Stingiest thing you've seen stingy people do

joanofarse · 24-11-2010 6:01pm

Frogdog wrote: »

Friends of mine lived with this stingy guy in on-campus apartments in college. For each block of apartments there was a communal room full of washing machines and tumble dryers. Each machine cost €2 to operate and washing powder was free. Stingy guy used to collect the washing powder and wash his clothes in the bath-tub in his apartment.

Another time, same stingy guy was in the kitchen/living area with me and my friend who lived with him. My friend was out of bread and wanted toast. My friend asked stingy guy could be take 1 slice of bread as stingy guy had a full sliced pan in the bread bin. Stingy guy said of course, no problem. More than 2 weeks later my friend and I had returned from the shops and went into the kitchen/living area. Stingy guy was watching television but was looking at us from the corner of his eye. He saw my friend had bought a sliced pan and asked him could he get back that slice of bread that my friend had "borrowed" (stingy guy's words). My friend stood in shock as stingy guy got up off the couch, opened the sliced pan, took out a slice and put it into his sliced pan in the bread bin.

Same stingy guy, who was in my course, decided to meet us for a couple of pints after we had all finished our last exam of 2nd year and before heading our separate ways for the Summer holidays. About 10 of us were drinking out the back of a pub in the beer garden, which was doing a special of €3 a pint. He was the last to arrive and saw us all drinking the €3 pints. He asked how much were the pints (yet knew full well himself). We told him and he said he'd be back in a while and took his bag with him. He came back 15 minutes later with a full bag and an empty pint glass. He sat down beside us, opened the bag, and produced a six pack of Dutch Gold which he bought in the nearest off-license for €7.

Cork people. :rolleyes:

Maynooth......????Roost?

Blisterman · 24-11-2010 6:56pm

Savage Tyrant wrote: »

But the 2 that really stood out were

One Christmas he "bought" the kids bikes for Christmas but told them if there was one single argument or fight between them over Xmas then Santa would take them back again.
Cue the mean ****er actually returning all the bikes in the first week of janurary...... And this is 100% confirmed by a lad that worked in the toy shop (the owner of which is apparently also legendary for his tightness) it turns out the da had agreed with the shop owner BEFORE Christmas that he was infact RENTING them for a nominal amount of money.

I think we have a winner.

amdublin · 24-11-2010 8:39pm

Joe10000 wrote: »

On arrival one of the male cabin crew used to go to the shops and buy a slice pan, a block of cheese and some kind of sandwich bag to make toasted sandwiches using the trouser press !

Muwahahahahahahahaaaaa

onlyrocknroll · 24-11-2010 8:45pm

Joe10000 wrote: »

I went out with an air Canada trolley dolly a good few years ago, they were put up in the burlo for the 3 nights they would be here between flights and got 150 quid a day to cover their general expenses including meals.

On arrival one of the male cabin crew used to go to the shops and buy a slice pan, a block of cheese and some kind of sandwich bag to make toasted sandwiches using the trouser press !

He's like a stingy version of MacGyver.

Cheap Thrills! · 24-11-2010 8:48pm

IvyTheTerrible wrote: »

I agree. A neighbour of my aunt (in a fairly well off part of Dublin) was getting their house renovated. They put a perfectly ok suite of furniture into the skip. Some of the other neighbours had a look at the suite, in passing. So the owner came out of the house and cut the suite of furniture with a knife. That, to me, was disgraceful.

And stupid, if someone had taken the suite there would have been more room in the skip saving themselves money. Dopes. :rolleyes:

the purple tin · 25-11-2010 12:39am

I've always thought it was strange that so many stinge-bags are married.
Why would anybody want to spend their whole life with some miserable penny pincher

Kanoe · 25-11-2010 1:26am

stingy doesn't really come close but..got in from work this evening and went to make cup of tea and only a drop of milk left so I poured away anyway only to find the "milk" was actually just coloured water someone had kindly offered to make it seem like they hadnt used it all up, so kid tells me her dad had visited and used the last of it to make a coffee. thanks bastard face.

amdublin · 25-11-2010 1:31am

zxy wrote: »

stingy doesn't really come close but..got in from work this evening and went to make cup of tea and only a drop of milk left so I poured away anyway only to find the "milk" was actually just coloured water someone had kindly offered to make it seem like they hadnt used it all up, so kid tells me her dad had visited and used the last of it to make a coffee. thanks bastard face.

