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' 😆

I have got a friend who is known for being stingy! Some examples are

she took some blue tack out of a packet in a shop because she didn't want a massive amount!

she refuses to pay the 5p bag charge but will take a bag!

She once had a FREE goody bag from a phone shop, unfortunately hers didn't have the sample of chewing gum in so she went back to ask for some!!!

I do think there is a difference between being stingy and being careful with money though.

For example, I once went to dinner with a big group of people. Me and another person had a basic veggie meal and a soft drink, while others had expensive meals and bottles of wine. They then wanted to split the bill evenly, and called me and the other person stingy when we wanted to pay for what we'd had. To put this into perspective, our meals/drinks came to about £15 each, whereas others had had several drinks, coming to about £35 each. I wouldn't say I was stingy to not want to subsidise others....

User your friend sounds slightly criminal.

Some family threw a party and asked guests to contribute food. This was quite stingy in itself as drinks weren't provided. However, one guest brought a supermarket bag of spinach. It didn't get opened so the guest requested to take it away at the end of the party.

I taught alongside two men, Heads of Departments so not hard up, they shared tea bags, whoever brought the milk that week had the first dip of the tea bag. each day.
My mother thought I was terrible for not buying an item of grocery that was 2p cheaper if a walked half a mile across town and she was generally a very generous person, she just loved her bargains.
My late MIL once bought a packet of fire lighters when they were on offer, 'But you only have gas fires!' 'A bargain's a bargain!'

Someone I know will arragnge group events but add £20 to the cost of everyone else’s tickets. They are actually profiting on their friends.
I refuse to do anything they organise.

No, being stingy is making others pay for it by whatever means (stepping away when it's your turn on the round, splitting the bill for everyone equally when you have had the fillet steak etc. and scooping up the tips, yes it happens they are relentless)

I have ctrl alt delete these parasites now. Life is good.

How does she not pay the bag charge

I had friends who were so tight it was laughable & actually in the end it really put me off them. I knew the wife when she was still living at home & we used to go to a lot of church events but I never ever got a lift from her folks, even though I lived way closer to the church than she did. She used to give me recycled pressies ( admittedly I do that sometimes) but once I got a jumper with a hole in it! Her husband turned out to be just as penny pinching. He offered to burn off a cd for me & charged me!
I also knew a couple of guys who were always mean at parties. One of them bought a single can with him, drank loads of my booze, then at the end of the night he picked up his can & took it home!

An ex-friend used to just happen to turn up at mine at mealtimes and I'd always make her a sandwich or bung a bit more pasta in for her. Then on occasion I'd bunk on her settee after a night out and end up having to buy bread for toast in the morning. I finally had enough when she demanded £2.50 from me for half a gas card on her prepayment meter! For context we were both young, single, on the dole and lived alone.

@Ragevibration

WOW. What the actual fuck.

l worked with a woman who was notoriously parsimonious. Every three years or so, she'd buy a new car. On one occasion, my colleagues and l trooped over to 'have a look at it', as you do. l remarked that she didn't have a parcel shelf in the car. She said "l wasn't paying for that, it was £25!"

Another time, she decided to 'adopt' a stray dog that had been brought into the police station. Which was nice, we all thought. Unless the woman who worked in her office with her told us that she'd phoned her parents (who had recently lost their elderly dog) and asked them to bring over the tins of dog food/biscuits that evening, to 'save her from going to buy any'.

The worst one, which disgusted me, my friend told me about. She'd gone Christmas shopping with her, and she was looking for a Christmas present for her dad, who had cancer. My friend walked out of the shop when this woman announced to the shop assistant that she didn't want to spend too much money because she "didn't know how long he was going to last."
We gave up on her after that. lt was disgusting.

Such an awful trait in people (as I have said before)

Avoid, Avoid, you will never win, so ditch them. Honestly it is so good for the soul.

There’s a whole long thread of these stories here - for your delectation and delight!

Oh and before she lived alone she flat-shared with another friend. Other friend stayed with her DM for the weekend then came home laden with bread, milk, rice, pasta, tins etc for them to share. Stingy friend asked her for a fiver to go towards some bits she'd got for herself while other friend was away!

Some of these examples aren’t just stingy, they’re stealing!!

Years ago I went to dinner at a steak restaurant with some friends , we ordered a portion of onion rings to share between us with our main courses. When the bill came we all said to split it apart from one girl who said as she had only had 2 onion rings she was going to put in less , she was being serious.

@tuttifritti I agree! Some of it is stealing really!

@StealthPolarBear in the supermarket she used it asks you if you have used a bag or not at the self check outs! I assume she just clicked 'no bag'

It annoys me because she seems proud of what she does!

I totally agree, mission. Have never tolerated gits like this. They count on others not challenging them to get away with it, they're never poor either. Someone tries this on on me once and they don't get away with the I delete them from my life or avoid them, even family members.

I don’t go out with that friend anymore. It’s a shame as she’s very sweet. Just can’t be doing with picking up her bills.

She's not sweet. People who do this are not sweet. They know what they are doing, too.

@Rudgie47

Why did your friend wear the shoes if they were in such bad condition?

@likablum if my 21 year old nephew came round to my house for dinner and bought a crate of beer with him I would expect him to take any undrunk bottles back with him.

Years ago I dated a guy who was really careful with money. For various reasons, the relationship was going nowhere. We had The Chat, and he was insistent we would stay friends. His birthday was coming up, and I had already bought him some lovely gifts, so we agreed he would come round to my flat for a takeaway one evening. I gave him the presents, we ate the takeaway which I had paid for, then he went in for a lunge - we had another chat about being friends, and I said I thought it was probably time he left. I realised later that he had gone into the kitchen and swiped the bottle of wine he brought.

He lived in a flat furnished with items he got from dead relatives’ houses, and slept in a single bed because that was what he had been given. He was 35.

Engagement party at their house. Wishing well as they 'had everything they need'. Bring your own alcohol, meat for the barbecue and chair.

Wedding was a few months later. Gift registry as 'wishing wells are tacky'. Very expensive gifts with nothing under $200. They ran out of alcohol within the first hour.

They are quite well off.

Friend I work with - her uncle is a multi millionaire ( sold a dot com business ) He has never shared his wealth with his family ( fair enough ) Her grandmother recently passed away and as the person dealing with his mother's will and therefore was the keyholder to her ( modest flat) My friend asked her uncle if she could have the recliner chair for her boyfriends gran. The uncle agreed - for £150 !