To ask your stingiest stories?

[iLoveFoood]

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' 😆

We used to be friends with a couple who thought it was okay to take home the unused burger buns they'd bought as their one and only contribution to a BBQ we hosted.

We don't see them anymore, not just due to their tightness.

My aunt complained my uncle never took her out for dinner ever, he said he'd 'treat her on their anniversary'. The treat? Two packs of prawn mayo sandwiches from marks, eaten in the park......

Once got invited to a friends house along with some others. 2 couples and me in total. As I was arriving at 7pm, hosting couple said they were ordering takeaway at 5 if I wanted in. I politely declined as I didn't want them waiting around for me.

I turned up at the same time as their food, they had got me a plate put and said I was welcome to have some leftovers as they were going in the bin anyway. I got a few scraps of people's meals (think a spoonful of rice, a few chips and a couple of small spring rolls). At the end cheeky fucker hosting couple stated the bill was here. I got my purse out to offer a few quid toward it and they promptly told me it was £7 each. I was gobsmacked at being asked to contribute the same as everyone else who had their own meals!

I'm amazed at how many people are happy to ask guests in their home to pay for food. I wouldn't dream of asking a guest for money!

My dad had a free bus pass due to having a mild disability so he used to take my mum on days out just sitting on the bus from one end of its route to the other and back again, no getting off and looking round any of the towns they went through. A bit like a very shit version of a city tour except going through/to nowhere of interest. They'd take a "picnic" of plain ham rolls to eat whilst on the bus. Dad could have afforded a proper day out but was too tight.

'friend' insisted she wanted to go to Pizza Hut when we met for meal to catch up - not really my thing but agreed. After much stodgy pizza and a most impressive cucumber-slices-extending-bowl trick to grab the most from the salad bar, the bill came. She presented a 'buy one pizza, get 2nd for 1p' voucher and put her single penny onto the plate. She seemed quite surprised when I suggested we split the bill as 'she's paid' for her penny pizza. The outrage gave me indigestion.

used to pour my DCs leftover milk into crisp packets to sneak back to her house.

Pinkyyy Did you mean me? They bought a pack of six burger buns and took three back home. That was all. No beer, wine, nothing else at all. If they'd bought wine that didn't get opened then yeah, I'd have expected them to take it back but not half a pack of uneaten buns!

I'd never charge my mates to eat at my house but it's polite to bring something half decent with you.

My BIL has a step daughter and we bought her birthday and Xmas presents for years.

Then my kids were born. They've forgotten my boy's birthday at least 3 times, including when we were visiting PILs on his birthday. They visited too. Pil told them it was his birthday and they didn't even bung him a fiver (he was 6yo).

They bought for my dd without fail every year until we stopped buying them gifts on principle that they'd missed our son's birthday 3 times (their dd was grown up by then).

They have numerous lavish holidays each year and are, apparently, millionaires.

Mablethorpe nope wasn't aimed at you! Obviously if you have a BBQ it's polite for people to bring something along (usually more than a few burger buns) but I'm surprised how many people would have people over for a meal/takeaway and expect them to contribute moneh towards it, I would see that as very poor hosting

Money*

Another one, do people think this is tight?
Friend said to me do you want to go out for your birthday. I said yes that would be nice etc. She went onto say you can go to one of these two places. I looked at the menus and one place was all really bad reviews and the other only did cheese and tomato pizzas for vegetarians.
I suggested we went for a curry, or decent pizza, or a Chinese and she refused saying that we could only go to her suggestions because she had free vouchers!! I'm not being grabby but if its someone's birthday then surely they should be able to choose the place.I didn't mind paying for myself. Anyway I refused her offer.

Rattinghat - head of celery!

You didn't mean me did you Pinkyy? I didn't ask either of the people for anything. I think the pizza was meant as a sort of "treat" or something, then he must have decided I didn't deserve it the next day!

I'm wondering if there are lots of stingy people out there or if a lot of us have encountered the same few people!

Some of the examples involving much older people, I think you have to give them a little leeway as they were probably brought up during or just after the war, with rationing etc, and ingrained habits have stuck with them.