Kanoe · 25-11-2010 2:44am

amdublin wrote: »

he used all the milk and replaced it with water.

efb · 25-11-2010 8:43am

Joe10000 wrote: »

I went out with an air Canada trolley dolly a good few years ago, they were put up in the burlo for the 3 nights they would be here between flights and got 150 quid a day to cover their general expenses including meals.

On arrival one of the male cabin crew used to go to the shops and buy a slice pan, a block of cheese and some kind of sandwich bag to make toasted sandwiches using the trouser press !

What did ye use for lube? Complimentary shower gel...?

25-11-2010 10:12am

the purple tin wrote: »

I've always thought it was strange that so many stinge-bags are married.
Why would anybody want to spend their whole life with some miserable penny pincher

girl at work had one renting with her, said he was the most miserable git you'd meet, wouldnt buy a bottle of water despite working all day in a shop - just went dehydrated. no bus no nothing, walked the hour to and fro, in all weathers. etc etc etc
anyway he says one day the girlfriend is coming to visit. they were all dying to see what kind of girl she'd be! completely "normal" apparently. lovely and not stingy.
no idea why

I wonder if you'd start thinking "oh it's just something s/he does, it's kinda cute in a way, ha ha"

the purple tin · 25-11-2010 3:30pm

bluewolf wrote: »

girl at work had one renting with her, said he was the most miserable git you'd meet, wouldnt buy a bottle of water despite working all day in a shop - just went dehydrated. no bus no nothing, walked the hour to and fro, in all weathers. etc etc etc
anyway he says one day the girlfriend is coming to visit. they were all dying to see what kind of girl she'd be! completely "normal" apparently. lovely and not stingy.
no idea why

I wonder if you'd start thinking "oh it's just something s/he does, it's kinda cute in a way, ha ha"

That might be fine for a month or so but would people not get sick of that very fast? Is love really that blind?

Naos · 25-11-2010 3:33pm

Savage Tyrant wrote: »

She tells him to ring his auld lad, which he does, only to be told that he had taken the fuse out of the metre box...... And would continue to do so every day he and the wife were working.
The deal was he had to give his parents 5 quid (sterling) for every day he wanted the fuse left in while they were at work. Brilliant!

Good story!

Although, I don't see why the scabby kid didn't just purchase a fuse...

joanofarse · 25-11-2010 4:40pm

Just a big thanks to all who contributed! 128 pages read in 3 days, very entertaining.

phill106 · 25-11-2010 4:44pm

joanofarse wrote: »

Just a big thanks to all who contributed! 128 pages read in 3 days, very entertaining.

You should log in when your reading, only 63 pages then!

Dardania · 25-11-2010 10:15pm

phill106 wrote: »

You should log in when your reading, only 63 pages then!

That's the spirit!

Savage Tyrant · 25-11-2010 10:19pm

Wait! What?.... The thread is 168 pages for me?

James2693 · 25-11-2010 10:23pm

it is 168 pages

Rick Deckard · 25-11-2010 10:23pm

you can set in your CP preferences to view 40 posts per page..

Michellenman · 25-11-2010 10:30pm

It's 64 pages

Susannahmia · 25-11-2010 11:43pm

podgemonster wrote: »

There's a old fella from home who is notorious for going to funerals of people he may barely know just to go the the free dinner or sandwiches. Every morning he goes through the death notices to see who is dead and then picks the ones he'l go too.

I remember at a relatives funeral a year a ago we invited ppl back to a nearby hotel for dinner and tea. He showed up and the hotel staff actually knew to put him by himself in the corner, serve him first as to get rid of him but when he finished the tea and biscuits, he sat there and asked for more biscuits. People just rolled their eyes at him.

