Stingiest thing you've seen stingy people do

eth0 · 16-09-2012 01:27AM

Bawnmore wrote: »

I almost sent an email to tight@rse.we what a great email address.

No .we i dont think but you might get a .me.uk

Birneybau · 16-09-2012 02:26AM

eth0 wrote: »

No .we i dont think but you might get a .me.uk

Stingy with sense this time of night are we?

admiralofthefleet · 19-09-2012 02:24PM

when my wife wa a child there was a shop in terenure where siopa beag is now. the oul fella who owned it wouldnt give her sweets one day because she was 1p short. this was despite the fact that her mam and dad were regular customers and would have paid the difference.
they immediately stopped shopping there and word spread about his meaness. he ended up closing afterwards

bijapos · 19-09-2012 02:49PM

admiralofthefleet wrote: »

when my wife wa a child there was a shop in terenure where siopa beag is now. the oul fella who owned it wouldnt give her sweets one day because she was 1p short. this was despite the fact that her mam and dad were regular customers and would have paid the difference.
they immediately stopped shopping there and word spread about his meaness. he ended up closing afterwards

Jayzus, they sound like spiteful people.

Anyway is this you with your sweet shop in .........................Terenure!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ShH1wkJ72YU

Light Switch · 19-09-2012 03:21PM

Put €10.01 Petrol into the car the other day...

Went in and said €10er worth, She said and 1 cent!
Gave her the €10 and then a €2 coin and the bitch gave me back a load of change. :mad:

OldNotWIse · 19-09-2012 03:23PM

Light Switch wrote: »

Put €10.01 Petrol into the car the other day...

Went in and said €10er worth, She said and 1 cent!
Gave her the €10 and then a €2 coin and the bitch gave me back a load of change. :mad:

You should have just told her you only had ten euro. She's not going to call the guards for 1c....

Light Switch · 19-09-2012 03:26PM

OldNotWIse wrote: »

You should have just told her you only had ten euro. She's not going to call the guards for 1c....

Nahh fair is fair, I did go over by 1cent.... But expected her to leave me off

Rabidlamb · 19-09-2012 03:42PM

A story about a stingy landlord.
My father worked on farms back in the 60's where you weren't allowed use the sanitary facilities in the main house.
There would be shed like dorms to house the seasonal workers.
After the workers complained the farmer installed a cold water shower in the corner of the shed with a crappy plastic shower curtain.
When the men asked for a toilet he gave them a potato masher to break down their solid waste in the shower tray before washing away.:eek:

OldNotWIse · 19-09-2012 03:45PM

Light Switch wrote: »

Nahh fair is fair, I did go over by 1cent.... But expected her to leave me off

Yeah you'd expect her to alright

ronan45 · 19-09-2012 03:55PM

Rabidlamb wrote: »

A story about a stingy landlord.
My father worked on farms back in the 60's where you weren't allowed use the sanitary facilities in the main house.
There would be shed like dorms to house the seasonal workers.
After the workers complained the farmer installed a cold water shower in the corner of the shed with a crappy plastic shower curtain.
When the men asked for a toilet he gave them a potato masher to break down their solid waste in the shower tray before washing away.:eek:

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bijapos · 19-09-2012 03:58PM

Rabidlamb wrote: »

A story about a stingy landlord.
My father worked on farms back in the 60's where you weren't allowed use the sanitary facilities in the main house.
There would be shed like dorms to house the seasonal workers.
After the workers complained the farmer installed a cold water shower in the corner of the shed with a crappy plastic shower curtain.
When the men asked for a toilet he gave them a potato masher to break down their solid waste in the shower tray before washing away.:eek:

Jesus, I just vomited a little in my mouth there.

Heard stories of some of those seasonal workers before, both in person and on the radio, they went through some abuse, sadly some farmers here learnt nothing from that and abused foreigners when they came working here.

SunnyDub1 · 19-09-2012 04:20PM

Was food shopping with a Friend the other day when I seen her picking at the "half price" sticker on the stir fry mix she was holding.