Some of those aren't just stingy but thieving, such as the sending stuff back and making up fake complaints to get a free meal.

I knew a guy who stole condiments from restaurants to avoid paying for them himself, also plastic cutlery and napkins. I told him he was a cheap thieving cunt who was even worse than a garden variety shoplifter because they were at least honest about what they were going to do when they entered a premises. He was floored, he honestly thought taking more than your fair share or going into a restaurant, not buying a thing and lifting their wares was being clever. No it just means they raise their prices or stop offering the stuff.

That's how most of these twats think and why I have no time for them.

DHs rich relatives...threw a party. Luckily Mil had kept us informed of the arrangements which consisted of just booking - a free of charge - room in a sports club. We had expected that it would be a pay bar, but thought there would at least be a few nibbles. Nothing. No music or anything. People who didnt know they had been expected to eat before going were popping over the road to the chippy and eating in the car park!!

Guess that's how they afforded their big house and fancy cars...

My friend's Dad once paid ten pounds for her to go and play bingo with him and the rest of the family, as she was particularly broke at the time.

She won £80, which was going to seriously come in handy, and she was utterly thrilled. When they got home, he picked up het winnings envelope from the windowsill where she left it, opened it, and instead of taking his £10 back - which would have been stingey enough - made two neat piles of the notes and took half! He reasoned that she wouldn't have been there to win it without him. He was by no means struggling for money.

A relative of mine, who is a GP, has happily come to mine for Christmas dinner for several years. I pay for most things. They bring the wine. Last time she brought a few good bottles... but took everything that wasn't drunk away with her. I earn less than half what she does. I was just

Friend of mine from abroad came to stay with us for like a week (fed, watered and hosted by us). She brought a pack of tobacco for us (we didn't ask) and said it's £10. Awkward, but no big deal, I paid for it and only after she left I found out that DH also gave her the money.

MIL came to stay, we paid for flight, week in a five star hotel, all meals, coffee, everything.

She never paid for so much as a coffee for us, no thank you.

My parents & elderly neighbours even took her out and paid for everything.

She did however buy gifts for my nieces (her other sons children). I am DIL and needless to say have not spoken to her since

Colleague at work asked me to go to lunch with her as she wanted my advice. Note that she invited me,

I assumed we would split the bill but she had ‘forgotten’ her purse. She works in a financial area so I know this is bollocks. She promised to take me out for lunch in return - which never happened.

Ex bff always claimed to have coppers left for the rest of the week - we always met on a Tuesday - so I always paid for lunch, nice sandwich, cake, coffee nothing flash but I only worked pt. Never minded at all. Sometimes twice a week. Sometimes took food to hers to make a curry etc.
All good.
Until the day she pulled up in a Mercedes convertible.
I felt a complete mug.
Felt like I had shares in it tbh!!

SheNumpty

Thays a thing though isn't it? If you go to the bingo with someone you split the winnings? It's not something I have ever agreed with to be honest but I was under the impression it was the done thing

I won £1000 once and before I'd even finished saying screeching at the top of my voice BINGO she was like woop £500 each....

Actually i retract my previous statement. That is stingy. We went with DPs mum once and she took half of DPs £500 win.

I had already said to him I didn't want any and he was to keep it and treat himself. Then she piped up oh that's £250 each to me and you son!

She is actually minted. Her husband earns our combined annual salary in a month and I was FUMING. That £500 would have been an extra special wee boost that month.

Her husband made her give it back - he was mortified.

I assumed we would split the bill but she had ‘forgotten’ her purse.

See, first of all, you assumed. Always bad. Secondly, you still didn't have to pay for her. You didn't eat the food. She is responsible for it. 'I don't actually have the funds available to buy your meal, literally. I have next to no money in my account and I don't believe in credit cards. You're going to have to sort something out with the restaurant because I simply cannot cover your meal.'

And then you actually do that. Because these people are relying on your being a wuss to get away with it and they don't give a crap about you or your feelings.