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' 😆

Why do you hang out with such a bitch, Kit? Or not call her out on it?Once worked with a colleague who would try to duck out of his round - go out for a smoke, needed to make a phone call, toilet break. My boss would track him down and forbid us from ordering until he came back. Or tell him when we got there that his round was first because he had short arms and long pockets.

Dated a guy once. He came round to mine while I cooked dinner. He bought a bottle of wine (as you should). We only drank half the bottle, so he asked to take the rest of it home! Needless to say I didn’t see him again!!

Used to have a bring n share lunch on a Friday at work. Everyone put in £10 a month.. One male colleague used to 'go to loo' and eat most of the buffet whilst everyone else was working and never paid up We were pretty pissed off, our boss told him to pack it in and to pay for everything he ate the next week by putting it in the kitty.

The next week after begrudgingly paying for the meal he brought a Tupperware box and filled it! Said he was getting his money's worth. he got a formal warning for that and we started going out for lunch instead

Lazy cow I worked with would do anything to get out of going to buy her own lunch. She would claim she was sooo super busy and could someone pick her up a sandwich in town.
Colleague did this on many many occassions until lazy cow went mental because she thought colleague had swindled her out of 6 PENCE.
Colleague gave her 10p and never got her lunch for her again.

My grandfather was a stingy guy. He would keep food until it was all gone, which sounds sensible except it would be months past its sell by date.

He also had three toilets in the house, and would alternate between the three of them, and only flushed after using each one several times. It was very unpleasant going round to visit him.

He also used the same tea bag for two days, and would proudly say he wears the same clothes (underpants and all) for a whole week to save on washing.

I once left a generous tip in a restaurant during a group meal with friends. (In the USA)
One of my “friends” decided to deduct my tip from his contribution! and probably everyone else’s too.
At the time I let him get away with it because I didn’t want to start an argument but looking back on it I really wish I had no longer friends may I add.

I have mentioned this on here before but a guy I used to know is so mean that he had just one lightbulb in his whole house, he brought it around with him as he went from one room to another. And he wasn't poor, he was an accountant.

I've found the stingiest people around are always quite well off.

Friends Sil gave her two very old pairs of trainers, with holes in and the bottoms had no tread on.We went walking one day up a moor and it started pissing it down, friend was falling all over the place and couldn't get down without falling down because her shoes had no grip. I nearly had to call mountain rescue out.She was crying with fear.

A family member of mine will spend 20 fucking minutes carefully unwrapping ONE gift so that he doesn't tear the paper. He will then iron it out at home and reuse it.

I wish I was joking.

My brother asked if a friend and i would like some of the lasagne he cooked. We said yes please and ate some. He then proceeded to charge us 5£ each. Also, it was all made with Sainsbury’s basics food plus some of my mother’s stuff in the cupboards so wouldn’t have even cost him that to make....

My Brother always made a thing of inviting us to Mother or step-fathers Birthday in a restaurant. The only time he saw them. But after two very expensive meals we declined. None of us drink just my brother and his family. So there was him his two adult sons, me, DH and the parents. He is extremely wealthy, so would order wine and brandies, the most expensive meals then ask us to split the bill. We had a much lower income. We realised we were not only paying for ourselves and the parents, but subsidising him too.

Friend came to visit and wanted some coffee and asked what I had - I had some standard coffee (fresh) she also wanted a particular bottle of wine with dinner (I had lots of wine in already). So I said we could walk to the supermarket round the corner to get it. She chose two nice bottles of wine and some posh coffee, fine - I paid. After she left I noticed she'd packed up the rest of the coffee and the other bottle of wine we hadn't got round to drinking and took it home with her!

@Milly848 .True they are. The friend I was on about bought another house outright in cash besides her own property!. All her friends thought she was broke for years.

Oh, and this is the same guy who has just booked himself onto a luxury 6 month cruise at a cost of £25K.

I heard a story about a woman who uses tipex in cards, so she can cover up the names and reuse them.

Someone offered me his ticket in a car park once as there was an hour left on it, I thanked him and he then asked me for a contribution of 20p towards the cost.

On another occasion we were contributing to a shared lunch at a community event, the ‘etiquette’ was that you could claim for the main expenses, ie; meat or cheese; someone claimed for half a jar of branston pickle .

On my old team at work we used to do buffets every so often, everyone would bring something in or work would pay for the buffet, we had this one man on the team who used to go up and take food 12-13 times and then if anything was left over he would get out a Tupperware box and fill it full of left over food, he would also take himself off to different departments and take food from their buffets aswell, proper greedy, he got a written warning in the end !

Oh I've got one!!!

Ex boyfriend wasn't stingy when we got together but got more and more tight as the years went on.

He was going to the shop for toilet paper or something and when he was going out the door I said "oooh please could you pick me up something nice!" He brought back a teeny milkybar.

Handed me the milkybar and the receipt. I said... what's the receipt for? HE WANTED THE 45p FOR THE MILKYBAR. FROM HIS PARTNER OF FIVE YEARS.

Then a week later he dulled about the petrol costs of driving 5 minutes to pick me up because I couldn't manage carrying all the bags.

We broke up that day.

I used to get a bus home from work every shift, had a bus pass and don't mind doing it at all (used to read on the way home).
One of the boys there kept insisting I had a lift with him as he drove past my house. I took him up on the offer. Just as we are pulling up to my house he turns round and says 'if you keep wanting lifts I'll have to start charging you for petrol'.

Christmas time my mum would make a big thing about ‘treating us all the same’. That meant that every thing was eith 3 for 2 or Buy one get one free. One year, me my SiL and my. 5 year old daughter all got a boots pack with soap, talk and wash flannel. While my DH and brother got some obscure cookery book. Another year she put a pair of rubber washing up gloves in my present,”so that she spent the same as on my SiL”. Except she gave my SiL the scarf I had given her for her birthday.

just here it was a strange 'party'. The host is known to be tight, but I didn't imagine she would be quite this tight. We literally sat there, with no one talking to us, thinking 'when can we leave without it looking rude'. Other guests wouldn't talk to us, they actually closed the conversation right down when I tried to talk to them. The most awkward thing was that there was no effort made to talk to guests.

I put an ad on our local town web-group thing for a stack of cat food when our dear pet decided to stop eating anything with fish.
I worked out, and said, that it was £10-15 worth but that I'd like a donation to a local charity.
Woman came round, spent ages staring thoughtfully at a stack of little packs of Whiskas, and said she'd take it.
I said I was sure the charity would be grateful for the donation, she sort of cupped her hand over mine and put some money into it and left.
£1.50.
I would happily have given it free to anyone who needed it.....

MiL used to do the shopping for elderly neighbours. Quite often she went just for them and had to pay bus fares. He grew his own veg but when ever he gave her the surplus, he charged her for it. They both had good private pensions whereas MiL had just the state pension.

Being tight and stingy has to be one of the worst traits in anyone.

But honestly, tolerating it is the second one!

I have had my moments with these people, but they are no longer on my radar. And I have a great radar for spongers and will not hesitate to challenge them either. Awful people.

I am sorry now, but I think it is something psychological in them. Has to be, no so called normal person would be that ridiculously stingy in Public. They have no shame. So need to be called out.

Well that's my humble opinion anyway!