Do Mean people ever actually spend it ? ?

2lazytogetup · 28-05-2021 9:02am

unfortunately i suffer from this meanness. i wouldnt feel the most secure in my job. And reckon it could all go belly up. and ive been in the situation going to tesco with less than 2euros to get food for 5 days. i ended up buying packets of 22cent digestive biscuits

ive also noticed this meanness in people from cavan and meath where guys in their 30s are in plush office jobs. i think they are from poor farming backgrounds and know they know what poorness is.

On the otherside of the spectrum, i find Dublin 4 guys in their 20s have not problem spending the cash. they dont know what poverty is and just assume it will always be there. wasnt there a notorious story about a college trip with posh kids from dublin a few years ago. there was a competition to see who could waste the most amount of money. one guy bought 50 jaegermisters in a bar and flushed them down a toilet. one guy bought a brand new iphone top of the range and threw if off a mountain.

[Deleted User] · 28-05-2021 10:07am

2lazytogetup wrote: »

unfortunately i suffer from this meanness. i wouldnt feel the most secure in my job. And reckon it could all go belly up. and ive been in the situation going to tesco with less than 2euros to get food for 5 days. i ended up buying packets of 22cent digestive biscuits.............

I'd not read this thread and shoehorn yourself into being mean if you are just trying to provide a safety net for yourself.

Unless you are dodging refuse collection bills by using on street facilities, taking tea bags and toilet roll from the office etc etc etc

Nothing wrong with saving much of your disposable income once you've the essentials covered.

[Deleted User] · 28-05-2021 10:46am

pgj2015 wrote: »

I know of a couple, married now. both as mean as each other. They are so mean if one of them went up to the bar, they wouldn't buy the other one a drink.

Then you have couples where one is dirt mean but the other is really generous.

were you with your tight ex for long? as soon as I would see meanness in a partner, I would be gone.

I'm the opposite. Was in an Aldi, shopping with my partner for maybe the first time, when I reached for the coffee. "Better get the good stuff", I groaned to myself, when she stopped me and said "Get this one -- a euro cheaper!" At that moment, I knew she was 'the one'. I nearly proposed in an Aldi!

JustAThought · 28-05-2021 3:42pm

A Lamb Named Miltiades! wrote: »

I'm the opposite. Was in an Aldi, shopping with my partner for maybe the first time, when I reached for the coffee. "Better get the good stuff", I groaned to myself, when she stopped me and said "Get this one -- a euro cheaper!" At that moment, I knew she was 'the one'. I nearly proposed in an Aldi!

They’d have given you free nappies or discount coffee for life! You’d have been up there with Megan Markle and poor prince poverty Harry!!

pgj2015 · 28-05-2021 7:29pm

2lazytogetup wrote: »

unfortunately i suffer from this meanness. i wouldnt feel the most secure in my job. And reckon it could all go belly up. and ive been in the situation going to tesco with less than 2euros to get food for 5 days. i ended up buying packets of 22cent digestive biscuits

ive also noticed this meanness in people from cavan and meath where guys in their 30s are in plush office jobs. i think they are from poor farming backgrounds and know they know what poorness is.

On the otherside of the spectrum, i find Dublin 4 guys in their 20s have not problem spending the cash. they dont know what poverty is and just assume it will always be there. wasnt there a notorious story about a college trip with posh kids from dublin a few years ago. there was a competition to see who could waste the most amount of money. one guy bought 50 jaegermisters in a bar and flushed them down a toilet. one guy bought a brand new iphone top of the range and threw if off a mountain.

In a way there is something I really like about that. A kind of fcuk you to money. Its only paper when you think about it, or digits on a computer screen. Its not as important as a lot of people think it is.

Did you really have no money when you went to the shop with less than 2 euro? could you have bought yourself proper food to do you for the week?

pgj2015 · 28-05-2021 7:34pm

A Lamb Named Miltiades! wrote: »

I'm the opposite. Was in an Aldi, shopping with my partner for maybe the first time, when I reached for the coffee. "Better get the good stuff", I groaned to myself, when she stopped me and said "Get this one -- a euro cheaper!" At that moment, I knew she was 'the one'. I nearly proposed in an Aldi!

If there was a jar of coffee for 3 euro that tasted just ok and a jar of coffee for 4 euro which tasted really nice. which one would you go for?

[Deleted User] · 28-05-2021 9:16pm

pgj2015 wrote: »

If there was a jar of coffee for 3 euro that tasted just ok and a jar of coffee for 4 euro which tasted really nice. which one would you go for?

