Stingiest things thread(op for R&R access)

pgj2015 · 25-06-2024 09:22PM

Someone I known bought a brand new tractor once, the seller is known to be extremely tight. it ran out of diesel on its journey from the garage to the buyers house.

Markcheese · 25-06-2024 09:33PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122303905#Comment_122303905

I remember dealing with a large main dealer , - was buying an old banger ,that was kept in a different yard , so the sales man was driving me down there ,he had to go get petrol , and only put a couple of euro of petrol in - said that was policy - all the cars were run on vapours

hoodie6029 · 26-06-2024 05:02PM

I remember my brother buying a Corolla in the mid 90’s. Met the seller at a petrol station to collect it. Rural Ireland. We were hanging around waiting for him and we hear this car roaring up the street. Unusual back then before boy racers were a thing.
It was the seller, driving the guts out of the car. He pulled in and gave the car a few more hard revs before he got out. (even now, nearly 30 years later I still remember the big grin on his face as he did it)
The B@&€&x was reviving all the petrol out of it before he handed it over.
The aul lad was fuming and was about to walk away from the car only he knew he wouldn’t get the deposit back.
It’s an attitude I’ve come across a few times in Ireland and the people have openly said that they ‘wouldn’t want to see someone else getting the benefit of something.’

pgj2015 · 31-07-2024 07:12AM

A millionaire professional driver, driving around at night for the last 3 months with a dipped headlight gone, too mean to buy a new bulb.

loyatemu · 31-07-2024 09:16AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122303977#Comment_122303977

we recently traded in our car. It had 3/4 of a tank of diesel still in it, I was cursing my own stupidity (but in fairness I wasn't stinge enough to syphon it back out).

antimatterx · 31-07-2024 09:24AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122447602#Comment_122447602

With the price of fuel I'd be raging as well

Buddy Bubs · 05-08-2024 12:08PM

I took a load of copies of the free newspapers in the local shop yesterday, for cleaning the windows of the house, great they are.

I remember someone once telling me newspaper is great for cleaning in windows, I thought to myself I'm not buying a paper just to clean the windows, until I realised there's loads of free ones I've been taking them ever since.

Newspaper is a stretch, just full of ads which I suppose makes sense

Lonesome Rhodes · 08-08-2024 10:46AM

A fella I work with nice man but he's unbelievably cheap and he's on good money easily six figure salary as he's a manager. This is about the return plastic bottles this fella watches like a hawk for them, he asks others for theirs 'are you going to recycle that' etc anyway last week I was with him in the cafe close to where we work. As we walk out of the cafe he uses his hawk vision to spot a plastic bottle in a ditch on the otherside of the footpath. It was well wedged in and he had to get onto his knees and reach into a mucky bush in the pouring rain to get it. took him a good 30 seconds to get it and then he triumphantly turns around with his shirt sleeves destroyed in muck and possibly even a little ripped and holds the filthy crushed up bottle aloft declaring with a huge smile on his face 'can't believe people throw away good money like this' I had to remind him his efforts would get him 15 cents. 🙃

Anyone else know these plastic bottle zealots who would crawl through hell on their hands for that 15 cent?

lisasimpson · 10-08-2024 06:12PM

We would pick up a bottle if there was one on the footpath when out for a walk. Then again it was something we did before the scheme to keep tidy near the house.But no way would I ask someone for their empty can/bottle or rummage through bins for them or ruin clothes in the pissing rain to dig out of ditch

Markcheese · 14-08-2024 01:23PM

The interesting thing would be his response if it didn't have the little deposit return logo .. i.e a mucky bottle needing recycling - but no 15 cents

Capt'n Midnight · 17-08-2024 10:12AM

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the_pen_turner · 17-03-2025 12:33AM

neighbour of mine had a farm ditch cut a while back but couldnt get around to tidying up the mess due to the bad weather and wet field so offered the timber to a few local guys that he is friendly with . 1st guy is sound and turns up with everything. second guy turns up with 3 saws in the boot but no petrol or oil . proceeds to take each saw out of the boot and fill them up with the first guys petrol. cuts away for the day and then does the same before going home.

pgj2015 · 17-03-2025 09:57AM

2 lads out drinking all day Saturday, any amount of money for drink, then it comes time to pay for the taxi, fare is 21.60, driver asks for 21 euro, the guy paying opens wallet, there is at least 200 in it, he and his friend begs the driver to just take 20 from the 50 euro note he hands him.

reactadabtc · 09-05-2025 05:12PM

My 25-year-old brother still lives at home and is extremely reluctant to spend any money. He recently had a job earning 50K a year and eats a huge amount of food, but refuses to contribute to groceries. My mum has brought it up multiple times, getting increasingly frustrated. Before Christmas, she told him that if he’s going to keep eating so much, he needs to at least buy some meat. He came back from Tesco with just a pineapple and some butter, and then kept telling everyone he had “done the shopping” for the week.

