Do Mean people ever actually spend it ? ?

Ish66

All his life, A Neighbour of mine,a single man was known in the area for being tight ! He never paid for bins, Small bags into street bins. He would borrow everything especially lawnmowers. He had a good job with the ESB down where the chimneys are.
Even when he retired he used his bus pass to go down to his old workplace every lunchtime because the lunch was free. He died 2 years ago and a niece got the lot.
I saw his will recently in the Sunday Indo, Including the house (360k) he left nearly 1.9M ! ! What was the point of his lifelong thrift ? Mental Illness ? Otherwise, What was the point of doing what he did for all my lifetime ?
I could write a book telling you what I would do....Utter Madness

It’s great to see how saving really pays off for the people we care about in life.

It’s also great to see busy bodies lose their minds over something that has absolutely nothing to do with them.

barneygumble99

People who are too tight to enjoy life when they’re young , will hardly go mad spending money when they’re old. There’s no hitch on a hearse as they say. I’m pretty sure they laugh at people enjoying life, spending money on takeaways, pints, holidays , probably can’t understand it at all.

If they weren't thrift they would have blown it and probable worse off in later life. By retirement it's just the way they are.

I completely agree about not just leaving it though. My grandfather left over 1 million behind. Great for my parents.

I don't think they will be doing likewise considering mammy now insists on first class but they worked hard to raise us. Overtime constantly so they have earned it and more

Ish66

JayZeus wrote: »

It’s great to see how saving really pays off for the people we care about in life.

It’s also great to see busy bodies lose their minds over something that has absolutely nothing to do with them.

1st reply...A Tightarse ! It get's them out of the woodwork !

ILoveYourVibes

You only get rich by spending way less than you earn.

Although meanness is not attractive.

Maybe he really loved his niece though.

JayZeus

JayZeus wrote: »

It’s great to see how saving really pays off for the people we care about in life.

It’s also great to see busy bodies lose their minds over something that has absolutely nothing to do with them.

You are dead, you didn't see ****

pgj2015

I think it is a result of growing up dirt poor. They have a huge fear of being left with nothing, and so they spend as little as possible and try to earn as much as possible. It is kind of like a hobby or addiction for them as well. The number 1 goal in their life. The thing I often think is I hope they don't work away their 20's and then get a serious illness at say 30 and die, then what was it all for? Life is about experiences not wealth, you will look back at holidays, nights out, football matches you were at with friends/family, girlfriends/boyfriends you had etc on your death bed, not the fact you earned 20,000 one month back in 2007.

Niner leprauchan

Niner leprauchan wrote: »

You are dead, you didn't see ****

There's always the fool who thinks a full life requires you to spend lots of money, just to keep the curtain twitchers satisfied that you're living it the way they think you should.

For many who grew up in Ireland of the late 40's and early 50's, living life the way that fella seems to have would be perfectly normal. I think the meanness of folks like the OP is the worse kind, worse than the result of growing up learning to spend as little as you need to get by.

flossy1

if you are poor when young and always hungry you are afraid the bad times will come back

RandomViewer

Wasn't Benny Hill famous for his meanness ?

o1s1n

JayZeus wrote: »

There's always the fool who thinks a full life requires you to spend lots of money, just to keep the curtain twitchers satisfied that you're living it the way they think you should.

For many who grew up in Ireland of the late 40's and early 50's, living life the way that fella seems to have would be perfectly normal. I think the meanness of folks like the OP is the worse kind, worse than the result of growing up learning to spend as little as you need to get by.

There's being thrifty because you haven't two cents to rub together (I grew up in 80s Ireland and can remember my mam making toys out of cardboard boxes!) and then there's just idiocy.

Going through your whole life being too afraid to spend your money and having a mountain of it left when you die is just a waste of a working life. What was the point?

