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' 😆

Df left the dc's Christmas gifts behind the sofa as he left...
Moved the bag to stash it and saw only 3 (obviously selection boxes).
Rang df later and reminded him I had 4x dc.
Apparently he didn't think ds 11 months would eat chocolate!!
Same tight git that won big money and nobody got a single penny.
Him and sm bought a 3 bed house cash and banked the rest.
Not grabby but he paid nil to dm when I was a dc.
Never intended to change either.

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My MIL has long since departed now but I remember one year she invited both her DC and their spouses to Christmas dinner at hers. So there was me and DH (her DS) and also DSIL and her DH. When she brought the food to the table my FIL took charge of serving.
He proceeded to load his and MILs plates up, then put plenty on the plates of their DC (my DH and SIL), put a smaller amount on my BILs plate and I - a guest - was served last. He put the smallest amount on my plate and saved some back so he could have leftovers! He often comes to us at the weekend for dinner now that he's widowed, and always helps himself biscuits and big portions of food, despite claiming to 'not have much of an appetite'.

At uni my (now) DH and his flatmates had a shared kitty for food. Being blokes, most of their meals were big bulky casserole or curry type foods that they would often have seconds or thirds of. One of the housemates used to charge his girlfriend 50p (this was some time ago!) and pocket it. She had the appetite of sparrow & would never have made much of a dent in the overall food served & the other housemates never objected to her eating with them. This only came to light at their wedding along with many other examples of his stinginess. To say the other housemates were gobsmacked is an understatement.
For a while she made up for his tight-arsed ways, but I think she eventually became immune to it and didn't notice it anymore. Needless to say we don't see them anymore!

DB & SIL are not just tight but shamefully grabby ,constantly expecting DM & DF to pay for them.

A couple of years ago it was our DM birthday went to a posh pub for dinner they tried to order their drinks with the waitress rather than pay at the bar like the rest of us,
When I pointed this out DSIL said “londongirl were not going to keep going upto the bar you know!” “I said you don’t have to but you will be paying your tab” I then got daggers all evening until the food bill came & I said I’ll pay for DM & DF as a B day treat,
DB brother said “But who’s going to pay for us” whilst glaring at me 😬They would only have had to pay for themselves DB then said “ok but I’m only going to put a token amount in!”
My DH pushed the bill towards them & said “No you can pay for exactly what you had” they were both fuming & haven’t been out with us since!😀

Well done @Londongirl79 call the CFs out. Bravo.

I think I might be the tight one... I buy expensive shampoo and conditioner for myself and keep it in my bedroom, taking it to the bathroom when I need it.
I buy my SD cheap shampoo and conditioner for her hair. I made the mistake in the past of leaving mine in the bathroom and she used practically the entire bottle of £20 conditioner in one go. I wasn't happy about it so now I just hide mine.
Might be tight but when she's older she will understand these things aren't cheap.

He has had 2 hefty inheritances over the years has blown them all on himself and despite living in a mortgaged big house with a nice car (I am single parent in rented with an old car) now is demanding I repay him every penny of my portion from years ago.

@PookieDo - your portion of what exactly? I don't get how he thinks you could possible owe him anything.

PIL in their late 70's, have hundreds of thousands in savings and FIL boasts what interest rates he's getting. They spend as little as possible, and on a recent weekend away to the Lake District cut costs by staying in a youth hostel and sharing bathroom facilities with a group of builders staying there. Unsurprisingly they came home early as FIL got D&V. I recently found out they only have a bath once a week too, and share the water.

Ex's gran is incredibly stingy but this one really shocked me.

Ex's great gran died in bed at home and her daughter (ex's stingy gran) wanted the bedsheets she died on rather than chuck them even though his gran has a single bed and great gran had double bed fitted sheets.
So the sheets her dead mother had lain on for some time she wanted to reuse

@kaitlinktm

He gave me some of the inheritance of our relative that went to him. It was a very blurry agreement where he kind of gifted it for a one off purchase but then changed his mind. I am not the only child who has had the same issue. Worse still in the case of the other child (step) their parent is now passed away and they are paying him back their own relatives inheritance to a man who isn’t related to them. I repaid some of it years ago and then he said don’t worry about it anymore. Now he wants it back. I am paying it

I have another one. Went out with a group of friends for a meal before cinema. Restaurant forgot my meal, ended up bringing it 3 minutes before we had to leave, after everyone else had eaten. I wolfed down as much as I could but obviously barely ate anything. The restaurant took my meal off the bill as a gesture of goodwill. I offered to split my 'discount' with the rest of the table to be kind. Friend in charge of sorting the bill, took this to mean we were splitting the cost equally, his meal cost £25 more than everyone else (steak, starter and 2 beers), and calculated a total for me that would mean I would be paying MORE than my meal would have even cost even if they hadn't taken my meal off the bill!

