Page 25 | What is the stingiest thing you've ever done / seen someone do?

Teadrinker11 · 2022-01-12T21:03:17+00:00

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

Icantfindmykeys · 14/01/2022 21:25

Switching the kettle off before it completely boiled to save electricity 😂😂

SallyWD · 14/01/2022 21:25

Yes haggling is perfectly normal and expected in Goa.

Icantfindmykeys · 14/01/2022 21:26

It wasn’t me!

Fraine · 14/01/2022 21:26

@Ijustreallywantacat

I delivered newspapers at 13. The customers handed me the money for the delivery at the end of the week or left it outside. Let's say £4, I can't remember exactly. The shop took a cut.

It was snowing up to my ankles one time and pitch black. I fell over and got a bloody nose and my trolley broke, so I carried this giant stack of papers to each house. I was about 30 minutes late to the customer at the very top of hill.

This lady opened the door to my bloodied, dirty, frozen self and docked 50p for the lateness, and 50p for the fact that some of the sports pages had been folded and crumpled. She then slammed the door in my face.

In contrast, next (and last) customer insisted I come in and washed my face and hands, fixed my trolley wheel and gave me some nice hot toast.

So sorry about the nasty lady. Did you tell the shop?

I’m glad the last customer was lovely

AngelinaFibres · 14/01/2022 21:26

@RedBeetroot12

Big no-no from me too! Ye-uck, who wants pi55y tea !

Me .I love pissy tea. My husband likes stronger tea. One tea bag is perfect. Works for us. Not done to save money.

Ddot · 14/01/2022 21:28

I like my tea weak just threaten it with the bag

Octopuscrazy · 14/01/2022 21:29

@TheYearOfSmallThings

I once poured a cup of boiling hot tea into a jar of Nutella that was waiting to be washed out. I let it sit for a couple of minutes, then drank it from the jar. The jar was pretty clean, and no Nutella got wasted.

I would only admit this on an anonymous forum.

This is genius. Now I'm annoyed at throwing away the jar of Nutella two days ago.

coffeetofunction · 14/01/2022 21:29

I once took a friend away for the weekend for a birthday surprise. City break and theatre tickets. One day we popped to a shop for some lunch, and grabbed a couple of meal deals. When we got back to the hotel she asked me for the £3.50 for my meal deal 😱

Tigger1895 · 14/01/2022 21:31

I know someone who booked a flight from Ireland to spain via Birmingham with a 3 hour stopover as it saved her 30€. I reckon she spent 15£ in the airport but she saved and that’s all she cared about.

Chercando · 14/01/2022 21:31

Someone drives to the Green in our tiny village in their brand new top of range BMW and takes the dog poop bags that the local community group leave for dog walkers to use. There are 4 or 5 different people who all come driving up within a day or so of them being replaced and then they're gone. One guy will literally unhook the full set of a few hundred bags and takes them all if he gets there first. They must know when they're replenished. I know they say watch the pennies and the pounds sort themselves but that's taking it a bit far!

chickenfeathers · 14/01/2022 21:31

When I was young, my mum had a part time cleaning job. Her boss was quite wealthy - but she insisted my mum emptied rubbish directly into dustbin, then washed out the bin liner so it could be re-used

Fraine · 14/01/2022 21:31

@constantlystartingadiet

When Waitrose did free tea/coffee with the my Waitrose card, they may still do, its been a while since I went to Waitrose, I saw someone filling up a empty jar with a hot drink and put it in their bag for later.

Is that that bad? They were presumably entitled to their 1 free hot drink?

nildesparandum · 14/01/2022 21:32

My late MIL used to try the electricity off at the mains every night because someone told her that the power leaked from the plug sockets at night time and had to be payed for. There was a street light conveniently outside the front of her house and she would not close the bedroom curtains so the light would shine in from the street after she had switched the power off so you could find your way round if you needed to get up at night.
She had been brought up in poverty so knew how to save the pennies.

Maireas · 14/01/2022 21:37

@coffeetofunction

I once took a friend away for the weekend for a birthday surprise. City break and theatre tickets. One day we popped to a shop for some lunch, and grabbed a couple of meal deals. When we got back to the hotel she asked me for the £3.50 for my meal deal 😱

What did you do? I hope you didn't pay!

