Stingiest thing you've seen stingy people do

cloneslad · 06-01-2010 2:11pm

noodler wrote: »

Christ, I assume you have a Voodoo Doll of this gentleman?

we all worked together in a small school, sharing one teachers room, lived in the same block of apartments and there were only about 15 foreigners in our city, so we all socialised together.

He wasn't a bad lad, just a miserable backstard when it came to spending money, especially on others!!

Thargor · 06-01-2010 7:06pm

Theres a fairly big green area with a couple of pitches and wild patches behind my house that I walk through to get to college and shops etc, when this cold snap started there was a trolley lying on its side on the path one day so I picked it up and wheeled it around filling it up with branches and other bits of waste timber that were lying around so I could have a fire that night as our oil radiators are sh1te. One round I came back to the trolley with an armful of wood and there was a woman wheeling it away, she looked fairly normal, like any middle-aged housewife, I wasnt that far from the trolley that she wouldnt have known it was mine and seen what I was doing.

I ran up to her and go "Excuse me? Thats my wood..."

"Are you finished with this?" she goes, pointing at the trolley.

"Is it yours?" I go, even though it clearly belonged to Dunnes.

"No are you finished with the wood?" she says.

"Errr no, Im going to burn it first" I said looking at her funny.

"Oh I thought you mighn't have wanted it" she says, even though I had an armful in my hands, and walks off

pawrick · 06-01-2010 7:16pm

sweetie wrote: »

my dad tells a story from when he was younger and he was drinking with some friends and one of them was teetotal. When it came to his round he bought 4 fizzy oranges for them.

same thing happened to me and some mates.

a friend of one of my friends came out with us one night - we didn't know him before this. Got in to a round and when it was his turn he came back with 5 packs of King Crisps!!! Said he had enough to drink!!!! Honestly - If you're in a round and had enough just buy the round back and say I'm out - easy!

also

a guy I once worked with took the light bulbs with him when he moved out of a shared house, same guy would never share his newspaper when he was finished reading it because he paid for it. Used to rob everyone else's milk in the tea room - stuck a carton beside a radiator and left it for him to take which he did - tight f*cker

johnmike · 08-01-2010 1:22am

a relative of mine who is well-off had a power cut on christmas day and instead of giong to restaurant (his wife had just booked a table) he made them all eat salad sandwiches

PeteEd · 08-01-2010 6:20am

I stopped at the Texaco near the tallaght exit of the M50 and was at one of the pre-pay pumps.
Went inside gave them a tenner and went back to put the petrol in but the fecking pump wouldn't go any further than 9.99 so i went back inside, marched to the top of the queue and demanded my 1 cent back

major bill · 08-01-2010 6:54am

cloneslad wrote: »

A guy from New Zealand who I worked with in Korea as an English teacher, Now he got his flights paid to and from Korea, a months bonus upon completion, his apartment fully paid and he got a pretty good wage, but he did the following:

Bought his girlfriend what was essentially a bit of a rock on a string when he proposed to her cos rings are so cliché.

Refused to take her out for dinner on valentines day in 2008. She got a voucher for money off and then she had to pay half.

Bought her a crappy backpack for christmas.

When our boss would take us out for dinner we would go to a place that allowed you to order a mains and then eat away at the salad bar as much as you want. He would order ribs, stuff himself on the salad bar all night then take the ribs home to have for dinner the next day.

If a group of us went for dinner and agreed to split the bill by dividing the bill by the number of people, he would order lots of beer because he knew five or six of us wouldn't be drinking and another 5 or 6 would only have one drink so he knew he would be paying very little for his drink.

One time we went out for dinner and told him we would split the bill as usual so he ordered extra starters for himself and loads of drink then the girls got pi$$ed off with him doing this so when the bill came we decided to divide it up by what we each had to eat and drink, the poor lad nearly died cos he had to pay and extra €15 or so.

When his girlfriend wanted to go to Tkyo before flying back home he said he would only go on the trip providing he could get flights and accomodation for the 5 nights for 200,000 won (€120) When she said he wouldn't even get accomodation for that and she really wanted to visit it because she would never be back in the area again, he just replied "ah I don't care, I have been there before when I was 10"

Got angry and jealous with his girlfriend because everyone over there must pay 4.5%of their wages towards a pension and their employer matches your contribution. However americans (which she is) get both contributions back upon leaving korea, however new zealanders don't.

You must also pay for insurance over there which is 1.5% of your wages or something like that, so when he got a pay rise for working saturdays (something we declined to do) he had to pay extra pension and insurance as they were a % of his wages. He complained that he was being ripped off and wasn't informed that he would have to pay more outgoings upon getting more money.

