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Stingiest things thread(op for R&R access)

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    #2792
    Ken.
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,898 ✭✭✭✭Ken.


    How many goes can you get out of €2. I'd be telling my mother,brothers,friends to do their washing on the same day as me and bring them over to run down the clock.


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    #2793
    SuperS54
    Registered Users Posts: 1,197 ✭✭✭SuperS54


    Barbie! wrote: »
    How many goes can you get out of ?2. I'd be telling my mother,brothers,friends to do their washing on the same day as me and bring them over to run down the clock.

    Someone would have them up here as the Stinge Family!


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    #2794
    civis_liberalis
    Registered Users Posts: 3,772 ✭✭✭civis_liberalis


    Dan Jaman wrote: »
    After your clothes are dry, why not just give the dryer more cycles on empty until the money's run out?
    It's what I'd do.

    That's a very efficient way to break your dryer.


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    #2795
    Dan Jaman
    Registered Users Posts: 38,898 ✭✭✭✭Dan Jaman


    civis_liberalis wrote: »
    That's a very efficient way to break your dryer.
    Not my dryer, nor the dryer of the poster. 
    Вашему собственному бычьему дерьму нельзя верить - V Putin




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    #2796
    gramar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,045 ✭✭✭✭gramar


    A couple I know are getting married. They've decided to split the wedding cost 50/50 but she has been on leave for a while
    and is a bit short so he's going to make up her shortfall on the proviso that she pays him back once she's back working again.
    Oh the unadulterated romance of it all!


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    #2797
    Strong Life in Dublin
    Registered Users Posts: 487 ✭✭Strong Life in Dublin


    Thebe wrote: »
    Parked in car wash queue behind a 171 Mercedes S-Class (from about €98,000). Car wash is mostly manual with power wash and a lot of scrubbing by hand and definitely worth the €8 fee.

    Layers of mud and grime are removed by two really hardworking chaps to leave a beautiful shining silver S-class. Mr Mercedes hands out a tenner and waits for his two euro change, which he pockets.

    Even bangernomic drivers leave the €2 change to the chaps. Stingy ****

    I don't see the issue, it's his money


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    #2798
    gramar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,045 ✭✭✭✭gramar


    Originally Posted by Thebe View Post
    Parked in car wash queue behind a 171 Mercedes S-Class (from about €98,000). Car wash is mostly manual with power wash and a lot of scrubbing by hand and definitely worth the €8 fee.

    Layers of mud and grime are removed by two really hardworking chaps to leave a beautiful shining silver S-class. Mr Mercedes hands out a tenner and waits for his two euro change, which he pockets.

    Even bangernomic drivers leave the €2 change to the chaps. Stingy ****

    Strong Life in Dublin wrote: »
    I don't see the issue, it's his money


    You can't afford 98k cars if you start giving away 2€ to all and sundry.


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    #2799
    Daledge
    Registered Users Posts: 297 ✭✭Daledge


    Strong Life in Dublin wrote: »
    I don't see the issue, it's his money

    The issue is that he's stingy. Hence why it's in the stingy people thread. Simple.


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    #2800
    Strong Life in Dublin
    Registered Users Posts: 487 ✭✭Strong Life in Dublin


    Daledge wrote: »
    The issue is that he's stingy. Hence why it's in the stingy people thread. Simple.

    Stingy would be waiting for 1 cent or something. If you bought something in mcdonalds would you leave without waiting for 2 euro change??


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    #2801
    Daledge
    Registered Users Posts: 297 ✭✭Daledge


    Strong Life in Dublin wrote: »
    Stingy would be waiting for 1 cent or something. If you bought something in mcdonalds would you leave without waiting for 2 euro change??

    Yes I probably would, but I'm on a student wage and can't even afford a car. Nevermind what this guy is earning. I do know for a fact that if I was in his shoes I'd have tipped the two quid.

    And before anyone else says "it's his money", it's the stingy person's money in 99% of these stories, it doesn't absolve them.


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    #2802
    rodge68
    Registered Users Posts: 613 ✭✭✭rodge68


    Surreptitious wrote: »
    My neighbour shares a dryer with me. It takes 2 euro coins to make it run. In a whole year she hasn't put any money in, she uses mine. So the other day I left it with no money inside just to see. She put her clothes in and left them for two days. After coming back and realising she'd have to pay she actually look the clothes out wet and took them away with her.
    She's now using my money again. I don't even know is it the money I'm angry about like having to go to shops specifically for change or her fcking attitude.

