KevRossi wrote: » I'm not sure how much fits in a tank, maybe 2 litres? So he was suggesting that I siphon off €2 of fuel to make the €10 rental more worthwhile.
Dodge wrote: » Finally, a quality stinge story. Siphoning off mower petrol
Greta_Funberg wrote: » It may be that, but it's not "stingy". I mean you do know what the word means, right? I have a confession. I also keep records, thrown somewhere in my filing box, of received credit card statements! Imagine that, keeping a record of some finances... Madness.
jay1988 wrote: » I do understand what it means and you are the epitome of it. You wrote down what people gave you as a wedding gift, actually wrote it down to keep a record of it, to decide how much you'd give them, thats tight and there's no two ways about it.
Alejandro68 wrote: » I am still using a netbook I bought in 2010 and runs windows 7.And can't justify or afford the more fancy and high priced laptops.
pgj2015 wrote: » it mightn't be so much tight as not wanting to be made a fool of in a way. like in fairness if a friend of mine who has money gave me 20 euro on my wedding day, he would get the same back on his, why would i give him 100 when he gave me 20? for all you know if a friend of Gretas gave her 200 euro, she would return the favor. it might not be about Greta being tight.
ILoveYourVibes wrote: » A guy buys himself a fancy golf club membership and all kinds of fancy trips ....his wife hasn't had new clothes in ages.
arctictree wrote: » The stinge here is just over thinking it. Just give the couple what you want and forget about who gave who what in the past.
Purple Mountain wrote: » On the wedding topic.. I was BM a few years ago. I'm a cousin to the bride so my house was a drop off for some of our mutual relatives presents in the run up to the wedding because they knew I'd see the couple. Our relations (couple in their 50s who would be very comfortable financially and the wife always has a new top to toe outfit for every family occasion I've seen her at) arrived to me with a wrapped box and a card. This couple were attending the full wedding BTW. She commented that the present was 'just a token gift' so I taped the card to the present figuring the card contained money and I wanted my cousin to know who the 'token gift' was from. She told me afterwards the card was simply that, a card, nothing else in the envelope and the 'token gift' was a €30 (she googled it!) homeware gift from a well known chain store. Same couple spent a fortune on booze that day too. I know people say that you shouldn't have an expectation of your gifts at your wedding but still...
fitzparker wrote: » But what if you invite a couple or relatives who are loaded, or won the lotto they give you €500,€1000 or major money. You can't be in a sweat when their big day is coming trying to get that kind of money up. as poster above suggested, you give what you want, what feels right (obviously €30 is a hungry Cnut), expectations from your wedding is stingy to me. some people already have it calculated before the wedding what they expect to make from it. my wedding for example (I didn't take notes by the way!) We planned a few years out so saved our asses for it so we wouldn't need a loan, it meant what we got from it was a bonus opened our gifts and were taken back of what we got. 2 days later my friend called me asking did another mate give me a card, I couldn't recall (again because we didnt write down) my friend replied "well im just off the phone to him he said he "forgot to give it" and needs to drop it up. 2 years later and he never has, now this is a mate who isn't broke, who is close to me, but is notoriously scabby and he gets hounded off us for being it.BUT when his big day arrives, im not going to hand him nothing or forget the card. ill give him the going rate and get over it some people actually have it noted thinking to themselves "roll on your big day in 10 years wait and you see"!!!!
pgj2015 wrote: » Bigger fool you are so. I remember someone on this thread wrote before that their good "friend" and his wife gave them a bed sheet as a wedding gift, the guy thought it was a joke but that was all they ever received. now if the "friend" ever got married how would you put 100-200 euro into an envelope for them? your so called friend got one over on you, you would be mad to ever give him a cent if he gets married, I would give a card with nothing in it as he would think it contains money then he will be gutted when he opens it lol
joeguevara wrote: » Do you really think people are gutted if they open up a wedding card and there is nothing in it?
pgj2015 wrote: » stingy people are. like the guy who "forgot" to give the card. I would be gutted if i opened an empty card from a friend, not because I need the money but because of what it says about someone I thought was a friend.
fitzparker wrote: » its petty, stop getting married to pay the bills. its not about gifts really is it? flip this one the other way. if your friend handed you a card with 2 grand in it. would you work yourself in a sweat saving/borrowing 2k if you didn't have it to return the favour? I cant believe some people actually go to lengths having the gifts to one side and googling each one individually and putting a price against it so they know what to give that person for their day. Weird people
El_Duderino 09 wrote: » Depends. When I got married i got a hand written letter from my uncle which gave a description of the Latin meanings of our names and an interpretation of what the names could mean together and how they compliment each other. He's a Latin speaker so it was a really personalised message. That letter always stands out in my mind amongst all the generous cash gifts people gave us.
pgj2015 wrote: » if your uncle was well off and gave you that gift, would you think it was a lovely gift or would you think he was being tight?
KevRossi wrote: » I have a small push mower for the garden, it's a semi-D with a small front and back and does the job as long as you give it a trim once every 10 days. It broke, gave it to a welder to fix and in the meantime rented one for an hour instead (€10 per hour). Neighbour asked where I got it, told him and he asked could he borrow it to do his. So I said yes, trying to be a decent neighbour. Hearing he was finished, I went out front to put it in the car and started to chat to him; asked was his broken, he said: "No, but the fella you rented off gives the petrol for free, so I thought I'd use your one". I just went, OK, then he asked me why I was putting it in the car without siphoning off some petrol. He said I may as well, seeing as I'm paying for the rent and that's what he used to do. I'm not sure how much fits in a tank, maybe 2 litres? So he was suggesting that I siphon off €2 of fuel to make the €10 rental more worthwhile.
