Stingiest thing you've seen stingy people do

DramaQuee wrote: »

Guess: Chrimbo for homeless person who has just bought himself 2 bottles of plonk?

DramaQuee wrote: »

Earlier I wrote:

Guess: homeless persons splashes out on 2 bottles of plonk.


Now it isn't there.
Could it be possible, Victor, as a mod, deleted it?

Stinicker wrote: »

Both my sister and father are so stingy. My sister lives with her BF in a rented house with the last few years and some of her antics represent absolute stingyness. She lives 5mins away from my parents so is always at home too.

When her and the BF moved in together there was a full tank of oil, that subsequently ran out and airlocked the boiler (Which I was able to fix for free) and she convinced my father to pay for a full tank of oil costing nearly €900 last year and he did as he had recently retired with a lump sum.

She tried the exact same stunt this year except I found out and raised concerns and stopped it. She and the BF subsequently put €500 of oil into the tank themselves. I also know they are 4 months behind on the rent of the house. But the landlord seems okay with it.

Other classical stingy things she does is she brings over her and the BF's laundry despite they having a washing machine in the house and washes and drys it at home; her excuse is they have no dryer. But for me the absolute height of stingyness is when she comes over to my parents and will take a shower 3 to 4 evenings a week whilst there. Her ESB bill is like €60 - €70 every two months whilst my parents could get a bill for €250 every 2 months. She would also make all her phone calls from home and often would be responsible for more than half the bill, I convinced my father to cut off mobile dialling on the home phone and it saw the bill reduce alot as she can't run up a bill now.

She actually was responsible for my father getting a reprimand at his job around 10 - 12 years ago when she was a teenager as she would take his company phone and spend alot of time on it, he had to pay over £100 one month towards his phone bill which would normally be capped at £40/month and this was her ringing friends and boyfriends from my fathers phone. She tries the same trick with me to this day, ring so and so there you have loads of free minutes as I'm on Billpay.

Her car never gets more than €30 worth of petrol and spends half the time running on the red fuel light. She never services the car or maintains it properly. It currently has one front bald tire and a blown headlight plus an outstanding bill for €100 in the garage, her rule seems to be "thou shall not pay bills until the last possible moment". Having told her of the bald tire, I was told "if you are so worried why don't you buy me a tire so, I'm sick of spending money on that car".

She almost seized the engine this year as it flashed the oil light and I was delighted as it cost her €220 in repairs. She also got my parents to give her €7k towards the car a few years back also as it was bought new. She has no respect for the car and treats it rough.

In 2011 my mother was very ill and was off work for 3 months, she took my mothers car to work most days and filled it with diesel from my parents home supply tank, the excuse Petrol costs me too much and the car isn't being used while she is off work. My mother is a hopeless case of a driver and my sister will drive her wherever she wants to go but will never take her own car unless my mothers car is not available, and she will also routinely borrow my mothers car to go places, especially long drives.

She tried very hard this year into convincing my parents to buy her a house, taking my father to viewings etc. My mother thankfully put a stop to that plan of hers telling her if she wants a house the BF can buy it. He incidentaly earns over €40k a year and my sister €20k and is quite well up the stingy ladder also, his best was to go into the hotel looking for his "lost" coat after a wedding last year and coming out with someone elses coat. This year my sisters coat got stolen so I thought it was Karma for him nicking someone elses coat.

My sister takes after my father who is famously stingy (to the point of stupidity) and I could write a whole blog on him. His best is when he makes tea he will often routinely take the cup of tea and proceed to hold it under the cold tap to cool the tea in order to "spare the milk". He also routinely kicks up a stink over washing his clothes stating categorically that too much washing will wear out the clothes sooner, this despite some of his old clothes being nearly 20 years and anything new is either a Birthday or Christmas present from either my sister, my mother or myself.

He has done the tea cooling thing countless times and will often do it when we have visitors in order to shame my mother. He also turns off all the lights all the time and if he was walking to the living room from the kitchen he'd turn off the lights in the corridor, kitchen etc. with no regard for other people. This has led to trips and bumps through the years for my sister, mother and myself. His arquement "Keep down the ESB bills" despite they being energy saver bulbs which use practically nothing anyway.

He steams off stamps and has been in his element the last two weeks with all the Christmas cards arriving; he has the stamps kept and he will be using them for his postage up until next June or July and he left mother to buy her own stamps and he proclaimed last week that sending Christmas cards was "simpleness of the mind" and routinely declares how he hates Christmas and how it was invented by shops to sell rubbish.

When we were Children we were told about "Santy's Grave" each year and how "Santy was in a terrible sleigh crash and not to expect much this year". My mother always ensured we had good Christmases and it just shows the sort of stupid stingy mentality which he has which can be so hillarious at times and other times downright embarrassing.

He demanded to see the manager of a SuperValu store this summer over the price of a bottle of fizzy orange, the manager gave it to him free and he proclaimed victory over the "thieves in SuperValu with their daylight robbery and what they were charging me" he told practically everyone about this for nearly a month.

When the old dishwasher at home gave up he noticed a fall in the esb bill and subsequently banned it from the house, I got a new one installed this week for my mother and he would make a big deal everytime it was discussed that "there was no new dishwasher coming into this house while i'm alive"; despite this though he always expected my mother to do the dishes and when it was installed this week my mother told him you can wash yours by hand, it will use less electricity despite I getting a new one which takes a hot water feed so the electricity usage would be about a third of the old one.

He even got big magnets out of a speaker and tried inventing a way of stopping the esb meter turning to cut down on the bill. I told him it could work the opposite way and increase it so he abandoned that hair brained idea.

My father drives an absolute crock of Van, it is laughable and it recently gave up as the filters were blocked from want of servicing. The icing on the cake was this week when he heard I had got the new Dishwasher he insisted I cancel the delivery and he'd collect it not to be wasting money when "I have such a good van outside".

The central locking has been giving trouble recently and when we got to the store I locked the van whilst we went inside and cancelled the delivery and I got the collection docket, we drove around the back and whilst doing so the van locked itself and we were locked in leaving me to climb out the window and open the sliding door with the key as the barrels in the van door are pretty jammed and wouldn't open. It happened again coming home and we had to drive into my uncles house and get him to come out to unlock the van and let us out of it, I was blamed for "whatever thumbing you done" when I locked it back at the Electrical shop. My uncle had a great laugh at us.

This year me and my sister decided we'd buy my parents a Holiday to Lanzarote and I booked it with my father's credit card and I paid him my half of the money, my sister gave 25% and caught my father for the other 25% (fatherly Daugter). When they came back home from the holiday my father biggest complaint was the price of things out there (which are cheaper than Ireland anyway!) and how he couldn't get my mother out of the shops, he also bought an alarm clock out there which he said was awful waste having forgot to pack him own.

My mother also accidentally packed all the sun creams and toilitries in her carry-on and they were seized under the 100mls rule and he was lamenting the loss of his bottle of shampoo for about the guts of two weeks afterwards. This was only their second trip abroad in ten years with the last being a weekend to his sister in England on €20 Ryanair flights I got for them in 2009, he still tells people about the great deal he got on those flights.

There is many more stories but I'll have to make another post, he says he plans to do his Christmas shopping on Christmas eve when according to him; "The rip-off shops will be forced to drop their prices" more hillarity will ensue I am certain.