Fraine · 14/01/2022 21:38

@Blankscreen

Some people are only stingy when it comes to them having to spend their own money but happy to accept other' hospitality.

We've got some couple friends and the dh of the couple is a big drinker.

When we invite them over they will turn up with 1 bottle of wine and 2 mismatched beers. They always inevitably drink loads of our wine (circa 4 or 5 bottles). He has been known to take msmatched beers home with him!

When we get invited there we take 2 bottle, some chocs and flowers but every time the dh says he hasn't got a drink and shall he and my dh nip to the shop to get some

DH goes with him and somehow always ends up paying!

It's actually just f'ing rude behaviour

Why are you still friends with them? Dump them!

Nanarchy · 14/01/2022 21:45

There's a difference between thrift and stinginess!
My former husband had a new lady friend, who moved in with him and they agreed to share costs.
He stood outside the bathroom while she showered and timed her so that he could estimate how much hot water she had used . He then presented her with an itemised portion of the electricity bill!
She 'phoned me and asked if I had left him because of his extreme meanness. (I did!)
I said I wasn't going to say anything, and that she must draw her own conclusions.
She left a week later, and now he has the household bills all to himself.

Hmmmwhatnametochoose · 14/01/2022 21:48

I was temporarily working in a different department - no office or 'base' for me. I was about to present, with my notes on a bundle of paper. I asked a colleague if he could please staple my notes together for me (he had a stapler on his desk). He refused. I thought he was joking at first but he maintained that it was that department's policy not to give out stationery.

It was one staple...

JudgeJ · 14/01/2022 21:48

I was heating smoked haddock chowder soup in the microwave for my lunch, I had also made some boccoli and stilton which I was decanting form the pan into freezer boxes. I took the chowder from the microwave, put the bowl down near the pan and absent mindedly poured the broccol and stilton into the chowder. I can assure you that smoked haddock, broccoli and stilton is not a good taste but I couldn't waste it, could I!!

Briony123 · 14/01/2022 22:03

@Theunamedcat

Weigh the veg on the machine THEN bag it

Collect pine cones use them as firestarters

Collect branches on every dog walk year round burn them through the winter

My dad used to follow the coal wagon and catch what bounced off and follow horses with a bucket to catch manure for the roses

My nan bought a heart for my moms dissection lesson at school she was sick that day so they had it for tea instead

These are all pretty standard (horse manure, fire starters, coal) or EXCELLENT tips

Scrumpy10 · 14/01/2022 22:04

Cutting the done toothpaste tube in half to be sure all of the toothpaste is used

AngelinaFibres · 14/01/2022 22:07

@Ddot

I like my tea weak just threaten it with the bag

My dad used to dip a teabag in boiling water, count to 12 , then take it out. No milk. I drank tea like that when I was pregnant. Milk made me throw up.

Thatsplentyjack · 14/01/2022 22:08

My mum was at ours for a roast one night and I accidentally burnt the 6 Yorkshire puddings. Properly burnt and absolutely solid. I just stuck some more on for dinner. She took the burnt ones home!! What for, I don't know and neither did she, but apparently would use them for something

Fraine · 14/01/2022 22:09

@Clearthinking

Father in law brought a boot full of beer to drink at our wedding instead of paying bar prices! Mother on law nursed a large coke all evening. They then offered to pay for our honeymoon, booked 4 bed then offered to come with us to a romantic log cabin

I don’t think your FIL was tight. Some would say charging your guests or drinks was tight!

AngelinaFibres · 14/01/2022 22:09

@Scrumpy10

Cutting the done toothpaste tube in half to be sure all of the toothpaste is used

You can get a gadget to roll the tube up and squeeze every last drop out. I haven't got one but it seems like a brilliant idea.

Rp735 · 14/01/2022 22:10

@TheYearOfSmallThings

I once poured a cup of boiling hot tea into a jar of Nutella that was waiting to be washed out. I let it sit for a couple of minutes, then drank it from the jar. The jar was pretty clean, and no Nutella got wasted.

I would only admit this on an anonymous forum.

I do it with every jar and will proudly admit it! I hate waste.