RandomViewer

My dad used to buy animals from a wee man that lived in a wee house with a tin roof, no inside toilet,old open fire, he drove an old Peugeot pick up and had the same coat for the 20 or so years I knew him, bar the odd nights drinking every few years he didn't socialise, bought and sold livestock, he'd had TB when young and spent a long time in a sanatorium ,anyway he died and nobody expected there'd be much , left hundreds of thousands to a his niece who lived in Scotland

Some people just don't enjoy spending money. I don't. I'm not saving up for anything, I just don't like wasting money. In fact, it annoys me to buy something I don't need.

I was in Dublin last week to go to my workplace, when I realised I forgot to bring a charger. I was quoted something like €20 in the phone shop, no way. I'd rather have no phone for the day, which I didn't have. Similarly, I'd rather buy clothes in a second hand shop than new, where possible. I mend my own jumpers. It's not that spending is unaffordable, it's nothing to do with expecting a downturn, it's just irritating to waste money.

You didn't pick your money up off the ground, you got up early to go to work and probably did a good job to earn it. I'm not sure if any of the above is "stingy", I think it's more to do with having respect for money (without being obsessed by it).

Cunning Stunt

RandomViewer wrote: »

My dad used to buy animals from a wee man that lived in a wee house with a tin roof, no inside toilet,old open fire, he drove an old Peugeot pick up and had the same coat for the 20 or so years I knew him, bar the odd nights drinking every few years he didn't socialise, bought and sold livestock, he'd had TB when young and spent a long time in a sanatorium ,anyway he died and nobody expected there'd be much , left hundreds of thousands to a his niece who lived in Scotland

We had an elderly neighbour like that. She lived on her own all her life, in a little cottage, no water supply. We had only moved in next door when she started coming with her two buckets to our house every day to get water, as she had done with the people who lived there before us. Harmless old lady, always same clothes, no car, no tv...no modcons of any kind. When she died she left 3 farms behind her that she had inherited from family down the years. To this day I am not sure if she was just very frugal or if she honestly didnt know how much she had!

Strumms

Why would you leave 1.9 million ? Just sitting there ?

If I’d that sort of cash now, I didn’t have plans to spend that much I’d be putting it to good use now... enjoying life, enjoying helping others..

o1s1n

o1s1n wrote: »

There's being thrifty because you haven't two cents to rub together (I grew up in 80s Ireland and can remember my mam making toys out of cardboard boxes!) and then there's just idiocy.

Going through your whole life being too afraid to spend your money and having a mountain of it left when you die is just a waste of a working life. What was the point?

Firstly, anyone with access to BBC and Blue Peter made toys out of cardboard boxes in the 80's. Or RTE and Bosco. Ann and Frank were masters of the glue stick, toilet roll and blunt nosed scissors, along with every child and their mother in Ireland. The 80's was a tight decade for a great many, but to equate it to the experiences of those experiencing life a child with parents who had been through 'The Emergency' is just pointless. They were not at all the same thing and only ignorance would lead one to think otherwise.

Secondly, for many a man of his generation and even our own, going to work is how one feels valued and to have a place and a purpose. It's bloody ridiculous to think that a pensioner who's worked and paid for his travel pass through decades of public service should be ridiculed by the OP because he takes the bus down the road to the old works canteen to have a bite to eat and doubtless a chat with some folks he'd worked with for years. Sure what else is an old bachelor to be doing? Porsche 911? A fortnight in Ibiza? A week in Vegas blowing his savings on the tables, coke and hookers?

As a man working for the ESB through the 70's and 80's, that man would have spent a time paying more than 60 pence in tax for every punt he earned. He would have seen the lunacy of tradesmen (likely as one himself) buying family homes, then holiday homes, then investment apartments. And what good did it do for most of them? He would have seen society change, his surrounds in Dublin change many times, his workplace become full of university educated middle and junior managers, while his apprenticeship, experience and increasing years would have had many of same look down their noses on him.

There's nothing to say that fella didn't enjoy his lunch, his chats, his work, his friendships, a few pints, sitting by the canal docks watching the swans or feeding ducks, a fresh cod and chips and a read of the newspaper enough to be happy living the life he lived. The absolute rubbish people come up with, thinking they're superior in some way because they spend what they have or more than it, thinking there's something wrong with the other fella.