Asked her what she was doing and she said "well this one is half price but it goes off tomorrow, so I'm gonna take it off and put it on this one that doesn't go off till the end of the week"

Me " em well I think that it's half price cause it goes off tomorrow, I don't think the rest of them are half price or they would have been labeled half price"

Friend " well duh, but I mean like I'll be saving €1 nearly, Gonna see is there anything else labeled to switch - every little helps"

Me :eek:

When she got to the till she was charged full price anyway :rolleyes:

Millicent · 19-09-2012 08:55PM

SunnyDub1 wrote: »

Was food shopping with a Friend the other day when I seen her picking at the "half price" sticker on the stir fry mix she was holding.

Asked her what she was doing and she said "well this one is half price but it goes off tomorrow, so I'm gonna take it off and put it on this one that doesn't go off till the end of the week"

Me " em well I think that it's half price cause it goes off tomorrow, I don't think the rest of them are half price or they would have been labeled half price"

Friend " well duh, but I mean like I'll be saving €1 nearly, Gonna see is there anything else labeled to switch - every little helps"

Me :eek:

When she got to the till she was charged full price anyway :rolleyes:

Your friend's a thief...

ProudDUB · 20-09-2012 12:20AM

Rabidlamb wrote: »

When the men asked for a toilet he gave them a potato masher to break down their solid waste in the shower tray before washing away.:eek:

OMG !!!

That is a fcuking EPIC level of stinge !!! :mad:

Is there some sort of award we can give to this post? In the shape of a potato masher of course.

kowloon · 20-09-2012 12:27AM

Rabidlamb wrote: »

A story about a stingy landlord.
My father worked on farms back in the 60's where you weren't allowed use the sanitary facilities in the main house.
There would be shed like dorms to house the seasonal workers.
After the workers complained the farmer installed a cold water shower in the corner of the shed with a crappy plastic shower curtain.
When the men asked for a toilet he gave them a potato masher to break down their solid waste in the shower tray before washing away.:eek:

This reminds me of a housemate I had who used a whisk to break up a blockage. I hope when we caught him it was the first time.

Wee Willy Harris · 20-09-2012 12:31AM

I know a guy; in his thirties must have 300k put away by now and still lives at home with his mother.

Dresses like a painter-decorator even on a night on the tiles. At least wear your wealth a bit, if this mysterious potential wife-to-be is such a priority I say.. went into town with him specifically to eat one night "lead the way.." ended up in Charlie changs.

Question of taste? Maybe, but I know a miser when I see one. In comparison I've not a bean, but look a million dollars. Strictly in comparison

areyawell · 20-09-2012 01:13AM

That reminds me I guy a lived with never ever bought bog roll and got sick of him using mine, he'd use a roll in a day. He asked me did I buy any and I said no and stopped giving it to him. He was a college student and then used a4 sheets of paper to wipe his arse. Afteraround two months I called the landlord because the upstairs and downstairs toliets were blocked and Landlord had to call a plumber and took days cleaning out all the paper from the pipes. Landlord kicked him out. It was quite disgusting

si_guru · 20-09-2012 09:41AM

areyawell wrote: »

That reminds me I guy a lived with never ever bought bog roll and got sick of him using mine, he'd use a roll in a day. He asked me did I buy any and I said no and stopped giving it to him. He was a college student and then used a4 sheets of paper to wipe his arse. Afteraround two months I called the landlord because the upstairs and downstairs toliets were blocked and Landlord had to call a plumber and took days cleaning out all the paper from the pipes. Landlord kicked him out. It was quite disgusting

Yuk.. that's not stingy - it's just nasty.

Eircom_Sucks · 20-09-2012 09:48AM

lol at this thread

OldNotWIse · 20-09-2012 10:06AM

areyawell wrote: »

That reminds me I guy a lived with never ever bought bog roll and got sick of him using mine, he'd use a roll in a day. He asked me did I buy any and I said no and stopped giving it to him. He was a college student and then used a4 sheets of paper to wipe his arse. Afteraround two months I called the landlord because the upstairs and downstairs toliets were blocked and Landlord had to call a plumber and took days cleaning out all the paper from the pipes. Landlord kicked him out. It was quite disgusting

When I was in college I shared with a guy and two other girls. We'd take it in turns to buy toilet roll. Whenever it was his turn, he'd arrive with one of the huge rolls that he'd nicked from a toilet in college :eek:

recyclebin · 20-09-2012 10:21AM

OldNotWIse wrote: »

When I was in college I shared with a guy and two other girls. We'd take it in turns to buy toilet roll. Whenever it was his turn, he'd arrive with one of the huge rolls that he'd nicked from a toilet in college :eek:

I thought everyone did that in college. That's not stingy. That's just being a broke student.

danslevent · 20-09-2012 10:23AM

I work for a family that own a lot of businesses around Ireland. They are all entrepreneurs and over the many years of business owning have generated a lot of wealth, would probably be one of the richest families in my town. They are known for their stinginess and misery but I never knew how bad it was until I started working for them.