    I cant understand why you keep continuing to pay !
    Leave it with no money again, she might get the hint !!


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    #2803
    crispycrisps
    Registered Users Posts: 39 ✭crispycrisps


    Was out with 2 friends for drinks and we were buying rounds. I bought a round, friend A bought a round and when it came to friend B to buy a round she gave us the money for her drink back rather than purchasing drinks for the group


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    #2804
    Strong Life in Dublin
    Registered Users Posts: 487 ✭✭Strong Life in Dublin


    Daledge wrote: »
    Yes I probably would, but I'm on a student wage and can't even afford a car. Nevermind what this guy is earning. I do know for a fact that if I was in his shoes I'd have tipped the two quid.

    And before anyone else says "it's his money", it's the stingy person's money in 99% of these stories, it doesn't absolve them.

    Stingy is reusing mouthwash like someone posted a few pages back, it's not stingy to wait for you cash.

    Just because someone has money, it doesn't mean they should throw it around. Or the guy with the nice car might not have a lot of money, maybe he has been saving for a long time...


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    #2805
    pilly
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,005 ✭✭✭pilly


    crispycrisps wrote: »
    Was out with 2 friends for drinks and we were buying rounds. I bought a round, friend A bought a round and when it came to friend B to buy a round she gave us the money for her drink back rather than purchasing drinks for the group

    How was she saving money then?


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    #2806
    osarusan
    Registered Users Posts: 16,573 ✭✭✭✭osarusan


    crispycrisps wrote: »
    Was out with 2 friends for drinks and we were buying rounds. I bought a round, friend A bought a round and when it came to friend B to buy a round she gave us the money for her drink back rather than purchasing drinks for the group
    Weird, but not exactly stingy, really. In the end she paid for her own, everybody had 2 drinks and paid for 2.


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    #2807
    crispycrisps
    Registered Users Posts: 39 ✭crispycrisps


    Her drink was slightly cheaper than the two of ours. She wanted to save the euro and something cent


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    #2808
    Electric Sheep
    Registered Users Posts: 2,105 ✭✭✭Electric Sheep


    gramar wrote: »
    A couple I know are getting married. They've decided to split the wedding cost 50/50 but she has been on leave for a while
    and is a bit short so he's going to make up her shortfall on the proviso that she pays him back once she's back working again.
    Oh the unadulterated romance of it all!

    Hmm. Sounds like a certain Boards member to me;)


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    #2809
    pilly
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,005 ✭✭✭pilly


    crispycrisps wrote: »
    Her drink was slightly cheaper than the two of ours. She wanted to save the euro and something cent

    That is stingy then. Although as a non drinker, rounds do drive me mad.


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    #2810
    crispycrisps
    Registered Users Posts: 39 ✭crispycrisps


    pilly wrote: »
    That is stingy then. Although as a non drinker, rounds do drive me mad.

    She's the type that would order an alcohol drink if you were paying buy a soft drink if she had to pay for herself. That was the end of rounds for us as a group


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    #2811
    ligerdub
    Registered Users Posts: 2,584 ✭✭✭ligerdub


    gramar wrote: »
    A couple I know are getting married. They've decided to split the wedding cost 50/50 but she has been on leave for a while
    and is a bit short so he's going to make up her shortfall on the proviso that she pays him back once she's back working again.
    Oh the unadulterated romance of it all!

    Smart man. Start off on the right foot. 2017 and all that.


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    #2812
    jca
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,585 ✭✭✭jca


    ligerdub wrote: »
    Smart man. Start off on the right foot. 2017 and all that.

    Exactly, if it was the other way around I'd say she'd do the same:pac:


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    #2813
    Viscount Aggro
    Registered Users Posts: 1,179 ✭✭✭Viscount Aggro


    Guy in our work group; he offered to pay the restaurant bill on his credit card, collects 7 people's cash including tips. He paid the bill alright ( with no tip added ). Same guy takes home the bog roll from work, and the odd litre of milk.