If hes from Laois I know exactly who you are talking about

Savage Tyrant · 25-11-2010 11:45pm

Michellenman wrote: »

It's 64 pages

It is now...

dafunk · 26-11-2010 12:55am

medici wrote: »

Colleague of parent's used to hate idea of his wife wasting money on tea while he was at work, so used to bring the plug and electrical cord with him to work and leave it locked in his car....

That's not stingy. That's spousal abuse.

dafunk · 26-11-2010 12:58am

peatcass wrote: »

Not sure how true it is, but a lad i used to work with says he used to rent a car with the same size tyres as his car, then swap them over.. car rental companies don't check tyre tread.. new rubber for the low low price of €35

That's pure genius!

garv123 · 26-11-2010 12:59am

im been stingy right now

i went to the shop and didnt bother buying milk coz pringles were on special offer and i decided to have cornflakes but i wanted to have two bowls so id to make do with the tiny bit of milk so i ate most of the first lot with a fork and now theres milk left in the bowl enough for a 2nd bowl

:D:D

ohhhh college life:D:rolleyes:

Savage Tyrant · 26-11-2010 1:02am

garv123 wrote: »

im been stingy right now i went to the shop and didnt bother buying milk coz pringles were on special offer and i decided to have cornflakes but i wanted to have two bowls so id to make do with the tiny bit of milk so i ate most of the first lot with a fork and now theres milk left in the bowl enough for a 2nd bowl :D:D

ohhhh college life:D:rolleyes:

I do that all the time. Dont eat them with a fork though. Just drain the spoon. Drinking the milk after is SAVAGE!

garv123 · 26-11-2010 1:04am

Savage Tyrant wrote: »

I do that all the time. Dont eat them with a fork though. Just drain the spoon. Drinking the milk after is SAVAGE!

i taut it was the sugar in it so i tried adding abitta sugar to a glass of milk but it wasnt as good:(
coco pops milk mmmmmmmmmmmm

who what when · 26-11-2010 1:22am

zxy wrote: »

thanks bastard face.

Lol, so much bitterness in three little words!

Siog-Alainn · 27-11-2010 1:54am

I was getting a photo developed in my local pharmacy. Cost 20c but asked for a student discount, got it for 18c

(It was more a principle than stingy thing, another time I went in wearing my uniform and they wouldn't give me a discount cause I didn't have my card with me)

GhostInTheRuins · 27-11-2010 2:38am

garv123 wrote: »

im been stingy right now i went to the shop and didnt bother buying milk coz pringles were on special offer and i decided to have cornflakes but i wanted to have two bowls so id to make do with the tiny bit of milk so i ate most of the first lot with a fork and now theres milk left in the bowl enough for a 2nd bowl :D:D

ohhhh college life:D:rolleyes:

Stingy on the puncuation too, what a sentence.

Bob Z · 29-11-2010 8:13pm

Siog-Alainn wrote: »

I was getting a photo developed in my local pharmacy. Cost 20c but asked for a student discount, got it for 18c

(It was more a principle than stingy thing, another time I went in wearing my uniform and they wouldn't give me a discount cause I didn't have my card with me)

What principal?

Twee. · 29-11-2010 8:23pm

Had a bake sale in college last week as a fundraiser for a free event for students that were putting on next week. Some girl came back with a cupcake her friend bought her and asked for a refund because she didn't like to. Sixty ****ing cent! Scabby!

VinnyTGM · 29-11-2010 8:35pm

Bob Z wrote: »

What principal?

??
He never mentioned anything about a principal.

goat2 · 29-11-2010 8:39pm

today a butcher wanted me to pay for bones, even though i had bought other meat, in these bad times, guess he would have charged me for the steam from his p8ss

dirtyghettokid · 29-11-2010 8:41pm

lol some funny stories in here!

someone in my family used to tell me to use 2 squares only of toilet roll when going to the loo.

my mom gets recycled presents from her mother in law (step gran to me)
recycled as in someone bought her something she didn't want so she gives it to my mom for her bday regardless of what it is :rolleyes:

Corcaigh84 · 30-11-2010 2:09pm

My very good friend's father is a millionaire, and a notorious stinger. When I call down to my buddy's very large detached home, I have to keep my hoodie/leather jacket combo on at all times(in the winter) as the father doesn't believe in using the central heating. So much so that the pipes burst already this year.

