Stingiest thing you've seen stingy people do

no_bother wrote: »

My grandmother used to wipe down the table after breakfast and lunch and gather all the breadcrumbs up and reuse them in stuffing!!! when we used to pull her up on it she used to always say that if anyone learned to live through rationing there were some habits that were hard to let go..... but i could never really understand this as she would have been from a well enough to do family and from other conversations the main issue with rationing was tokens for fabric used in dress making!

From what my mother tells me, the main issue with the rationing was the rationing of tea and sugar, at least for her and her family. Tea in particular. In the early 70s, there were rumours that tea was going to become scarce again, my Mom stockpiled pounds of tea in the bedroom closet. The thought of tea being scarce was the worst thing she could imagine:D

Oranage2 wrote: »

A lad i use to work with -

Me and a guy were chatting at the bar - the guy walks up to us and asks the barman for 3 shots(2e each)- when the barman got them, he looked at us and said he wasnt paying for our ones -

Another time i was at a house party - a guy wanted to buy ice so he was asking everybody for 10 cent for the euro bag of ice - i just gave him the euro.

This one time I was in Germany, with these Erasmus students they were having a cocktail party and ran out if ice. So if I recall correctly the lads whose house it was collected for the bag. I actually cringed so I paid for the ice.

peatcass wrote: »

I wouldn't upset everyone by telling them why i don't eat frozen pizzas

Ignorance is bliss

Just like I wont tell you why I never drink straight from bottles/cans.

JupiterKid wrote: »

Hear hear. I comepletely agree. There's a generation of people utterly spoilt rotten during the bubble years.

Another thing you will hear is Irish people giving out that their relatives/friends in the UK or the Continent are really "mean." No, they just have common sense, we became extremely wasteful in the good times.:rolleyes:

It's one thing to be stingy but another to be practical.

i agree too. a lot of the boom babies are now struggling. either with trying to cut down on their spending cos the money isn't there (ie still spending like it is the boom, then their bills!!!) or being massively frugal to the point of stingeyness.

now i was a boom baby - 1985. but i never had the money that most of my peers had. we were poor from the get go. i was always taught never to waste food. you had to really want something if you were ever going to get it (you couldn't just see it on the telly and go i want that, have it got and then chuck it in a closet when you were bored of it), and even then you mighten get it. My mother always did her best by me, but I got what I got, but I was never sad - well maybe the odd time when the gang on the road were able to go to the flicks and I wasn't, or when they got ice-cream every day and I got it once per week - but these were little things.

my friend occasionally calls me tight, cos i am more aware of costs, like if something is 10 or 15 quid i would be inclined to think about is it worth it, where he would just spend the money and cannot understand why i think it is too steep for a certain item. i wouldn't say i am being stingy, just careful.

bhur wrote: »

Dont mix yourself up between a Baby Boomer and Generation Y

you have me confused now?

what i meant was i grew up during the boom years

hdowney wrote: »

you have me confused now?

what i meant was i grew up during the boom years

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baby_boomer

kfc charging extra for milk in your tea
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056261437

In burger king today on the belgard rd tallaght,Elderly man in front ordered a burger,fries and a tea he then proceeded to pay for items,Before he left the counter he noticed he was not giving any milk for his tea and asked for some,The staff member gave it to him and asked for an extra 25c a small tub,The man refused to pay saying the tea should come with milk at no extra cost,Manager was called for and said you have to pay extra for the milk the man refused and after demanding a total refund(and getting it) he handed back his food and stormed out,

Martyn1989 wrote: »

Or be very careful about which pub you drink draught beer out of

^^^^ This
A bar I worked in would Mark the barrels that had to be taken off the tap for being "off" .... But then put them on in the nightclub during the busy period.
Same bar's owner who only came in 3 or 4 times a month due to old age, he used to top up pints with the drip tray. :eek:

my life was much the same. i remember having one birthday party and aparantly have photographic evidence of another. but they were not massive parties by any means.

what i meant was i was growing up in the years of got to have everything and lots of it.

many a year i went out on the road on easter sunday to play and the question was how many easter eggs did you get??? like each kid got 3 or 4 per parent, one off each sibling (of which i have none) 1 each of each nanny and granda (of which i have none) and several off the easter bunny. i got two! one off my mam and one off the easter bunny. the odd time someone else would buy me a small one.

but things were always a competition. what did you get for christmas or birthdays, how big and expensive was each item, were they the new thing. did you always have the newest coolest clothes - no i had hand me downs.

so all the other kids i knew were spoilt and i was the poor kid. but considering how the world is now i think i had the better upbringing

My housemate had a few of his mates round one night. They were talking about getting a takeaway.

One of his mates always goes on runs to shop & takeaways but will charge a delivery charge. If charging your friends to go to shop wasn't bad enough. He works out the delivery charge by weighing whatever they brings back and charging 1 euro per KG!

four18 wrote: »

A friend working out in Cappagh Hospital tells me of a man from Cavan who was having a hip replacement. He asked the doctor could he have the old one for the dog....

Thats a silly request, a human hip wouldn't fit into a dog's hip joint!