Why are Irish people so stingy?

JimToken

Money is nothing in relevance to children and love and beauty

Rodney Bathgate

My mate Sid is as tight as a gnats chuff.

Hibernia93

People from Donegal in my experience seem to be the tightess

Feisar

The stingiest I ever came across was two Italians I shared a house with. When the electricity bill came in they reckoned they should only pay half share as they didn't have laptops. I was in the house Monday evening to Friday morning so basically there half the week and my laptop was fully charged coming home from work.

Dr. Bre

I hear they still have their communion money in Cavan

PsychoPete

Probably because the Brits tried to steal so much from us

Spanish Eyes

No one will ever out do the English for being tight as ducks arzes. They revel in it
And have no shame.

Rodney Bathgate

Hibernia93 wrote: »

People from Donegal in my experience seem to be the tightess

Cavan

An Ri rua

Would love to tell you op but no way I'm wasting the time, electricity, word count. I mean, I've given you a post dammit....

whisky_galore

JimToken wrote: »

Money is nothing in relevance to children and love and beauty

Money takes the sting out of being poor.

Greyfox

JimToken wrote: »

Money is nothing in relevance to children and love and beauty

You'll need to elaborate otherwise this is a very silly post. Oh and Irish people are not stingy, you might be hanging around with the wrong people

Dr. Bre

JimToken wrote: »

Money is nothing in relevance to children and love and beauty

Lay of the weed

Skeetur

I'm not stingy. Stop spreading rumors about me.

uch

If you buy me some cake I'll tell you, if you don't you're stingy too

jmlad2020

Hibernia93 wrote: »

People from Donegal in my experience seem to be the tightess

Probably partly because they are the poorest of all counties.. due to 100 years of post independence neglect by the Government.

uch

jmlad2020 wrote: »

Probably partly because they are the poorest of all counties.. due to 100 years of post independence neglect by the Government.

And nearly the furthest from Dublin

JupiterKid

I wouldn’t find us Irish to be all that stingy, in general, at all.

If anything, we can be seriously spendthrift at times and be rather lackadaisical in saving and budgeting carefully. Us Irish are also one of the most generous in terms of personal donations to charitable causes.

I can think of many other nationalities - the Scottish, Dutch and French come to mind here - who are a lot more tight with money.

Leg End Reject

JupiterKid wrote: »

I wouldn’t find us Irish to be all that stingy, in general, at all.

If anything, we can be seriously spendthrift at times and be rather lackadaisical in saving and budgeting carefully. Us Irish are also one of the most generous in terms of personal donations to charitable causes.

I can think of many other nationalities - the Scottish, Dutch and French come to mind here - who are a lot more tight with money.

I'd agree with this, we're like Mrs. Doyle fighting with her friend in the cafe to ensure we're the one to pay.

Yeah, you'll get the odd stinge, but in general, we like to show we have money. Even when we don't, Celtic Tiger anyone?

Surreptitious

Stinginess is a characteristic of a person therefore generalising a whole country with it is nonsense.

AllForIt

I'm not stingy, I spend loadsa money on myself.

Church on Tuesday

jmlad2020 wrote: »

Probably partly because they are the poorest of all counties.. due to 100 years of post independence neglect by the Government.

Yes, but there's a ton of money around Killybegs.

Strumms

The only section of Irish people where I have encountered stinginess with any regularity is in the business community, ‘some’ in the business community that is.

I think most of the regular joe soaps here are very generous with time, finances and expertise as well as help, especially when compared to some other nationalities.

Andrewf20

Ireland ranked 5th in the world for generosity:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Giving_Index

Also bees. Irish people and bees, so goddamn stingy.

NSAman

Rodney Bathgate wrote: »

My mate Sid is as tight as a gnats chuff.

Use more lube, it will be more pleasurable for you both.

440Hertz

They're not stingy at all by any survey or analysis. Ireland is extremely price insensitive to the point it's worrying as - culturally we seem to hate to be seen to be mean.

We also donate more money to charity per capita than any other country in Europe, 3rd highest in the world.

Jim2007

jmlad2020 wrote: »

Probably partly because they are the poorest of all counties.. due to 100 years of post independence neglect by the Government.

A poor country, with a positive balance of trade for over 30, that reduced it’s debt per capita for 124% to 58% over the last decade and who’s GDP per capita is 40% higher than the UK...

Oh and a country who is ranked third highest in terms of compensation during the current crisis.

People can continue to play the “Ah poor me” game as long as they want but by any measure it a wealth country. Who the wealth is distributed and spent is another matter.

440Hertz

We actually operate one of the most progressive tax and welfare systems in Europe to iron out an underlying income inequality

https://www.esri.ie/news/irish-tax-system-does-most-in-europe-to-reduce-inequality

Kylta

Irish people aren't stingy in general. Most people are generous, when they have it. but you'll always get miserable tight arses everywhere in all countries

Rodney Bathgate

We’re too generous for our own good. Borrowing money in the last recession to send to Africa to be spent on weaponry and lavish lifestyles for African dictators.

wally79

Jim2007 wrote: »

A poor country, with a positive balance of trade for over 30, that reduced it’s debt per capita for 124% to 58% over the last decade and who’s GDP per capita is 40% higher than the UK...

Oh and a country who is ranked third highest in terms of compensation during the current crisis.

People can continue to play the “Ah poor me” game as long as they want but by any measure it a wealth country. Who the wealth is distributed and spent is another matter.

He said county not country