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' 😆

@2childrenandout that's just straight out stealing in my eyes. Not fair for the person buying the box of large eggs which has smaller eggs on it.

@ragevibration oh it is? I had no idea. I take that back then, though she certainly wasn't under the impression that she'd agreed to do that when she went haha.

You should play bingo with me, I'd have just been cheering you on for your winnings, not expecting half haha!!

That friend arriving in a Mercedes story gets wheeled out word for word, by different posters every time on a thread like this... It wasn't even that believable/funny the first time round 🙄💤

@VioletPickles I am so sorry, my heart goes out to you 💐

@HelenaDove why would eating Indian food be bad for his health?

My BIL's ex (not ex at the time obvs - everyone expected it would go the distance) got my MIL to pick her up from the airport at 1 1/2 hours each way, said nothing about what she was planning, dumped my BIL the next day and then whinged on social media when my MIL returned a vey expensive Christmas present as opposed to giving it to her anyway a month or so later

Iris- I assure you it's a true story, def wasn't meant to be funny and name changes so prob been me every time.
She is an ex friend now anyway.
And I hope the roof leaks!!

@Hippee Cheap toilet paper for family bathroom with kids is kind of sensible no? They have a tendancy to use shit loads.

@violetpickles so sorry to hear that. x

I'm with you, Rousette, this friend is not lovely, she's a miserable bitch. Why do you let her boss you about like that? With the hotel, why didn't the two of you just tell her 'No, not doing that. If you want to you, you're welcome to book the one outside of town for yourself and we'll meet you at the bar.'

No one wanted to go on the hen because she's such a miserable miser no one wants to hang out with her.

TheEmmaDilemma - I guess so, but they were teenagers, and she was just stingy about everything.

I'm loving the stingy stories! When my ex moved out, he stripped the house of all his belongings, fine. About a week later I went to get a lamp that was mine that had been in his kids bedroom - he had taken the lightbulb with him that he had put in my lamp! How depressing.

I broke up with a guy earlier this year as he was tight. We would take it in turn for dates. I would say spend £80 on cinema and dinner. Next evening would be his turn and he would count a £20 Dominoes as his turn and then expect it to be back to me. He also suggested that I could pay for us both to go for a weekend abroad as he didn't have the cash - um, no thanks.

@legoadventcalendar
I think that’s a little unfair. It was her hen do, so ultimately it was her choice. There are plenty stories on here about brides who are making everyone spend a fortune to attend hen dos or the wedding. It did turn out to be a very cheap weekend, albeit pretty dull, but the hen kept going on about how she had a wonderful time.
Personally I couldn’t be married to someone like that but her husband knew fully what he was getting into, so he obviously can see her as a lovely person too.

Lots about splitting bills. My policy is always to offer to split equally if I've had less but offer to itemize if I've have more expensive.

Exactly. I did have one family member though who was a massive CF in general. Once we all went out to eat (at a fairly expensive restaurant of her choosing). Her kids are grown up and not there and she made a big deal before we'd even finished our food that she didn't intend to subsidise the children (a few of us had young kids). Sometimes in the past if everyone has kids there we've just split if between the adults. We said no of course that's fine we can all just pay for what we had. Totted it up and the families with kids actually came to significantly less than she had ordered as we weren't drinking and the kids menu was really cheap. Once we'd gone to the effort of working it all out and she realised she was going to be paying so much more she changed her mind and said actually it'll be easier just to split it. Errr no thanks!

Used to work with a right tosser who would offer to do the drinks run to the works canteen , would collect the money from everyone, then do a runner without paying and pocket our money. Could be £6 or £7 each time. I couldn't believe it when I caught him.

He also used to fare dodge on public transport (tram), pretending he hadn't heard the conductor if the kept asking him if he had a ticket.

A friend asked to borrow a thick felt tip pen, which I duly lent her. She coloured in a bare patch of her carpet as it was so old. Her house was worth £1.5m

Winklemans so he was stealing from the works canteen? Did he get pulled up on it?