There no talking to some eejits though.

KaneToad

A Lamb Named Miltiades! wrote: »

Some people just don't enjoy spending money. I don't. I'm not saving up for anything, I just don't like wasting money. In fact, it annoys me to buy something I don't need.

I was in Dublin last week to go to my workplace, when I realised I forgot to bring a charger. I was quoted something like €20 in the phone shop, no way. I'd rather have no phone for the day, which I didn't have. Similarly, I'd rather buy clothes in a second hand shop than new, where possible. I mend my own jumpers. It's not that spending is unaffordable, it's nothing to do with expecting a downturn, it's just irritating to waste money.

You didn't pick your money up off the ground, you got up early to go to work and probably did a good job to earn it. I'm not sure if any of the above is "stingy", I think it's more to do with having respect for money (without being obsessed by it).

I'd have a similar philosophy. I don't really enjoy spending money.

I've read that there is a dopamine rush experience that a lot of people get from shopping. I don't get this. I don't equate not spending money with being mean. Not spending money so that someone else has to cover the cost - that's mean/stingy.

Government buildings

He lived his life away he wanted to live it. He didn't like to spend money, so what? I would say that spending money made him unhappy. He was happy not to spend it. Who is to say that what he did was foolish? He was entitled to do as he wanted with his own money.

sporina

i'd say for some people its a form of control.. shame though.. but best make a will - so the government don't get it.. now that would be a real shame..

pgj2015

JayZeus wrote: »

Firstly, anyone with access to BBC and Blue Peter made toys out of cardboard boxes in the 80's. Or RTE and Bosco. Ann and Frank were masters of the glue stick, toilet roll and blunt nosed scissors, along with every child and their mother in Ireland. The 80's was a tight decade for a great many, but to equate it to the experiences of those experiencing life a child with parents who had been through 'The Emergency' is just pointless. They were not at all the same thing and only ignorance would lead one to think otherwise.

Secondly, for many a man of his generation and even our own, going to work is how one feels valued and to have a place and a purpose. It's bloody ridiculous to think that a pensioner who's worked and paid for his travel pass through decades of public service should be ridiculed by the OP because he takes the bus down the road to the old works canteen to have a bite to eat and doubtless a chat with some folks he'd worked with for years. Sure what else is an old bachelor to be doing? Porsche 911? A fortnight in Ibiza? A week in Vegas blowing his savings on the tables, coke and hookers?

As a man working for the ESB through the 70's and 80's, that man would have spent a time paying more than 60 pence in tax for every punt he earned. He would have seen the lunacy of tradesmen (likely as one himself) buying family homes, then holiday homes, then investment apartments. And what good did it do for most of them? He would have seen society change, his surrounds in Dublin change many times, his workplace become full of university educated middle and junior managers, while his apprenticeship, experience and increasing years would have had many of same look down their noses on him.

There's nothing to say that fella didn't enjoy his lunch, his chats, his work, his friendships, a few pints, sitting by the canal docks watching the swans or feeding ducks, a fresh cod and chips and a read of the newspaper enough to be happy living the life he lived. The absolute rubbish people come up with, thinking they're superior in some way because they spend what they have or more than it, thinking there's something wrong with the other fella.

There no talking to some eejits though.

Yes, why wouldnt he?

volono

Sorry but I'm all for people being sensible with money and like another poster said maybe he enjoyed seeing ex workfriends, sitting on the canal feeding the birds etc etc. What I don't understand is him not paying for his waste, annoying other people for lawnmowers which only cost afew hundred euro and only knows what else. He left 1.9 million behind him.

pgj2015

sporina wrote: »

i'd say for some people its a form of control.. shame though.. but best make a will - so the government don't get it.. now that would be a real shame..

The government wouldn't get it even if you didn't make a will.

That has only ever happened once in Ireland as far as I am aware. an adopted man who had absolutely no family left when he died.

volono

Leaving his money to his niece, the tax kicks in after around 35k, revenue will be getting a substantial amount of it

Swindled

I remember a group of fella's who thought they were taking a hand at an auld lad at our workplace who was known for being very careful with his money and saving every penny, no smoking / drinking etc. His Son was known for being the opposite.

