Stingiest things thread(op for R&R access)

snoopy84 · 12-01-2021 12:44am

galway_lad wrote:

I think it's easy to get mixed up with nationalities and stereotypes and limited exposure. Last Feb was out for a working lunch/pint-session with some Dutch visitors. Round one in, fine. I went up for the next. Since it was expensed and all that, and I was going to the jacks I didn't even blink to ask if people wanted another. Of course they did. I land back with the drinks, one of the Dutch lads says he's ok (with the little bit he had left) so quickly grabs the glass brings it to the bar and looks for a refund! There was a bit of agro and they fobbed him off with a couple of quid, which he then pocketed!

Oh dear God! The poor bar staff. How do you deal with a request like that?

snoopy84 · 12-01-2021 12:58am

Quazzie wrote:

That's because funerals in the UK can be up to 2 months after the death. most people are well into their grieving period at this stage, and the funeral itself can almost be a nuisance. The Irish dead and buried in 3 days normality is actually great for the grieving process as it forces people to confront it straight on, and often serves as a vital distraction for the people closest to the deceased.

I have to disagree here while I do think the wait time to bury/cremate in the uk is painfully long, I think we bury far to quick. I think we have our dead buried before we even realize what's happened, then as we're coming to terms with it everyone has gone, stopped visiting and sympathising and your all alone. We barely give people time to come home, and the people who do make it did so at huge last minute expenses. When my uncle died in the uk we were able to book a week off work and not pay stupid last minute prices for the flights.

simongurnick · 12-01-2021 1:02am

Wife's granny uses tea bags twice.

Dan Jaman · 12-01-2021 3:02am

simongurnick wrote: »

Wife's granny uses tea bags twice.

If she likes weak tea, then fair enough.
I've noticed the more country you get, away from the traditional port cities, the more weak the tea is.
Probably dates back to when tea was relatively expensive and people were poorer.

chewed · 12-01-2021 9:43am

simongurnick wrote: »

Wife's granny uses tea bags twice.

I sometimes use the same tea bag for 2 separate cups of tea. Is that stingy?

The_Conductor · 12-01-2021 9:50am

chewed wrote: »

I sometimes use the same tea bag for 2 separate cups of tea. Is that stingy?

Depends- how do you like your tea? I use two teabags to make a mug of tea- I like nice strong tea, I wouldn't dream of reusing teabags, but more so because I like my tea very strong, than as a money saving measure.

Think this one comes under different strokes for different folks heading.........

KevRossi · 12-01-2021 11:20am

I still use tea leaves. But when I was a child there was an old man living down the road from us, he used to take the used tea leaves, spread them out on a metal tray and put them in the bottom of the range to dry out and reuse. Not out of stinge, he was a poor farmer who lived off the pension and selling a couple of bullocks each year. I got thinking about him a while ago, and we decided to try this a few weeks ago.

Results:

First cup: as per normal, then dry them out
Second Cup: fine, if you put about 20% more leaves in it's the same
Third Cup: If you near double the leaves then it's genuinely indistinguishable from the first cup.

You can certainly do the same with coffee grinds, works even better. I knew a couple of elderly people in Germany in the 90's who used to do it. The habit came from rationing during and after the war.

Blitzkrieger · 12-01-2021 12:14pm

simongurnick wrote: »

Wife's granny uses tea bags twice.

Every time I see this I wonder are they talking about 1 cup or 2 cup tea bags....

simongurnick · 12-01-2021 6:42pm

Blitzkrieger wrote: »

Every time I see this I wonder are they talking about 1 cup or 2 cup tea bags....

Didn't know they had that.
This is one of many things though. Wouldn't call her stingy though, more frugal. Didn't grow up with a lot so has to make a few quid go a little further.
Such as buying christmas deccies in january when the price is slashed or halloween stuff on Nov 1st.

