Stingiest thing you've seen stingy people do

fasttalkerchat

When I was in living in Dublin I was careful to check that bins were included in the rent... However after a few weeks of the bins not being lifted we discovered there was also a charge of €8 per collection!
By this stage we had a nice pile of rubbish bags in the shed. It was going to cost us students so much that we decided to keep using the shed for rubbish and hire a skip when we moved out.
A skip was going to cost even more so we ended up scorching the grass trying to burn all letters and then flytipping the rest.

sligojoek

fasttalkerchat wrote: »

When I was in living in Dublin I was careful to check that bins were included in the rent... However after a few weeks of the bins not being lifted we discovered there was also a charge of €8 per collection!
By this stage we had a nice pile of rubbish bags in the shed. It was going to cost us students so much that we decided to keep using the shed for rubbish and hire a skip when we moved out.
A skip was going to cost even more so we ended up scorching the grass trying to burn all letters and then flytipping the rest.

Paddy Cow

fasttalkerchat wrote: »

When I was in living in Dublin I was careful to check that bins were included in the rent... However after a few weeks of the bins not being lifted we discovered there was also a charge of €8 per collection!
By this stage we had a nice pile of rubbish bags in the shed. It was going to cost us students so much that we decided to keep using the shed for rubbish and hire a skip when we moved out.
A skip was going to cost even more so we ended up scorching the grass trying to burn all letters and then flytipping the rest.

You're confusing being stingy with being a scumbag.

fasttalkerchat

Paddy Cow wrote: »

You're confusing being stingy with being a scumbag.

Leaving the landlord to sort it out would have been much worse!
We left it all on council ground so it would be lifted quickly.

Paddy Cow

fasttalkerchat wrote: »

Leaving the landlord to sort it out would have been much worse!
We left it all on council ground so it would be lifted quickly.

Trying to make excuses to ease a guilty conscience? :pac:

fasttalkerchat

Paddy Cow wrote: »

Trying to make excuses to ease a guilty conscience? :pac:

I do feel guilty about it. That's why i posted it here.
The story was about how trying to be stingy caused more problems than it solved. In that last week we would have happily paid double the amount to have the rubbish gone.

SunnyDub1

While in a freinds house over the weekend I noticed she had a pile of crumpled Xmas wrapping paper sitting in her kitchen, I asked her why was it there and she said she was gonna reuse it to wrap Christmas presents - all I could do was laugh.
Wrapping paper is €2, I told her this and she said she know but this wrapping paper(crumpled used one) is the good quality one from M&S.

Going to buy her some wrapping paper after work :pac:

jacool

Guy in our workplace – everyday, brings in the cup, the tea bag and the spoon.
Gets hot water to brew his tea and milk from the machine.
Saves 25c each time.
Imagine my surprise when I see him in the actual food queue on a Friday morning (Fry day too actually)!
He gets 2 sausages and puts them on his plate.
Does his usual routine with the tea bag.
I follow him to the till where he hands over the 60c for “Just the 2 sausages, tea’s my own.”
He gets to a bench in there, and before he sits down, puts his hand in his pocket and pulls out a plastic bag with 2 pieces of pre-buttered bread from his house!
I kid you not.

snubbleste

SunnyDub1 wrote: »

While in a freinds house over the weekend I noticed she had a pile of crumpled Xmas wrapping paper sitting in her kitchen, I asked her why was it there and she said she was gonna reuse it to wrap Christmas presents - all I could do was laugh.
Wrapping paper is €2, I told her this and she said she know but this wrapping paper(crumpled used one) is the good quality one from M&S.

Going to buy her some wrapping paper after work :pac:

That is not stingy. That's common practical sense, recycling something that there is nothing wrong with it.

Jijsaw

SunnyDub1 wrote: »

While in a freinds house over the weekend I noticed she had a pile of crumpled Xmas wrapping paper sitting in her kitchen, I asked her why was it there and she said she was gonna reuse it to wrap Christmas presents - all I could do was laugh.
Wrapping paper is €2, I told her this and she said she know but this wrapping paper(crumpled used one) is the good quality one from M&S.

Going to buy her some wrapping paper after work :pac:

Thats what my mam does :P But only if there is no tears or creases in the paper

SunnyDub1

snubbleste wrote: »

That is not stingy. That's common practical sense, recycling something that there is nothing wrong with it.

