retalivity wrote: » . So my 2-course valentines dinner will be around 21€, minus tip amd additional drinks. Result!???
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!???
razorblunt wrote: » NSFW due to injuries.https://www.reddit.com/r/MedicalGore/comments/7tltft/update_severe_frostbite_is_serious_business_more/ Guy decides to sleep in his car rather than get a hotel room in sub zero temps after he walked through the snow and got his socks wet. Battery drained, heating went off and he got frostbite. He’s now had both legs amputated below the knees.
WHIP IT! wrote: » I'm in favour of any 'workaround' that involves avoiding the over-inflated sucker prices that accompany made-up holidays... fair play to your missus... she got a sister??
4Ad wrote: » A lad I know has the meanest father, he's well known in the village. He used to take his father in law for a drink, when it was his round he would have a glass of Guinness, but when the father in law was paying he'd have a pint, the father in law was drinking a glass and always bought the first drink and they left after three, so no 2nd round to be bought..
fitzparker wrote: » A guy in my brothers job bought his friend a creme egg last week, low and behold it was a white one and he won €1000... the hungry fecker didn't even buy him an egg in return, let alone throw him a €10er
Deise Vu wrote: » It's the little things that get me, I can almost understand meanness when it comes to bigger sums. I used to share a flat with a guy who wouldn't spend Christmas, which was his business , but I began to notice little things like he always let me buy the first round, then he would drink slowly and nearly always we would finish on an odd round with me standing around hands swinging after closing time waiting for him to finish. I simmered over this for a while and finally one night I drained my Guinness at 11.25 and said: "Go on, I'll have another, we might as well finish out the round". He looked at me in borderline shock and said he didn't want another drink and didn't really want the last drink I had bought either (about 20 minutes earlier) and said "here take this" and handed me his pint of......... Smithwicks :eek::eek:!! Whats worse, I took it. It finished me with the guy though, after we had shared years of hardship and craic together (we were both accountancy students), I moved out about three months later for the sake of my mental health.
Bo Refined Snakebite wrote: » Someone I would meet in Dunnes Stores would be looking at steak and able to tell me that it cost a penny less in Tesco an d the price of it in other laces. i met him once in Tesco where he was looking at a swiss roll reduced in price and he picked up salivating and saying he loved this particular cake. Then he said it would just give him heartburn and put it back Sad lives these guys live
redcup342 wrote: » http://www.donegaldaily.com/2018/01/30/man-head-butted-friend-after-told-it-was-his-round/ Well that’s an expensive way of dealing with a stinge ��
hobie21 wrote: » https://www.rte.ie/news/ireland/2018/0201/937665-labour-court-au-pair/ This couple.
the purple tin wrote: » Not sure if this is exactly stingy or not ... footbath things with antiseptic that you had to walk through when you left the changing room to go into the pool. The water in it was freezing cold and everyone hated walking through it. ...Fatty so he was a big lad had the bright idea of lying face down in the footbath and letting the lads walk over his back to avoid the water, like a human bridge.His toll for the aforementioned service was 20p per person which usually was spent on a post swim sweet fest.
the purple tin wrote: » Not sure if this is exactly stingy or not but my cousin told me that when he was a young lad he and his pals used to go to the swimming pool a lot in the summer holidays. It had one of those footbath things with antiseptic that you had to walk through when you left the changing room to go into the pool. The water in it was freezing cold and everyone hated walking through it. anyway one of his friends, and his nickname was Fatty so he was a big lad had the bright idea of lying face down in the footbath and letting the lads walk over his back to avoid the water, like a human bridge. His toll for the aforementioned service was 20p per person which usually was spent on a post swim sweet fest.
New Home wrote: » As was Fatty's back. :eek:
Just thinking could it be that this person has or had it really tight with money? Up until a few years ago I had it really tight with money raising a kid on my own and I know this situations all too well. You find yourself deciding buying that reduced cake or a big bag of pasta and some passata. Also was raised by a single mom having nothing.