Overheal · 14-01-2021 7:06pm

This family is pretty stingy but holy ****. These people are here to protect you.

https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1349766994560630784?s=20

Mad_maxx · 14-01-2021 7:22pm

ive an uncle in Canada who is quite successful as hes had his own construction company since the seventies , i remember around twenty years ago him and his wife and two of his kids spent twelve weeks in ireland , both of them got jobs for about eight weeks of the holiday , he worked with his nephew who is a builder and she worked in a hospital as she was a registered nurse prior to moving to Canada with him circa 1974

both would hang tea bags on a clothes line despite having a NET worth well in excess of two million

they absolutely would crawl over broken glass for an extra tenner , they are perfectly matched and get on famously , both are insufferable even without the meanness

BaZmO* · 14-04-2021 2:50pm

Like a lot of people, I've been working from home for the last year. I have a desk set up in one of the bedrooms at the front of the house. As a result, I've gone a little bit Cary Grant (Rear Window) looking out at the neighbours.

One thing that I've noticed over the last few weeks is that one of the neighbours, on green bin day, has been taking his next door neighbour's green bin and filling it with his own stuff. He has a different service provider so his bin is collected a couple of days later.

He brings the neighbours bin into his own garden and piece by piece he transfers his rubbish into his neighbour's bin. Bizarre stuff.

Sunny Disposition · 14-04-2021 2:53pm

BaZmO* wrote: »

Like a lot of people, I've been working from home for the last year. I have a desk set up in one of the bedrooms at the front of the house. As a result, I've gone a little bit Cary Grant (Rear Window) looking out at the neighbours.

One thing that I've noticed over the last few weeks is that one of the neighbours, on green bin day, has been taking his next door neighbour's green bin and filling it with his own stuff. He has a different service provider so his bin is collected a couple of days later.

He brings the neighbours bin into his own garden and piece by piece he transfers his rubbish into his neighbour's bin. Bizarre stuff.

Darren in Love/Hate kicked the **** out of someone for doing that. It'd be deserved, what a scab.

sullivlo · 14-04-2021 3:41pm

BaZmO* wrote: »

Like a lot of people, I've been working from home for the last year. I have a desk set up in one of the bedrooms at the front of the house. As a result, I've gone a little bit Cary Grant (Rear Window) looking out at the neighbours.

One thing that I've noticed over the last few weeks is that one of the neighbours, on green bin day, has been taking his next door neighbour's green bin and filling it with his own stuff. He has a different service provider so his bin is collected a couple of days later.

He brings the neighbours bin into his own garden and piece by piece he transfers his rubbish into his neighbour's bin. Bizarre stuff.

Maybe he has an agreement with the neighbours? There is no charge for green waste collection (IIRC) but some families generate more green waste than others. We are a household with 5 adults. We generate a lot more green waste (empty cans, cardboard boxes etc) than our neighbour who lives alone. She is on a different schedule to us (different company) so she says that if our green bin is full to just use hers. It's not us being stingey, it's just saving a trip to the recycle centre on the weekend.

Stingey would be putting his black waste into the neighbours bin, which is charged by weight.

My contribution:
I was walking the dog the other day and a man opened his backpack and emptied his household waste in to the park bin.

Sunrise_Sunset · 14-04-2021 3:56pm

There is a charge for our green bin. 1.20 or 1.50 per lift I think.

A couple of our neighbours have an agreement on bins too. 2 ladies living by themselves who don't have a lot of waste, and so they shares bins.

I've also seen people in my estate using the public bins for household waste. One day I was walking past and saw a woman leave her house and walk over to the public bin with one small wrapper, then walk back into her house!

BaZmO* · 14-04-2021 4:32pm

sullivlo wrote: »

Maybe he has an agreement with the neighbours? There is no charge for green waste collection (IIRC) but some families generate more green waste than others. We are a household with 5 adults. We generate a lot more green waste (empty cans, cardboard boxes etc) than our neighbour who lives alone. She is on a different schedule to us (different company) so she says that if our green bin is full to just use hers. It's not us being stingey, it's just saving a trip to the recycle centre on the weekend.

Stingey would be putting his black waste into the neighbours bin, which is charged by weight.

My contribution:
I was walking the dog the other day and a man opened his backpack and emptied his household waste in to the park bin.

That would be the logical thing alright that they have an agreement but I don't think they're on good terms due to parking issues, among other things. Plus, he always waits until the neighbour and his wife are at work before he does it. His wife came out with a big bag of recyclables as he was doing it, so it made me think that he's storing the stuff until bin day.