I belong to a crafting group, mostly a lovely bunch of ladies but one of them really takes the piss every single Christmas - and for the last 4 years it has always been me onn the receiving end of her meanness.

We do a secret santa, spending limit of £5, everyone buys a gift, which on our last meet up of the year, goes into a bag and we all take turns to pick one out, so she hasn't actually targeted me, I've just been unlucky.

The gift is supposed to be something crafty, so it isn't hard to find a general craft gift. We mostly all sew, knit or crochet, so a packet of needles or a couple of skeins of thread would be well within budget, very welcome, and easy to buy. This is what I have received to date:-

1. candle with wick already been lit (nothing to do with crafting)
2. mug in a box. Ugly bloody thing and was cracked. (Also nothing to do with crafting) 3)Another candle, wick not lit, but candle all out of shape. I am guessing it had been near a heat source or the sun. (Again, nothing to do with crafting)
3. Today I am the unenviable recipient of a scented wardrobe hanger. Heathcote and Ivory so a reasonable brand - except it's use by date is Dec 2011, so I'm guessing the smell will have long since died (And once more NOTHING TO DO WITH OUR CRAFTING!)

And before anyone asks me if she is short of money, she goes on minimum two cruises a year, and is always out and about doing expensive hobbies.

I wonder what sort of personality type is the one that is stingy with other people, but generous to themselves?

I can understand those who are tight all round, and don't spend any money ever, not heating the house and going to great lengths to save a penny.

But we all know people who begrudge buying presents (even for nearest and dearest) and avoid paying their way, yet are quite happy to treat themselves.

My sister always buys me chocolates for my birthday, lovely chocolates with nuts in..................I'm allergic to nuts and have been forever. She then feigns surprise and takes them back home with her. Every. Year.

Same sister also brings really cheap and nasty alcohol round to ours when we have her for Xmas, drinks all our nicer more expensive stuff, and then takes the gross stuff only she drinks back home.

@Arrowfanatic
If my sister did that. I'd take the chocolates and say I couldn't eat them but they'll make a useful 'spare' gift, donation to school fete or whatever so she didn't get them back. Might put her off doing it as she won't benefit.

The split the bill thing can get awkward. I remember my Hen doo years ago invited wife of husbands friend was kinda given no choice (that's another story) anyway she complained that was not splitting the bill , fair enough pay for what you had but it still want enough, me and another friend ended up topping it up to cover. It really annoyed me that I had friends and family that didn't even pay there share on my Hen doo. My friend who helped me top it up was sure it was dh friend wife but I never found out and it kind of put me off her .

”My sister always buys me chocolates for my birthday, lovely chocolates with nuts in..................I'm allergic to nuts and have been forever. She then feigns surprise and takes them back home with her. Every. Year.”

I would definitely do as @Littlebird123 suggests, and keep the chocolates @Arrowfanatic. That will rain on her parade!

Dh just reminded me of the same friends who the only time I invited round to us brought 2 other friends with them and no food or drink and kept asking for drinks all night. We couldn't get them to leave even me saying I'm going to bed , right tight cf

Some of these stories are jaw dropping.I dont know why you would keep putting up with it.

When I was just out of uni and earning very little, on rare occasions, I'd go to dinner with a group. Big mistake. I would order carefully, nearly everyone else had a feast. The bill would come, and one of the cfs would announce, "We'll split it!" It took me a while to get wise to them, but then I refused to go out with them.
As a result, I am very conscious about being fair when a bill comes out and everyone just wants to split it. We are all well past the paycheck-to-paycheck existence, thank goodness. I always have more wine than anyone else, and always insist that I pay more, but am refused. I feel horribly, but I guess it just doesn't matter to them. So I make sure I don't over order (except for the wine) and throw in extra to make a good tip more generous. There are few skinflints in my life (most of those are relatives), but I manage to avoid going out with them.