My SIL (very well off) was so stingy with presents when my dds were younger. Everything was purchased from rock bottom sales in bargain shops, which she would stash for literally years! She would openly brag about having everyone's presents 2 years in advance, I don't want to sound ungrateful but it led to some very odd gifts!
Best one was a craft set that had a little tube of glue. When I tried to open it, it had completely dried up after years in her cupboards! MIL isn't really stingy but has tons of crap she's bought "because it was cheap!" Again, a well off lady.

Pookie - honestly I wouldn't pay him any more. What is he going to do if you don't?

I just don't understand how people can be like this with their own children.

We had a birthday meal out with PILs - MILs birthday. We mention her birthday during the meal, they bring out her pudding with candles and sing Happy Birthday.

I didn't drink, and only had a main as on a diet. Happy enough to split anyway. £35 each. Knowing FIL is stingy as fuck, husband and I put £40 each down.

FIL gives the waiter £5 ("Here's something for you..."), and pockets our other fiver, paying their £35 each and nothing else. Worse still the waiter was American, and therefore probably found it even stingier.

@kaitlinktm

In my case it’s just not worth the hassle. He’s nasty and I am LC but it keeps the grief from him to a bare minimum

In the case of my step sibling it is pretty dispicable and I will never forgive him for asking his stepchild to pay back their maternal grandparents inheritance AFTER their own mother died. I think legally the inheritance did end up with my DF as he was married at the time and it became a joint asset but morally asking her to repay it now he is widowed is just too complicated. There is something seriously wrong with his morals

Love receiving other people's credit receipts for birthday/xmas, from obscure shops they've shopped in and then taken something back... especially when it's really old and scuffed so the bar code is barely readable.
Also, I knew someone who charged a 45p newspaper on their work expenses, that one cracked me up!

At lunch time People I worked with would buy 4 cups of hot water from the vending machine 2p each and dunk 1 tea bag between the 4 cups. By the time they got to cup 3 the water was grey. Yuck.
A man, also at the same place would switch his car engine off when going down steep hills to save petrol!

I agree with what someone else said about being expected to pay the same at dinner when some people order 3 courses, alcohol etc. and DH and I usually would just order 1 course and water or a soft drink. Bugger off, I'll pay for what I ordered and my share of the tip! Same reason I just buy my own drinks and don't join in drink rounds at all, fair enough if all drinking similar but not when I just want a lime soda...

@crispysausagerolls I had a very similar experience! An old housemate invited a mutual friend round for dinner and asked me if I wanted the leftover lasagna from their meal. I said thanks and then she said “shall we call it £3.50?”

A man, also at the same place would switch his car engine off when going down steep hills to save petrol!

A man I knew used to do that. Until the steering wheel locked and he couldn’t start the car on time as he careened into a ditch on the bend.

Didn’t have comprehensive insurance either, so ended up very much out of pocket and quite seriously injured

I went out for a work lunch in a small group the other day and one of my colleagues (an older guy in his late fifties) insisted that we order one of the more expensive bottles of wine. He then ordered another when it had been finished.

When the bill came he decided it was too expensive so he DEDUCTED THE TIP that had been automatically added and then split the total equally. The poor waiter asked if he had done something wrong for the tip to be removed. This chap just breezily said "no, we just thought it was a bit expensive". ("We"!!!!)

I am pregnant at the moment so not drinking - I was fuming! Nevertheless I paid an equal share and added service on to my portion of the bill.

As if it wasn't bad enough this dude is probably on £200k a year - far more than anyone else in the group. CF!

A friend of my dm is like this. Her and her now ex stayed with dm for a long weekend. Dm took them out somewhere nice for a day (and paid too), cooked, made small talk for hours etc. The last night friend suggested her and her dh go and get a takeaway. It was agreed and off they went. When they came back friend presented dm with the bill as the host always paid. Her dh was mortified as he too had assumed they were getting it as a little thank you for having them. She would even haggle at car boot sales and charity shops, walk miles to save 50p on parking etc too despite having £1000's in the bank. Her dh left her in the end as he wanted a comfortable retirement not one spent penny pinching and arguing over it.

@ Wearywithteens She also knits or crafts all gifts - or it comes from a charity shop. She is totally unashamed of this and us actually quite proud. She has no mortgage and no kids. She could afford to buy proper stuff.

Knitted and hand crafted gifts ARE "proper stuff". How unkind and ungrateful you sound about the gifts - you may well be right about the lunches, but blimey do you realise how long it takes to make things?

Couple had an engagement meal. £35 a head but when they came round to split the bill they rounded it up to £50 to cover tips and the cost of their meals.

They also asked for engagement gifts of money to ‘pay for the wedding’ - they got a card from me.

Invites have now been received and they’re trying to do the thing where guests pay over the odds for the rooms to cover the cost of the entire wedding. I’ve booked a Premier Inn for £35 fifteen minutes away. They are not happy because I’ve explained to everyone why and other guests have started to do the same.

Combined they’re on £50k and have over 80k in savings.