I'd have no problem with neighbours using my bins like this if there was space. Although my green bin is always full on collection day.

The thing that really shocked me when he was rummaging through his own bin was the amount of items that weren't recyclable. He even picked out a used blue surgical mask!!! :eek::eek:

Re your story about the park bins. The council have removed public bins from around the area because people were putting household rubbish into them. At first they narrowed the opening openings so people couldn't put bags into it. Then people just left the bags beside the bins. :mad:

Foweva Awone · 14-04-2021 5:09pm

Our neighbours do that with our bins. They mind a load of kids there and a couple of times a day, come over to ours to dump all their nappies. Even worse, they put the manky nappies in our green recycling bins.

I've never bothered to say anything coz our bins are included in the rent. Probably should. Meh.

The_Conductor · 14-04-2021 5:30pm

Its free lifts for green bins where we are- and some people put a lot of effort into recycling, while some others don't. I don't understand why its considered stingy/not stingy- its just economical- recycle where possible- and if necessary- use a different bin. Whats the issue?

odyssey06 · 14-04-2021 6:49pm

The_Conductor wrote: »

Its free lifts for green bins where we are- and some people put a lot of effort into recycling, while some others don't. I don't understand why its considered stingy/not stingy- its just economical- recycle where possible- and if necessary- use a different bin. Whats the issue?

The issue is using someone elses green bin when they don't know about it or what you are putting in... or what their payment plan \ weight limit is.

punisher5112 · 14-04-2021 6:54pm

Foweva Awone wrote: »

Our neighbours do that with our bins. They mind a load of kids there and a couple of times a day, come over to ours to dump all their nappies. Even worse, they put the manky nappies in our green recycling bins.

I've never bothered to say anything coz our bins are included in the rent. Probably should. Meh.

You will end up getting the fine or company may even stop collection....

That's crazy carry on especially putting in with recycling, some poor poor soul has to sort through that paid feck all too.....

Definitely be putting a stop to that.

BaZmO* · 14-04-2021 7:52pm

punisher5112 wrote: »

You will end up getting the fine or company may even stop collection....

That's crazy carry on especially putting in with recycling, some poor poor soul has to sort through that paid feck all too.....

Definitely be putting a stop to that.

At the very least I’d put a lock on the bin. Disgusting behaviour putting nappies into a green bin. It contaminates a truck.

Capt'n Midnight · 14-04-2021 8:58pm

The Swiss have just made the worlds smallest coin. It's nearly 3mm in diameter.

The miniature coin, with a face value of a quarter of a Swiss franc (27 US cents, 23 euro cents), measures just 2.96 millimetres (0.1 inches) in diameter and weighs only 0.063 grammes (0.002 ounces).

FanadMan · 14-04-2021 10:05pm

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

The Swiss have just made the worlds smallest coin. It's nearly 3mm in diameter.

That's not stingy - it's a commemorative coin. And it's pure gold.

StevenToast · 14-04-2021 10:11pm

BaZmO* wrote: »

Like a lot of people, I've been working from home for the last year. I have a desk set up in one of the bedrooms at the front of the house. As a result, I've gone a little bit Cary Grant (Rear Window) looking out at the neighbours.

One thing that I've noticed over the last few weeks is that one of the neighbours, on green bin day, has been taking his next door neighbour's green bin and filling it with his own stuff. He has a different service provider so his bin is collected a couple of days later.

He brings the neighbours bin into his own garden and piece by piece he transfers his rubbish into his neighbour's bin. Bizarre stuff.

Its Jimmy Stewart....not Cary Grant....

Very disappointed that no one has pulled you up on that sooner...

The people of boards are slipping

BaZmO* · 14-04-2021 10:51pm

StevenToast wrote: »

Its Jimmy Stewart....not Cary Grant....

Very disappointed that no one has pulled you up on that sooner...

The people of boards are slipping

You are right.

Don’t know how I got that wrong as I’ve seen it so many times.

Degag · 14-04-2021 11:02pm

Friend of mine is quite well off. Probably doesn't need to work again if he didn't want to.

He scabs Netflix off his brother-in-law who is a student. And is kinda proud of it.