He doesn't buy tin foil for use in the kitchen, like for grilling. Instead, he saves it from the pre-cooked dinners that he buys every day in the local deli. There are many examples but this is one that makes me laugh for some reason...

Yesterday however, I saw something which gave me an insight into how stingy you can actually be.
I was discussing with the buddy about what cheese to melt on our burgers, like, cheddar(safe bet) VS 'some european stuff'. I thought in the interests of fairness and the education of my palate, I'd taste the 'european stuff'

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I don't even know where you'd get this! Knock on the doors of the SVP?
I know people will say ah shur it's free, why wouldn't ya, but I mean come on, it's the principal of the thing. It's for people who genuinely can't afford their groceries!
(BTW the EU Aid free cheese tastes good, very mature ;P )

tommy21 · 30-11-2010 2:44pm

thefloss wrote: »

My very good friend's father is a millionaire, and a notorious stinger. When I call down to my buddy's very large detached home, I have to keep my hoodie/leather jacket combo on at all times(in the winter) as the father doesn't believe in using the central heating. So much so that the pipes burst already this year.

He doesn't buy tin foil for use in the kitchen, like for grilling. Instead, he saves it from the pre-cooked dinners that he buys every day in the local deli. There are many examples but this is one that makes me laugh for some reason...

Yesterday however, I saw something which gave me an insight into how stingy you can actually be.
I was discussing with the buddy about what cheese to melt on our burgers, like, cheddar(safe bet) VS 'some european stuff'. I thought in the interests of fairness and the education of my palate, I'd taste the 'european stuff'

IMG_0264.JPG

I don't even know where you'd get this! Knock on the doors of the SVP?
I know people will say ah shur it's free, why wouldn't ya, but I mean come on, it's the principal of the thing. It's for people who genuinely can't afford their groceries!
(BTW the EU Aid free cheese tastes good, very mature ;P )

Whatever about his stinginess, if that is government cheese then millionaires should not be getting it! Let him eat cake instead!

IvyTheTerrible · 30-11-2010 4:53pm

thefloss wrote: »

My very good friend's father is a millionaire, and a notorious stinger. When I call down to my buddy's very large detached home, I have to keep my hoodie/leather jacket combo on at all times(in the winter) as the father doesn't believe in using the central heating. So much so that the pipes burst already this year.

He doesn't buy tin foil for use in the kitchen, like for grilling. Instead, he saves it from the pre-cooked dinners that he buys every day in the local deli. There are many examples but this is one that makes me laugh for some reason...

Yesterday however, I saw something which gave me an insight into how stingy you can actually be.
I was discussing with the buddy about what cheese to melt on our burgers, like, cheddar(safe bet) VS 'some european stuff'. I thought in the interests of fairness and the education of my palate, I'd taste the 'european stuff'

IMG_0264.JPG

I don't even know where you'd get this! Knock on the doors of the SVP?
I know people will say ah shur it's free, why wouldn't ya, but I mean come on, it's the principal of the thing. It's for people who genuinely can't afford their groceries!
(BTW the EU Aid free cheese tastes good, very mature ;P )

I don't get the logic of someone not putting on the heating at home etc and then buying ready made meals...

snubbleste · 30-11-2010 5:06pm

IvyTheTerrible wrote: »

I don't get the logic of someone not putting on the heating at home etc and then buying ready made meals...

Not only that but he buys them every single day from the local deli. Tesco value they are not.

ButtersSuki · 30-11-2010 5:32pm

thefloss wrote: »

My very good friend's father is a millionaire, and a notorious stinger. When I call down to my buddy's very large detached home, I have to keep my hoodie/leather jacket combo on at all times(in the winter) as the father doesn't believe in using the central heating. So much so that the pipes burst already this year.

He doesn't buy tin foil for use in the kitchen, like for grilling. Instead, he saves it from the pre-cooked dinners that he buys every day in the local deli. There are many examples but this is one that makes me laugh for some reason...

