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Stingiest thing you've seen stingy people do

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    #5102
    psychward
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,187 ✭✭✭psychward


    Memory Of 98 wrote: »
    He wasn`t using it all day, seemingly just when he felt like treating himself to some heat for a few minutes.

    The Fool. He could have made toast at the same time as he warmed himself. And if he was really smart he could have boiled an egg inside an electric kettle at the same time as making coffee ;)


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    #5103
    Capt'n Midnight
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    psychward wrote: »
    The Fool. He could have made toast at the same time as he warmed himself. And if he was really smart he could have boiled an egg inside an electric kettle at the same time as making coffee ;)
    you put the kettle on the toaster ...


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    #5104
    retalivity
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    Capt'n Midnight wrote: »
    you put the kettle on the toaster ...

    If its made of plastic, you'd ruin both.


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    #5105
    Capt'n Midnight
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    Paddy Cow wrote: »
    The neighbours used to have toilet paper drying on the washing line.
    "used to" you say

    did you nick it ?

    [should be in the nostalgia thread those jokes are soooo old]


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    #5106
    fasttalkerchat
    Registered Users Posts: 5,652 ✭✭✭fasttalkerchat


    Memory Of 98 wrote: »
    Not sure as to how stingy this is, but I knew a Polish fella, great guy. He told me that he didn`t pay for heating, he just turned a toaster on it`s side and used it to keep himself warm.

    I have a feeling he was taking the piss outta you. Poland has temperatures of -30 every winter and electricity is more expensive than gas there. I think he would have known that using the toaster for heat wasn't saving money!


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    #5107
    juan.kerr
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    retalivity wrote: »
    Can you imagine?
    "Alright, ive been a good boy today, managed to only spend 30c on food, on a bun that was going off in dunnes. Found 50c on the street as well, so im up for the day! Time to celebrate by lying down beside my toaster for 5 minutes for some of its glorious glorious heat"

    As long as you don't use 20 cents worth of electricity.


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    #5108
    psychward
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    Capt'n Midnight wrote: »
    you put the kettle on the toaster ...

    You could do that if your stingy system was ''kettle based'' but it would have to be a metal kettle. If you accidentally or on purpose electrocute yourself unconscious then you shouldn't feel the cold at night and it's win win. You can also wake up with some boiled eggs for breakfast.Alternatively for the truly committed it's really cheap to be dead. Imagine the savings on things like shoes etc. In fact it's tax free. :D


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    #5109
    Paddy Cow
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    Capt'n Midnight wrote: »
    "used to" you say

    did you nick it ?

    [should be in the nostalgia thread those jokes are soooo old]
    I'm ashamed to answer that. The eighties were tough times :( and we did what we had to do :P


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    #5110
    Annamander
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    I've now read this whole thread (I know, I'm underemployed) and there are definite themes:

    People being stingy on dates.

    People being stingy about rounds in pubs.

    Idiots in offices nicking stuff/refusing to pay for canteen food/ refusing to donate to collections

    People showing up to parties with their hands hanging or going on trips and not giving any petrol money

    Flatmates who are stingy/kleptos

    The "should you take 1 cent change in shops" saga

    Have I missed any?

    For some reason I have loads of work stinginess stories but the worst was someone in my sister's office who was nicking stuff out of the canteen fridge. Mostly people's lunches but also groceries. One person had a whole barbecue chicken set from M&S nicked. The weirdest was when they stole the meat out of someone's ham sambo and put the remains back!

    They reckon it was someone senior cos it stopped after the January monthly payday and only people over a certain grade there get paid monthly.


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    #5111
    onlyrocknroll
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    Motorist wrote: »
    Joseph Fritzl sums up the Belgian culture and people for me perfectly.

    Unfortunately that statement sums up a certain stereotype of Irish culture and people perfectly too.


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    #5112
    onlyrocknroll
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    Dan133269 wrote: »
    It's common practice in Belgium too. In bars and some restaurants, it's not uncommon to have to pay "Madame Peepe" 50 cent to use the jacks even though you're a customer.

    Went to 1 nightclub and it was 10 euro entry, plus 50 cent every time you needed to piss. Read my thread in ranting and raving entitled "Silly, Silly Belgians". In short, Belgians are *****.

    I've lived in Belgium and I haven't encountered this. I didn't go to clubs there, but I've been in loads of cafes, restaurants and bars and I've never been asked to pay to use the bathroom.

    Also 10 Euro entry is pretty common in Ireland too.


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    #5113
    MellowToast
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    red head chick here in college in dundalk, takes tea bags in with here, uses up loads of the free milk and cups. they started to charge her for the cups and milk now XD

    believes lifts are free, but the honey her mother makes is for selling instead of maybe giving the person who gives her a lift to and from college a free sample even.

    fooled a foreign into believing that were all scabs and we dont give people money for petrol...that changed when i told the one that wasn't normal behavior


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    #5114
    psychward
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    MellowToast wrote: »
    they started to charge her for the cups and milk now XD

    Stingy but not smart if she doesn't have a travel mug.


