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Stingiest thing you've seen stingy people do
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You obviously haven't had a really meaningful special card, from a special person
Alas...snubbleste wrote: »
Here you go 
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upandcumming wrote: »People that post Google Image links as images should be banned.
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Anyone any REAL juicy stinge for Chrimbo?
I got your back !
My niece (nearly 30, PhD, fablis job, earns oodles of money) lives with her 2 best friends. Every year since she moved out of the family home, she arrives back at her mammies house with her Xmas pressies, and uses her mammies stash of wrapping paper, bows, labels, selotape, gift bags etc etc to wrap her own Xmas pressies in. God forbid she buy her own like.
She also helps herself to her parents stash of Xmas cards & stamps and sends them out from just herself !. She is far too cheap to buy her own, but she loves to bask in the glory and praise that she gets from her elderly relations who constantly whine and moan that the younger generation just don't pay attention to the social niceties such as sending out Xmas cards anymore. My niece does do this, but on her parents dime naturally. :rolleyes:
Her mammy is fairly frugal herself, but not stingy. After Xmas, she'll buy loads of plain silver and gold wrapping paper and gift bags at 90% off in the sales, that can be used all throughout the year regardless of the occasion....Xmas, birthday, wedding, christening, the stuff she gets in is good for everything. When she lived at home, her stingy brat of a child moaned incessantly that her mother never had paper or cards or gift bags in the house that specifically said "Happy Birthday" or "Congrats on Your New Baby", "Congrats on Getting Married" etc etc. She would moan constantly that she had no choice but to use her mams wrapping paraphernalia that was non event specific. If you would suggest to her, that she'd go out and actually ya know, buy her own crap, she'd probably drop dead from heart failure. Stingy cow ! :mad:
She is a good kid overall. She never gave her parents a moments worry, ever. She was the first grandchild on both sides of the family & was an only child for quite some time. She was spoiled rotten & showered with stuff from the day that she was born by everyone around her....parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles etc etc, myself included. I've often wondered if that has contributed to her outrageous sense of entitlement. Getting stuff for nothing is a habit that has become so deeply engrained her its impossible to break 30 years on. I sometimes wonder if that is the cause of her stingyness & we (the enablers) are to blame, both with her and other stingy cnuts out there in general. Oh well.....:o0 -
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ProudDub you just reminded me of this with your wrapping paper story
A few times at Christmas (not recently), the family would have all exchanged presents and opened them except for my brother. He would still have his pressies for us stashed in his room. Then he will carefully gather some wrapping paper from our just-opened presents, disappear upstairs with scissors and sellotape and come back with our presents wrapped in the recycled paper. I'm not sure if it was stinge or just disorganisation - he always buys nice presents and he doesn't live at home any more so he has to wrap them now before he gets to the parents house (unless he's really stuck) 0 -
I got your back !
My niece (nearly 30, PhD, fablis job, earns oodles of money) lives with her 2 best friends. Every year since she moved out of the family home, she arrives back at her mammies house with her Xmas pressies, and uses her mammies stash of wrapping paper, bows, labels, selotape, gift bags etc etc to wrap her own Xmas pressies in. God forbid she buy her own like.
She also helps herself to her parents stash of Xmas cards & stamps and sends them out from just herself !. She is far too cheap to buy her own, but she loves to bask in the glory and praise that she gets from her elderly relations who constantly whine and moan that the younger generation just don't pay attention to the social niceties such as sending out Xmas cards anymore. My niece does do this, but on her parents dime naturally. :rolleyes:
Her mammy is fairly frugal herself, but not stingy. After Xmas, she'll buy loads of plain silver and gold wrapping paper and gift bags at 90% off in the sales, that can be used all throughout the year regardless of the occasion....Xmas, birthday, wedding, christening, the stuff she gets in is good for everything. When she lived at home, her stingy brat of a child moaned incessantly that her mother never had paper or cards or gift bags in the house that specifically said "Happy Birthday" or "Congrats on Your New Baby", "Congrats on Getting Married" etc etc. She would moan constantly that she had no choice but to use her mams wrapping paraphernalia that was non event specific. If you would suggest to her, that she'd go out and actually ya know, buy her own crap, she'd probably drop dead from heart failure. Stingy cow ! :mad:
She is a good kid overall. She never gave her parents a moments worry, ever. She was the first grandchild on both sides of the family & was an only child for quite some time. She was spoiled rotten & showered with stuff from the day that she was born by everyone around her....parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles etc etc, myself included. I've often wondered if that has contributed to her outrageous sense of entitlement. Getting stuff for nothing is a habit that has become so deeply engrained her its impossible to break 30 years on. I sometimes wonder if that is the cause of her stingyness & we (the enablers) are to blame, both with her and other stingy cnuts out there in general. Oh well.....:o
None of that is too bad? Looks like a bit of jealousy;)0 -
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cantdecide wrote: »As we were downsizing a few years ago, our receptionist left and she wasn't re-hired so the main phone would be diverted to other staff by rota leaving reception unattended for long periods of time. Nevertheless there was a Christmas tree put up in reception. One day I walked through reception to find one of our salesmen stealing decorations off the tree and shoving them into his bag. In the past, he'd been caught stealing milk and kitchen paper. The fecker had more money than the rest of us put together!!
he was borrowing id say he gave them back after christmas :pac: 0
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