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?

We have milk provided for a break. Someone who earns a lot of money in the department, takes it home at the end of the week, it can be a few single pints worth...this person also never buys anything for snacks(bread
cheese, butter, cakes, sweets biscuits) but eats all of it throughout the day.

I was on a first date, the boy took me to the theatre (which was thoughtful), turned up and asked what we should do beforehand, I suggested a drink maybe? He said he couldn't buy one as he had just spent his money in Tower Records....

@Thebestusername1

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.

Did they ask you to leave behind the bbq and gas as well?

All of dh's family at ours for xmas. Asked BIL and SIL to bring beer, JUST beer. We catered everything else and paid for their accommodation. They did bring beer. They ate and drank merrily all over xmas. When they left they went into our fridge, collected the beer tins that were left and took them home.

(They have no money worries by the way)

@ConstantCougher

Someone told me they ‘steal’ packs from inside packs at the supermarket and add it to theirs eg paracetamol from one carton and add it to another so they only pay for say 16 but get 24!

And then there's me, buys a box of expensive painkillers because period pain is a killer, to discover an EMPTY BOX!!

Absolutely mortified that I decided to take a 3/4 bottle of wine to a mates house. Just grabbed out of fridge. I really don’t know what i was thinking!!! I wasn’t drinking myself so thought we’ll that’s better than nothing 😂😫.

Not understanding why some people think it is stingy to rinse out bottles, use the last piece of soap etc. surely it’s simply avoiding waste?

@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 do have a certain sympathy with this, some broccoli has a huge long stem, it really should be properly trimmed and the stalks are heavier than the heads. But I don't take it off, just choose veg with small stalks and big heads.

Years ago at a market in Goa, where abject poverty is seen everywhere, we witnessed some people haggling loudly and ferociously with the vendor at a quite small fruit stall over the price of a bunch of bananas!! This made us ashamed to be human...I felt like giving those mean spirited horrible individuals a massive piece of my mind and I regret not doing so!!!

At a works "do", collecting all the plastic cutlery and glasses to take home to wash

Friend went shopping with her friend to a charity shop. When they got back home the fof noticed that the plate she'd bought from the shop for 20p was cracked. She went back to the shop and asked for a refund.

I used to work at Marks and Spencer when I was younger and I would do anything to avoid working on the till. I would often skive on the information desk, and Oh did I regret it when an older gentleman came in and and produced a carrot from his pocket!

Apparently the carrot was a ‘funny shape’ and he demanded a refund. It was at the time when M&S would refund and replace even without a receipt so the gent ended up with a whole 7p refund, and a new carrot- he didn’t have a receipt so god knows where he got it! 😂😂

Cut the stem from broccoli and cut the tough outside off then chop the inner bit into slices. Its delicious stir fried.

Gloucestershire Adult Social Care has not paid me money for care for my MS since 2013 and sent som asst*le to calculate how may loads of washing I did p/w.

The same council's CEO was reported as having received £330,000 for 2017 alone.

@Xmasgetaway

I knew a family that plastic runners on their carpets in all rooms to protect them from being walked on.

My Nan used to do this ! Thanks for the memory jog .

@HumourReplacementTherapy

About a year after a woman I worked with retired, someone bumped into her on the top floor of our office building with a towel in her hand. She had kept hold of her door pass and come into town each day on foot and used the work showers, (which were not very nice anyway )

She also used to fill up two large water bottles every day and take the water home with her.

Maybe she was living in a van?

My uncle (notoriously tight with money) promised to take my aunt out for their anniversary as they never celebrated,

She excitedly got ready.... he took her to Marks to buy sandwiches which they ate on a park bench

@Dontwanttolivewithmylover

On two day trips last year, everyone seemed to be separately tipping both driver and courier. I did not and do not. It meant that of everyone gave £2 to each, then each of them received £60. I never tip.

I mean I'm if you don't tip you don't tip but when I hear people say stuff like this it always makes me die a little bit inside.

I know tipping is arbitrary and sometimes doesn't make sense. I work in retail and don't get tipped, yet I happily tip waiters, hairdressers, bar staff etc. I give the postman and bin men Christmas boxes.

Basically I tip people in shitty jobs who do the jobs I wouldn't want to do and I'm very grateful for it. Chucking a quid or two in the driver's plate to cover a days full driving, commentary and help with local information seems a small human thing to do to show appreciation. So they make an extra £60? Good luck to them.

I had a 'friend' who did this, a group of girls went out for dinner, we all went up to pay for our meal and paid a bit extra for a tip, last one up just paid the difference - using our tip to pay for most of her dinner. I was in the loo so didn't realise until one of my other friends told me on the way home. I was furious especially as the person in question had also managed to get me to drive her home to save a taxi - a 10 mile round drive, which I didn't mind at all until I heard she had used our tips to buy most of her dinner and the pub which had been lovely hadn't got wha
t they deserved. Never have or will go out with her again.

Saw someone swap the label for the standard spring onions and put it on to the organic ones in the supermarket to save a few pence. That's when stingy becomes stealing though.

I knew a girl who took the batteries out of her alarm clock every morning to save them

@squashyhat

I guess this was a product of memories of wartime shortages but I remember when I was a child my Dad would stick the tiny sliver of old soap onto a new bar rather than throw it away. I now get really irritated with my DH for throwing away the dregs of a shampoo bottle rather than turn it upside down and squeezing it into the new one so Dad must have passed on his parsimonious habits

My Dad did this too! I think it came from being a child in WW2.

Meanest thing I saw personally was when DH and I met my sister and her DH for lunch. When the bill came, both DH's put some change down on the saucer as a tip and as the waiter was taking it away my sister reached out and took some of it back as she must have thought it was over-generous! Embarrassing or what.

On a day out with the kids, aged about 10 at the time, with my Very Ex Partner. We went in to a cafe for a cup of tea and decided to get cream teas. The ex was livid that I’d ordered for the kids as well…. He was just going to sit and eat his while they didn’t have anything except a drink. He wasn’t even paying the bill!!
I stood my ground and he barged out of the cafe, just left us there. We made the best of the situation and ate our scones quite happily, and I was fully expecting to be finding our own way home again but unfortunately we ran into him again later. He ruined our day out that day and on many other occasions too with his meanness. And I don’t just mean in a financial way.

I worked at a furniture shop which was outside our small country town. There was a cafe behind which was owned by the shop owner. We had a carpark, the cafe didn't. Large walking group appeared one day. They all came as one person per car , no lift sharing to cut down the number of cars. They wanted to use the shop carpark whilst they walked, which would have meant we had very few spaces left for other customers. They made a big thing about going to the cafe for lunch afterwards so, as there were about 25 of them, the owner agreed. They parked for 3 hours. When they got back 2 of them went to the cafe .....for a single pot of tea. Most of them got in their cars and drove away .The final 4 really took the biscuit. They sat in 4 individual cars and ate packed lunches they had brought with them and then went to the cafe to use the toilet. Absolute bunch of entitled cunts.

@HumourReplacementTherapy

About a year after a woman I worked with retired, someone bumped into her on the top floor of our office building with a towel in her hand. She had kept hold of her door pass and come into town each day on foot and used the work showers, (which were not very nice anyway )

She also used to fill up two large water bottles every day and take the water home with her.

I reckon she was on a water meter at home