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Stingiest thing you've seen stingy people do

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    #1082
    spongebobx
    Closed Accounts Posts: 15 ✭spongebobx


    hblock21 wrote: »
    One day when on a site visit with my boss, we were passing through a town and he pulls up. He got out and took two black bags out of the boot and shoved them into a bin on the footpath!

    He got back into the car and said "I never miss an opportunity"!

    Theres no bin collection at work and I guess he has none at home too.......

    Theres plenty more stingy things he does also.


    Aha! I know someone who did the same only to realise their husband had put
    their digital camera into a binliner to keep it dry whilst out and then threw in the boot............you know what happened next:D


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    #1083
    A_SN
    Closed Accounts Posts: 515 ✭✭✭A_SN


    greenfly wrote: »
    If the trip cost her €5 she would need to buy 300litres to save €6, minus €5 to pay for the trip and still save €1

    its costing money, not saving it by anymeans
    Stingy people don't always make sense. They usually go for saving what they see directly go (i.e. an extra 3 cents at the pump) rather than what they don't see directly (like extra gas spent).

    Even then they tend to act as if their time was worthless, which, if you're a working man, is not.


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    #1084
    Rej
    Closed Accounts Posts: 95 ✭✭Rej


    Here's one.. One of my best mates didnt get us a wedding present... not even a card.. meet him regularly & he doesnt even have the good grace to be embarrassed!!


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    #1085
    A_SN
    Closed Accounts Posts: 515 ✭✭✭A_SN


    Speaking of stingy people, this guy just spent 14 years in jail for court contempt because he didn't want to pay his ex-wife http://www.loweringthebar.net/2009/07/lawyer-jailed-for-contempt-is-freed-after-14-years.html


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    #1086
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    A_SN wrote: »
    Speaking of stingy people, this guy just spent 14 years in jail for court contempt because he didn't want to pay his ex-wife http://www.loweringthebar.net/2009/07/lawyer-jailed-for-contempt-is-freed-after-14-years.html

    He must have really hated her!!


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    #1087
    Bob Z
    Registered Users Posts: 2,587 ✭✭✭Bob Z


    Deleted User wrote: »
    He must have really hated her!!

    Yea thats what i thought too


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    #1088
    madonna123
    Registered Users Posts: 264 ✭✭madonna123


    Mont wrote: »
    he would pick up 2c if he saw it on the street

    Im not stingy.. im acutally a little too giving.. but I always pick up change off the street. I have a jar at home for change.. everytime I find coppers I pocket them and pop them in the jar on my return home.. I counted it all out a few days ago.. €87!!!! thats after about 10 months of collecting odd coppers i find here n there! would u leave €87 on the street if u found it?????


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    #1089
    A_SN
    Closed Accounts Posts: 515 ✭✭✭A_SN


    madonna123 wrote: »
    Im not stingy.. im acutally a little too giving.. but I always pick up change off the street. I have a jar at home for change.. everytime I find coppers I pocket them and pop them in the jar on my return home.. I counted it all out a few days ago.. €87!!!! thats after about 10 months of collecting odd coppers i find here n there! would u leave €87 on the street if u found it?????
    lol, you must walk a lot!


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    #1090
    geranimojess
    Closed Accounts Posts: 21 ✭geranimojess


    sweetie wrote: »
    my dad tells a story from when he was younger and he was drinking with some friends and one of them was teetotal. When it came to his round he bought 4 fizzy oranges for them.

    If 4pts of Orange were bought(equaling 4pts of Beer) he would end up paying more for his round.Its a well known fact that Publicans love Teetotalers.


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    #1091
    Victor
    Registered Users Posts: 78,290 ✭✭✭✭Victor


    hblock21 wrote: »
    One day when on a site visit with my boss, we were passing through a town and he pulls up. He got out and took two black bags out of the boot and shoved them into a bin on the footpath!

    He got back into the car and said "I never miss an opportunity"!

    Theres no bin collection at work and I guess he has none at home too.......

    Theres plenty more stingy things he does also.
    Thats a littering offence.


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    #1092
    builttospill
    Registered Users Posts: 734 ✭✭✭builttospill


    madonna123 wrote: »
    Im not stingy.. im acutally a little too giving.. but I always pick up change off the street. I have a jar at home for change.. everytime I find coppers I pocket them and pop them in the jar on my return home.. I counted it all out a few days ago.. €87!!!! thats after about 10 months of collecting odd coppers i find here n there! would u leave €87 on the street if u found it?????

