What is the stingiest thing you've ever done / seen someone do?

[Teadrinker11]

Yourself or someone else, what is the most stingy, mean, miserable thing is that you have ever done or seen someone else do?

@CSJobseeker No matter how many times you say it, eating 14 hard boiled eggs as a 'snack' is fucking insane - in any location. On a plane or public transport it is anti social as well.
She was obviously - even to a 14yo- clearing the fridges to ensure that the staff couldn't benefit, like a nasty, mean stingy multi millionaire.
Why on earth are you defending someone you don't know and who would have scorned your packed lunch from her first class seat? I take sandwiches when I go places - it is normal behaviour, 14 boiled eggs is batshit crazy!

Two couples went out for a drink (two family members and their partners).

Doing rounds all evening.

Then one was paying and someone else took their money to physically get the drink. He said keep the change to the barman, £3.50 out of £20.

Rage from the person who’s £20 it was. Absolutely shouldn’t have tipped the bar man £3.50.

Person who did it offered to replace the man’s £20 but it was too late, the guy was too angry.

Our local safari park used to charge per car I have fond memories of parking around the corner diving into a relatives car boot and getting in cheaper! They would pick us up just off the main road so technically private land the police saw it but never did anything as it wasn't on the actual road we got dropped off at the same point and walked up to get our car to go home secure in the knowledge of a cheap day out 🤣

Vintagecreamandcottagepie

A relative took oven chips to the beach

That just sparks so many questions….did the pre-cook them? Or cook them on a bbq?

I have seen someone ask for change from a poppy donation as they only wanted to pay 50p (they had a £1 coin).

We were invited to a bbq by some mates told to bring our own bbq and gas so we did because they didnt have any they then asked for half of the money for the food they were cooking and meant to be hosting that day.

There is often a reason why well-off people are well-off.

I recall a family I knew who were very affluent and for whom I did a considerable favour. The sort of family whose upper tier public school educated DC would jet off on lots of super expensive holidays with school friends at every opportunity. A Christmas present one year was a rather quirky really naff soapdish (the type you wouldn't really give house-room to as it would reflect badly on one's taste!) that was bought at some type of cost-price sale to which she had access via a connected friend.

Although I did get my revenge by taking a horrible porn dvd, and it was obviously horrible porn from the sleeve, back to his house and handing it to his mum

Serves the stingy bastard right

@TheDogsMother

Well I didn't think it was stingy I was berated by the decorator I was making a cup of tea for because I used the teabag to make two cups. Both his and mine at the same time, not reusing later.

You wouldn't be popular with a builder I know. He always uses 2 teabags to make his first cuppa. Something to do with hangovers!

Surely if someone has give you presents when in a relationship ownership passes to the recipient not the giver, so another case of theft :-(? Entirely right for PP to trump them at their own game with returning the horrible porn DVD. Revenge is indeed a dish best served cold!

@TheDogsMother

Well I didn't think it was stingy I was berated by the decorator I was making a cup of tea for because I used the teabag to make two cups. Both his and mine at the same time, not reusing later.

My mum does this. It's stingy and the yea is crap.

@Boobahs

Someone I work with told me that she used to pick up long receipts that people had left in the trolleys at Asda and then use them to get money back on the price guarantee scheme (when it was still available). Literally getting other people's money back.

I know loads of people that did that, I used to collect them if there a competition entry qualifier.

CSJobseeker oh I agree with you!
I still kick myself that I let it happen and since then I’ve become a lot better at not putting myself in situations where she can take the piss. She was/is incredibly pandered to for some reason and has an amazing knack for portraying herself as the victim.

Before that occasion she had been cheeky in the past but nothing quite on that level. I was mostly too shocked to say anything, the problem is I genuinely don’t think she thought she’d done anything wrong!

I have a friend (I am f, but probably not relevant) - we both work in fintech and are well paid. When we go for a meal if her bill is more she will offer to split. If her bill is less than mine she only wants to pay her part. Even down to 30p difference! I can't believe she sits and works that out in her head! She also made such a fuss just before Xmas when we had a "charity dessert" and they overcharged her by 27pence on the dessert price.

My first job at 15 in the 1980s was on the deli counter in Budgens in a fairly affluent area.