Jijsaw wrote: »

Thats what my mam does :P But only if there is no tears or creases in the paper

Seriously :eek:

I'd be embarrassed for the person, if I bought them a present and a year later I receive a present from them wrapped in the same wrapping paper I had used the previous year...

Or if someone handed me a gift wrapped worn crumpled wrapping paper :eek:

For the sake of my dignity, I'd rather spend a couple of euro on new paper!!

snubbleste

Why would you be embarrassed It's only decorated paper.

Lollipops23

SunnyDub1 wrote: »

Seriously :eek:

I'd be embarrassed for the person, if I bought them a present and a year later I receive a present from them wrapped in the same wrapping paper I had used the previous year...

Or if someone handed me a gift wrapped worn crumpled wrapping paper :eek:

For the sake of my dignity, I'd rather spend a couple of euro on new paper!!

I wouldn't be able to tell you what paper i used last year, I certainly wouldn't be able to recognise it (particularly if it was wrapped around a present I was excitedly opening...).

It's recycling and it's nothing to be ashamed of.

DramaQuee

Like good economy. Hate stinginess.

SunnyDub1

snubbleste wrote: »

Why would you be embarrassed It's only decorated paper.

exactly - it's only paper... Paper that costs at most €2. You can actually buy 3 rolls for €2 in the euro shop

It looks cheap to hand over a gift wrapped in crumpled used wrapping paper.

The forum is "stingy people" forum and IMO anyone that wont go out and spend a couple of euro on wrapping paper but instead will use used wrapping paper is stingy !!!

DramaQuee

I find it hard enough to make the gift look decent with NEW wrapping paper, it tears and crinkles, few times I have to start all over!!!

The recycling centre takes the old paper and old cards We're way past Blue Peter days, home made gifts and reused paper.

JuliusCaesar

SunnyDub1 wrote: »

It looks cheap to hand over a gift wrapped in crumpled used wrapping paper.

You think it looks "cheap" to use an Americanism - 'mean' is what we call it here. I think it looks ecological. It may be only €2 in price, but those are trees that are being farmed for paper, stripping the natural environment. If it saves a few trees, that's good.

One year I wrapped all my prezzies in newspaper, and wrote on them graffitti-style with a large felt-tip marker. Looked good imho and was environmentally sound too.

What's the point in tearing paper off, binning it, and buying more - only for the same process to happen again? You're on your own here SunnyDub1. oops no, DramaQuee is with you.

DramaQuee wrote: »

We're way past Blue Peter days, home made gifts and reused paper.

What's wrong with making gifts? I've made jam and chutneys for presents. People will give me the jars back if they're not going to re-use them themselves. I don't want the usual tat for presents. If I wanted it, I'd buy it myself - the stuff I'm given is generally round in the charity shop the first day they re-open after Christmas.

Micky Dolenz

Seeing people not throw a €5 or a €10 or more to the sick kids.

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056825180

westies4ever

Micky Dolenz wrote: »

Seeing people not throw a €5 or a €10 or more to the sick kids.

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056825180

total and utter emotional blackmail - and it worked, donation sent.

Micky Dolenz

westies4ever wrote: »

total and utter emotional blackmail - and it worked, donation sent.

Fair play Be sure and stick your pledge on that thread so we can add it to the tally and shower you with thanks, you non stingy person you

Gotham

IvaBigWun wrote: »

I hate mean people.

The really, really mean kind who always missed their round even before the R word was mentioned. The kind who always sit on their hands when the charity box went around the office.

My favourite was a friend of a friends Dad who had two TVs on top of each other. Because one had no sound and the other had no picture :pac:

So whats the worst you've ever heard?

That's a lie, because it's Karl Pilkington's Uncle that did that.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=Y1lXZnrVm4I#t=380s

Frank Black

fasttalkerchat wrote: »

Leaving the landlord to sort it out would have been much worse!
We left it all on council ground so it would be lifted quickly.

My hero!

saiint

Gotham wrote: »

That's a lie, because it's Karl Pilkington's Uncle that did that.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=Y1lXZnrVm4I#t=380s

you'd be surprised how many people actually do/done that
my granda does it as well :pac: although his tvs are quite old

Paddy Cow

JuliusCaesar wrote: »

You think it looks "cheap" to use an Americanism - 'mean' is what we call it here. I think it looks ecological. It may be only €2 in price, but those are trees that are being farmed for paper, stripping the natural environment. If it saves a few trees, that's good.

