To ask your stingiest stories?

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Tell me some of your stingy stories. The ones where you've had a friend out to dinner and they inspect the bill down to the last €0.20.... or the guy at the office who refuses to bring in the Friday biscuits but eats everyone else's!

I know a guy at my work who is a full time smoker but never has a box of cigarettes. Just asks someone different every time. He gets away with smoking ten a day, one off a different person every single day!

I asked him for one before after giving him my last few a couple of times and he said 'no, these need to last me 2 days' 😆

Apparently he didn't think ds 11 months would eat chocolate!!

Well I wouldn't buy a baby of 11 months a selection box either!

Fair enough - so what age-appropriate present did he buy for the baby instead? 11 months is plenty old enough to understand that your siblings have been given a present and you've been left out.

@likablum I agree about the crate of beer. Money may not come easily at his age. I would never have the heart to have taken his beers! I think it'a not him who is tight.....

Bravo to him, JustHere! Hurrah! Hope you all left rave reviews. I'd have stood up and clapped as they left. Cheeky cunts.

'It kind of weird and I’ve decided to not go again as it ruins the atmosphere.'

Yeah, after one time, it's best to just break off from such people. I've had that happen and just serve it right back to them. 'Hey, you're not going to share out what we've brought?' If they say no I have no problem getting up, taking my food back and leaving. Fuck 'em. People like that aren't worth knowing.

I’ve been watching Extreme Cheapskates on YouTube. The people on there are crazeeee 😂😂 There were a couple who share a 2 minute shower and he used the suds from her hair to wash his. They also share a toothbrush and dental floss. Another woman pees in a bottle so she has to flush less.

My dad had a friend whose family are multi millionaires but he was so mean, really tatty clothes when, etc he and wife went on a long haul holiday he sat in coach and paid for his unwell wife to sit in club, he could not bear to pay for both of them to go club.

@Mummylife2018 really?? Surely it is good manners to "bring a bottle" if your hosts have invited you to a meal?? It was New Year's Eve and my parents had gone to great expense to provide food and drinks for a large group. You don't then take what is left back? His age and finances are irrelevant, it was rude. He didn't even say thank you.

Years ago friends of my parents turned up at our house on a wim. The woman and my mum went shopping, bought some food and each bought a six pack of beer. My dad and the bloke drank one of the packs of beer during the evening, then the next day when they went to leave the woman said “well, we didn’t drink h’s beers so we’ll take those with us.” [hm].

On a funny side though, a relative went round to a friend’s house for dinner. The bloke served up a beef joint, gave everyone a slice, and then proceeded to talk about all the things he was going to do with the leftover meat which was still sitting on the serving dish in front of them all. He was going to enjoy it so much this week, in his sandwiches, in a curry, with salad and so on. Fine if he’d brought out plates of food but this joint was still sitting on the table and the inference was very clear. So relative and another friend with him exchanged a look, and proceeded to help themselves to seconds, and more until it was all gone. .

Me and DP do generally split the bill however recently we went out with friends the bloke of the couple is usually very generous and considerate so I was surprised when it transpired he and his dp had had wine before we got there, had Prosecco and then more wine during the meal plus drinks with coffee at the end of the meal. DP had a beer, and I am teetotal so had one orange juice and water, plus I only had a main whereas the rest had three courses plus coffee. Was a bit miffed that they then suggested splitting the bill as the drinks alone were about a 3rd of the cost.

I was accused of stinginess once. Poor minimum wage worker and just bought a house and I was invited out to a colleagues 21st birthday meal. About 20 people went. I ordered and paid for my drinks at the bar, had a small, reasonably priced starter and main and my total food bill came to about £10 max, probably well under. I was trying to live within my means.

A few of the people at the table ordered multiple double spirits and mixers to the table and went all out with expensive 3 courses. Of course, when the bill comes, the thirsty people with big appetites want to split it as it's only £30 each.

I refused. I didn't cause a scene but they were so angry with me. I still put in £15 which was more than enough and included a generous tip.

I was cornered at work by one of the cheeky fuckers in work the next week and told off for my stinginess and that I shouldn't go out as part of a group if I couldn't afford to split the bill.. I told him to get to fuck and asked why I should subsidise his £40+ meal and drinks? Funnily enough he didn't have an answer.

I am happy to split bills and pay more than my fair share but it is when people take the piss that I get the rage.

Late teens, a friends dad made a big deal about wanting to take her and her pals out to see the local pantomime. She asked us and although we weren’t really interested we agreed because a he was really excited about it and b we didn’t have anything else planned and thought it could be a bit of a laugh

So he asks us to get the tickets for him, which one friend dutifully did (she never saw the money from him). He asked another friend to drive us which she dutifully did (no thanks). When we were there he got himself pissed up at the bar and didn’t offer us any drinks! Then when my friend went up to the bar to get our drinks he told her to get him one!

Total sponger! His daughter was completely complicit and told everyone how great her dad was for treating us all. Ha! It was so bad it was funny. She wasn’t a friend for long after that. We found out a bit too late that the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree

Ds got nothing!!
Dc got reduced out of season gifts only - sm shopping 'skills'.
Think reduced Xmas slippers for dd June bday.

