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?

@Santaisstilleatingmincepies

Dh vacuums our fake grass. Our ndn mops the path outside her gate.. She is even on Google maps doing it!

This isn't stingy. It's just very clean. They aren't the same thing at all

@Bluebluemoon39

We went away with my dh's family once (never again) and his db and his wife went around a few of the local pubs to check the price of a pint of beer and after declaring them "a rip off" (they weren't, they were just holiday place prices) went and bought a load of tinnies from Lidl and sat on a bench near the beach getting drunk every evening instead of going to the pub.

I wouldn't mind but they're actually quite well off!

That's obviously why they are well off

I used to work in a nice restaurant (£80+ a head 25 years ago). Lots of work places would come in for meals paid by work. They never left tips. Twats.

My dad used to squash the toilet rolls flat so they would only turn one sheet at a time.

@AngelinaFibres

She has also stopped telling me that I have to clear my plate In restaurants and that I can't have a pudding if I have left my mains.

What a twat. Did she think she was your mother instead of a SIL?

@Crikeyalmighty

Here in Denmark we have significant refunds on plastic bottles and cans and you see guys in town going round all day emptying the bins and picking up off streets all day— it’s kind of upsetting , but kind of hearwarming too , as a bin bag full can give you about £8 off a shop.

I can’t believe we don’t do this here. It’s shameful that we don’t.

My ex:

• stole toilet paper and milk from work regularly (highly paid professional job)
• dug random floorboards out of skips and kept them in our garden in case we needed them for our renovation (never did, but the floorboards stayed there for ages)
• only takes his mother out for dinner using Tesco clubcard discounts
• decided to do extensive home renovation work himself, which also meant no family holiday for us (he was too busy) - killed two birds with one cheapness stone
• when we were dating and in a LDR, made me pay for some of his flights to visit me since I was doing less travel
• was angry that I bought a wedding dress (and definitely refused to contribute to it) because he thought it was a waste of money
• refused to attend marriage counseling because it was a waste of money
• has had multiple tradesmen show up at the house angrily due to his withholding payment for some reason or another
• refused to actually hire a lawyer in our divorce, pushing all costs onto me
• forced me to live with a lodger when I had a newborn, even though I said I wasn't ok with this
• threw a strop when I wanted to fly home for a family wedding, due to the cost
• wouldn't agree to do a real honeymoon. Instead we had to wait for after the wedding and book the cheapest discount option we could

He makes £10k net per month but just battled to pay £200 less in child maintenance per month. Despite reducing his maintenance payment, he:

• told me that if I want the curtains my mother made back, I have to buy him replacement curtains of his choice
• recently emailed to ask me to send our daughter's casual shoes for her visits to him so she doesn't wear out her school shoes (since clearly he would never buy anything for her to use at his home)
• forbade me from selling our daughter's old buggy unless I agreed to share the proceeds with him (I said I would put it towards our daughter's care)
• apparently didn't buy our daughter any Christmas presents this year(?)
• told our daughter he was going to take her shopping but then "forgot"

[quote Fraine]@AngelinaFibres

She has also stopped telling me that I have to clear my plate In restaurants and that I can't have a pudding if I have left my mains.

What a twat. Did she think she was your mother instead of a SIL?[/quote]
I am 56, she is 75 so, to be fair, she probably saw me as someone who needed to be parented. I married her brother when I was a 34 year old, divorced, single mum of 2. I started as I meant to go on and very much dissuaded her of this idea. Now when she tries to suggest I might like to be as mean and miserable and mood hoovering as her , I like to smile and say "That's a lovely idea X but I wont be doing it ".

@gelatodipistacchio

My ex:

• stole toilet paper and milk from work regularly (highly paid professional job)
• dug random floorboards out of skips and kept them in our garden in case we needed them for our renovation (never did, but the floorboards stayed there for ages)
• only takes his mother out for dinner using Tesco clubcard discounts
• decided to do extensive home renovation work himself, which also meant no family holiday for us (he was too busy) - killed two birds with one cheapness stone
• when we were dating and in a LDR, made me pay for some of his flights to visit me since I was doing less travel
• was angry that I bought a wedding dress (and definitely refused to contribute to it) because he thought it was a waste of money
• refused to attend marriage counseling because it was a waste of money
• has had multiple tradesmen show up at the house angrily due to his withholding payment for some reason or another
• refused to actually hire a lawyer in our divorce, pushing all costs onto me
• forced me to live with a lodger when I had a newborn, even though I said I wasn't ok with this
• threw a strop when I wanted to fly home for a family wedding, due to the cost
• wouldn't agree to do a real honeymoon. Instead we had to wait for after the wedding and book the cheapest discount option we could

He makes £10k net per month but just battled to pay £200 less in child maintenance per month. Despite reducing his maintenance payment, he:

• told me that if I want the curtains my mother made back, I have to buy him replacement curtains of his choice
• recently emailed to ask me to send our daughter's casual shoes for her visits to him so she doesn't wear out her school shoes (since clearly he would never buy anything for her to use at his home)
• forbade me from selling our daughter's old buggy unless I agreed to share the proceeds with him (I said I would put it towards our daughter's care)
• apparently didn't buy our daughter any Christmas presents this year(?)
• told our daughter he was going to take her shopping but then "forgot"

And the award for total cunt of the millennium goes to...... What an absolute arsehole

@AngelinaFibres it’s good you stood up to her! She sounds a character!