Demanded he got a class off three times per week because 3 other teachers had one therefore we were getting more money per class than he was even though he was getting 320,000won more than us per month for doing the saturday class.

There are many more, I will post them later!!

:eek: what a knob how you never hit the chap i dont know!!!

friend of mine if he bought ye a drink in a nightclub he would let ye know by the end of the night that you owe him a drink. stingy is not the word.

whodoo · 08-01-2010 10:32am

a guy i was in college with had rep as being tight.
i didn't really believe how bad he was until one day there was about 8 of us sitting in the canteen. a girl had bought a twix or something for herself. she kindly asked if anyone wanted any. of course people said "no thanks". but this guy took the bar and broke a bit off.
But the thing was he just put it on his tray and didn't eat it. he just took it because it was offered and it was free.

very very weird.

Blisterman · 08-01-2010 12:32pm

What's strange about that? He was probably going to eat it when he's finished his lunch.

whodoo · 08-01-2010 12:44pm

he didn't

no1beemerfan · 08-01-2010 12:56pm

My Uncle had a bicycle shop and another Uncle (the orginal Uncle's bro-in-law) went into his shop one day to pump a wheel-barrow tyre.

Charged him 50 pence to pump it!

upthewalls · 08-01-2010 11:56pm

I worked with a guy once who used to bring his rubbish to work every Monday (he had an hour and a half long commute on the train) and threw it in the bin at work, so he wouldn't have huge refuse charges. He only ever did it on a Monday as he had all the weekend papers to contend with

babychuckles · 09-01-2010 12:28am

I saw a very well dressed gent drop his bag of rubbish into a litter bin at tescos on wednesday. He looked quickly around before dropping it in the bin.

admiralofthefleet · 09-01-2010 12:35am

when i was 15 i worked as a lounge boy for the meanest bastard of a bar owner ever.
the one time he really showed how mean he was when a regular customer, a man who drank there every single day, asked him for a couple of cloves to make a hot whiskey when he got home.
the mean bastard charged him 4p for 2 or 3 cloves

consultech · 10-01-2010 8:28pm

cloneslad wrote: »

A guy from New Zealand who I worked with in Korea as an English teacher, Now he got his flights paid to and from Korea, a months bonus upon completion, his apartment fully paid and he got a pretty good wage, but he did the following:

Bought his girlfriend what was essentially a bit of a rock on a string when he proposed to her cos rings are so cliché.

Refused to take her out for dinner on valentines day in 2008. She got a voucher for money off and then she had to pay half.

Bought her a crappy backpack for christmas.

When our boss would take us out for dinner we would go to a place that allowed you to order a mains and then eat away at the salad bar as much as you want. He would order ribs, stuff himself on the salad bar all night then take the ribs home to have for dinner the next day.

If a group of us went for dinner and agreed to split the bill by dividing the bill by the number of people, he would order lots of beer because he knew five or six of us wouldn't be drinking and another 5 or 6 would only have one drink so he knew he would be paying very little for his drink.

One time we went out for dinner and told him we would split the bill as usual so he ordered extra starters for himself and loads of drink then the girls got pi$$ed off with him doing this so when the bill came we decided to divide it up by what we each had to eat and drink, the poor lad nearly died cos he had to pay and extra €15 or so.

When his girlfriend wanted to go to Tkyo before flying back home he said he would only go on the trip providing he could get flights and accomodation for the 5 nights for 200,000 won (€120) When she said he wouldn't even get accomodation for that and she really wanted to visit it because she would never be back in the area again, he just replied "ah I don't care, I have been there before when I was 10"

Got angry and jealous with his girlfriend because everyone over there must pay 4.5%of their wages towards a pension and their employer matches your contribution. However americans (which she is) get both contributions back upon leaving korea, however new zealanders don't.

You must also pay for insurance over there which is 1.5% of your wages or something like that, so when he got a pay rise for working saturdays (something we declined to do) he had to pay extra pension and insurance as they were a % of his wages. He complained that he was being ripped off and wasn't informed that he would have to pay more outgoings upon getting more money.

Demanded he got a class off three times per week because 3 other teachers had one therefore we were getting more money per class than he was even though he was getting 320,000won more than us per month for doing the saturday class.

There are many more, I will post them later!!

Bordering on obsession a tad there. Sounds to me like there's more history/agenda there; the girlfriend gets a few nods in that post!