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    #2814
    Paddy Cow
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,576 ✭✭✭Paddy Cow


    gramar wrote: »
    A couple I know are getting married. They've decided to split the wedding cost 50/50 but she has been on leave for a while
    and is a bit short so he's going to make up her shortfall on the proviso that she pays him back once she's back working again.
    Oh the unadulterated romance of it all!
    If she goes on maternity leave and he covers them for 6 months, will she pay him back when she goes back to work? :pac:


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    #2815
    ArnoldJRimmer
    Registered Users Posts: 2,493 ✭✭✭ArnoldJRimmer


    Was on a stag weekend last year and a future in-law tagged along who very few of us had even met. Myself and one of my mates grabbed a twin room which also had a fold out couch bed, so told yer man that rather than spending money on a room to himself, he could take the couch bed if he wanted and throw us a few quid towards the room.

    It soon became clear that the guy was a serious stinge. Over the space of three days, the man did not buy one round of drinks. He was perfectly happy to order expensive whiskys when it was someone else, and even snuck off to the bar to just get a drink for himself. Even when the groom and a non-drinker insisted on getting a round in, he wouldn't budge. Myself and my mates didn't want to make a big deal out of it as there were a lot of strangers on the stag, but just kept him out of rounds after that

    One of the nights we had a fantastic meal and he threw a strop over an extra 2 quid he didn't think he should pay towards the bill. Anyway, it got to checking out time at the hotel and he tried to sneak off without contributing anything for the room. After his penny pinching all weekend, we weren't gonna let him away with it, so caught up with him and asked for a modest and very fair amount for the room. He got all thick and complained, but begrudgingly handed over the money in a ball. Checked it once he was gone and the fcuker had left it short


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    #2816
    Spanish Eyes
    Registered Users Posts: 15,912 ✭✭✭✭Spanish Eyes


    gramar wrote: »
    You can't afford 98k cars if you start giving away 2? to all and sundry.

    Should just put it in the dryer.


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    #2817
    mikeym
    Registered Users Posts: 3,985 ✭✭✭mikeym


    I hate stingy people.

    I had an American lad stay in the house for Ten days although I wasnt expecting any payment from him because hes related to my in laws, I kinda was expecting at least a drink off him the last day before he flew home.

    He was also in the pub the 2nd night he was here for a 60th and the only Two drinks he got were got from Two free drinks tokens.

    I thought at first he was afraid to go to the bar but as the days passed he was being tight.

    If I stayed in someones house for Ten days and got brought everywhere without paying a cent in Diesel I would at least buy the guy who looked after me a Pint.


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    #2818
    Murrisk
    Closed Accounts Posts: 889 ✭✭✭Murrisk


    I was at a wedding at the weekend where there was the obligatory box of flip flops in the ladies' room for anyone with sore feet. There was good uptake, they were definitely needed by many at the do. I was in there and one of the guests was stuffing a pair into her handbag in addition to the ones she had just put on. As she was leaving, she said to her friend "Don't forget to take some flip flops to bring home!". How mean do you have to be? I know there was probably some left over at the end of the night but at that point of the evening, she didn't know if that would be the case.


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    #2819
    4ensic15
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,691 ✭✭✭4ensic15


    I know a guy who lives near a hotel. He rushed past a friend of his one day on his way to the hotel. It was later discovered that he was rushing to the hotel touse the toilet facilities. Apparently, when he wants to have a dump, he goes around to the hotel to save on toilet paper and soap.


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    #2820
    SureYWouldntYa
    Registered Users Posts: 7,725 ✭✭✭SureYWouldntYa


    I've a housemate who brings all his food home with him when he goes home for the weekend

    Everything in the press from teabags and rice to all the frozen stuff, usually about 3 bags full of stuff every Friday evening only to be brought back in the same bags on the Sunday evening


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    #2821
    AllForIt
    Registered Users Posts: 8,311 ✭✭✭AllForIt


    SureYWouldntYa wrote: »
    I've a housemate who brings all his food home with him when he goes home for the weekend

    Everything in the press from teabags and rice to all the frozen stuff, usually about 3 bags full of stuff every Friday evening only to be brought back in the same bags on the Sunday evening

    What, in case the pilfering housemates steals a bit of rice? That is as sad as it is hilarious. And takes the frozen stuff as well ??? Does the flatmate turn the refrigerator off as well to save a few pennies.


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