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' 😆

My parents used to buy meat for my Grandad and put it in the freezer then give it to him to take home after a visit.
Once he arrived home , Grandad weighed it . He phoned to say it was 1 ounce short and what had they done with it . He was not happy .
Dad said he made it into a steak pie.

With one of my exes we used to take turns paying for date night. We both had part time jobs outside college earning around £40-50 a week. I would always take us to Chiquito, Frankie & Benny's or Pizza Express, or similar. He took me to McDonalds, KFC and one time bought a pizza from Iceland, cooked it at home then took it to the cinema in a carrier bag to eat there! We were only 17 but even so! I suggested we stop date night (assumed affordability was an issue which would have been fine with me!) but he said 'oh I love our restaurant dates though'!!!

I can be stingy in my own way too though. I reuse raisin boxes for DDs raisins and just put some from kilogram bag into it for next time.

The IL's took us out for lunch at the harvester for DSD's birthday. Chosen because small kids like it and it was cheap.
They ordered a glass of tap water each and shared a salad bowl between them. DH, DSC and I had an early bird meal each with a drink and it was about £6 a person (so £24 for our share)

When the bill came,?FIL sighed and asked us to contribute for our share as it was 'a bit much'

I paid the whole lot and said it was 'my treat' utter twats.

They once gave me a multipack of kit kats for Xmas. Not even the 4 finger ones.

My DSis & BIL were given £30k no strings to spend on their wedding. I know £6k went on buying him a car, they complained that everything would have to be done on the cheap because they had no money.

Bridesmaids had to buy their own dresses, groomsmen (a significant number) had to buy their own suits.

I played a significant part in their wedding & was thanked with a £6 1/2 bottle of prosecco.

They changed where they were going on HM after cash gifts for presents & pocketed the difference in cost.

I love my DSis but no longer want to spend time with her as she's becoming so grabby & cheap.

Two colleagues traveling to a conference together. They left earlier than B would have chosen because A was driving. A had paid extra to check in early. B wasn't bothered and planned to sit in the lounge with a book until his room was ready. When they arrived it just happened that both rooms were ready and they were both able to check in. A insisted that B should pay half the cost of the early check in fee because he had benefited too.

Pil came for Christmas as per usual and made a gigantic fuss of saying that they had brought the crackers as their contribution. They went on and on about these blasted crackers, "Oooh, I think they've made the meal, don't you, Harold?" "They're the best crackers I've had, Muriel," etc etc . (They were just ordinary crackers, not Fortnums or anything.)

Anyway, this flippin' box of crackers was only half full as the pil had already appropriated some of the crackers to use for themselves over the New Year.

My present was some Ferrero Rocher past the sell by date, and dh a small piece of Stilton. Meanwhile mil has a diamond bangle she is showing off. I can't remember if it was that year or another (awful) one, but dd got a High School Musical vest (several sizes too large) as her Christmas present as they had spent £16 on ds and the budget was £10 per grandchild.

Ithink Did B pay?

@RedPandaMum I thin that's being thrifty rather than stingy!

@Irma - I hope the diamond bracelet wasn't from you and DH! Can you take a break from hosting them?

Sorry @RedPandaMum

That was in response to below:

I can be stingy in my own way too though. I reuse raisin boxes for DDs raisins and just put some from kilogram bag into it for next time.

Kiss kiss did they not have a reception at all?

I meet up with friend at least three times a year to celebrate birthdays etc
Her birthday was in May, I bought her a lovely engraved pen , flowers and a lovely bottle of wine. Fast forward to my birthday and I receive a Sainsbury’s cake which was three months out of date.
The worse thing is that this ‘friend’ is absolutely loaded and loves receiving presents from others

areyoubeingserved why are you still indulging this bitch with gifts? She's not a friend, just a taker. Stop enabling her. Just be busy when she suggests meeting up. Or hell, even tell her before you drop her, 'No, not interested in meeting you anymore. You're very tight-fisted but are happy to take nice gifts from others. That's not my idea of friendship. Fuckity bye bye'.

DM washes cling film (not very thoroughly) and reuses it multiple times.
It won’t cling anymore after this so she used sellotape to hold it in place.
She also reuses teabags, rescues food from bins and used to pour my DCs leftover milk into crisp packets to sneak back to her house.

She’s very wealthy. There’s absolutely no need.

MIL once bought me a chest freezer, that I didn't want or need, for Christmas. She then told me that it would never fit in my small house so she would look after it for me at her house. No, I never popped around for a Cornetto or some frozen peas.

Sleightofmind taking used milk in crisp packets sounds more like mental illness than being tight.

My family are stingy as anything, it's utterly embarrassing going out for a meal with them. Last time we went out for my dad's birthday in October, mum said she'd pay. 8 adults, 2 under 4s. Both kids and one adult with multiple allergies. Restaurant staff spent ages going through everything with us and checking ingredients, absolutely brilliant. Bill came to well over £250, they decided that they wouldn't be tipping because there was a five minute delay in one out two of the meals or sides coming out dh and I insisted on paying the tip as we'd both worked as restaurant staff and hated people like that, my mum had the arse about it for days
That was better than usual though, normally they make up things about the meal being cold or different or not right in some way just to complain and try to get a free meal.
They still complain about the restaurant we went to for my wedding 3 years later, funny that they are the only ones who had any issues out of 35/40 guests!

