snubbleste wrote: » What is stingy about that? That is just frugal and prudent.
snubbleste wrote: What is stingy about that? That is just frugal and prudent.
the14thwarrior wrote: » I grabbed the bill and proceeded to tot up what everyone owed. she tutted and said really? just divide it out "we all had basically the same".
D Trent wrote: » You win Thread Hero of the Year 2016
BettePorter wrote: » Ah cmon! So presumably he eats his sandwich, carefully folds up his tinfoil, takes it home. Makes his sandwiches and seeks out this saved piece of foil to wrap . Apart from the unhygienic aspect of it, it takes stingey to 'more trouble than its worth' proportions.
problemnext wrote: » lad living about 15 mins from me asked me to pick him up one night. had previously picked him up 2 nights in the week b4. takes 15mins to drive out and another 15 to drive back to town, then this again when bringing him back so the guts of 50mins/1 hour to bring him to town and back. Anyway asked me on the group chat to pick him up when he knew i was with our other friends. I said i would cauz i didnt want to leave him out of the group and asked him to buy me an ice cream in return and he said ok. Went out picked him up, back into town, on the way in I stopped and put 20€ diesel in the car, about 3 mins later stopped in supermacs told him to get me a cone. went up ordered his food and didnt get me anything asked him why. he said ''where you being serious about that'' and i was like yes just spent 20€ mainly to pick you up. threw me his change which was about 60 cent and said here get it yourself in a kind of pissed off mood. Got mad at me the next few times i left him sitting at home then
rawn wrote: » A few of us in work live in the same general area. Myself, A (my brother) and B. For the last 3 years A has picked up myself and B from our doors and dropped us to our doors too. He never asks for petrol unless he really needs it, in return i make him lunch everyday. B gives nothing. Sometimes A has to work an earlier shift or take days off so we have to make our own way in. I get 2 buses in and my dad collects me afterwards. B drives his own (uninsured) car in and out. He made it clear that if i want a lift with him i have to walk to his place (about 30 minutes walk) to be picked up, and be dropped off there after. Considering I'm young, female, pregnant and we don't finish work until after midnight, i find it incredibly mean/stingey that he doesn't want to drive 5-10 minutes slightly out of his way to pick someone up when he gets dropped to his door for free every day.
emmetkenny wrote: I wouldn't get in the car if he's uninsured. What would happen if he crashed and you ended up in hospital? He's not going to cover your bills.
rawn wrote: » That's not why he won't pick me up though. He's been uninsured (or possibly "uninsured") for years. His excuse is that there might be a checkpoint near my house but that has never actually happened. There have been checkpoints on the route closer to work though
Billy86 wrote: » I don't agree with the guy doing it, but I would agree it's more frugal than stinge. Stinge for me involves leeching off or taking advantage of others, whereas if someone has been using the same lunchbox or even piece of tinfoil for 20 years it's more just cheapness and frugality. That said, cheapness and frugality are usually strong indicators of stinginess, so...
rawn wrote: » That's not why he won't pick me up though. He's been uninsured (or possibly "uninsured") for years.
EagererBeaver wrote: » Frugality is nothing to do with stinginess - frugality is just common sense about not pissing away money unnecessarily. For example, I've a nespresso machine at home and there's a free one in the office. The coffee from it is better and cheaper than Starbucks/Costa etc. Using the machines and not squandering 20e a week in one of those chains is nothing to do with being stingy.
learn_more wrote: » That's how it all starts, first loo roll, then sugar/salt sachets...then...
dee_mc wrote: » . If you're too stingy to use a fresh bit of tinfoil every time, wouldn't it make more sense to just buy a cheap lunchbox and be done with it?!
the14thwarrior wrote: » interestingly the next time we went out she claimed she was on antibiotics and couldn't drink, and from then on, things got a bit easier.
gucci wrote: » Cling film?
FizzleSticks wrote: » I had a run in with one of these girls who is a complete stinge and thinks its cute. I was on a night out with a lot of people I wasn't too well acquainted with. So from the pub into town I was in the back with a few other guys and yer one in the front. The taxi arrives, we're all looking for change and she turns her head around to us with a pouty face and says "can anyone throw in a few [8] squid for me pleassse" *pouty face*. Gets her taxi paid for her, never buys a drink back. The worst people who take a taxi with you and then surprise surprise only realise after they don't have money, its happened to me before too. Then smoozes around as many people as possible to get drinks bought for her and conveniently moves onto the next group before she has to buy one back. She was just annoying me by the end of the night, when I was heading up to the bar she conveniently appeared beside me and suddenly starts being pally towards me "Oh you're going up to the bar are you?" *holding her empty glass*, I said "yes I am" *pause* "you coming up as well?" "Oh no I'm just going to the toilet" "I have to go too actually!".. aye she was raging after her skulking around for a drink. She could have at least offered to buy me first, considering she was getting free drinks all night.