When I was a teenager a ridiculously well off family hired me to look after their kids at their holiday house in the summer. They were minted and so so tight. The house we stayed in had shutters on the windows and on the first day I was there I couldn't figure out how to open the shutters in my room so I switched the light on while I got dressed. The mum passed by and told me off for having the lights on and the shutters closed because of the cost. She wouldn't listen to my explanation about the shutters and for the rest of the day she followed me around saying 'go on then, tell me which supplier you use that gives you electricity for free? Because I'd love to know, I really would! You're so lucky to get free electricity where I have to pay for it, all right for some!' until I was nearly in tears. Bearing in mind that I was only 16 - it was so mean and unnecessary.

Ca55andra How awful for you, horrid woman.

Reminded me of when I was at my sister's house, using the toilet. Suddenly the light went off.

My sister had decided it wasn't dark enough for it to be on!

My friend's dad used to half Brillo pads, which always surprised me.

Many years ago when I was 15 I had a part time job at a corner shop near where I lived I did 3 evenings a week and 1 Saturday for about £30 it was hard work too lots of carrying and clearing out a chest freezer which I hated but it was a lot of money to me then . Anyway when it was Christmas week I did extra hours cause I was off school . Anyway I wasn't told I would get extra money I assumed ( never did that again) why would I work extra hours for no extra pay i did double more than usual. So anyway Christmas Eve I'm going home he gives me my wages same as normal £ 30 with a present of a cheap make up set . I was so upset I wanted to cry but bring a head strong teenager I just said thanks then went home . My dad wanted to go round and have a word but I wouldn't let him . I just couldn't believe how mean and stingy to get cheap labour and not even pay for what I did . I found a new job in the new year and it taught me a lesson .

Freyanna

Halving the Brillo pads is a good move, and not in the least stingy at all.

Half does the job just as well. Maybe it is called being sensible or a teeny bit frugal? But it is not stingy, primarily because it does not affect anyone else only the user of the Brillo Pads!

Ds got nothing!!

Wow, that takes a special kind of stingy to deprive a baby, who undoubtedly would have been old enough to realise.

I once stayed in a hotel for the night in my early 20's with a guy I was seeing, it was a bit of a last minute thing late at night and we had both already eaten that night, I paid for the hotel. Anyway in the morning we drove home past a McDonald's and he ordered for himself with a 20 pound note without asking me what I wanted and I ended up paying for my own McDonald's after spending 50 quid on a hotel for us both. I never saw him again despite his pleas and I let him know full well why.

Recently a friend paid for a last minute dinner for the two of us the day before payday (I couldn’t afford it). My half of the bill was £12.13. The next day I brought in £12 to give my friend and she asked, deadly seriously, for the 13p. I was so taken aback I laughed. I’ve paid for her many a time and would never dream of quibbling over change, plus she earns considerably more than I do - double, in fact! Still not over it.

A friend once asked me if i wanted to buy an item (they were doing a car boot sale and said we could have first dibs) that we had bought her DH as a birthday present 2 weeks before. Also charged me petrol money for a 5 minute trip but never offered when i drove.

@Katiet123 - did you say “but that was the present we gave your dh only 2 weeks ago?” - or were you stunned into silence by the sheer brass-necked cheek of her?

When it comes to people like this, I'm afraid the old saying rings true: Play me once, you're a fool. Play me twice, I'm the fool.

My father had very limited contact with his older brother, even though he had loads with his other 3 siblings. When we got older, we asked him why and he told us, the man was a miserly, mean-spirited bastard, even to his own family and his own two sons had nothing to do with him once they became adults and used to beg their mother to leave and give her money. He even tried to cheap out on his own wife's funeral. My dad and his siblings and his sons paid for what she'd told them she'd wanted and they were all shooting daggers at him at that funeral. Twat. None of us even went to his funeral. He was an awful, financially abusive twat.

@Asthenia, I think if I was asked to pay back £12.13 then I would have paid £12.13 but not less. I know what you mean when you say you have paid for her many times but it was your choice. Here it was a bit rude not to return the full amount.
Why do you go out with her if she so stingy? If she is using you then she isn't a good friend then.

A friend of my DMs (DF couldn’t stand her) was really tight and another one who had loads of money. Used to buy me & DB Easter eggs in the Sale then give them to us the following year - when they’d expired. If we went round to theirs for tea it would always be salad: one slice of ham, one bagged salad and a bag of crisp from a multipack to share between me, DB and their DD.

DH and I used to go out with another couple. They were fine. But every now and then another couole would be staying with them.

We bought drinks in rounds - I say "we" but it was always the blokes who went to the bar. DH and our friend bought drinks for all 6 of us, but when it was this other guys round he would never include dh and I!!

@likablum He was a 21yr old lad! Have a heart!

@likablum ApplePudding seems to agree with me? **
if my 21 year old nephew came round to my house for dinner and bought a crate of beer with him I would expect him to take any undrunk bottles back with him.