Difference between thrifty and stingy?

lazygal

How do you know you're being thrifty or just plain stingy? Where is the line crossed?

For example, I bring my lunch to work everyday=thrifty, but scabbing food from other people's lunches=stingy.

prinz

The line is crossed when it does more harm (to yourself or your relationship with others) than good.

CardBordWindow

Thrift is using your money wisely.
Stingy is being a tight git.

RedXIV

Thrifty - using one tea bag for 2 cups of tea made at the same time

Stingy - using one tea bag for 2 cups of tea made with a day in between

Conall Cernach

Thrift is getting the best value out of something like reusing jam jars. Stingy is doing something out of mean spiritness like not buying jam at all and only eating dry bread.

pickarooney

thrifty - if you won a hundred grand you'd spend it sensibly
stingy - if you won a hundred grand you'd hide it and not tell anyone

Giselle

Thrifty is entertaining your friends by giving them a home cooked meal. Stingy is expecting them to pay for the electricity you cook it with.

Mickey Dazzler

Thrifty people are wise with their money. Stingy people are cunts

Where To

Perception.

And one has an extra letter.

Agricola

Thrifty people are almost always careful with money, but can on occasion have a bit of a blowout when the mood takes them, when its for the good of others etc.
Stingy people are generally always stingy and would have an argument about the price of pints in the pub after a funeral!

hairyprincess

Conall Cernach wrote: »

Thrift is getting the best value out of something like reusing jam jars. Stingy is doing something out of mean spiritness like not buying jam at all and only eating dry bread.

But I don't like jam :eek:

corktina

hairyprincess wrote: »

But I don't like jam :eek:

or Veet presumably

Chuck Stone

A thrifty person can still be generous to others.

A stingy person is just stingy.

hairyprincess

corktina wrote: »

or Veet presumably

It keeps me warm. I am therefore thrifty

foxyboxer

The line is crossed when you intentionally abuse the generosity of others.

Someone who is thrifty appreciates value and will gladly spend money on quality.
Someone who is stingy knows the price of everything and the value of nothing, spending the absolute bare minimum.

davet82

Stingy - is robbing peoples drinks in a nightclub

Thrifty - is robbing peoples drinks in a nightclub and not getting caught :cool:

frag420

No thats Shneaky!!

Zebra3

frag420 wrote: »

No thats Shneaky!!

No, it's just thieving.

Mickey H

Some great recession busting tips tight arsedness in here:

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055454434

Birneybau

hairyprincess wrote: »

It keeps me warm. I am therefore tuffty

FYP

saa

I always found that I can be thrifty but if my thriftiness affects anyone else then its stingy.

i.e Not ordering that many drinks because I'm low on cash is fine it only affects me (unless its rounds but no one I know under the age of 30 does rounds) but not bringing a bottle of wine to a party because I wanted to save a few euros affects someone else, is stingy and while im saving that money I'm affecting my relationship with that person.

Or the absolute worst stingy offenders are the ones who give out about spending money or something being expensive, once you make the decision to spend the money shut up and stop filling the air with negativity you don't get a discount post purchase for whining.

Dial Square

unless its rounds but no one I know under the age of 30 does rounds



Why does no one under the age of 30 do rounds?? Is this true or just in south dublin?

Mickey H

Dial Square wrote: »

unless its rounds but no one I know under the age of 30 does rounds



Why does no one under the age of 30 do rounds?? Is this true or just in south dublin?

We do rounds. Each to their own I suppose.

Tonyandthewhale

Thrifty people might be willing to do without if they feel they need to save money.
Stingy people will make you do without whether they need to save the money or not.

monkeysnapper

I don't know which I fall into, I needed a new basket and wheels for my dishwasher so I sneaked into my local refuge center and scabbed a rack with wheels and a basket out of a appliance on its way to destruction .

I don't even care, I'm chuffed to bits, I think I'll treat myself to a new tea bag fresh from the box for a cupper and throw it away after

wolfpawnat

Thrifty - fixing the hem of a favourite t-shirt.

Stingy - not fixing it cause you'd have to buy thread and a needle. Or else using a rusted pin to fix it.

Santa Cruz

Thrifty is using yellow pack toilet paper
Stingy is taking toilet paper home from work and recycling it after use

oldyouth

Thrifty is economising where you can, so that you can afford the things that you enjoy and make you happy

Stingy is denying yourself things that make you happy because it would involve spending money

gugleguy

Thrifty: buying ZILCH sunglasses/cuddly toys while flying on the airplane.

Stingy: Using any old large shopping bag to carry your radio control boat plane etc. As I found out! The bag fell apart after absorbing too much rain water. I got sorted with a binliner from kind soul.

Capt'n Midnight

My bloody Grandad. Always complaining about the price of everything.
"One pound fifty for a cup of tea?"
"75 pee for two digestive biscuits?"
In the end I had to say, "Look Grandad, you just popped round. I didn't invite you".

Fox_In_Socks

Thrifty is using an old thread from 2012 so as to get the most out of it.

Stingy is keeping your opinions to yourself and not wasting the energy in typing.

sawdoubters

washing toilet paper and using again
using cling film instead of condoms
buying meal for yourself and not for your girlfriend who is broke

Mickey H

sawdoubters wrote: »

washing toilet paper and using again
using cling film instead of condoms
buying meal for yourself and not for your girlfriend who is broke

Wait, is that thrifty or stingy?

MonaPizza

Stingy people screw others over a few quid.
Thrifty people don't let themselves be screwed over a few quid.

feargale

Thrifty is being in control of money.
Stingy is being controlled by money.

the_monkey

Stingy is being tight when you don't need to be.

Living poorly when you could afford to live well and still have good savings.

Thats what I witness here in catalunya on an unbelievable scale.

Check out some of my posts in the "stingy people" thread ...