Jesus, the amount of fucking cheese that got wasted as I endlessly shaved off minuscule amounts of cheddar so that the lady standing in front of me who was literally dripping in furs and pearls got exactly the precise amount of cheese she wanted and not a few pence more. You'd do your best to approximate the weight, weigh it, make an adjustment so it was near as dammit and hopefully say "is 11 ounces ok?" only to be told that no, they wanted exactly 10 ounces ( with a heavy overtone of "you stupid girl")

I remember apologising to my manager about the waste at the time, complete bewildered as the customers clearly had plenty of money, who just laughed and said "how do you think they stay rich?"m

We used to eat most of the cheese shavings in sandwiches at lunch time, so all was not completely lost!

@NC223344

Two couples went out for a drink (two family members and their partners).

Doing rounds all evening.

Then one was paying and someone else took their money to physically get the drink. He said keep the change to the barman, £3.50 out of £20.

Rage from the person who’s £20 it was. Absolutely shouldn’t have tipped the bar man £3.50.

Person who did it offered to replace the man’s £20 but it was too late, the guy was too angry.

Hmm... I can see both sides here. Did the tipper make tips on the rounds they paid for? Or just when it was someone else's cash they were using?

I do tip bar staff/waiters, but tipping is something you should only really do with your own money, not other people's (unless agreed with them).

Myy friend and her family went to visit an old school friend and her family at the other end of the country.
The kids were fed separately, but for the adults the friend dished up rice and ONE TIN of Stagg chilli. Between four of them.
My friend is a fantastic cook and incredibly hospitable. She said she didn't dare look at her husband while they ate.
As soon as they left for their hotel, her husband started the car and said "Where's the nearest chippy?"

@MinnieJackson

Saw someone snapping the ends of broccoli in the veg shop before weighing it. My Gran always used to tell me not to tie a knot in the plastic bag when you put it on the scales there because it weighs more

I assume you mean they only took the florets but the big stalks by far the best part... we use to fight over who got it as a kid.

[quote lucillelarusso]@CSJobseeker No matter how many times you say it, eating 14 hard boiled eggs as a 'snack' is fucking insane - in any location. On a plane or public transport it is anti social as well.
She was obviously - even to a 14yo- clearing the fridges to ensure that the staff couldn't benefit, like a nasty, mean stingy multi millionaire.
Why on earth are you defending someone you don't know and who would have scorned your packed lunch from her first class seat? I take sandwiches when I go places - it is normal behaviour, 14 boiled eggs is batshit crazy! [/quote]
You obviously missed my reply where I said it changed things that there were staff there who could eat it

@Talipesmum

Here’s two cups of tea made with one bag. For me, that’s totally fine. I guess if you like it much stronger than that you wouldn’t be ok with one bag. But it comes out just like that in our big mugs as well (these are just the 300ml ones).

That's really weak tea. Fine if you like it but not OK to assume others do. Not sure it's stingy though so much as getting distracted and forgetting that drinking tea this weak is a bit niche.

I worked with a woman years ago who would go out at lunchtime, and trawl the shops for the cheapest place she could find a particular item (say a packet of cuppa soups). Then she'd go back to wherever it was cheapest, even by a penny.
She wasn't hard up. She had a brand new car every three years, and at least two foreign holidays a year.
A friend told me that she'd been Christmas shopping with this woman, and she'd gone to buy a present for her dad, who was terminally ill at the time. Apparently this woman was humming and hawing over the price of a bottle of aftershave, and actually said to the shop assistant "I don't want to spend too much, l don't know how long he's going to last."
My friend was so disgusted and embarrassed, she walked out of the shop and left her.

@CSJobseeker tipper tips everyone all the time, it’s like he is allergic to having money in his pocket!

But £3.50!! When they’re cleaning up after you all night isn’t exactly extravagant imo.

Eating the dissection class heart has made me proper chuckle

Eldest child's Godfather was visiting when I was pregnant with DS2 and kindly offered to take him to play group so I could put my feet up. this was very helpful of him, although I was giving him lunch upon his return (renowned as a bit stingy). When he came back I'd remembered that it was a £1 fee to go to group so gave him a pound coin (expecting him to refuse it). He pocketed it. When I went to play group the next week the organiser mentioned he'd been and that she'd let him off the pound as he didn't have any money on him. So he accepted money from me (a measly fucking pound) for a payment he'd got out of anyway!

My boss used to hang his teabags up to dry before reusing them. And he brought me in a part-used bottle of milk for my coffee one day telling me it was what was left of his cats milk and I could finish it off. 🤢

Reusing dental floss