The group said "Paddy, what do you think of the fact that when you're gone, your Sean is going to straight away blow that small fortune of money you spent your life hoarding up ?"

"Well" . . says Paddy . ."if he enjoys spending it even only half as much as I enjoyed saving it all . . then fair play to the youngfella"

Ish66

flossy1 wrote: »

if you are poor when young and always hungry you are afraid the bad times will come back

But there comes a time, Age, Wealth etc that you know you have enough ?

sporina

pgj2015 wrote: »

The government wouldn't get it even if you didn't make a will.

That has only ever happened once in Ireland as far as I am aware. an adopted man who had absolutely no family left when he died.

no my understanding is that if your haven't made a will - then rev get a big %.. am I wrong?

pgj2015

pgj2015 wrote: »

Yes, why wouldnt he?

I'd rather a spicebox than a nose full of coke, a few pints in Dublin than a fortnight in Ibiza and if I was only going down the road for my lunch, a bus pass would be a lot more practical and therefore enjoyable to use for my purposes than a 911. The money would have nothing to do with the decisions I'd make.

People are gas. They can't get their heads around a man not pissing away his money, just, because. Do you think he wasn't happy? If having a big balance in the bank made him happy, would that be okay with ye? Or would he have had to spend it on stuff you want him to spend it on for it to be okay with you?

sporina

sporina wrote: »

no my understanding is that if your haven't made a will - then rev get a big %.. am I wrong?

Yes, you're completely wrong.

sporina

JayZeus wrote: »

Yes, you're completely wrong.

oh so what happens to one's money if they have not made a will?

Swindled

The fact is the less money you can live on, the and more free and independent you will be.

No point earning 70k year if you spend 75k year, the man on 20k a year who can happily live on 15k is better off than you, and far more free and independent.

sporina

sporina wrote: »

oh so what happens to one's money if they have not made a will?

Search for 'dying intestate ireland' and educate yourself.

pgj2015

sporina wrote: »

oh so what happens to one's money if they have not made a will?

It gets divided among the persons family. starting with his closest relatives, siblings etc.

A lot of people think the same as you and I have seen them put pressure on their family members to make a will and favor them usually, oh you better do it so the government doesn't get it etc.

o1s1n

JayZeus wrote: »

Firstly, anyone with access to BBC and Blue Peter made toys out of cardboard boxes in the 80's. Or RTE and Bosco. Ann and Frank were masters of the glue stick, toilet roll and blunt nosed scissors, along with every child and their mother in Ireland. The 80's was a tight decade for a great many, but to equate it to the experiences of those experiencing life a child with parents who had been through 'The Emergency' is just pointless. They were not at all the same thing and only ignorance would lead one to think otherwise.

Secondly, for many a man of his generation and even our own, going to work is how one feels valued and to have a place and a purpose. It's bloody ridiculous to think that a pensioner who's worked and paid for his travel pass through decades of public service should be ridiculed by the OP because he takes the bus down the road to the old works canteen to have a bite to eat and doubtless a chat with some folks he'd worked with for years. Sure what else is an old bachelor to be doing? Porsche 911? A fortnight in Ibiza? A week in Vegas blowing his savings on the tables, coke and hookers?

As a man working for the ESB through the 70's and 80's, that man would have spent a time paying more than 60 pence in tax for every punt he earned. He would have seen the lunacy of tradesmen (likely as one himself) buying family homes, then holiday homes, then investment apartments. And what good did it do for most of them? He would have seen society change, his surrounds in Dublin change many times, his workplace become full of university educated middle and junior managers, while his apprenticeship, experience and increasing years would have had many of same look down their noses on him.

There's nothing to say that fella didn't enjoy his lunch, his chats, his work, his friendships, a few pints, sitting by the canal docks watching the swans or feeding ducks, a fresh cod and chips and a read of the newspaper enough to be happy living the life he lived. The absolute rubbish people come up with, thinking they're superior in some way because they spend what they have or more than it, thinking there's something wrong with the other fella.