Yyhhuuu · 15-04-2021 2:58am

sullivlo wrote: »

Maybe he has an agreement with the neighbours? There is no charge for green waste collection (IIRC) but some families generate more green waste than others. We are a household with 5 adults. We generate a lot more green waste (empty cans, cardboard boxes etc) than our neighbour who lives alone. She is on a different schedule to us (different company) so she says that if our green bin is full to just use hers. It's not us being stingey, it's just saving a trip to the recycle centre on the weekend.

Stingey would be putting his black waste into the neighbours bin, which is charged by weight.

My contribution:
I was walking the dog the other day and a man opened his backpack and emptied his household waste in to the park bin.

I know of a multi-millionaire who puts his refuse in to the street bins. I just don't understand why somebody with his wealth,which is old money, does that. He is quite a nice gentleman to speak to and dresses well and keeps himself well and is not very old but has the name of being extremely frugal with money.

Dr. Kenneth Noisewater · 15-04-2021 5:10am

This doesn't qualify as particularly cheap, just a bit sh*tty.

Moved to Galway in my early 20s and didn't know many people down there, apart from a guy I would have been good mates with in college in Athlone. Anywho, I remember chatting to him one Saturday afternoon to see if he was interested in a night out in town and he said "sound, call up to the house and we'll have a few cans here first". When I got there, he was sitting on the couch in a pair of trackies and a United shirt, looking like he had no intentions of leaving the house.

After a while, it was hitting towards 9.30pm and I was getting itchy feet, so I asked him if he was going to get ready, to which he replied he had no money for going out. Mad for town, I offered him a loan of €50 that he could give me back after a few weeks, no biggie (I know, my own fault, he knew what he was at). I asked him for it back 3 or 4 times over the next couple of months, before giving up the ghost. That was in 2007. About a year later, one week I was particularly skint and decided to ask for it back again, but he just sort of laughed at me. I think he felt like he had sort of gotten one over on me. He would take satisfaction in that sort of thing. I gave up after that and stopped bothering to keep contact with him.

TL;DR: loaned one of the lads fifty quid to come on the piss 14 years ago, he never paid it back and probably thinks he's a great lad because of it. It was a sh*te night too.

SVI40 · 15-04-2021 7:14am

Foweva Awone wrote: »

They mind a load of kids there and a couple of times a day, come over to ours to dump all their nappies. Even worse, they put the manky nappies in our green recycling bins.

Doing this contaminates not just the bin, but the whole recycling truck, and that load get dumped into landfill. Defeats the whole purpose of recycling

California Dreamer · 15-04-2021 8:33am

FFS Less bins, more stinge!!!!!

the purple tin · 15-04-2021 8:34am

SVI40 wrote: »

Doing this contaminates not just the bin, but the whole recycling truck, and that load get dumped into landfill. Defeats the whole purpose of recycling

Scummy behaviour. All the effort that the people in the OPs area are putting into recycling is being wiped out by one thoughtless twerp :mad:

KevRossi · 15-04-2021 10:50am

SVI40 wrote: »

Doing this contaminates not just the bin, but the whole recycling truck, and that load get dumped into landfill. Defeats the whole purpose of recycling

It doesn't contaminate the whole truck. A portion of it is dumped, but by no means all of it or anywhere near all of it.

Antares35 · 15-04-2021 11:50am

Foweva Awone wrote: »

Our neighbours do that with our bins. They mind a load of kids there and a couple of times a day, come over to ours to dump all their nappies. Even worse, they put the manky nappies in our green recycling bins.

I've never bothered to say anything coz our bins are included in the rent. Probably should. Meh.

That's disgusting. There are people who have to sift through all that on a conveyor belt to sort out non recyclables from recyclables.

AlphabetCards · 15-04-2021 11:54am

Dr. Kenneth Noisewater wrote: »

TL;DR: loaned one of the lads fifty quid to come on the piss 14 years ago, he never paid it back and probably thinks he's a great lad because of it. It was a sh*te night too.

I'd consider that a cheap lesson tbh.

