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Stingiest things thread(op for R&R access)

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    #4742
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    I'm confused. That's exactly what Paddy Cow said in the first instance...i.e. "M&S not LIDL" when he claimed that you can feed that many people for 180 snots.

    You then said "Really?"

    I'm now saying "yes, really".

    Anyway, stinginess: Back when I smoked, a Scottish lad I worked with would never have smokes on him or would always have just run out. I've seen him pull out an empty box and then put it back in his pocket when given a cigarette by somebody, only to pull it out again half an hour later as if he'd only just realised he's run out.

    I lost patience one night and said " here, I'm only back from holidays so I happen to have plenty on me at the moment. So here's a full packet. But that's it, I'm never giving you another smoke again, ever. Deal?"

    I reckon it saved me a fortune in the long run.


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    #4743
    Electric Sheep
    Registered Users Posts: 2,106 ✭✭✭Electric Sheep


    Deleted User wrote: »
    You'd easily feed 18 people Xmas dinner for €200. Easily.

    Whole turkeys are on sale Xmas week (when most people have already bought one) for under a score, so 2 = €40. Lets be generous, and say you need 3 for €60.

    Full ham is, what, €40? two of them bring us up to €140 total.

    That leaves €60 quid on veg, stuffing, gravy, couple of puddings etc.

    Xmas dinner for two at home can be done for €20, without skimping on quality. Ramping that up to 18 people works out cheaper, per person, due to economies of scale.

    Having said all that, there's no way I'd be peeling shpuds for 18 people.

    You must have quite a kitchen if you could roast 3 turkeys in one day.


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    #4744
    Paddy Cow
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,576 ✭✭✭Paddy Cow


    Graces7 wrote: »
    Really? When did you last shop please?
    I worked in a B&B looking after 20 teenagers who were attending private school for the Leaving Cert. I cooked for them everyday and did a massive shop once a week in Lidl. I cooked the full christmas dinner for all 20 of them and it cost nowhere near €180 because I know how to shop sensibly. I worked there for years so I'm very familiar with cooking for 18+ people ;)


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    #4745
    Paddy Cow
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,576 ✭✭✭Paddy Cow


    Electric Sheep wrote: »
    You must have quite a kitchen if you could roast 3 turkeys in one day.
    When cooking for that many people do it like a restaurant - cook and slice the turkey and ham before hand. Then you put ham, stuffing and cover with turkey on trays. Cover with tinfoil and reheat in the oven before dinner.

    The woman managed to produce duck, turkey, ham and pork. I doubt she had it all cooking simultaneously just before serving unless she had unlimited ovens herself :p


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    #4746
    Graces7
    Registered Users Posts: 32,634 ✭✭✭✭Graces7


    Paddy Cow wrote: »
    I worked in a B&B looking after 20 teenagers who were attending private school for the Leaving Cert. I cooked for them everyday and did a massive shop once a week in Lidl. I cooked the full christmas dinner for all 20 of them and it cost nowhere near €180 because I know how to shop sensibly. I worked there for years so I'm very familiar with cooking for 18+ people ;)

    You dont get it.. this dinner was not about the kind of Chrsitmas meal YOU are talking about. A very different meal altogether. Gourmet food.


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    #4747
    Paddy Cow
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,576 ✭✭✭Paddy Cow


    Graces7 wrote: »
    Not the dinner she served. Luxury.. gourmet. cooked for them too.
    That was her choice. She shouldn't gone luxury if she couldn't afford it. She didn't give her guests a choice either. She could've said €10 + BYOB for regular christmas or €55 for all inclusive gourmet. I bet you most people would've taken the €10 option. A couple spending €110 to sit down at a family christmas is ridiculous.


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    #4748
    Paddy Cow
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,576 ✭✭✭Paddy Cow


    Graces7 wrote: »
    You dont get it.. this dinner was not about the kind of Chrsitmas meal YOU are talking about. A very different meal altogether. Gourmet food.
    I do get it. She offered to host christmas dinner. Her husband is a gourmet chef so they decided to go overboard. Realising how over budget they had gone, they shamed their family into paying. She never told people from the outset there would be such extravagance or associated costs. She even says herself some of the family weren't happy. I bet they never agree to go to a dinner hosted by her again! She shafted her family plain and simple.


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    #4749
    Shenshen
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 9,453 Mod ✭✭✭✭Shenshen


    Graces7 wrote: »
    You dont get it.. this dinner was not about the kind of Chrsitmas meal YOU are talking about. A very different meal altogether. Gourmet food.

    Duck, ham and pork?

    That's not gourmet food. She's not exactly giving them all scallops, lobster and caviar.