As a broke student I once drove my friend to the next city and back so he could visit a specialist shop. It was about an hour and half round trip, plus waiting around for at least an hour in the shop, in which I had no interest (it was very niche).

When we got home I asked for a small contribution to the petrol for the journey I had done just for him, and he refused on the grounds that I wasn't a taxi driver. Bloody felt like one!!

I did refuse to back down on that one and eventually he grudgingly bought me a pint the next time we went out.

I could tell you many many tales of his stinginess over the years.

Oh, I also worked in a slightly fancy pub near Bath a long time ago, I had a group of 20 to 30 adults plus load of kids to take care of one evening, they were there for 5 hours and I was the only person dealing with them (apart from when we took their order out) and they were my only table for the night, I'd set up the whole part of the restaurant for them with their decorations as they'd asked and would be expected to tidy away after them by myself, as was the usual when we had big tables.
After they paid the bill (well over £1000, lots of expensive meals and drinks!) and were on their way out a few said that they'd left a little something on the table with big grins. I never expected a tip at that place as for some reason we didn't get many, so I thought it was nice and thanked them, said goodbye as you do. Got to the table and they had left a small pile of coppers. It was such an insult, I'd much rather that they'd left nothing as at least you can consule yourself that they're just the types who don't believe in tips then! But to purposely leave coppers as a joke is just nasty. Took me a good hour to fully clean up from that table too thanks to the food smooshed into the floor, the bastards.

My aunt has ‘forgotten’ her purse every time she has come to visit us but will always be taken out for meals, bought drinks in the pub etc. If we visit her she never has long to see you and you get a cup of tea at her house if you’re lucky!

My cousin (her daughter) came to stay on my 21st birthday and also somehow managed to forget her purse. Weird family trait! 🙄 I lent her £30 for some food and a few drinks (I think... it was a substantial amount to poor student me anyway) and never saw it again.

A man I was sort of seeing bought round a cheap supermarket pizza which didn't get eaten, (because I was already cooking something nicer). The next day he basically came round to cook and eat the left behind pizza. Another time he bought some cake round "for me" and took it with him the next morning. Also never had any cigarettes because he was "giving up". Didn't stop him from smoking as much as me though. This was my first foray into re-investigating mens underpants after several years! Talk about offputting...

The "friend" who would stay the weekend with me, plenty of food and drink provided by me. i couldn't believe it when I saw the partly drunk wine she bought from Lidl with her luggage at the front door, ready to take with her. Also quibbled going 50/50 on the bill when we ate out because my drink had cost £2 more than hers, in spite of me treating her to dinner the previous time.

I actually broke up a friendship with a girlfriend of mine over her "stinginess".

I knew she was signed up to several dating sites and seemed to go on a lot of dates. She confessed to me that she didn't actually want to be in a relationship with anyone, she just wanted free dinners. She would always insist on it being a dinner date and then insist on the chap picking up the bill.
She didn't take well to me calling her out on it.

About 2 years ago I was dating this guy. he was my first real love, extremely charming and I was a bit in awe of him to be honest. He was a screenplay writer so worked from home.

we went on little dates here and there to local pubs etc. I then noticed that we would do "rounds". Me a lemonade (I dont drink) to his pint. so £3 vs £1. But when he had drank his round he would say "your turn" and I would always just pay for the next round.

when at my house he would make fun of my (kenco) coffee and ask when i was getting real coffee as he liked douwe egberts. For some unknown reason out I went and bought him a jar.

He would ask for food at mine with no shame, "so are you cooking a bacon sandwich then?" yet never offer money for anything.

He repeatedly said he wanted to go on a "big night out" with me in the nearest city. Im not really a night out person so put it off as long as possible before finally agreeing. He went on all week about how he couldnt wait and he was going to go all out and wear his red (!!!) chinos with a shirt. So on the day we meet up at a bar in our village and have a drink. He then spills his pint all over his horrific red trousers. So he gets a taxi home, changes and comes back to meet me.

We get on the train into the city and both pay for our own tickets separately. We then go for a nice dinner and he orders his meal, side orders and desert and 2 beers with his meal. Bill comes and he sits and waits, no shame in him. He then says "i just need to go to the toilet, can you get the bill and I will sort it with you afterwards". . Afterwards didnt come obviously. We went outside and for a quick drink before he suddenly said "thanks for that, I will get next times, I had to spend all my cash on the taxi!".

The taxi was £11 maximum. So that means he would have only brought £11 out for his meal. I was pissed off at this point, went very cold and suggested we just go home. Didnt text him all that night and had no intention of contacting him again.

The next day he sends a message saying "do you want to go for a drink? I have money this time, i promise".

Absolute CF!!!!

Later found out that while dating me he still lived with his fiance, 7 year old son and was an unemployed writer. I had been to his house previously and they had separate bedrooms so there was no trace of her to me. Turns out his father had died 2 years earlier and he had convinced her he had depression and needed his own room and "space to clear his head". His poor fiancee had been paying for everything and doing all child care while working and studying at uni. He was "too balls deep in women depressed" to work or function properly. She found out about one of his affairs (I believe the one with me) and moved back to ireland (where she was from originally). He obviously skulked after her - he knew where the money was coming from!!

Santa, I am at piss-taking GF demanding to know what happened to his ounce of meat!

I befriended an older lady and later on invited her to my wedding. Her wedding present to me was diary that I had bought her 6 months before!!