One of family members, an elderly enough lady, is always coming into the shop (fair enough, her son owns it!) and she roots through the bins to see if we are throwing out anything deemed "valuable". She has be known to take out old bank bags (the ones coins come in) to re use them even though we already have so many. Every surface of her house is filled with old newspaper and just general crap that she can't bear to throw out in case she has a use for it.

The worst bit is she is in charge of supplying us with soap for the bathroom and just general cleaning products for the shop. So I have to clean the business with her cut up old pairs of knickers. Sometimes there are childrens' knickers so I assume she also hoards her grand childrens old clothes. Fair enough uses old rags etc for around your own home but supplying your employees with your old under wear to clean your business is just downright stingy. I really don't know how she isn't embarrassed, maybe she thinks we don't notice the general knickers shape/occassional bow on the elastic but more than likely she just doesn't give a sh*t :P

ronan45 · 20-09-2012 10:28AM

areyawell wrote: »

That reminds me I guy a lived with never ever bought bog roll and got sick of him using mine, he'd use a roll in a day. He asked me did I buy any and I said no and stopped giving it to him. He was a college student and then used a4 sheets of paper to wipe his arse. Afteraround two months I called the landlord because the upstairs and downstairs toliets were blocked and Landlord had to call a plumber and took days cleaning out all the paper from the pipes. Landlord kicked him out. It was quite disgusting

Must of had some Snare on him!

Boombastic · 20-09-2012 10:49AM

ronan45 wrote: »

Must of had some Snare on him!

Years ago I share and apartment (not for very long) with a guy who wiped with newspaper. He would read it while doing his business and then wipe with it:(

He had no shame in telling us how industrious he was

danslevent · 20-09-2012 10:51AM

Boombastic wrote: »

Years ago I share and apartment (not for very long) with a guy who wiped with newspaper. He would read it while doing his business and then wipe with it:(

He had no shame in telling us how industrious he was

Would it wipe well though? I imagine you'd have a whopping itchy bum bum.

Millicent · 20-09-2012 10:56AM

Boombastic wrote: »

Years ago I share and apartment (not for very long) with a guy who wiped with newspaper. He would read it while doing his business and then wipe with it:(

He had no shame in telling us how industrious he was

WTF?! Wouldn't the ink be all over him? Can you imagine being the poor unfortunate who slept with that guy and realising that you could read the Daily Mail off his arse? :eek: :pac:

hypermuse · 20-09-2012 11:02AM

^^^

not to mention you'd prob have a big black (as well as brown) hole on you from all the ink rubbing off onto you!

Boombastic · 20-09-2012 11:07AM

danslevent wrote: »

Would it wipe well though? I imagine you'd have a whopping itchy bum bum.

I don't think it worked too well, always a faint smell of old sh1t. Itchy hole was a symptom:pac: I'm not sure about the ink but.......

Girls never stayed too long, he's with someone now a few years - she must buy the toilet roll:)

Millicent · 20-09-2012 11:43AM

Boombastic wrote: »

I don't think it worked too well, always a faint smell of old sh1t. Itchy hole was a symptom:pac: I'm not sure about the ink but.......

Girls never stayed too long, he's with someone now a few years - she must buy the toilet roll:)

Just goes to show there's someone for everyone, disgustingly comforting as that thought is. :pac:

Remmy · 20-09-2012 11:56AM

Wee Willy Harris wrote: »

I know a guy; in his thirties must have 300k put away by now and still lives at home with his mother.

Dresses like a painter-decorator even on a night on the tiles. At least wear your wealth a bit, if this mysterious potential wife-to-be is such a priority I say.. went into town with him specifically to eat one night "lead the way.." ended up in Charlie changs.

Question of taste? Maybe, but I know a miser when I see one. In comparison I've not a bean, but look a million dollars. Strictly in comparison

Hard to know if that's stingy or not really. He could be saving up the money for something big and not have much interest in fashion.

Stingiest thing you've seen stingy people do

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