Salthillprom wrote: » An ex bought me a new phone for Christmas one year. We broke up shortly afterwards but in the meantime the phone had broken and I had to get a new one. So I decided to use my upgrade entitlement to get another phone and when I went into the phone shop they told me that my upgrade had been used before Christmas! Turns out ex-boyfriend had ‘bought’ me my new phone using my upgrade without even consulting me!!!! Don’t know how he was allowed to even do it in the first place but he did!
Her stinge is the least shocking bit of that post
Panthro wrote: » She made a commitment when she got a bag for life!
yogi37 wrote: » Was at a new years party a couple of years ago. BYO so we all brought a few drinks and enjoyed a good night. Several hours after midnight a taxi arrives to bring one of my friends home. She starts to look for her bag but cant find it. We all search while the taxi sits outside the gate for about 10 mins. Eventually she finds the bag and surprisingly it is not some expensive handbag but the 25c plastic bag that she brought her wine in and wanted for her shopping the next day.
smurfjed wrote: » I could afford it, so what’s the issue ?
Shenshen wrote: » I'm not sure this is stinge, really, but the "bag for life" story reminded me... My husband does take "bag for live" seriously. He always has a stash of bags in the boot of his car, and when going shopping, one or two get taken out and brought into the shop to carry the shopping back out (has to be the ones with the logo of the shop you're going into, but that's a different story). Now, many years ago I remember coming home from work one evening and noticing the washing machine was on. I had done a wash the night before so was somewhat puzzled and asked my husband what was in there. He explained to me with the brightest of smiles on his face that he had a mishap in the car. A bottle of motor oil had opened and spilled all over his bags. So, being a very smart person, instead of binning his bags, he thought what could be done about this, and decided sure, he could simply wash them. As it would save him having to buy new ones. My face must have been a picture already when I asked him what temperature he used. 90, of course, he says, has to be a high temperature to wash the oil out. I calmly told him to please switch the washing machine off RIGHT NOW, before it melts the plastic and ruins the machine. And then asked him to try and work out how much the bags had cost vs how much it would cost in electricity running a washing machine at 90 degrees for an hour+, and was he still sure he was saving money? He got a big lump of soft white plastic out of the machine, had to buy new bags and to this days absolutely hates the fact that I occasionally tell this story
Gaia Mother Earth wrote: » I don't see one thing wrong with this. Waste not want not. It's our throwaway attitude to everything that has world so polluted. I would have done the same thing as her but not from a stingy point of view but from a I already have a bag so why do I need to buy another to add to landfill point of view.
you never told us if you got the ride or not.
the_pen_turner wrote: » more copy and paste A friend of mine used to have a gardening business and always said that teachers were the most stingy people he'd ever met. They just did not like paying. One owed him £50 and it took months to get the money, eventually the customer handed my friend an envelope with his "£50". My friend opned it to find it was £50's worth of money off vouchers this person had cut out of newspapers!
Shenshen wrote: » I A bottle of motor oil had opened and spilled all over his bags. So, being a very smart person, instead of binning his bags, he thought what could be done about this, and decided sure, he could simply wash them. As it would save him having to buy new ones. My face must have been a picture already when I asked him what temperature he used. 90, of course, he says, has to be a high temperature to wash the oil out.
_Dara_ wrote: » My dad is a tradesman and says exactly the same. Teachers in general are the worst for paying and will drag it out for as long as possible. Some of these bills will be hundreds or thousands. Just completely oblivious to the pressures self-employed people are subject to.
BettePorter wrote: » That's if he did 'throw it in '... poor fecker was probably waiting on his 75 quid back from your cash contributions and you shafted him!! It was a cheap night out anyway ...measly 25 quid a head and yet you all let him pay 100euro of the total bill? You were all as bad as each other.
Ineedaname wrote: » So a friend of my mams from work has a very sick child and she said she was struggling to get by. My aunt who lives up the country has a young lad who grows like a weed so they're always throwing out clothes. They're fairly well off so it would be high end, good quality stuff. Anyway last week mam rang her to see if she had anything she could give. Turns out she had loads. Just by coincidence my other aunt was visiting at the time and said she'd bring them with her on the way home. Great. So we finally get the stuff and we discover it's almost entirely cheap tat destined for the bin. After a few calls we soon got to the bottom of it. Turns out my other aunt had raided the clothes for her own son and replaced them with all her own rubbish. The clothes she knew were going to a sick child. There's mean and there's mean. Edit: Funnily enough she's also a teacher.
iamwhoiam wrote: » Please tell us your mam told the aunt that she knows what she has done and got it back from her ?
Spanish Eyes wrote: » Stingy is the absolutely worst trait in anyone. I have no examples yet but I fkn hate the fekkers who try it on. Either we are too terrified to confront them or we just carry on and post in places like here. Either way it is despicable. IMV.
retalivity wrote: » The wife is frugal, bordering on stinge. I had asked her about Valentine's day, and where she wants to go (she's not one for surprises). She had already scoured groupon for restaurant deals that did not have feb 14th locked off, found one in a local (and decent) restaurant. She then waited for a few days knowing that groupon usually have push notifications with promo codes, lo and behold she got a 15% one and booked the place. So my 2-course valentines dinner will be around 21€, minus tip amd additional drinks. Result!???
