Stingiest thing you've seen stingy people do

BizzyC · 27-08-2012 07:51AM

Paddy Cow wrote: »

I'm genuienly gobsmacked at your reaction to this. You've just spent two pages arguing that a taxi driver should expect to get paid to drive his daughter and friends somewhere, yet a musician who was asked to come back the following night should be so grateful to have their music appreciated they would jump at the chance to do it for free?

Bit of a difference there mate.
It's not as if the musician was going to charge family and friends to play for them.

A bar asked him to come back and play. You cant expect someone to go out of their way to provide a service to strangers, at the benefit of someone else's business, for free.

saiint · 27-08-2012 08:53AM

RED PASSION wrote: »

i know a guy who bought paint for a gate and used half a bucket, put the lid back on and got his wife to return it, it was the wrong colour, the man in the shop opened it and told her it is nearly empty and the wife was speechless, she must have killed him when she got home for embarrassing her.

he should of watered it down

snubbleste · 27-08-2012 09:52AM

fasttalkerchat wrote: »

In LIDL customers used to regularly get a refund on coffee machines, deep-fat fryers, and other non-essential kitchen goods just before the 12 month refund limit! Thankfully that policy changed because Ireland was the worst in Europe for change of mind refunds.

That is so true. I remember seeing it it with my own eyes in a queue. The cashier was reluctant to refund €100+ for something that was clearly working, had been used and abused for 5 months, to a man who from the outset kept saying "guaranteed money back"

Fuinseog · 27-08-2012 10:03AM

people who drive off the motorway along the smallest of bohreens adding on time and km to the journey, to avoid paying the toll.

I shared a house once and if someone bought something like washing up liquid, the price was divided between the four of us.

juan.kerr · 27-08-2012 10:07AM

Fuinseog wrote: »

I shared a house once and if someone bought something like washing up liquid, the price was divided between the four of us.

What's so stingy about this? If you didn't have a 'kitty' then this is the easiest solution. Chances are at least one of you would never buy communal items such as toilet paper or washing up liquid so why should that person not chip in?

Qualitymark · 27-08-2012 10:13AM

Fuinseog wrote: »

people who drive off the motorway along the smallest of bohreens adding on time and km to the journey, to avoid paying the toll.

A couple of friends cycled to Athlone last week and said the back roads were lovely and quiet except for a stretch where huge trucks bombed along, having come off the motorway to avoid the toll, and hop back on after the toll bridge. Can't understand why there isn't a toll bridge on the exits.

franksm · 27-08-2012 10:44AM

Fuinseog wrote: »

people who drive off the motorway along the smallest of bohreens adding on time and km to the journey, to avoid paying the toll.

Och, depends why they're doing it. I have been to France twice with the car on holidays and have deliberately stayed on the B-roads, especially around the Pyranees (aka Tour De France roads:) ). I totally hated being on the motorways there. Great for making up distance, but no fun at all.

Fuinseog · 27-08-2012 11:38AM

juan.kerr wrote: »

What's so stingy about this? If you didn't have a 'kitty' then this is the easiest solution. Chances are at least one of you would never buy communal items such as toilet paper or washing up liquid so why should that person not chip in?

Kitties rarely work. usually i would buy washing up liquid and let someone else buy the ciff, but I find it strange buying a cleaning product for something like 2.35 and expecting all housemates to pay me back their exact portion.

juan.kerr · 27-08-2012 11:40AM

Fuinseog wrote: »

Kitties rarely work. usually i would buy washing up liquid and let someone else buy the ciff, but I find it strange buying a cleaning product for something like 2.35 and expecting all housemates to pay me back their exact portion.

Sure, but as I said there is always one person who says 'I never use blah blah blah' so am not chipping in'. Then they buy communal milk and drink it all.

Qualitymark · 27-08-2012 11:41AM

juan.kerr wrote: »

Sure, but as I said there is always one person who says 'I never use blah blah blah' so am not chipping in'. Then they buy communal milk and drink it all.

A perfect expression of the preferred right-wing tax model.

norrie rugger · 27-08-2012 11:53AM

Who has communal milk??

lazygal · 27-08-2012 11:54AM

norrie rugger wrote: »

Who has communial milk??

Jesus, then he turned it into cheese. Blessed are the cheesemakers.

Quazzie · 27-08-2012 11:59AM

Have a kitty with €100 in it. Buy whatever is needed for the house out of it, or whatever communal food you share (bread/milk/sugar etc), then at the end of each week divide up whatever was taken out to bring it back up to €100. Dividing the cost of everything is fair but going asking someone for a quarter share of a litre of milk is a bit mad.

norrie rugger · 27-08-2012 12:03PM

Quazzie wrote: »

Have a kitty with €100 in it. Buy whatever is needed for the house out of it, or whatever communal food you share (bread/milk/sugar etc), then at the end of each week divide up whatever was taken out to bring it back up to €100. Dividing the cost of everything is fair but going asking someone for a quarter share of a litre of milk is a bit mad.

What about someone that does not add sugar to their tea/cornflakes etc.

Easiest and fairest is to just buy your own. I remember that one of the lads tried to get the girl in the house to pay for communal toilet supplies (ignoring the fact that she had the ensuite room and never used the other toilet).
She said fine, as long as her sanitary products costs were added into the kitty. He stopped asking after that.

27-08-2012 12:08PM

4 of us in the house the only thing that's shared is toilet roll, soap and washing up liquid. Everything else right down to Milk etc we all buy our own.

When something is gone, like washing up liquid someone just buys it. Then when its gone again someone else buys it. We never keep track but I think it works out fairly alight imo as you can sort of guess when its your turn to buy something. This is more or less an unspoken rule too as it never really get mentioned.