Any coffee that comes in a jar is a waste anyway, so I'd go for beans. But would I spend an extra euro for a mildly superior product? Rarely. We probably buy 2 bags of coffee a week, that's 100 euro difference. What do you think I am, Rockefeller?

pgj2015 · 28-05-2021 9:18pm

A Lamb Named Miltiades! wrote: »

Any coffee that comes in a jar is a waste anyway, so I'd go for beans. But would I spend an extra euro for a mildly superior product? Rarely. We probably buy 2 bags of coffee a week, that's 100 euro difference. What do you think I am, Rockefeller?

if you could only but coffee in jars. 3 euro is meh and 4 euro is really nice. which one?

[Deleted User] · 28-05-2021 10:06pm

pgj2015 wrote: »

In a way there is something I really like about that. A kind of fcuk you to money. Its only paper when you think about it, or digits on a computer screen. Its not as important as a lot of people think it is.

Did you really have no money when you went to the shop with less than 2 euro? could you have bought yourself proper food to do you for the week?

Well not really in this case, Just off to the bank of dad for more presumably.

pgj2015 · 28-05-2021 10:31pm

Augeo wrote: »

Well not really in this case, Just off to the bank of dad for more presumably.

Still its better than the usual stealing drinks in bars and clubs some students like to do.

tdf7187 · 28-05-2021 10:32pm

Tightwads are usually the way they are because of growing up in a financially challenged household.

They are still incredibly annoying, mind.

Some of them extend into fraud and corruption, a notorious example being George Redmond the former Dublin City Council senior manager who used to bring packed lunches into his many tribunal and court appearances in spite of having a gilt edge pension and easily in a position to afford going for a pub lunch.

Strumms · 28-05-2021 10:56pm

JustAThought wrote: »

Out of interest did you or anyone else ever say anything to him? Extremely frustrating.

I had a go at someone once in work who was so self entitled with resources that it was absolutely shocking. They never spoke to me again socially which didn’t bother me but they stopped. I think I used the phrase selfish and self entitled in my rant. Same person rarely ever did a tap of work - social calls from morning to night - can’t understand how they were entertained. They had a night job in ‘events’ - lots of freebies there that they were never finished talking about. They lost that too because of an issue around pilfered tickets. Some people are brought up wrong.
(This was a mid 20’s ‘professional’ in the early 2000’s ) Shocking carry on really.

Yes, I did, , in a half joking way “ jaysus Colm, good man, if the party is at yours I hope you don’t expect me to bring the whiskey for that lot...and others mentioned it too but he used to just say .. ‘ look there is loads to go around the fridge is full, which it was but with his pilfering the stock would last 4/5 days as opposed for the week, so you were thirsty on Thursday, you missed out...just annoying as he was a genuinely selfish guy in pretty much all facets of his behaviors...

I remember having a spare anti freeze one winter I threw in the work pool car, disappearing a week later it turned up on his back seat... paper for the photocopier going awol,,, and the aforementioned stationery , him again... “kids to draw on, there is plenty left”... tea, coffee awol too..

Can’t trust cûnts like that

[Deleted User] · 28-05-2021 10:58pm

pgj2015 wrote: »

if you could only but coffee in jars. 3 euro is meh and 4 euro is really nice. which one?

Then kilo for kilo, the cheaper one I suppose. In fairness I haven't seriously thought about it as much as these posts would suggest, but yeah; if the benefit is marginal, go cheaper. Meh is fine.

pgj2015 · 28-05-2021 11:12pm

A Lamb Named Miltiades! wrote: »

Then kilo for kilo, the cheaper one I suppose. In fairness I haven't seriously thought about it as much as these posts would suggest, but yeah; if the benefit is marginal, go cheaper. Meh is fine.

The benefit is enjoying a nicer cup of coffee for 1 euro extra. life it too short to settle for plain coffee for the sake of 1 euro.

Montage of Feck · 28-05-2021 11:14pm

I fear I may be a mean bastard as I drive a car that's more than ten years old

Ish66 · 29-05-2021 12:20am

Trying to save a euro on a weeks worth of nicer coffee is an illness. Ok, Saving a euro on 1 coffee, maybe, But a jar ? Time to see the man in the White coat and a notebook beckons.....:eek:

niallers1 · 30-05-2021 8:06pm

Montage of Feck wrote: »

I fear I may be a mean bastard as I drive a car that's more than ten years old

I see your 10 and raise you 3. Runs perfectly, Hoping to keep it until until it gives up.
Buying a new car is for crazy people :eek: ( bought 2 cars new in my life, Up there with some of the worst financial decisions I ever made)

2lazytogetup · 30-05-2021 10:44pm

pgj2015 wrote: »

In a way there is something I really like about that. A kind of fcuk you to money. Its only paper when you think about it, or digits on a computer screen. Its not as important as a lot of people think it is.