When we order takeaway, he never offers to pay for his own meal. If someone says they’re not covering his, he’ll respond with, "That changes everything."

He was recently laid off and received an 8K payout. He now has about 30K saved. I told him to enjoy himself a little—spending 1K or 2K won’t make a big difference in the long run, but he replied that he needs to start being frugal. I couldn’t believe it. I said, "Bills don’t stop just because you’re not working."

I also suggested he start driving lessons while he has the time. His response? "I don’t have the money for that." It’s honestly baffling how tight he is with money.

reactadabtc · 09-05-2025 05:15PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117140011#Comment_117140011

Lol, weird take. She runs a business not a charity, of course she should charge you. Your dad did himself a favour as when the lockdown ended he had a tenant there up and running.

09-05-2025 05:32PM

A frugal fecker but a sound lad who we are used to at this stage hated breaking notes of any kind. When we’re were younger around 23 At the shop he’d ask for 2 euro for a bottle of Lucozade as he didn’t want to break a 50 after a game of soccer. Now 15 years later In the pub recently the pints of Guinness are 5.50 or Heineken 6.50. Everytime he buys a now pint he’d ask someone if they have 50 cent handy as he knows everyone will have one to keep the notes together.

miamee · 16-06-2025 11:08AM

There is a nice gesture that some people will make in car parks around the country - if they have paid for parking but there is a fair bit of time still on the ticket when they are leaving they offer it to someone who has just arrived or might stick it on the machine for someone to find - great idea! The stingy feckers in Castlebar have a machine in the car park in front of Boots where you have to key in your reg when paying and the reg is printed on your ticket - so now you can't give someone else the use of your leftover time. Pure stinge!

loyatemu · 16-06-2025 11:48AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123548627#Comment_123548627

nearly every carpark I've been to in France has that system. They tried to bring it in in Bray and there was a big outcry and it was rolled back.

Purple Mountain · 16-06-2025 05:59PM

I do this myself, I don't know if it's stingey or genius. You can decide.

I very rarely wear a watch.

I only have one watch that I wear on occasions when dressing up.

In between wears, it's left in a drawer with the crown pulled out (I had to look up that word) to save the hands moving and the battery running down.

banie01 · 16-06-2025 06:04PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123550306#Comment_123550306

1 watch? Kept in a drawer? And fecking quartz at that..

Bloody sacrilege

Purple Mountain · 16-06-2025 06:14PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123550315#Comment_123550315

BBahaha.. How about a costume watch probably bought somewhere like Carraig Donn?!

Is that acceptable?

Kolido · 16-06-2025 06:15PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123550306#Comment_123550306

I had my doubts about this so Goggled it. Apparently it will save a little battery though the mechanism is still running, only the hands are stopped. It is also not good to keep the stem pulled out. I suppose if you're not overly attached to the watch it's not a big deal

banie01 · 16-06-2025 06:21PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123550351#Comment_123550351

🤮🤮🤮

I can't believe you'd hurt me like this 😢

loyatemu · 17-06-2025 11:30AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123550315#Comment_123550315

at least they're keeping it in a drawer

banie01 · 17-06-2025 12:00PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123552519#Comment_123552519

Hey... That's one sweet ass watch!

Grayson · 17-06-2025 12:03PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123550351#Comment_123550351

God no. Every watch snob reading this is screaming at their monitor right now.

pgj2015 · 07-08-2025 09:31AM

Family member gave away an item lately, it needed a part to fix it, but when fixed is worth 1,000 euro at least. Man turned up, took it away and didn't even leave a few quid for a pint, that to me is awful stingy.

steinbock123 · 07-08-2025 11:40AM

I went into a garage shop last week, to buy a bar of chocolate.
How much , I ask?.
€1.85 he says.
I hand him a €2 coin. He hands me 10c back.
I said “I thought you said it was €1.85”
He says “ I have no 5c coins”

I said no problem give me another 10c so. He says “ No, if I do that I’ll be short in the till”

So I said it’s all right for me to be short, but not you , to which he just shrugged his shoulders.

I then threw the bar on the counter and said give me my money back, I’m not gonna be robbed barefaced like that. He took the bar and handed me back the €2 coin.

It was only when I was back out in the car that I realised I still had the 10c. I was delighted!

pgj2015 · 07-08-2025 12:54PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123703365#Comment_123703365

Deadly, great result, what will you buy with the 10 cent?

loyatemu · 07-08-2025 01:42PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123702956#Comment_123702956

was it free or not? If they wanted money for it they should have put a price on it. I've given a lot of stuff away over the years - occasionally someone will show up with a bottle of wine but I don't consider anyone who doesn't a stinge.

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