One year I wrapped all my prezzies in newspaper, and wrote on them graffitti-style with a large felt-tip marker. Looked good imho and was environmentally sound too.

What's the point in tearing paper off, binning it, and buying more - only for the same process to happen again? You're on your own here SunnyDub1. oops no, DramaQuee is with you.



What's wrong with making gifts? I've made jam and chutneys for presents. People will give me the jars back if they're not going to re-use them themselves. I don't want the usual tat for presents. If I wanted it, I'd buy it myself - the stuff I'm given is generally round in the charity shop the first day they re-open after Christmas.

In fairness, the saving the environment argument falls down when you think of the amount of newspapers which are printed every day and then thrown in the bin. There is no need for newspapers considering all the online sites, radio and tv stations where you can catch up on the news without harming any trees. Christmas only happens once a year and the amount of wrapping paper used will only make up a small percentage of annual paper production :P

Max Power

jacool wrote: »

Guy in our workplace – everyday, brings in the cup, the tea bag and the spoon.
Gets hot water to brew his tea and milk from the machine.
Saves 25c each time.
Imagine my surprise when I see him in the actual food queue on a Friday morning (Fry day too actually)!
He gets 2 sausages and puts them on his plate.
Does his usual routine with the tea bag.
I follow him to the till where he hands over the 60c for “Just the 2 sausages, tea’s my own.”
He gets to a bench in there, and before he sits down, puts his hand in his pocket and pulls out a plastic bag with 2 pieces of pre-buttered bread from his house!
I kid you not.

Man brings own lunch to work. What exactly is stingy about that?

Janedoe10

fasttalkerchat wrote: »

Leaving the landlord to sort it out would have been much worse!
We left it all on council ground so it would be lifted quickly.

Oh how considerate of you !

DramaQuee

JuliusCaesar wrote: »

You think it looks "cheap" to use an Americanism - 'mean' is what we call it here. I think it looks ecological. It may be only €2 in price, but those are trees that are being farmed for paper, stripping the natural environment. If it saves a few trees, that's good.

One year I wrapped all my prezzies in newspaper, and wrote on them graffitti-style with a large felt-tip marker. Looked good imho and was environmentally sound too.

What's the point in tearing paper off, binning it, and buying more - only for the same process to happen again? You're on your own here SunnyDub1. oops no, DramaQuee is with you.



What's wrong with making gifts? I've made jam and chutneys for presents. People will give me the jars back if they're not going to re-use them themselves. I don't want the usual tat for presents. If I wanted it, I'd buy it myself - the stuff I'm given is generally round in the charity shop the first day they re-open after Christmas.

Ahem, I don't buy tat, so much for your generalisation. I've found donation type presents, e.g. buying a goat for an African family, that type of present very good. When I buy an actual present to be wrapped though, it is something the person wants, I go to the trouble of finding out. Perhaps 'the stuff' you receive which does not suit you, is due to lack of communication. There's something wrong, and you show some no small meanness of spirit to be ungrateful enough to call it tat when someone has thought of you at all. Those people care about you. You come across very self righteous and you're definitely unnecessarily angry.

No, I don't like home made presents at all. That's MY opinion. I like a nice envelope if it's a donation card thing, and nice packaging, aesthetically pleasing on a gift. But I've had it up to the tonsils with drawings, homemade things etc from when my children were young. My attic is full of that. I want grown up things now and you can keep your condescension to yourself.

Frynge

Gotham wrote: »

That's a lie, because it's Karl Pilkington's Uncle that did that.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=Y1lXZnrVm4I#t=380s

that clip is from 2012 and the op's is from jan 2009.

Op wins.

Gotham

Frynge wrote: »

that clip is from 2012 and the op's is from jan 2009.

Op wins.

The podcasts were recorded and aired between 2005 and 2008.
http://www.pilkipedia.co.uk/wiki/index.php?title=The_Ricky_Gervais_Show

It was only in 2010 that the cartoon versions were made and shown on channel 4, and thusly the video I linked was uploaded in 2012.

Frynge

Gotham wrote: »

The podcasts were recorded and aired between 2005 and 2008.
http://www.pilkipedia.co.uk/wiki/index.php?title=The_Ricky_Gervais_Show

It was only in 2010 that the cartoon versions were made and shown on channel 4, and thusly the video I linked was uploaded in 2012.

I am wrong so.