    Yes yes I would leave 87 yoyos on the street if it meant I had to scour the ground and collect 2 cent coins over the space of 10 months.

    The doctors bill for your knackered back will be more than that anyways.


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    #1093
    Jeanious
    Registered Users Posts: 644 ✭✭✭Jeanious


    watna wrote: »
    Honestly, what can you do with someone like that?

    Ditch them, no two ways about it.

    neuro-praxis wrote: »
    I can't go visit my elderly aunts without them trying to force me to take half their pension home with me!
    veryangryman wrote: »
    I find that most old people are unbelievably mean. And are not shy about their mean-ness either.

    There does seem to be a certain dichotomy alright, half of them would give ya the shirt off their backs, the other half wouldn't give ya the steam off their pi$$...strange one alright, and not confined to the Irish oul fella/biddy either.
    madonna123 wrote: »
    Would u leave €87 on the street if u found it?????


    No, but a few points to note:

    1. It'd only get wasted on garbage anyway
    2. That's the equivalent of just over 1c an hour...come on like!
    3. Id much prefer to be down €87 quid if owning said 87 quid involved bendin down like a clep for ten months pickin up coppers out of the gutter (rain/snow/dog pi$$/dogsh1t also being factors!)


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    #1094
    metalfest
    Registered Users Posts: 1,016 ✭✭✭metalfest


    Deleted User wrote: »
    housemate too mean to buy toilet paper... he used newspaper... didnt flush it tho, he threw it out the window. also, he worked out the price of 24 canes of coke which were on offer in dunnes, as cents per millilitre, offer wasnt good enough. €9 for 24 cans like!!!!!

    i'm sorry but i've been laughing at that for 5 minutes,
    what was outside the window?


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    #1095
    ManFromAtlantis
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,483 ✭✭✭ManFromAtlantis


    Rej wrote: »
    Here's one.. One of my best mates didnt get us a wedding present... not even a card.. meet him regularly & he doesnt even have the good grace to be embarrassed!!


    maybe he doesnt like ye as much as ye think he should.


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    #1096
    Quazzie
    Registered Users Posts: 28,857 ✭✭✭✭Quazzie


    Rej wrote: »
    Here's one.. One of my best mates didnt get us a wedding present... not even a card.. meet him regularly & he doesnt even have the good grace to be embarrassed!!
    Two of my groomsmen didn't give us a present.


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    #1097
    watna
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,367 ✭✭✭✭watna


    cojomo2 wrote: »
    How about not hanging around with them anymore?When they have no mates they will start to wonder why and it will hit them. I hate pricks like that with a passion.

    Unfortunately, I live abroad and our group of friends here are all my OHs friends, not really mine (although I'd consider some of them my friends now). I don't really have a say in telling everyone not to hang out with him any more. I certainly try and restrict my time with him but if we do things as a group, he's there. His stinginess is commented on regularly but he has a lot of issues and is a bit special so people are more likely to overlook it. Not me though, drives me mad and I point out that he owes money to people whenever I can.


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    #1098
    DamoDLK
    Registered Users Posts: 716 ✭✭✭DamoDLK


    I'm unsure of whether this qualifies as stingy but here goes...
    My and my mate used to go the pub on a tuesday night, for 2 hours or so.. i'd usually buy the 1st round, x2 guinness or whatever.. i'd usually be quicker finishing than him, 20 mins or so. I'd be there staring into the pint glass, waiting for him to cop on. he'd finally go up and get his round in, drink it quicker, so i'd get the next round, then time would be called, and he'd be like right lets head so, after the 3..

    Finally copped onto his antics fairly lively making sure he buys the 1st..


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    #1099
    KeyLimePie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 861 ✭✭✭KeyLimePie


    I hate when people get 19.99€ worth of petrol and hand me a 20 and then expect to get their cent back :\ if it was 20.01€ worth of petrol they wouldn't be expecting me to take their penny off them..........

    And people who pick up pennies in front of me and pocket them, even though there's a huge charity box right on my counter...


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    #1100
    IvyTheTerrible
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,949 ✭✭✭✭IvyTheTerrible


    KeyLimePie wrote: »

    And people who pick up pennies in front of me and pocket them, even though there's a huge charity box right on my counter...

    TBH that's NOT stingy. You're not obliged to give your change to the charity box. I'm not giving my change to St Anthony's whateveritis.