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    #5115
    El Horseboxo
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    This fecker

    http://touch.boards.ie/thread/2056618078?page=1#post_78327670


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    #5116
    Copper_pipe
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    asked my brother to get me a bottle of coke from the shop, he got me the small 350ml bottle


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    #5117
    SteoL
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    Copper_pipe wrote: »
    asked my brother to get me a bottle of coke from the shop, he got me the small 350ml bottle

    Miserable c**t. Hope you punched him.


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    #5118
    cloptrop
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    On my way into the offo the other night , a very well dressed man ran in front of me and dived under a parked car for a ten pence that was on the ground under it.
    He looked at us , winked then jogged off.
    He was probably more crazy than stingy though . My mate reckons he traded it in for three two cent coins and went off to play nearest to the wall by himself.


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    #5119
    psychward
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    I know someone who uses his old presumably prelaundered underpants to clean the windows. Stingy or genius ?


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    #5120
    wmpdd3
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    Growing up, the towels my mother got for her wedding had a long and varied 30 year life:

    1.the good towels
    2.the baby's towel
    3. the everyday towels
    4. the swimming towels
    5. dust sheets for painting
    6. clothes
    7. soakage clothes under flowerpots


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    #5121
    fasttalkerchat
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    wmpdd3 wrote: »
    Growing up, the towels my mother got for her wedding had a long and varied 30 year life:

    1.the good towels
    2.the baby's towel
    3. the everyday towels
    4. the swimming towels
    5. dust sheets for painting
    6. clothes
    7. soakage clothes under flowerpots
    I have a feeling number 6 should be cloths. If she made you wear them as clothes that's extra stingy!!


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    #5122
    admiralofthefleet
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    fasttalkerchat wrote: »
    I have a feeling number 6 should be cloths. If she made you wear them as clothes that's extra stingy!!

    maybe she was a roman emperor in a past life


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    #5123
    fasttalkerchat
    Registered Users Posts: 5,652 ✭✭✭fasttalkerchat


    wmpdd3 wrote: »
    Growing up, the towels my mother got for her wedding had a long and varied 30 year life:

    1.the good towels
    2.the baby's towel
    3. the everyday towels
    4. the swimming towels
    5. dust sheets for painting
    6. clothes
    7. soakage clothes under flowerpots
    I have a feeling number 6 should be cloths. If she made you wear them as clothes that's extra stingy!!
    admiralofthefleet wrote: »
    maybe she was a roman emperor in a past life

    His childhood was a 24/7 Toga party.


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    #5124
    fanadman1
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    i've a friend he's 21 never evan got a provisional lience always asking for lifts and needs to be shot gun at that my car is lowered and will not make it up his lane id make an attempt now and again but i've never evan seen a cent of diesel money nights the car is full as im droping other people of they throw something in the ash tray just to say thanks i dn't care if its even a euro ! just smething as an exnolagement. as he's geting out he just taps the roof of the car and slams the door behind him in a bad humer cause he's not getin to the door

    we both smoke and he's all the time scabing fags aswell
    one day we were with someone else in there car i left my fags behind me asked him for one his reply to me was **** of i've only a couple left i was goin to give it back to him when we came back to my car !

    as a group of friends were not to bad but it seems to be with every group theres allways one w****r :rolleyes:


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    #5125
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    wmpdd3 wrote: »
    Growing up, the towels my mother got for her wedding had a long and varied 30 year life:

    1.the good towels
    2.the baby's towel
    3. the everyday towels
    4. the swimming towels
    5. dust sheets for painting
    6. clothes
    7. soakage clothes under flowerpots

    That's not stingy, that's getting the full use out of something.

    I'm assuming "the good towels" were replaced by some new ones to continue the cycle.


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    #5126
    kowloon
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    Deleted User wrote: »
    That's not stingy, that's getting the full use out of something.

    I'm assuming "the good towels" were replaced by some new ones to continue the cycle.

    Unless, of course, they're paper towels.


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    #5127
    _Moss_
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    My sister was telling me about this guy years ago who would run to the shop each time he'd to shower and squirt some shampoo/shower gel into his hand and run back home.


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    #5128
    admiralofthefleet
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    _Moss_ wrote: »
    My sister was telling me about this guy years ago who would run to the shop each time he'd to shower and squirt some shampoo/shower gel into his hand and run back home.

    your sister has to be talking bollox


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    #5129
    cloud493
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    If a shop was so lax it'd let him do that, may as well nick the bottle.


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    #5130
    fasttalkerchat
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    _Moss_ wrote: »
    My sister was telling me about this guy years ago who would run to the shop each time he'd to shower and squirt some shampoo/shower gel into his hand and run back home.

    One time I sprayed deodorant in a shop. We were buying drinks before a houseparty and I just out of the shower and forgot to spray at home. Wouldn't do it now though.


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    #5131
    demakinz
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    My granny used to buy the big bottles of brown and red sauce and when they were almost empty she used to add some hot water and give it a shake. She would get another week or two from the bottles then. Horrible watery red sauce.


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