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    #4750
    Quazzie
    Registered Users Posts: 28,887 ✭✭✭✭Quazzie


    I think this thread proves two things.

    1. There are a LOT of stingy people in Ireland.

    &

    2. People will argue over absolutely anything on this forum


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    #4751
    dubstarr
    Registered Users Posts: 13,762 ✭✭✭✭dubstarr


    Paddy Cow wrote: »
    I do get it. She offered to host christmas dinner. Her husband is a gourmet chef so they decided to go overboard. Realising how over budget they had gone, they shamed their family into paying. She never told people from the outset there would be such extravagance or associated costs. She even says herself some of the family weren't happy. I bet they never agree to go to a dinner hosted by her again! She shafted her family plain and simple.

    And i hope to God they charge her for everythign.She would get nothing for free again


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    #4752
    LLewellen Farquarson
    Registered Users Posts: 410 ✭✭LLewellen Farquarson


    Quazzie wrote: »
    I think this thread proves two things.

    1. There are a LOT of stingy people in Ireland.

    &

    2. People will argue over absolutely anything on this forum
    There should be an option to unfollow untill all this blows over.


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    #4753
    Obvious Desperate Breakfasts
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,474 ✭✭✭Obvious Desperate Breakfasts


    If she also charged the children, she bagged €990. :eek:


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    #4754
    dartboardio
    Registered Users Posts: 2,436 ✭✭✭dartboardio


    Electric Sheep wrote: »
    You must have quite a kitchen if you could roast 3 turkeys in one day.

    What the hell do you think professional kitchens do? An oven per turkey? Ha ha haaa

    There is a thing called preparation... and reheating


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    #4755
    amcalester
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,121 ✭✭✭amcalester


    Quazzie wrote: »
    I think this thread proves two things.

    2. People will argue over absolutely anything on this forum

    No they won’t.


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    #4756
    PaddyWilliams
    Registered Users Posts: 1,121 ✭✭✭PaddyWilliams


    amcalester wrote: »
    No they won’t.


    I beg to differ


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    #4757
    McGrath5
    Registered Users Posts: 2,346 ✭✭✭McGrath5


    Don't feel like paying for your parking? Lets hope you never come across this guy.


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    #4758
    devlinio
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 172 ✭✭devlinio


    When I was a young child, for Christmas my Aunt (Mums sister in law) got me and my younger brothers shampoo and body wash for Christmas. She got these free in the Chemist she worked in and spent a fortune on her side of the family.

    She also disconnected her landline, so my aunt in the states can't call her. When she wants free accommodation for a holiday though, she will get back in contact. Last time she and her husband were over visiting my aunt, they let them pay for everything and didn't even buy them dinner to say thanks for hosting them on the last night. Instead, when my aunt's husband (the one who lives in the states) pulled out his credit card, she goes to him "Ah, are you treating us to dinner".

    WTF have you no shame, letting your hosts pay for your dinner, and never putting your hands in your own pocket.


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    #4759
    The_Conductor
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 32,280 Mod ✭✭✭✭The_Conductor


    McGrath5 wrote: »
    Don't feel like paying for your parking? Lets hope you never come across this guy.

    I don't think I've ever seen a post with 502 thanks on it!

    Not in the same league- but I was in McDonalds in Supervalu Adamstown yesterday- and the woman in front of me had McDonalds vouchers valid for McDonalds Liffey Valley- and was busy scribbling out the 'Liffey Valley' on them- to try and use them in Adamstown. Sigh. The checkout assistant (the Manager) felt sorry for her, and over-rode the system. I'd not have done!


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    #4760
    Mollyb60
    Registered Users Posts: 6,581 ✭✭✭Mollyb60


    Aunt and Uncle (well enough off) arrived up to my mum's house in the run up to Christmas with all their Christmas cards for our side of the family. Apparently they thought that the cost of posting them was too much (which it is tbf) so they expected my mother to pass them out to everyone for her "when she was out and about visiting people". Oh the stinge! :rolleyes:


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    #4761
    the beer revolu
    Registered Users Posts: 16,876 ✭✭✭✭the beer revolu


    Probably more a case of not thinking stuff through but we've had the "I left my phone charger in your house, can you post it to me in France?"

    Ffs, it costs me the same to post it back as it would cost you to replace it! Seems stingy to point that out, though.


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    #4762
    punisher5112
    Registered Users Posts: 24,647 ✭✭✭✭punisher5112


    the beer revolu wrote: »
    Probably more a case of not thinking stuff through but we've had the "I left my phone charger in your house, can you post it to me in France?"