Ted_YNWA · 27-08-2012 08:16PM

Brady Few Porcupine wrote: »

4 of us in the house the only thing that's shared is toilet roll, soap and washing up liquid. Everything else right down to Milk etc we all buy our own.

When something is gone, like washing up liquid someone just buys it. Then when its gone again someone else buys it. We never keep track but I think it works out fairly alight imo as you can sort of guess when its your turn to buy something. This is more or less an unspoken rule too as it never really get mentioned.

Ditto here & dont buy that cheap sh!te of bog-roll again.

ComfyKnickers · 27-08-2012 08:57PM

lazygal wrote: »

Jesus, then he turned it into cheese. Blessed are the cheesemakers.

Cheeses of Nazareth

SerialComplaint · 27-08-2012 09:01PM

ComfyKnickers wrote: »

Cheeses of Nazareth

I buy mine in the Merrion Centre, from Cheeses Merrion Joseph.

[credit to Ross O'Carroll Kelly]

SIX PACK · 27-08-2012 09:05PM

Everybody is stingy some way or another and the

person reading this wouldn't spend christmas

Sulla Felix · 27-08-2012 09:21PM

Qualitymark wrote: »

A couple of friends cycled to Athlone last week and said the back roads were lovely and quiet except for a stretch where huge trucks bombed along, having come off the motorway to avoid the toll, and hop back on after the toll bridge. Can't understand why there isn't a toll bridge on the exits.

They don in the States. At least on the motorway out of Chicago that I was on. Automated tollpass system and a single cash lane.

27-08-2012 09:42PM

Qualitymark wrote: »

A couple of friends cycled to Athlone last week and said the back roads were lovely and quiet except for a stretch where huge trucks bombed along, having come off the motorway to avoid the toll, and hop back on after the toll bridge. Can't understand why there isn't a toll bridge on the exits.

There usually is on the couple of exits before and after the main toll bridge. But why should people not be allowed to chose to avoid the toll if they want? I would prefer to pay it myself but then again I don't pass through tolls very often. If you were going through tolls lot and it wasn't difficult to avoid I don't see why people shouldn't have the choice.

Sulla Felix · 27-08-2012 10:07PM

Brady Few Porcupine wrote: »

There usually is on the couple of exits before and after the main toll bridge. But why should people not be allowed to chose to avoid the toll if they want? I would prefer to pay it myself but then again I don't pass through tolls very often. If you were going through tolls lot and it wasn't difficult to avoid I don't see why people shouldn't have the choice.

Because you get large amounts of traffic on nearby roads that weren't designed for it. The aforementioned HGVs on B-class roads for example.

efb · 27-08-2012 10:18PM

Page 404 lol!

Fuinseog · 27-08-2012 10:26PM

Brady Few Porcupine wrote: »

There usually is on the couple of exits before and after the main toll bridge. But why should people not be allowed to chose to avoid the toll if they want? I would prefer to pay it myself but then again I don't pass through tolls very often. If you were going through tolls lot and it wasn't difficult to avoid I don't see why people shouldn't have the choice.

some of the tolls are only two euro and to save this meagre sum they will go out of their way and probably use more petrol.

on another matter
I was out with friends in a pub and this German joined the group and two rounds were bought, which he benefited from but did not offer to buy anyone a drink. he did buy himself a drink and made a note of the expense in a little notebook.

MusicalMelody · 27-08-2012 10:33PM

I once watched a fella in our town who is VERY wealthy spend 25 minutes trying to pick a 20cent coin out of a drain with a stick!

phasers · 27-08-2012 10:34PM

avoiding the tolls isnt stingy, especially if you have to go through them twice a day, five days a week.

The Big Red Button · 27-08-2012 10:35PM

efb wrote: »

Page 404 lol!

It would be page 152 if you weren't so stingey with your posts per page!

27-08-2012 10:41PM

Sulla Felix wrote: »

Because you get large amounts of traffic on nearby roads that weren't designed for it. The aforementioned HGVs on B-class roads for example.

In the vast majority of cases the roads they will be driving on will be the old N roads which would have carried all the traffic for years before the motorway was built.

Fuinseog wrote: »

some of the tolls are only two euro and to save this meagre sum they will go out of their way and probably use more petrol.
.

I agree that its worth paying the toll Id never leave a motorway for the sake of the toll. However it is a lot more expensive for bigger vehicles to use the toll road and also if you are going through it a few times per day the cost would quickly add up.

Fuinseog · 27-08-2012 11:00PM

Brady Few Porcupine wrote: »

In the vast majority of cases the roads they will be driving on will be the old N roads which would have carried all the traffic for years before the motorway was built.

I agree that its worth paying the toll Id never leave a motorway for the sake of the toll. However it is a lot more expensive for bigger vehicles to use the toll road and also if you are going through it a few times per day the cost would quickly add up.

the bigger vehicles usually have a tag, which their company pays.

Mr_Spaceman · 27-08-2012 11:04PM

I've just noticed the tags at the bottom of this thread.

"Scots", "Scottish" :pac:

'Cavan people' though - am I missing something here? Are folk from Cavan well-known tightwads?

Also, Dutch people are renowned for being tighter than a bad chest - and if it is your birthday in Holland, the boy/girl in question is expected to provide the food and drink. The Dutch also spend far less on Christmas than any other nation in Europe.

That said, Norwegians are the world's worst tippers, according to one survey. They seem to escape the tightwad tag, but any one of them I've known was a round-dodging, sleekit, miserable f*cker.

Stingiest thing you've seen stingy people do

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