A mate of mine is an absolute scrooge. I just have too many tales, but he regularly puts his "own" value on stuff that is paid for on his behalf, as follows:

6 of us arrange to go to see The Kings of Leon last month (including him), and I bought the tickets on my CC and told everyone to pay me back on the night. Everyone else paid up in the pub before, no prob, booking charge included, without even questioning it. He, on the other hand, exploded when I had to ask him for the money. He was "not paying that for a concert ticket. It's only worth half of that" and duly offered me half. I told him to go fuck himself and pay up like everyone else, which he wouldn't, and went off in a sulk. I had to sell the ticket to a scalper outside. I could've hit him.

Haven't spoken to him since actually...

Red Alert · 10-01-2010 9:50pm

Very stingy staff member in my local Superquinn, she took a roll back from me one day to add an extra 5 cent to it.

Ave Sodalis · 10-01-2010 10:06pm

Know a rich man who lives near a friend. This man has a couple million from selling land and various businesses during the tiger. Stingiest person ever.
My friend told me that one night at 3 in the morning when he was returning from a night out, the man was out weeding his lane havin been at it all day with his bare hands rather than buying weed killer.
Not only that but for the last 3 days he has been chipping away at the ice on his lane using a spade instead of walking (he doesnt own a car, thumbs lifts) the couple hundred yards to the shop to buy salt.

Unbelievable. He would rather make life harder on himself than spend a couple euro.:eek:

dellas1979 · 10-01-2010 10:34pm

Went to a shop yesterday, sales assistant says 1.59.
Had a load of change so I counted fairly swiftly to 1.58 and then realised had no 1 cent! I joked thinking she'd let me off with 1 cent.

She *ahemed* at me to hurry up. So I put all the change back into wallet and eventually found 10 cent to bring it to 1.60. I stood waiting for my 1 cent. She started back at me. I really didnt know what to say "Excuse me can I have my 1 cent please"? after a few seconds of debating in my head I just left it. Wagon.

Another occasion, a girl with down syndrome was ahead of me in a shop and very politely asked for e10 credit. She very innocently said to the sales assistant "my mam told me to ask you for e10 credit (she had it all written down)" so she produces the tenner. To which the sales assistant says "its e10.20" (or what ever the surcharge is on e10 credit". The poor girl obviously didnt understand and said the same thing again "my mam told me to ask you for e10 credit" and the crater looked a bit panicked. Sales assistant again says same thing to her. The girl starts to panic, so I walk up and say "Ill pay it for you dont worry crater". I ate the sales assistant after she left.

junkyard · 10-01-2010 10:48pm

I had a guy working for me before (this guy had more money than me by the way and his wife was earning about a 1000 a week too) at lunchtime he'd go around to the other businesses in my industrial estate and raid their skips/bins for anything they were throwing out and swop stuff he'd find for stuff he'd want, also would bring his rubbish from home and dump it in any bin or skip he could find around the place. Probably the tightest meanest person I ever came across, EVER!:o

junkyard · 10-01-2010 10:52pm

cloneslad wrote: »

A guy from New Zealand who I worked with in Korea as an English teacher, Now he got his flights paid to and from Korea, a months bonus upon completion, his apartment fully paid and he got a pretty good wage, but he did the following:

Bought his girlfriend what was essentially a bit of a rock on a string when he proposed to her cos rings are so cliché.

Refused to take her out for dinner on valentines day in 2008. She got a voucher for money off and then she had to pay half.

Bought her a crappy backpack for christmas.

When our boss would take us out for dinner we would go to a place that allowed you to order a mains and then eat away at the salad bar as much as you want. He would order ribs, stuff himself on the salad bar all night then take the ribs home to have for dinner the next day.

If a group of us went for dinner and agreed to split the bill by dividing the bill by the number of people, he would order lots of beer because he knew five or six of us wouldn't be drinking and another 5 or 6 would only have one drink so he knew he would be paying very little for his drink.

One time we went out for dinner and told him we would split the bill as usual so he ordered extra starters for himself and loads of drink then the girls got pi$$ed off with him doing this so when the bill came we decided to divide it up by what we each had to eat and drink, the poor lad nearly died cos he had to pay and extra €15 or so.

When his girlfriend wanted to go to Tkyo before flying back home he said he would only go on the trip providing he could get flights and accomodation for the 5 nights for 200,000 won (€120) When she said he wouldn't even get accomodation for that and she really wanted to visit it because she would never be back in the area again, he just replied "ah I don't care, I have been there before when I was 10"

Got angry and jealous with his girlfriend because everyone over there must pay 4.5%of their wages towards a pension and their employer matches your contribution. However americans (which she is) get both contributions back upon leaving korea, however new zealanders don't.