Mimon · 15-04-2021 11:56am

Have a very wealthy uncle, definitely has assets worth 10 million plus. At weddings I've seen him with a naggin of whiskey under the table topping up his drink. Would kill him to drink all night at pub prices

Mimon · 15-04-2021 11:58am

Antares35 wrote: »

That's disgusting. There are people who have to sift through all that on a conveyor belt to sort out non recyclables from recyclables.

Yeh, I'd be concerned that the collection company would blacklist for that.

Dr Turk Turkelton · 15-04-2021 12:06pm

Dr. Kenneth Noisewater wrote: »

This doesn't qualify as particularly cheap, just a bit sh*tty.

Moved to Galway in my early 20s and didn't know many people down there, apart from a guy I would have been good mates with in college in Athlone. Anywho, I remember chatting to him one Saturday afternoon to see if he was interested in a night out in town and he said "sound, call up to the house and we'll have a few cans here first". When I got there, he was sitting on the couch in a pair of trackies and a United shirt, looking like he had no intentions of leaving the house.

After a while, it was hitting towards 9.30pm and I was getting itchy feet, so I asked him if he was going to get ready, to which he replied he had no money for going out. Mad for town, I offered him a loan of €50 that he could give me back after a few weeks, no biggie (I know, my own fault, he knew what he was at). I asked him for it back 3 or 4 times over the next couple of months, before giving up the ghost. That was in 2007. About a year later, one week I was particularly skint and decided to ask for it back again, but he just sort of laughed at me. I think he felt like he had sort of gotten one over on me. He would take satisfaction in that sort of thing. I gave up after that and stopped bothering to keep contact with him.

TL;DR: loaned one of the lads fifty quid to come on the piss 14 years ago, he never paid it back and probably thinks he's a great lad because of it. It was a sh*te night too.

Tbh I don't really see the stinge here. Chap had no money and wasn't really pushed on going out but you wanted to.
You should have offered him the 50 to get himself a few drinks rather than "loaning" it to him so you could have your night out.

eisenberg1 · 15-04-2021 1:22pm

^^^
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Bob Harris · 15-04-2021 1:27pm

eisenberg1 wrote: »

^^^
I think it’s gonna kick off down at the surgery��

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

Dr. Kenneth Noisewater · 16-04-2021 12:05am

Dr Turk Turkelton wrote: »

Tbh I don't really see the stinge here. Chap had no money and wasn't really pushed on going out but you wanted to.
You should have offered him the 50 to get himself a few drinks rather than "loaning" it to him so you could have your night out.

Well hello Gary, long time no chat

Yyhhuuu · 16-04-2021 2:15am

Mimon wrote: »

Have a very wealthy uncle, definitely has assets worth 10 million plus. At weddings I've seen him with a naggin of whiskey under the table topping up his drink. Would kill him to drink all night at pub prices

He's dead right.

pgj2015 · 16-04-2021 10:39am

Dr. Kenneth Noisewater wrote: »

This doesn't qualify as particularly cheap, just a bit sh*tty.

Moved to Galway in my early 20s and didn't know many people down there, apart from a guy I would have been good mates with in college in Athlone. Anywho, I remember chatting to him one Saturday afternoon to see if he was interested in a night out in town and he said "sound, call up to the house and we'll have a few cans here first". When I got there, he was sitting on the couch in a pair of trackies and a United shirt, looking like he had no intentions of leaving the house.

After a while, it was hitting towards 9.30pm and I was getting itchy feet, so I asked him if he was going to get ready, to which he replied he had no money for going out. Mad for town, I offered him a loan of €50 that he could give me back after a few weeks, no biggie (I know, my own fault, he knew what he was at). I asked him for it back 3 or 4 times over the next couple of months, before giving up the ghost. That was in 2007. About a year later, one week I was particularly skint and decided to ask for it back again, but he just sort of laughed at me. I think he felt like he had sort of gotten one over on me. He would take satisfaction in that sort of thing. I gave up after that and stopped bothering to keep contact with him.

TL;DR: loaned one of the lads fifty quid to come on the piss 14 years ago, he never paid it back and probably thinks he's a great lad because of it. It was a sh*te night too.

if it bothers you that much, you should wait until he is at the bar some night paying for drinks, grab a fifty note from his hand as he is paying and tell him its the 50 he owes you.

the purple tin · 16-04-2021 2:15pm

pgj2015 wrote: »

if it bothers you that much, you should wait until he is at the bar some night paying for drinks, grab a fifty note from his hand as he is paying and tell him its the 50 he owes you.

