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Cant decide whether theyre legendary misers or miserly legends!

_sparkie_ · 07-06-2010 12:16am

Condi wrote: »

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was? it still is very much alive and kicking today.

Emoran · 07-06-2010 1:32am

i do agree that its the rich ones that are the worst !

im from a lower middle class family could be worse could be better i dont mind the life i have in fact im quite happy with it

but i do have god parents who are also my auntie and uncle who are millionaires . they have houses/apartments in tokyo london dublin and new york and 2 holiday homes in spain/france . i dont really see them often they are pretty nice but my god these people do not know how to spend money ! like obviously im exagerating but what harm would it be if they threw me 10,000 on the sly ?
for my 16th birthday i was given a buzz lightyear pencil case and some chopsticks from tokyo (a ****in pencil case for **** sake ! )

and for my 18th recently i was given 10 quid ?

moneys money to me and i was happy to pocket it but jesus christ talk about stingy !

worded · 07-06-2010 2:52am

There was a man from Belgrave
Who kept a dead whore in a cave
He said .... I know Ill admit
Im a bit of a sh1t
But think of the money I save.

Quazzie · 07-06-2010 7:16am

Emoran wrote: »

i do agree that its the rich ones that are the worst !

im from a lower middle class family could be worse could be better i dont mind the life i have in fact im quite happy with it

but i do have god parents who are also my auntie and uncle who are millionaires . they have houses/apartments in tokyo london dublin and new york and 2 holiday homes in spain/france . i dont really see them often they are pretty nice but my god these people do not know how to spend money ! like obviously im exagerating but what harm would it be if they threw me 10,000 on the sly ?
for my 16th birthday i was given a buzz lightyear pencil case and some chopsticks from tokyo (a ****in pencil case for **** sake ! )

and for my 18th recently i was given 10 quid ?

moneys money to me and i was happy to pocket it but jesus christ talk about stingy !

You think that's bad. For my birthday I get nothing off my Aunts and Uncles. Just because people have money, and more than likely spent their lives working hard to earn it, doesn't mean they have to give it away.

Pdfile · 07-06-2010 7:20am

i know a lad who Instead of like most of us, would go out on the town, taxis chipper loads of pints etc used to find the nearest yoke ( and i mean regardless of age weight etc im sure Rule 34 applys. ) and bring them home, wine and dine them on a tenner, ride them then take their money ( he was a well of bloke )

weather he done it for kicks or Profit i dunno but he made a few quid alright.

cnut.

mssin80 · 07-06-2010 11:25am

I work in a beauty salon,the wages are disgraceful but we make it up with the tips we get during the week.some people are more generous then others but one of the girls recently received a tip of...a really old english penny that looked like it had been up someones arse for a month,the metal back off a watch and a button :mad:

me thinks shes getting her eyebrow waxed off next time:D

BrianStorm · 07-06-2010 6:12pm

Went out with these people from work i'd recently became friends with. Usually when picking up the bill with my close friends we split the bill most times when its fair too. So when the bill was present to me and my work friends, we all had similar orders and i suggested that we split the bill. The shocking thing was the reaction i got. One of them looked at me and said you got an extra sauce it wouldnt be fair. These sauces are a whole whooping €1.
By far stingiest thing i've ever seen or heard of.

agrostar · 07-06-2010 11:55pm

A couple of lads i went to college with ran out of toilet paper, not being able to retrieve any from the college toilets as the dispensers had new locks fitted had to resort to some extreme measures 2 do a dump:rolleyes::rolleyes:. They would either go in college if they could or the pub which was where they spent the majority of their time anyway. But if they got caught short at home they would do their business then have to go for a shower to clean up the remains:eek::eek: Mad ****ers:D:D

minidazzler · 08-06-2010 12:15am

jellybeans wrote: »

on that topic I hate going out for meals with big groups of people, Im a vegetarian and don't drink so I always get stung. The last time I was out on a work night I got a starter of hummos and bread dip and for my main i ordered a salad (they brought me a starter portion) and it cost me 55 euro! I was rightly cheesed off because they spilt the bill NO MATTER WHAT you've eaten on drank

Don't be such a pussy then, tell them that you are only eating 10 euro worth of food, and don't drink, therefore why should you supplement other people? You are not being stingey if that's how you are like.

Drinks should NEVER be ordered on the bill anyway, becuase you will have those twats who order long island ice teas and expect that to be paid for by the people who drink the house specials.

rom · 08-06-2010 12:34am

I work with this guy

Story 1

He rang the hemp clothing shop in Camden Town as he knew I was going to London for the weekend. They had a website but he asked them what was in the bargain basket outside the door and asked them to hold a few items in it.

So anyways when I arrived to collect the items they were well aware of who I was even for hippies. I brought the stuff home only for two of the items to be way too small when he tried them on. Comical as he could nearly not get the jumper off his head when he put it on.

He planned on returning the item's. Flying Cork to Stanstead and sleeping overnight in the airport as the flights were only 99 cent each way.

Story 2
I finished college and I started working in my first job only for this guy to ask me for a loan. He is about 15 years older than me. The reason was that he didn't have enough money as he had just come back from holidays in Panama.

Story 3
He came to my wedding and as he didn't have suit he went into a 2nd hand shop bought a suit that morning for 10 euro. He looked like del-boy on the day.

Story 4
One day work I was talking to him and there was a pong off him. I asked him as there was no one else around when he last washed. He said he was down in a local lake over the weekend. So I asked him so you had a shower after that. No he replied. I had a wash there.

Story 5
I was up drinking beer in his house and I was surprised by the nice wheat beer he gave me. So I drank the first one and at the end he said "Not bad for beer thats 6 months out of date". He had bought the beer for half nothing because it was out of date.