    Ffs, it costs me the same to post it back as it would cost you to replace it! Seems stingy to point that out, though.

    What charger..... Simple answer.


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    #4763
    Lia_lia
    Registered Users Posts: 6,691 ✭✭✭Lia_lia


    I used to work in a restaurant in a hotel. One night I was working there this couple were having dinner. Yer man seemed very nervous. Anyway just before they got their desserts he proposed! His girlfriend said yes and was crying happy tears and everything so they were happy out.

    At the end of the meal both of them came up to the bar to pay. I gave himself the bill and he said "can we pay separately". :eek: So they paid separately. It wasn't even the case of splitting the bill evenly, they paid for each item they had separately. Now I'm all for equality and everything but come on!


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    #4764
    the beer revolu
    Registered Users Posts: 16,876 ✭✭✭✭the beer revolu


    Lia_lia wrote: »
    I used to work in a restaurant in a hotel. One night I was working there this couple were having dinner. Yer man seemed very nervous. Anyway just before they got their desserts he proposed! His girlfriend said yes and was crying happy tears and everything so they were happy out.

    At the end of the meal both of them came up to the bar to pay. I gave himself the bill and he said "can we pay separately". :eek: So they paid separately. It wasn't even the case of splitting the bill evenly, they paid for each item they had separately. Now I'm all for equality and everything but come on!

    Just curious as to who you think is the stinge here?
    Both of them?
    Or him?


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    #4765
    The_Conductor
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 32,280 Mod ✭✭✭✭The_Conductor


    the beer revolu wrote: »
    Just curious as to who you think is the stinge here?
    Both of them?
    Or him?

    Him of course- how dare he not cover the bill- he did just ask for her hand in marriage after all- its a bad way for the marriage if he isn't going to be the providor......... How dare he! :pac:


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    #4766
    JupiterKid
    Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 12,673 Mod ✭✭✭✭JupiterKid


    I cannot stand stingy people. Being mean is not a good character trait in my book.

    There's one thing being careful and prudent with money, which is good - IMO so many Irish people are dreadful at managing money well and that is why services such as MABS are a godsend - but people who are total skinflints do not make for good company.


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    #4767
    Graces7
    Registered Users Posts: 32,634 ✭✭✭✭Graces7


    JupiterKid wrote: »
    I cannot stand stingy people. Being mean is not a good character trait in my book.

    There's one thing being careful and prudent with money, which is good - IMO so many Irish people are dreadful at managing money well and that is why services such as MABS are a godsend - but people who are total skinflints do not make for good company.

    Is not stinge to some extent in the eyes of the beholder? maybe there are situations where folk appear stingy as they do not have the means to pay more?


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    #4768
    pgj2015
    Registered Users Posts: 9,039 ✭✭✭pgj2015


    devlinio wrote: »
    When I was a young child, for Christmas my Aunt (Mums sister in law) got me and my younger brothers shampoo and body wash for Christmas. She got these free in the Chemist she worked in and spent a fortune on her side of the family.

    She also disconnected her landline, so my aunt in the states can't call her. When she wants free accommodation for a holiday though, she will get back in contact. Last time she and her husband were over visiting my aunt, they let them pay for everything and didn't even buy them dinner to say thanks for hosting them on the last night. Instead, when my aunt's husband (the one who lives in the states) pulled out his credit card, she goes to him "Ah, are you treating us to dinner".

    WTF have you no shame, letting your hosts pay for your dinner, and never putting your hands in your own pocket.




    I bet your uncle paid as well. more fool him.


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    #4769
    nice_guy80
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,723 ✭✭✭nice_guy80


    JupiterKid wrote: »
    I cannot stand stingy people. Being mean is not a good character trait in my book.

    There's one thing being careful and prudent with money, which is good - IMO so many Irish people are dreadful at managing money well and that is why services such as MABS are a godsend - but people who are total skinflints do not make for good company.
    I'd say the majority of Irish people are very good at managing their money


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    #4770
    coffee_cake
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Politics Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 81,309 CMod ✭✭✭✭coffee_cake


    the beer revolu wrote: »
    Just curious as to who you think is the stinge here?
    Both of them?
    Or him?

    I'd expect a 'i'll pay this time you get the next or send me the money' system[with either person paying on this occasion] rather than paying like friends do for each item. If they're getting married you'd think the finances would be merging. or that they would have other things to think about


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    #4771
    Paddy Cow
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,576 ✭✭✭Paddy Cow


    nice_guy80 wrote: »
    I'd say the majority of Irish people are very good at managing their money
    The 2008 credit crash would say otherwise :pac:


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