Did you really have no money when you went to the shop with less than 2 euro? could you have bought yourself proper food to do you for the week?

no, this was a new level of arrogance. millions around the world with very little. and these dublin college students were taking the pi55.

those times of little money are long gone. my background is from a family that never used a foodbank or a soupkitchen. so when id grown up i didnt know how to get money to feed myself.

pgj2015 · 30-05-2021 11:53pm

2lazytogetup wrote: »

no, this was a new level of arrogance. millions around the world with very little. and these dublin college students were taking the pi55.

those times of little money are long gone. my background is from a family that never used a foodbank or a soupkitchen. so when id grown up i didnt know how to get money to feed myself.

I would have donated money to charity if I was part of the group. Still its their money to do what they like with in fairness.

The DayDream · 31-05-2021 1:54am

pgj2015 wrote: »

I would have donated money to charity if I was part of the group. Still its their money to do what they like with in fairness.

But that isn't wasting it because it would be used for something. The point was to piss it away completely in a horrible way.

I notice a lot of the tightwads in this thread are the same ones who are always giving out about the ones on the dole lol guess that's to be expected. They think it's their money being wasted.

Viscount Aggro · 31-05-2021 10:10am

A mate of mine has not worked since 2005. He spends more in a week than I do.

He suffers from ergophobia.

Its easy to spend freely when money is given to you. With a concience I couldnt take money from another man without working for it.

Sardonicat · 31-05-2021 10:21am

What's ergophobia?

JimmyVik · 31-05-2021 10:22am

Im just off a conference call.
One of the lads going on about coffee shops fully opening up.
Now I hate coffee. Dont care what type or quality it is it all tastes horrible to me.

He says to me "Are you still drinking tea and too tight to buy a decent coffee."

Tallaght_Sale · 31-05-2021 10:30am

It did used to annoy me when we had a really nice coffee machine in the canteen served by a barista. Very nice all the trimmings, and was heavily heavily subsidised (around 50c)..........and people would still insist on going to starbucks and pay around 6-7 euro or whatever it cost. Felt a lot of peer pressure for something so useless. I mean can we just go get a pint instead or something?

[Deleted User] · 31-05-2021 11:24am

Sardonicat wrote: »

What's ergophobia?

Ergophobia is a specific phobia. It is characterized by an irrational and excessive fear of work. People with ergophobia experience high levels of anxiety when they have to go to work. Their fear is such that they have to leave early. In severe cases, it prevents them from going to their workplace at all.

Taken from google...

[Deleted User] · 31-05-2021 11:26am

If the miser doesn’t spend it somebody else will.. eventually.

Claw Hammer · 31-05-2021 12:37pm

It is cheaper and more economical to be mean.

JimmyVik · 31-05-2021 12:42pm

InitialG wrote: »

Ergophobia is a specific phobia. It is characterized by an irrational and excessive fear of work. People with ergophobia experience high levels of anxiety when they have to go to work. Their fear is such that they have to leave early. In severe cases, it prevents them from going to their workplace at all.

Taken from google...

I think I have it. Is there a vaccine?

Sardonicat · 31-05-2021 1:10pm

Claw Hammer wrote: »

It is cheaper and more economical to be mean.

It's also lonlier. But I think some people would rather be tight than have friends they may occasionally need to dip their hands in their pockets for.

[Deleted User] · 31-05-2021 9:26pm

pgj2015 wrote: »

The benefit is enjoying a nicer cup of coffee for 1 euro extra. life it too short to settle for plain coffee for the sake of 1 euro.

1 euro extra per bag; that's 2 euro extra per week. That's just over 100 euro per year.

If your boss came to you in December and said "pgj2015, we are going to dock 100 euro from your wages and give you these gift tokens instead -- with these tokens, you can buy 20% better coffee...", what would you say?

I'd say "No Thanks, give me my salary instead". People waste money on this impulse BS.

Again, I don't feel particularly strong about this and I also do plenty of impulse purchases myself, but I do not subscribe to this 'it's just a couple of euro' mindset -- not if you're doing it every week, it isn't. It adds up, is all I'm saying.

It's not a bad thing to respect the value of 100 euro. It's your 100 euro, that you earned.

Do Mean people ever actually spend it ? ?

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