Stingiest thing you've seen stingy people do

OldNotWIse wrote: »

My gf used to share with a guy and he let me stay over the odd night (it was literally just home from nightclub, sneak into bed and straight out to work the next morning - I even showered in work) Most I did was flush the loo lol. Anyway that was fine, next thing he moves his wife and kid in from abroad...grand...then she puts the foot down - no more "visitors". Stingebags. What made it more annoying was my gf told me the woman had her child in the bath about 4 times a day, the washing machine and dryer were constantly going with baby clothes being washed. House constantly overheated in case the child got cold, and the immersion on 24/7 - and my gf had to ask for the bill to be split differently!

saltyjack silverblade wrote: »

I am looking for a room in an apartment at the moment and so I am doing the rounds of places. Today I was in a place and the guy made himself a cup of tea. He then asked me if I would like a cup. He removed the tea bag from his and placed it in my cup. He then handed me the cup to drink without milk, lemon and sugar. Still kind of shocked.

saltyjack silverblade wrote: »

I am looking for a room in an apartment at the moment and so I am doing the rounds of places. Today I was in a place and the guy made himself a cup of tea. He then asked me if I would like a cup. He removed the tea bag from his and placed it in my cup. He then handed me the cup to drink without milk, lemon and sugar. Still kind of shocked.

irritablebaz wrote: »

i have a neighbour who uses me as a free shop. almost every day she asks for this or that. coffee, milk, washing powder, bread, eggs, washing up liquid, spuds, i could go on. thing is the shops are just a couple of minutes walk away and whenever i need anything i just shoot down and get it. i dont know, am i the one being mean.

just the other day she was over for a coffee and i put some biscuits out. she had a few but when leaving asked if she could take what was left of the biscuits home with her.

kylith wrote: »

How on earth do you think you're being stingy? Next time she asks for anything tell her to stop being a leech and go to the shop herself. Asking for an egg or a cup of milk the odd time is one thing, asking for stuff constantly is the work of a sponger. Stop being an easy mark.

I know a guy in his 40s who was doing an Arts degree by night and used his student card every chance he got for discounts. Golf clubs, cinema etc.

We used to laugh when he's flash the card but he didn't even blink.

Mr. G wrote: »

Having to pay €0.40 to use a toilet.

irritablebaz wrote: »

i have a neighbour who uses me as a free shop. almost every day she asks for this or that. coffee, milk, washing powder, bread, eggs, washing up liquid, spuds, i could go on. thing is the shops are just a couple of minutes walk away and whenever i need anything i just shoot down and get it. i dont know, am i the one being mean.

just the other day she was over for a coffee and i put some biscuits out. she had a few but when leaving asked if she could take what was left of the biscuits home with her.

conorhal wrote: »

I was sharing a house with a Chinese dude and one other tenant, one day my Chinese flat mate ‘informs me’ that a ‘friend’ of his would be staying in his room for a little bit while his friend was searching for a flat. Ooooookay.
Two months later Lucy Lu, my flat mates girlfriend (he forgot to mentioned that) is still slumped on our sofa all day watching DVD’s. Eventually I corner my Chinese flat mate and ask him exactly how long his 'friend' would be staying. I also present him with the latest bills and tell him that we should be splitting them 4 ways instead of three, (given that Lucy was sitting at home all day using more electricity than all three of us put together that only seemed fair).
He agreed readily enough, but it still annoyed me intensely that it had never even occurred to them to offer to contribute to the bills. Anyhow, her boyfriend tells me that she will only be there for two more weeks tops, two weeks later she’s still there. Then out of the blue I get a text from my other flat mate to say that he’s moving out at the end of the month, of course 2 seconds later I get a text from Lucy asking if she can have his room. You can imagine how stitched up I felt, clearly all this had been arranged behind my back and the cow lived rent free for nearly three months on my dime, but I sucked it up and thought, “well, better the devil you know”, how wrong was I.

I've never met such a tight cnut (and not in the good way....)

One day she comes into the living room and announces that the bulb in her bedroom has blown, looks at me expectantly, then ponders whether or not she should call the landlord. I ignore her, a few days later I notice that the hall light bulb is missing.

It transpires that Lucy never once bought toilet roll for the bathroom she shared with our other flatmate, just for herself, and she would return to her room with the roll once she was finished in there. One day, to her intense aggravation my other flatmate noticed that the new loo roll she'd put in the bathroom a couple of days before was missing. Exasperated, shee knocks on Lucy’s bedroom door and asks her where the bloody loo roll has gone. The door closes. Then a few moments later it reopens and Lucy show’s her two loo rolls and asks her to identify which one was hers. WTF?

Occasionally I'd wake up freezing on a winters morning because the sneaky cow would surreptitiously switch off the storage heaters if she was away for the weekend, because while she kept heaters blazing in her room 24/7 on account of always feeling cold, the rest of us could freeze before she'd permit the heating bill to climb while she was away.

Eventually (much to my relief) Lucy moved out. When it came time to carve up her final share of the bills she went through them like a forensic accountant, because the final ESB bill was an estimate (a pretty accurate one it turns out)she demanded that I get an exact reading off the ESB meter and then moaned about a couple of bloody euro here and there.
Now I've no problem with people being exact about what they owe, but at the same time Lucy had a pretty sweet deal over the three years that she had lived in that house. I never once asked her for a contribution towards the NTL or TV license bills (she didn't often watch TV so I waved the 'all bills should be split equally' rule in that case) and she did enjoy the benefits of free broadband and phone calls courtesy of my work which paid for both while we were living there. And let me tell you, that girl was never off the phone or broadband. She even once asked me if I could get a wireless phone from work once so that she could abuse that privilege further by taking the phone up to her room (she really hated that I insisted that the house phone stay where it was in the hall and she was far too cheap to actually go and buy a wireless phone herself). So, given that there were a fair few perks to living in the house with me that she would otherwise have to had paid for elsewhere I was really annoyed about her quibbling over a couple of euro on an ESB bill.

About three months she had moved out, I get a call from her asking if any of the meat that she had left in the freezer was still there and could she come around and collect it. Seriously, she had been hoping that after going back to China for the summer that I would have kept all her food in cold storage for her. Naturally I informed her that I threw out her unidentifiable ‘mystery meat’ after she had left.


And breathe…… God it felt good getting that off my chest! There are of course 1001 more stories I could tell about this chick but I don’t want Boards servers to fall over.