Story 6
He had a small van and as he is so tight he would not change the oil in it. I asked him when was the last time he changed the oil because of the black smoke coming out of it. He said 2 years ago. I said you know that is costing you loads in petrol. He changed the oil then and started spending 1/2 the amount he was spending a week on petrol.

Story 7
He uses his neighbors broadband so much that they ended up changing the password because they were probably charged for all the crap he was downloading.

Story 8
He joined( I say joined, he didn't as he is using someone elses card) Cork City Library and has ripped even single CD that he could get his hands on.

Story 9
He bought a Van that could burn cooking oil and had two tanks. 1 for diesel and the other for cooking oil. He got the cooking oil from chinese restaurants and chippers and strained it himself.

Story 10
He is a couchsurfing as he won't pay to stay in even a hostel anywhere. www.couchsurfing.org/

Story 11
He spent a summer sleeping on different people's couches as he was too tight to get somewhere to live. He was about 37 at the time.

Story 12
I went to a GAA game with him once. We stopped for food. The rest of us didn't finish our food, half eaten rolls etc. He scrapped all our plates on to his.

Story 13
He wanted to change his swimming class from wednesday to thursday. So he went on wednesday and asked. Then went on thursday to get the most out of it.

Story 14
He is still classed as a student even though he is working 15 years.

Story 15
If he likes a gig thats on somewhere, then he waits till the interval and all the smokers come out and then goes in like he paid for it.

Story 16
At weddings he sleeps in his car as he doesn't want to pay for a room.

Story 17
He wanted to make me something for a wedding present cause he is so tight.

Story 18
He started cycling to work so he could get a good bike on the bike to work scheme.

I could write a book on him.

I work with this other guy who pays to get into nightclubs with coins and small coins at that.

He has a budget that when he goes out if he spent his money then no more drink for him. He is far from poor.

So when we go into a club with him he disappears for a few mins. You may think to go to the toilet. No he goes up and down the bar looking for money that people may have dropped.

I went on holidays with him in France we stayed in "hotels" that were 20 euro a night each. No bathroom in the room. they were located in industrial estates about 5 miles outside of anywhere we went. Not a bar for miles.

On the same holiday he wanted to drive 20 miles off the motorway to save 2 cent a liter on petrol. I worked it out that it would cost him money.

He would only take out 50 euro at a time from the ATM so it meant that some days he could end up going to the ATM 4 times. So in a two week holiday he went to the ATM about 30 times. He didn't drink as the beer was too expensive.

Same came on my stag and was in a lap dance club. Too cheap to get a lap dance he tried to get wifi with his iPhone, for what ? look at porn

Same guy was going away on holidays and had too much food in the fridge. He went ahead and ate everything in the fridge as he didn't want to waste anything. He was sick for 4 days a a result.

He buys womens razor blades as they are cheaper than mens.

agrostar · 08-06-2010 1:13am

Just remembered we once had this teacher in school who was as tight as hell, so one day for a laugh we super glued a two euro coin to the carpet in the classroom. On him entering the room the coin was spotted straight away and he proceeded to teach the class whiles keeping a close eye on the coin in case any of us would take it. When class was over we had to change rooms across the hall but having stuck the coin at the door we could still see everything that was going on. He firstly attempted to pick up the coin by hand but after failing he left without. We were in stitches funny out, only to see him return five minutes later with a wood chisel from the woodwork room down on his hands and knees, scrap the coin from the floor and put it in his pocket. Suppose the wages wouldnt be great for a poor ole secondary school teacher:D:D

08-06-2010 2:40am

Reading through this thread I'm constantly surprised by people who have numerous examples of someone they know being stingy yet they continue to hang out with them. If someone keeps borrowing money/beer/food/etc from you, never repaying you and it annoys you then don't associate with them.

Marvinthefish · 08-06-2010 3:01am

rom wrote: »

...womens razor blades...are cheaper than mens.

Really? Hmmmm...*strokes beard*

massdebater · 08-06-2010 10:35am

agrostar wrote: »

A couple of lads i went to college with ran out of toilet paper, not being able to retrieve any from the college toilets as the dispensers had new locks fitted had to resort to some extreme measures 2 do a dump:rolleyes::rolleyes:. They would either go in college if they could or the pub which was where they spent the majority of their time anyway. But if they got caught short at home they would do their business then have to go for a shower to clean up the remains:eek::eek: Mad ****ers:D:D

we used to do something similar to that when i was at college. when buying things from the local shop, we would pay for everything seperately and ask for a receipt for each item individually. we couldn't afford toilet roll so just used the receipts instead. looking back it was a fairly stingy thing to do!!

Capt'n Midnight · 08-06-2010 10:39am

rom wrote: »

Story 15
If he likes a gig thats on somewhere, then he waits till the interval and all the smokers come out and then goes in like he paid for it.

Hmm....

Truley · 08-06-2010 10:39am

rom wrote: »

I work with this guy

Story 1 ...

Oh my god I think I know the guy you're talking about!!! :eek:

vincenzolorenzo · 08-06-2010 10:48am

massdebater wrote: »

we used to do something similar to that when i was at college. when buying things from the local shop, we would pay for everything seperately and ask for a receipt for each item individually. we couldn't afford toilet roll so just used the receipts instead. looking back it was a fairly stingy thing to do!!

You're not actually serious are you? :eek:

Bob Z · 08-06-2010 10:52am

Truley wrote: »

Oh my god I think I know the guy you're talking about!!! :eek:

Its you isnt it?

joking:D

Stingiest thing you've seen stingy people do

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