Or just avoid him. He is obviously an arsehole (man u fan) and now you never have to speak to him again and it only cost you 50 quid. Good value really.

Jeremy Sproket · 12-05-2021 9:51am

My dad owns a few houses and commercial properties on a main street somewhere (not saying where :P ).

A girl rents out one of his premises for a nail and beauty bar. During the lockdown when she couldn't open, my dad let her off with one or two months rent here and there instead of letting her go out of business completely because he always said he is a believer in enterprise and helping businesses, especially small family business. There was a food establishment that approached him about renting a place, he could have turfed her out for not paying rent and gotten someone else in but didn't.

When it opened again, my mam and I went in to get out nails and manicure done ..... and the greedy bitch charged us ! The girl who works there also owns it and she knows well who we are.

El_Duderino 09 · 12-05-2021 9:53am

Jeremy Sproket wrote: »

My dad owns a few houses and commercial properties on a main street somewhere (not saying where :P ).

A girl rents out one of his premises for a nail and beauty bar. During the lockdown when she couldn't open, my dad let her off with one or two months rent here and there instead of letting her go out of business completely because he always said he is a believer in enterprise and helping businesses, especially small family business. There was a food establishment that approached him about renting a place, he could have turfed her out for not paying rent and gotten someone else in but didn't.

When it opened again, my mam and I went in to get out nails and manicure done ..... and the greedy bitch charged us ! The girl who works there also owns it and she knows well who we are.

Lol.

And we're off...

Claw Hammer · 12-05-2021 10:27am

Jeremy Sproket wrote: »

When it opened again, my mam and I went in to get out nails and manicure done ..... and the greedy bitch charged us ! The girl who works there also owns it and she knows well who we are.

Business is business.

Lollipops23 · 12-05-2021 10:51am

Jeremy Sproket wrote: »

When it opened again, my mam and I went in to get out nails and manicure done ..... and the greedy bitch charged us ! The girl who works there also owns it and she knows well who we are.

Yes, and now she's able to pay rent for the premises! You and your ma are the stingy f**kers in this story.

pgj2015 · 12-05-2021 10:55am

Jeremy Sproket wrote: »

My dad owns a few houses and commercial properties on a main street somewhere (not saying where :P ).

A girl rents out one of his premises for a nail and beauty bar. During the lockdown when she couldn't open, my dad let her off with one or two months rent here and there instead of letting her go out of business completely because he always said he is a believer in enterprise and helping businesses, especially small family business. There was a food establishment that approached him about renting a place, he could have turfed her out for not paying rent and gotten someone else in but didn't.

When it opened again, my mam and I went in to get out nails and manicure done ..... and the greedy bitch charged us ! The girl who works there also owns it and she knows well who we are.

Obviously she charged you, she has been closed for months. And I don't think your dad could throw them out as he told them not to worry about the rent for a few months, he could hardly throw them out them just because he was approached by another business. pay your own way and don't expect things for free.
Also your dad dad owns the unit, not you.

Panic Stations · 12-05-2021 10:59am

Jeremy Sproket wrote: »

My dad owns a few houses and commercial properties on a main street somewhere (not saying where :P ).

A girl rents out one of his premises for a nail and beauty bar. During the lockdown when she couldn't open, my dad let her off with one or two months rent here and there instead of letting her go out of business completely because he always said he is a believer in enterprise and helping businesses, especially small family business. There was a food establishment that approached him about renting a place, he could have turfed her out for not paying rent and gotten someone else in but didn't.

When it opened again, my mam and I went in to get out nails and manicure done ..... and the greedy bitch charged us ! The girl who works there also owns it and she knows well who we are.

Did you walk in there expecting it to get it for free?

I'm sensing a little bit of entitlement here.

She's running a business. She probably thought you guys were going in there to help support her business.

Kat1170 · 12-05-2021 11:11am

Ohhhhhh, stories about Jeremy Sproket when he takes over the family empire are going to keep this thread going for years :rolleyes::D:D

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