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' 😆

My work has just spent a guesstimate of 20k in payroll cost on having a bunch of waaaaaaaay too senior and correspondingly expensive employees hold a ridiculously high number in order to discuss ...

... the fact that a ridiculous amount of ridiculously senior and correspondingly expensive colleagues have got involved in the drama surrounding ...

... a formally not quite correct but nonetheless entirely intelligible request for budget approval to purchase office supplies for £100 and its subsequent denial by a stingy controller, who somehow decided this was a matter for...

... literally, our COO.

I work for a Fortune 500 company.

Someone I know organised an event for kids as her 2 got to go free. She did it twice.
I made something for her for a pittance..then she asked me to alter it twice even though we greed the dimensions before I started.

She asked me to do something quite niche for her ds. I declined because of previous encounter. Later I saw she had spent £50.00 on one from AMAZON but she'd expected me to buy the materials and labour for fresh air.
Everything is on the cheap. Second hand but crap condition just because it's cheap.
Buys the most worn out bits from a charity shop cos it £2.99 And cashmere but its really really past it's best yet behaved like she's found a gem. Doesn't seem to see the scruffy state the piece is on.
I stopped eating out with her a few years ago as she turned the bill into open heart surgery.
She has bought pieces from me, mates rates then asked me to wait for payment after agreeing then been really slow to pay. I could have sold the pieces for twice the price but a promise is a promise.
This is stingy and cunning behaviour combined and it made me feel very used. She did it a opule of times and that was enough.
She actually got a bit shifty when I wouldn't play along and badgered me a bit but I stood my ground. As my DH said, she may as well be put to g her hand into your purse.

When we were very broke students, one of my friends offered to drive a group of us a couple of hundred miles for a cheap weekend away camping. The car was one that her (completely minted, actual millionaire) parents had bought her and still technically owned.

Obviously we paid her for petrol and bought snacks etc as you’d expect, and it was a lovely cheap break for all of us.

A few weeks later her dad got wind of the fact that she’d taken the car on this trip and went ballistic. He calculated the government mileage rate for the wear and tear etc on the car and made her collect the money from each of us to reimburse him. It was something like an extra £40 each which at the time was a huuuuge deal to us, and more than a first-class train would have cost us.

Again, the guy was a millionaire and we were students living in our overdrafts. I remember telling my own (non-millionaire) dad about it at the time and he was appalled.