There no talking to some eejits though.

405 words in reply? Dear lord, I must have really hit a nerve.

Someone who has hundreds upon thousands of euro (or potentially millions) in the bank of on the day of their death at some point in life, had money and chose not to spend it.

If they're going out and putting their bins in other people's waste and the likes, while also sitting on said money, they are a complete and utter miser and hoarding money on the backs of others. It's mean, tight fisted and not a nice trait at all.

I enjoy spending my money and especially enjoy spending it on friends and family. It's literally there to be spent. I'll always have a nest egg and some investments, but to sit on the rest and hoard money for the sake of it reminds me of Scrooge Mc Duck swimming in his pool of gold.

sporina

pgj2015 wrote: »

It gets divided among the persons family. starting with his closest relatives, siblings etc.

A lot of people think the same as you and I have seen them put pressure on their family members to make a will and favor them usually, oh you better do it so the government doesn't get it etc.

thanks for that - my will is sorted but every day really is a school day. thanks again

volono

Sorry he left behind 1.9 million , all to a niece, is the tax limit not 35k, I actually think it's 32.5k but anyway. The niece will have to pay c.g.t. @ 33% on the rest???

pgj2015

sporina wrote: »

thanks for that - my will is sorted but every day really is a school day. thanks again

No problem.:) lots of people don't make wills for some reason.

Swindled

WhomadeGod wrote: »

Life is for living.

Its certainly more prelevant in Ireland being tight and saving money.

I never cane across it in England as much or France people live in the moment more and take the good times and bad times as they come.

In Ireland there seems to be such a fear of the bad times they forget to enjoy the good times.

There's an in grained folk memory there, Ireland until relatively recent generations was one of the poorest nations in Europe and knew great poverty. There was no white privilege that's for sure.

Figel Narage

As someone who is very frugal, it warms my heart that there are people like me out there. Granted some things I was reading in the original post about this guy I thought was a bit excessive but I'm sure he enjoyed a simple life and didn't want to throw money away. I would be the exact same and I don't think there's anything wrong with it as long as you don't compromise your life negatively and the exact same can be said on the inverse.

Ish66

Figel Narage wrote: »

As someone who is very frugal, it warms my heart that there are people like me out there. Granted some things I was reading in the original post about this guy I thought was a bit excessive but I'm sure he enjoyed a simple life and didn't want to throw money away. I would be the exact same and I don't think there's anything wrong with it as long as you don't compromise your life negatively and the exact same can be said on the inverse.

If you could bring it with you, Would you ?

Figel Narage

Ish66 wrote: »

If you could bring it with you, Would you ?

What do you mean?

o1s1n

o1s1n wrote: »

405 words in reply? Dear lord, I must have really hit a nerve.

Someone who has hundreds upon thousands of euro (or potentially millions) in the bank of on the day of their death at some point in life, had money and chose not to spend it.

If they're going out and putting their bins in other people's waste and the likes, while also sitting on said money, they are a complete and utter miser and hoarding money on the backs of others. It's mean, tight fisted and not a nice trait at all.

I enjoy spending my money and especially enjoy spending it on friends and family. It's literally there to be spent. I'll always have a nest egg and some investments, but to sit on the rest and hoard money for the sake of it reminds me of Scrooge Mc Duck swimming in his pool of gold.

You did a word count and you think I hit a nerve? :rolleyes:

The great thing about people is we're all different, and that man wasn't you. His money, his life, his choices. No skin off my nose, nor should it be off your own.

The notable thing for me is that you're heavy into talking about you, your choices, your money, your ideas about another person you never met and whose path you likely never crossed.

The funny thing is that the man's dead. He can't care less. The only people who care are the the OP (telling his very one sided story about a man he's clearly fiercely jealous of) and folks who think he was a miser, a skinflint, a scrooge or whatever other names you'd like to give to someone you don't know and who can't explain his choices to you. You can't know a single thing about where he did spent a few pounds down through the years, who he gave donations to, who he helped along the way. But fire away there and judge him if labelling him as some tightwad helps you feel better about who you are.

