As a guest, what's the stingiest thing you've ever experienced?

[Marssuri]

Just that!
I'll start

I invited friends for dinner at mine. I made traditional dishes from where I'm from, sausage rougail, chicken cari and dessert.

A few days later they text me telling me to come to theirs for some food at dinner time.

I show up and bring a small jar of chilli peppers. One of the people who invited me goes "is that all you're going to eat?". I was confused and asked what they meant. They replied "It's everyone brings their own food."
I told them I thought they had invited me for dinner and they go "yes, we invited you to come to the house for dinner!".
They saw my face and said "don't worry, we can share some food with you!" before cutting a couple of raw carrots, aubergines, cherry tomatoes with some white sauce and putting them in the middle of the table.
They then served each other the meal they had made for themselves and digged in.

Note from MNHQ - we've had lots of nominations for this thread to be moved over to Mumsnet Classics and, as we're very generous hosts, we've done exactly this.

Be me, breastfeeding a month old baby, have ILs for two weeks.
Send them to shop with DHs credit card (they aren't feom UK and claim to be afraid of frauds so don't use theirs). They bough three fishes and proceeded to convince me I as a woman don't need a whole fish.
I am tall, slim (so obviously don't ned to watch food intake), brestfeeding and it was my money they used to buy damn fish.
Anyway, sleepdepraved I got mad and after that event I was always served whole fish/steak whatever.
Just give me normal portion ffs.
But yeah, people can be stingy with money that isn't even their lol

There can't be two of them??! I went on one date with a guy like this at uni. Spotted him noting down the price of each drink in his notebook, legged it out of there!

My Scandinavian friend came to stay for nearly 2 weeks when I was 16. My mam gave me money to pay for all his food for days out/ train tickets, even flights to Ireland to visit the rest of my family.

I went over the following year. He took me to their family cabin in the woods - miles from anywhere - we stopped at an offie before going and got drink. He didn't bring any food for me (or tell me to buy some) and grudgingly shared about 2 hotdogs with me over the 2 day trip. His mam fed me though when we spent the rest of the trip at his house.

Not sure if its stinger or they were CF. Invited some friends to stay in a holiday home we rented for a few months. Ferried them to & from the airport (hour drive each way) made them breakfast & dinner every night, took them on day trips.....they didn't even bring a gift. No offer of paying petrol money. They made sure they split every meal or drink out 50/50. On the last day they'd been shopping and bought their son a small toy car as a gift but didnt even get a small gift for our son. Zo rude. To make it worse I got up in the morning, and friends wife was having a lie in until 10.30. Meanwhile I made her son breakfast, he was crying for his mum, she was ignoring him. Her DH was working on his laptop. Never again

A hugely generous friend hosted a birthday party for her partner. She'd ordered in some trays of sandwiches/wraps as nibbles with crisps etc but it was just that, a nibble. The usual loads of all types of premium alcohol supplied and an amazing cake.

A known tight arse mutual friend texted ahead, she'd be a bit late so could host plate up 2 lots of sandwiches for tight friend and her husband's dinner? Answer was no, it's just a nibble but there will be cake.

Tight arse arrives with 4 mini wine bottles. Drinks 1, then downs a load of hosts decent wine. On leaving she took the remaining 3 mini bottles with her.

Absolute minge bag.

Went to visit my friend from university with my little brother. Lunchtime came as we stood parked outside her Surrey mansion, she suggested we took ourselves to the cafe round the corner and get lunch while she goes home and eat hers. We were in fits of giggles in the cafe. I was so embarrassed in front of my brother.

Also SIL is the tightest person I've ever met. I once left a tip at a restaurant we'd been too and as we were leaving, she took the tip money I'd left. It was bizarre.
She had a very small wedding with immediate family only, 8 of us went. All 4 of us girls were there with her getting ready, I took a nice bottle of champagne for us all to have while we got ready and she took it and I never sae it again.

Were his initials DP?! 😂

This is so reminiscent of my ex MIL.

We'd travel for 2 hours to see her, and on arrival she'd rush round getting ex hubby food and a cuppa and not once ask me... I was young and shy so used to go for hours with nothing to eat or drink.

Ex hubby was a useless feck and would tell me to 'help myself'
The thought of walking into someone else's kitchen and going through their cupboards is not something I would do.

Did I mention he's my 'ex!'

We had friends we took turns paying for dinner/lunch with. We took them somewhere really nice and quite expensive. In return they suggested we went to a pub in literally the middle of nowhere and impossible to find. Turns out it’s because it was dirt cheap and crap. We went to theirs for coffee afterwards. They asked if next time we were taking them to the nice place again. They have significantly more money than us. We didn’t go out again.

Got charged a fortune for Christmas dinner at relatives house and they served up a tiny meal. Turns out they were saving as much as possible to serve to others the next day, after we’d paid for it. These are people who are always accusing us of being ‘cheap’ but usually as we won’t pay for things for them.

Seriously? You think its ok to offer family one tiny mince pie each??
i offer more to my cleaner 🤦‍♀️

It’s ok, it’s a Mumsnet chicken.

Dats da fuckin dubs for ya

(joke joke for any Dubliners in the vicinity 😇)

And a massive salad... infact 2

😂

Good!! Cheeky bastards

It’s shameful in British culture aswell it’s just that some people have no shame 😂😂

Had some friends over after moving back to my home town. I hadn’t seen them for a few years so invited them all and their new (to me) partners. I’d moved a little way out from town and the first thing they said when they arrived was that they expected me to help pay for taxis (I laughed it off). Between the 6 of them they brought a four pack of beers. I fed them and they drank plenty, but not their beer, which became apparent because on leaving they asked me to get them for them to take home.

I have a family member that often contributes (after being explicitly —told— asked) a litre bottle of supermarket pop and single can of branded pop (from a multipack) labelled with their name.

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Forst if all OP... please invite me to dinner that meal sounds amazing

secondly how mean of them.. I hope you don't think this is standard British hospitality because its not. I had guests tonight and we had a 3 clirse meal woth enty if nice drinks. If i have more good food than my giests can eat I happy. they sound absolutely dreadful.. what a horrible way to treat you

That should have been 'a 3 course meal woth plenty of nice drinks '

Invited me over then ate in front of me without offering anything. I got a glass of water.

For an occasion, I took a group of 3 friends and their husbands out with myself and my partner and paid £500 for the bill, which included 3 courses, wine and cocktails.

The following month I met two of them for lunch at a cafe where we all had a coffee and a small bite to eat. I think the bill worked out about £20 in total. They both asked me for my share. I thought that was a bit mean.
neither of them were skint, quite the opposite in fact.

I suspect you had some nice wine there @listsandbudgets 🙌🏻🤣

I come from a culture where we argue as to who pays the bill in a restaurant , if we get visits we give them tea cake , a full meal dessert and a takeaway leftover 😂😂
I can’t even go empty handed to someone’s house even if just for a coffee without feeling guilty .