Yesterday however, I saw something which gave me an insight into how stingy you can actually be.
I was discussing with the buddy about what cheese to melt on our burgers, like, cheddar(safe bet) VS 'some european stuff'. I thought in the interests of fairness and the education of my palate, I'd taste the 'european stuff'

IMG_0264.JPG

I don't even know where you'd get this! Knock on the doors of the SVP?
I know people will say ah shur it's free, why wouldn't ya, but I mean come on, it's the principal of the thing. It's for people who genuinely can't afford their groceries!
(BTW the EU Aid free cheese tastes good, very mature ;P )

How did he get the cheese? I would have assumed this was for people on welfare etc.? Or do you have apply for it?!!!

Cantona's Collars · 30-11-2010 5:54pm

ButtersSuki wrote: »

How did he get the cheese? I would have assumed this was for people on welfare etc.? Or do you have apply for it?!!!

A few years ago they had a similar scheme giving out meat to the needy-all the well to do folk would turn up first to get the prime stuff.Turns out some of their friends handed out the meat and used to tip them off what time to be there.

AidySevenfold · 07-12-2010 5:23am

IvyTheTerrible wrote: »

Is that not illegal? I thought new fathers were allowed a couple of days leave?

they are...6 days or something.

smk89 · 07-12-2010 8:58am

IvyTheTerrible wrote: »

I don't get the logic of someone not putting on the heating at home etc and then buying ready made meals...

Some people just arnt that smart. Given the choice between rich and a wanker or poor and nice its a no brainer

Corcaigh84 · 07-12-2010 11:17am

ButtersSuki wrote: »

How did he get the cheese? I would have assumed this was for people on welfare etc.? Or do you have apply for it?!!!

OK so I found out that he has a brother who works with the needy, which means he had to go out of his way (like not to a shop) to get it!

Naos · 07-12-2010 2:15pm

thefloss wrote: »

OK so I found out that he has a brother who works with the needy, which means he had to go out of his way (like not to a shop) to get it!

He should be reported. That is beyond scabby.

d.lally2 · 14-12-2010 10:12pm

One of my friends pulled out of a box of fags one day years ago before school, being the generous type he offered them around. one of the other lads said thanks, pulled out his nearly full 20 box and put it in it! Thankfully 10 years later he's not like that any more, although when drinking sometimes there is "confusion" when it's his round.

Also a more recent story of a lad I know took his friends car to go for a spin around while everyone was gone out for the night. There was hardly any petrol in it so he asked his passenger for €10 for petrol, put €5 petrol in the car and then asked the owner of the car for the €5 back the next day, even though he was the one who spent it driving around! Unfortunately this guy hasn't changed.

Melissa89 · 15-12-2010 1:18am

Some of these are shocking! Great thread!

Used to live with a girl who would use all our stuff and never contribute to the household stuff (eg wouldn't buy washing up liquid when we'd run out cos she ate mostly take aways, or briquettes for the fire cos she spent all day in her room[with the storage heater on, might i add]) and would use all our other stuff, like would use my detergent and if she was using it when someone else was there she would say (in passing so as not to look suspicious) she ran out and I told her to use mine.

She used to use our shampoo and conditioner too. Took a particular liking to a certain housemates brand - she hadn't finished her old one, but had a new one in the shower, when the housemate went to use it after finishing the old bottle it was completely empty!

Then she had the cheek to buy the same one when her grant came in and take it in and out of the shower with her!

That's only a taster!

Chinasea · 15-12-2010 7:18pm

What about those people who crowd around free samples of food in the supermarket like they have been starved for the last 40 days and go round the aisles a few times just to get some more free cubes of cheese or whatever is free. I even saw them hurtling towards a stand that was dishing out pickled herrings.......

veryangryman · 24-12-2010 6:44pm

I cant believe that at Christmas time, not one stingy story is out there to be told!

Celly Smunt · 24-12-2010 6:45pm

veryangryman wrote: »

I cant believe that at Christmas time, not one stingy story is out there to be told!

people being stingy with their stingy stories

Stingiest thing you've seen stingy people do

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