In any case, fair play to him. No mean feat to put aside an inheritance for his niece like that on a jobbers income with the ESB.

volono

I don't think there's anything wrong with it as long as you don't compromise your life negatively.
This!!! and unfortunately the man from the o.p. certainly sounded like he did.

Swindled

volono wrote: »

I don't think there's anything wrong with it as long as you don't compromise your life negatively.
This!!! and unfortunately the man from the o.p. certainly sounded like he did.

Why ? happiness has nothing to do with how much money you spend

pgj2015

JayZeus wrote: »

I'd rather a spicebox than a nose full of coke, a few pints in Dublin than a fortnight in Ibiza and if I was only going down the road for my lunch, a bus pass would be a lot more practical and therefore enjoyable to use for my purposes than a 911. The money would have nothing to do with the decisions I'd make.

People are gas. They can't get their heads around a man not pissing away his money, just, because. Do you think he wasn't happy? If having a big balance in the bank made him happy, would that be okay with ye? Or would he have had to spend it on stuff you want him to spend it on for it to be okay with you?

I know of people who didnt even have an inside toilet or running water but they died leaving hundreds of thousands to some nephew they never saw. it would hardly be pissing your money away to make them changes to your house and have a bit of comfort in your old age.

as for pissing it away, its only money, paper or a number on a screen, it should be used. that old man should have travelled a bit maybe, instead of sponging off his neighbours.

I would hate to think when im gone that people would think of me as a tight miserable man who wouldnt spend christmas. Dont get me wrong I work hard and make money but I dont mind spending it on family and myself, its there to be used.

volono

He wouldn't pay for his household waste and begged, borrowed and annoyed neighbours for lawnmowers etc., sorry that's negative. Whatever the man or anyone else wants to do with their, that's fair enough, I couldn't care less. It shouldn't be to the detriment of others

JustAThought

Figel Narage wrote: »

As someone who is very frugal, it warms my heart that there are people like me out there. Granted some things I was reading in the original post about this guy I thought was a bit excessive but I'm sure he enjoyed a simple life and didn't want to throw money away. I would be the exact same and I don't think there's anything wrong with it as long as you don't compromise your life negatively and the exact same can be said on the inverse.

Lucky niece - lets hope he had her nominated as a favoured godchild for tax status!

Op - maybe he liked the sociability and excuse of borrowing the lawnmover - heading down for a chat & then back again. I occasionally borrow tools I have no space to store - and I get his annoyance at being taxed all his life at 42% and now having yo pay stealth taxes to put out bins etc. Gets up my nose too.

Nobody knows how much he had, nor how much he had and spent. For all you know he had another 1.8 m under the bed as button money, or spent or donated online. His cash, his business. Good for him!!!!

BTW if he had needed to go into a private nursing home it would cost him upwards of 3k A WEEK excluding any medical treatment needed. Imagine if you got alzheimers or had a stroke aged 65 & lived til you were 80 or 90. Ten years of nursing home ‘care’ would cost as much almost before they ‘gave’ you fair deal and them took your house and 90% of all your income and remaining savings. The government and HSE have managed to absolve the HSE of the duty or responsibility of providing the medical care to our elderly in Ireland but are throwing medical cards and money at any non working tosser or person landed on these shores - yet take and taxes a working familys lifes savings or house from them if they need sheltered medical care. Sickening. At 3k a week, 52 weeks year, maybe 15 or 20 years nursing home care - and this is on the leftover wages that have already been taxed at 42%
.no wonder they are working to being in elder euthenasia.