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    #1101
    KeyLimePie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 861 ✭✭✭KeyLimePie


    IvyTheTerrible wrote: »
    TBH that's NOT stingy. You're not obliged to give your change to the charity box. I'm not giving my change to St Anthony's whateveritis.

    So what does someone do with pennies you find on a floor ?! :)


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    #1102
    metamorphosis
    Registered Users Posts: 4,991 ✭✭✭metamorphosis


    spongebobx wrote: »
    In my workplace there's a water filter installed to the kitchen sink and a colleague fills plastic bottles up and takes them home - every day!:eek:

    That's not been stingy, it's been clever.


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    #1103
    A_SN
    Closed Accounts Posts: 515 ✭✭✭A_SN


    KeyLimePie wrote: »
    I hate when people get 19.99€ worth of petrol and hand me a 20 and then expect to get their cent back :\ if it was 20.01€ worth of petrol they wouldn't be expecting me to take their penny off them..........

    And people who pick up pennies in front of me and pocket them, even though there's a huge charity box right on my counter...
    Really? That's stingy? I just don't think twice about it, I just wait for my change no matter how much it is. By the way I wouldn't pay a cent less than indicated either.


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    #1104
    ManFromAtlantis
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    i hate when things are priced at €xx.99


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    #1105
    mobius42
    Closed Accounts Posts: 909 ✭✭✭mobius42


    ManFromAtlantis wrote: »
    i hate when things are priced at €xx.99

    They should get rid of the 1 and 2 cent coins and make all prices end in a 5 or 0.


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    #1106
    Theta
    Registered Users Posts: 1,760 ✭✭✭Theta


    A_SN wrote: »
    Really? That's stingy? I just don't think twice about it, I just wait for my change no matter how much it is. By the way I wouldn't pay a cent less than indicated either.


    To be honest your decent, plenty of people will ask to be let off 1 cent here 5 cent there, if they are sound i usually dont mind. The one that really does my head in is will you let me off the price of a bag, even though i can see they have tons of cash on them.


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    #1107
    Dan Chipowski
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,072 ✭✭✭Dan Chipowski


    A workmate of mine keeps a float of 10 and 20 cent coins to pay for cakes/leaving cards etc when people are leaving.

    He owed me a tenner once, and told me he'd give it to me when he broke a twenty he had............that was on the monday, and he still hadn't broken the twenty by the friday :D


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    #1108
    spongebobx
    Closed Accounts Posts: 15 ✭spongebobx


    ManFromAtlantis wrote: »
    i hate when things are priced at €xx.99

    I heard that items are priced a xx.99 so that sales staff must register a sale to give you your change as opposed to you giving them money and they then pocket it. Don't know if it's true.


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    #1109
    partyguinness
    Registered Users Posts: 8,207 ✭✭✭partyguinness


    spongebobx wrote: »
    I heard that items are priced a xx.99 so that sales staff must register a sale to give you your change as opposed to you giving them money and they then pocket it. Don't know if it's true.


    Not sure about that...because customers would need a receipt anyway so it would have to be registered.

    I think its more a sales tactic....€19.99 looks cheaper than €20.00.

    Recently, there was a Pound shop in the UK, then a "99p" shop opened across the road. Everyone flocked to the 99p shop...:eek:


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    #1110
    Theresalwaysone
    Registered Users Posts: 4,039 ✭✭✭Theresalwaysone


    spongebobx wrote: »
    I heard that items are priced a xx.99 so that sales staff must register a sale to give you your change as opposed to you giving them money and they then pocket it. Don't know if it's true.

    Nah its just the marketing strategy, 9.99 is psychologically much less than 10.00.

    If a sales staff had a pocked full of pennies he could pocket the money from the sale anyway.


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    #1111
    daveyboy_1ie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,352 ✭✭✭daveyboy_1ie


    spongebobx wrote: »
    I heard that items are priced a xx.99 so that sales staff must register a sale to give you your change as opposed to you giving them money and they then pocket it. Don't know if it's true.

    Doubt thats true, I presume its more a psychological thing, that you are buying said item for LESS than 30 euro (at 29.99) or whatever the price is. It sounds better is all. It does actually work, especially if your buying large items. When I looked at a Telly recently the price was 999.99 and I thought to myself, wow its less than a grand for 50 inche screen. Took a full second to remind myself that there is a cent difference.

    Although I could stand corrected? :D


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