You must also pay for insurance over there which is 1.5% of your wages or something like that, so when he got a pay rise for working saturdays (something we declined to do) he had to pay extra pension and insurance as they were a % of his wages. He complained that he was being ripped off and wasn't informed that he would have to pay more outgoings upon getting more money.

Demanded he got a class off three times per week because 3 other teachers had one therefore we were getting more money per class than he was even though he was getting 320,000won more than us per month for doing the saturday class.

There are many more, I will post them later!!

I'm assuming his girlfriend is no longer with this tight wad?

Blisterman · 12-01-2010 10:50am

One of my best friends and I were taking the entrance exam to DIT at the same time. It's basically an aptitude test, where you study pictures to see a pattern and an essay explaining why you want to be on the course. Not too difficult, but you don't get a whole lot of time to do it. About 300 people were sitting it and only the top 30% or something of students get considered for the course.

Anyway, I do pretty well on the aptitude test, but it took so long, I was left with only 15 minutes to do the essay, and I messed it up.
So lamenting afterwards, I ask him
"How did you do? I ran out of time towards the end. That aptitude test takes ages"
"Oh it was easy. They give the same test every year. You can buy the book in Easons and memorise the answers"
"And you didn't think of telling me this information beforehand?"
"No. You're my competition"

Prick

stick-dan · 12-01-2010 11:19am

i know people who use public bins for their household waste, thats just stingy.

JONJO THE MISER · 12-01-2010 12:09pm

I used to burn my rubish out the country.

ro09 · 12-01-2010 1:05pm

stick-dan wrote: »

i know people who use public bins for their household waste, thats just stingy.

Yes I caught a man dressed in a suit with a good car putting a big bag of rubbish from the boot of his car in a bin in our estate. Myself and a woman confronted him and made him put it back into his car. People like this make me sick.

L'prof · 12-01-2010 3:24pm

Blisterman wrote: »

One of my best friends and I were taking the entrance exam to DIT at the same time. It's basically an aptitude test, where you study pictures to see a pattern and an essay explaining why you want to be on the course. Not too difficult, but you don't get a whole lot of time to do it. About 300 people were sitting it and only the top 30% or something of students get considered for the course.

Anyway, I do pretty well on the aptitude test, but it took so long, I was left with only 15 minutes to do the essay, and I messed it up.
So lamenting afterwards, I ask him
"How did you do? I ran out of time towards the end. That aptitude test takes ages"
"Oh it was easy. They give the same test every year. You can buy the book in Easons and memorise the answers"
"And you didn't think of telling me this information beforehand?"
"No. You're my competition"

Prick

Did you get in?

macy9 · 12-01-2010 3:50pm

In the store that I work for people do two unbelievably stingy things:

They take umbrella covers off our merchandise and use them.

They take a pair of pop socks out of a 4 pair pack so that they can try on shoes.

(Both are stealing by the way.)

They open tights, put their hands in them, put back the packet they've opened and take a fresh packet to purchase.

Blisterman · 12-01-2010 4:19pm

jasonorr wrote: »

Did you get in?

No, but to be fair, I probably wouldn't have had the points anyway. You still needed 500 or so. Did the same course in England instead.

And my friend got enough points but failed maths, so he had to repeat. Karma's a bitch.

BluesBerry · 12-01-2010 4:22pm

I knew someone that carried a scissors with her and robbed the cloth hand towels from the machines in public toilets she would cut it and keep pulling it until she had the amount she wanted and used them as dish cloths/dusters/tea towels she did it for years

wyndham · 12-01-2010 4:27pm

icanhearjimi wrote: »

I know someone who shaves the stamps off the envelopes that havent the date stamped on them, with a stanley blade. Puts pritt stick on them and uses them again. Never saw the likes of it in my life.

Amateur. Steam them off over a kettle. Make sure to use the hot water though, otherwise you are wasting electricity. lol

BluesBerry · 12-01-2010 4:31pm

wyndham wrote: »

Amateur. Steam them off over a kettle. Make sure to use the hot water though, otherwise you are wasting electricity. lol

Yeah and use a tweezers to safely take it off also you can also wash of the post office stamp on the stamp

so if you run the gas of the electricity and the electricity of the gas you can save 200 pounds a year

vincenzolorenzo · 12-01-2010 5:46pm

BluesBerry wrote: »

so if you run the gas of the electricity and the electricity of the gas you can save 200 pounds a year

Fr. Austin Purcell, a great lad!

BTW, whats your favourite humming noise???:D

Stingiest thing you've seen stingy people do

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