Good luck to the man and his niece. I hope she was good to him throughout her life as she was clearly much loved.

volono

volono wrote: »

He wouldn't pay for his household waste and begged, borrowed and annoyed neighbours for lawnmowers, sorry that's negative. Whatever the man or anyone else what's to do, that's fair enough, I couldn't care less

Begged and annoyed? I laugh at how some folks don't realise how common it would have been for one neighbour to own the lawnmower, another the clippers/fork/rake, another the wheelbarrow and shovel etc etc down through the years. Where I grew up in Dublin, doing the gardening didn't happen without getting bits and pieces from neighbours. There were the 'blow ins' who had no idea of the arrangements, decades old, who probably looked down their noses on oul' Paddy next door knocking in to Joe to get the hedge clippers, or Joe going to Jack to get the wheelbarrow, or Jack asking young Alan to come in and cut the grass for him as his leg was sore. It was how it worked, in every 'working class' part of Dublin's suburbs. To the casual or ignorant observer, it looks like begging/blagging/annoying, but to the folks who were doing it they just called this being neighbours. The wilful ignorance of so many is hilarious. Clueless, so ye are.

sporina

JayZeus wrote: »

Begged and annoyed? I laugh at how some folks don't realise how common it would have been for one neighbour to own the lawnmower, another the clippers/fork/rake, another the wheelbarrow and shovel etc etc down through the years. Where I grew up in Dublin, doing the gardening didn't happen without getting bits and pieces from neighbours. There were the 'blow ins' who had no idea of the arrangements, decades old, who probably looked down their noses on oul' Paddy next door knocking in to Joe to get the hedge clippers, or Joe going to Jack to get the wheelbarrow, or Jack asking young Alan to come in and cut the grass for him as his leg was sore. It was how it worked, in every 'working class' part of Dublin's suburbs. To the casual or ignorant observer, it looks like begging/blagging/annoying, but to the folks who were doing it they just called this being neighbours. The wilful ignorance of so many is hilarious. Clueless, so ye are.

you need to chill.. no one is having ago at you.. gee

JustAThought

JayZeus wrote: »

Begged and annoyed? I laugh at how some folks don't realise how common it would have been for one neighbour to own the lawnmower, another the clippers/fork/rake, another the wheelbarrow and shovel etc etc down through the years. Where I grew up in Dublin, doing the gardening didn't happen without getting bits and pieces from neighbours. There were the 'blow ins' who had no idea of the arrangements, decades old, who probably looked down their noses on oul' Paddy next door knocking in to Joe to get the hedge clippers, or Joe going to Jack to get the wheelbarrow, or Jack asking young Alan to come in and cut the grass for him as his leg was sore. It was how it worked, in every 'working class' part of Dublin's suburbs. To the casual or ignorant observer, it looks like begging/blagging/annoying, but to the folks who were doing it they just called this being neighbours. The wilful ignorance of so many is hilarious. Clueless, so ye are.

I think you see a bit more of it now that peoples houses are microscopic and often have tiny gardens that you wouldn’t want to use up by having an 8x8 ‘storage’ shed in - probably bigger than the whole garden! (tragically!). I also think ironically its a bit of a status symbol thing to be the go-to man with the gadget! No harm! Less plastic and recycling for the planet.

Lidl middle aisle makes a bit of a mess of this esp with their range of kill me quick chainsaws :0

PS Maybe yer man was good with the occasional flutter or had the magic numbers or was related to Delores or suchlike too!!! You can be frugal and lucky too!!!

Mimon

Ish66 wrote: »

All his life, A Neighbour of mine,a single man was known in the area for being tight ! He never paid for bins, Small bags into street bins. He would borrow everything especially lawnmowers. He had a good job with the ESB down where the chimneys are.
Even when he retired he used his bus pass to go down to his old workplace every lunchtime because the lunch was free. He died 2 years ago and a niece got the lot.
I saw his will recently in the Sunday Indo, Including the house (360k) he left nearly 1.9M ! ! What was the point of his lifelong thrift ? Mental Illness ? Otherwise, What was the point of doing what he did for all my lifetime ?
I could write a book telling you what I would do....Utter Madness

Was two bachelor brothers from down home who had no bathroom and the house was a shack. Basically lived in third world conditions. They would buy land like the bejaysus.

When the last one died the farm went to a nun relation in America (niece I think) and she sold it for 8 million during the boom, bonkers. Worse the church will end up with the money,