Samsgirl wrote: » A friends brother in law charges her Mam €15 per week to run her into town to collect her old age pension. The lady is also receiving treatment for breast cancer and he charges to drive her to the hospital and back. None of the family have challenged him over this. If it was my Mam I would fcuking kill him!!!!
Birneybau wrote: » Slightly tenuous but the sense of entitlement from this one:http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2016/jan/22/my-parents-in-law-have-gone-back-on-a-promise-to-give-us-their-house Edited version below.
Birneybau wrote: » http://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/travel_news/article-3419238/Teenager-saves-7-72-train-journey-Sheffield-Essex-taking-PLANE-Berlin.html That guy ^ Went 10 hours out of his way to save less than £8. Instead of getting train from Sheffield to Essex, flew to Berlin and back.
Skylinehead wrote: » He was making a point judging by the article. Plus Berlin is great!
rawn wrote: » Definitely making a point, he teaches classes on couponing It's still pretty cool though, considering how much airplanes cost to fuel and maintain it still worked out cheaper than a train
Birneybau wrote: » Ah, I'm not judging him (well, I am) but if that's not stingy by the definition...
ken wrote: » Train prices in the U.K. are mental. My brother and I went over to Glasgow to watch Celtic play. To save a few Euro we went a day early and Carlisle races were on that day so we said we'd go. Walked to the train station and they wanted £142 each. A journey of roughly the same distance Kildare to Kilkenny costs €18.
Dan Jaman wrote: » From what I gather from afar, the prices that used to be normal are often still available, but you have to know the system, as they won't be presented to you as options. Certainly, advance booking, sticking the boot in the machine, etc all help.
TG1 wrote: » In comparison to some of the posts this really isn't all that stingy but I knew a guy who used to thin out pasata with water so he would get 4 meals out of one carton... Considering it's about 90c a carton I don't know was the trade off of taste v money really worth it!
ken wrote: » We could have booked online to go the next day but was still over £90 day return each.
pablo128 wrote: » Would have been cheaper to hire a car!:eek:
Hollister11 wrote: » My brother keeps using my Lynx and aftershave saying that he doesn't want to waste his money on that stuff when mine is there. He doesn't listen when I say leave it. Another brother as a joke gave me the €10 he owed me from pizza in a birthday card.
mynameis905 wrote: » If Lynx still smells as bad as I remember, he's probably doing you a favour.
rawn wrote: » A few tips from Britain's most frugal Gran http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/how-live-like-britains-most-7251953?ICID=FB_mirror_main
elfy4eva wrote: » That woman reminds me of a time I worked in Tesco. Was out in the back warehouse with one of my colleagues who was doing last reductions at about 9:00pm. There were regular people mostly older ladies and gents who would arrive every evening knowing full well then time the last reductions would be put out at. I'll never forget this... ...She pushes the trolley with the reductions out to the shop floor and is set upon by a group of these people who literally shunt her out of the way and start grabbing at the reductions like something out of a documentary. One of the managers sees this walks over and calls them a pack of manner-less vultures.
cw67irl wrote: » I can't remember a time I didn't see this in my local tesco. I even saw a crowd of people all in a circle around the heater thing with the cooked chickens ect in it. I went over to see what was on they were a large group (family) blocking anyone who wanted a chicken or whatever as they knew it was time they were reduced so were waiting on the staff member to reduce them so they could buy everything up at the discount rate!!
