To repay him the £2.80 in pennies (the tightfisted fucknugget)

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I called to check he'd posted some of dds clothes I ebayd on the way to work yesterday, which he did and he texted 'the postage is £2.85'. I didn't reply but when he's left the post office recipt carefully placed on my bedside table before he went to work! It's not as if I'm spending the sale on myself. It'll go on more clothes for dd.

Would I be unreasonable to find the grubby old tin full of pennies we take on holiday for the arcade games and leave £2.85 exactly in pennies on his bedside table?

Yes petty and yes lighthearted but it's fucked me off!

I almost never deal in cash, as it makes it difficult to track expenditure. Normally my cash spending is categorised as personal expenditure. If I were to write off £2.85 sent to the child budget, instead of recording it as such in the accounts, it would mean the accounts I've lovingly maintained for over 20 years would be wrong. Which would bother me.

So I'd think it very petty of OP to cause me all this stress for the sake of £2.85.

Please give him it in grubby pennies OP

Pay him in pennies, but spell out the word 'tight bastard' on the floor with them.
Insulting AND he has to pick them all up.

Win win.

You are going to use the cash made for dd's clothes?

Make sure you invoice him for 50% of the new clothes, including postage.

I would take the pennies and not pile them up but lay them out all over the beside table

Ooh, I like that boobs

Are you sure he didn't just give you the receipt to save until the buyer has safely received the parcel, as it would be needed if it got lost and you had to claim off the Post Office?

No give him a bill after his dinner tonight .

Ha theoretician , are u my husband! He also has accounts like that. He would prob also ask for the £2.88 as well, and I would pay him back because I know it would bug him. He is not tight it's just how we do things. He wouldn't come after me if I didn't pay it tho.
But in this instance yes it should prob come out of eBay money.

No, I checked. He wants the money

Have you got any Euro or other foreign currency? I'd work out the exchange rate and give him the appropriate value. That way he is paid but can't really benefit from it! Tight bugger.

Course he wants the money. He has a serious alcohol and weed habit to feed.

Wow. MrZippy occasionally has to post a parcel for me when I can't be bothered to put it through my Royal Mail account, but he only ever tells me how much it is to make sure he used the right service.

If this is the only thing he is petty about, then I'd just give him the money. But the next time he wanted me to do anything for him, he might find out that time is money.

Tell him to piss of, OP. As light hearted as you intended this to be, why would you tolerate a situation where your husband thinks expenses relating to your children have to be reimbursed by you to him?

*off

Set up a direct debit of 1p per week for 5 years or so, tell him you've set up a payment plan!

Oh it's you.

This isn't funny really. You are paying out for your daughter, he has other priorities

He is beyond ridiculous.

2s and 1s are required here maybe throw a 5p into it for him tight git

No I can't add 5ps. He likes those enough to pick them up in the street

Sorry op I've seen your other threads. £2.80 is a couple of cans or a spliff, of course he wants it back. Other posters aren't married to men who spend all the family's disposable income on alcohol and drugs so how they respond will be completely different. I hope you can get the help you need and I wish you the best of luck.

Pay him in pennies, but spell out the word 'tight bastard' on the floor with them. Insulting AND he has to pick them all up

This ^ all day long.

Can you pay it in pennies and accidentally pay 2p too much and then ask him to reimburse you? Like the idea of putting them all over the floor so he has to pick them up!!

If you do that he might leave posting it altogether so you may be cutting your nose off to spite your face. Even though he is the one who is being unreasonable and petty.

cozy he already posted it.