@HoneyFlowers

My father in law would not pay £1 for parking their car near our wedding venue when we got married, he'd only park it in free parking the other side of town and therefore when we arrived at wedding venue we were all waiting around 25 minutes for him to catch up and arrive so we could get on with our wedding day.

My husband wouldn’t pay for parking at the hospital when we went in with me in labour 😆 We had to park round the corner (free on street parking)

@Tanith

My dad used to squash the toilet rolls flat so they would only turn one sheet at a time.

My husband was brought up by a father who only allowed his children 3 pieces of toilet paper after a poo. Husband explained to my teenage children the principle of "one for up, one for down, one for a final polish". They cried with laughter at this concept.

@AngelinaFibres he's very unique. Fortunately.

[quote gelatodipistacchio]@AngelinaFibres he's very unique. Fortunately.[/quote]
Love your user name, that’s my favourite flavour!

@Fraine grazie!

Gelato wow he really is a stingey bastard !

My late father in law did a lot for charity. Once when I went to visit he had boxes of donated items in the living room ready to be shipped off to Romania. My sister in law (without his knowledge) went rifling through them & picked out numerous items that she took a shine to, including a cashmere jumper. She excused it by saying that "the Romanians wouldn't appreciate it".

[quote Fraine]@AngelinaFibres it’s good you stood up to her! She sounds a character![/quote]
It's actually brilliant fun heading off mean people at the first hurdle. I see it as a personal challenge to do it with charm, and in as natural a way as I can, so they have no way out. I had a friend who I used to meet for lunch who never had any money on her. She wasn't great company so it was no great loss to let the friendship die. Before it did I changed how we met up. Instead of meeting her at the cafe/restaurant, I would meet her in town. We would walk to the place together, but on the way I would remember that I needed the cashpoint. I would smile at her and say "Do you need any cash ?". It killed stone dead the opportunity for the "Oh I haven't any cash/have left my card at home" Blah feckin blah. First time I did it she was horrified. On the last occasion we met she went straight to the restaurant because she was late. Out came the old no cash bullshit. We were in town so I said "Oh no problem there is a cashpoint on the corner. Im not that hungry so happy to wait while you pop and get some". Was too busy to meet her in the end....until it died off. Spring clean the cheeky fuckers out if your life , but catch them out a bit first

@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!

Well this is stealing? It will also leave someone short changed when they realise they have 8 tablets missing!

My neighbour told me her ex used to wipe "clean" used dental floss (using his thumb and finger) and reuse.

Billionaire saying “Now, how shall we split this?” when given a £15 bar bill. He’d had three drinks and I’d had one. I was mortified (waiter standing there waiting) and said, “Don’t worry, I’ll get this”, to which he responded, “Thank you very much”. I’d paid for the drinks the day before as well.

He’s a well known miser and it’s a bit of a joke among people who know him - although I don’t find it that funny.

My friend sold a lamp on Facebook Buy and Sell and actually removed the bulb from it before handing it over to the buyer.

I believe stingy-ness only counts if it actually inconveniences you to be stingy, yet you still do it - like knocking a neighbours door asking to check their garden for beer you left behind as PP said. I mean, you're really going out of your way there aren't you for the sake of a few beers. Whereas using branches from dog walks for wood instead of buying it etc, is just more convenient, you might as well and would be wasteful not to.

A friend would take loo rolls from the office where he worked - those enormous ones that go into the wall mounted holders. Surprised he never took the bloody holder tbh. He was also known for taking every tea/coffee sugar sachet whenever he stayed in a hotel, and all the condiment sachets if out for a meal. His cupboards are full of them. He's often late because he never pays to park so will spend 15 mins driving round for a free space.

The peak though was finding out that he took empty bottles to Travelodges which he filled with the shower gel from the wall dispenser 🤣🤣 He did the same at the gym/pool as well, as they have similar dispensers.

I'm all for saving money but that's just too much for me!

@Lamont77

My friend sold a lamp on Facebook Buy and Sell and actually removed the bulb from it before handing it over to the buyer.

I believe stingy-ness only counts if it actually inconveniences you to be stingy, yet you still do it - like knocking a neighbours door asking to check their garden for beer you left behind as PP said. I mean, you're really going out of your way there aren't you for the sake of a few beers. Whereas using branches from dog walks for wood instead of buying it etc, is just more convenient, you might as well and would be wasteful not to.

Your lamp story reminds me that years ago a relative bought a house. They'd paid a good price because of the location and plot, when they moved in they found the sellers had taken every single lightbulb in every room in the house, from the overhead lights, wall lights, even the shaver light in the bathroom.

I have a friend who barely uses each teabag. She'll dunk the bag in hot water for a few seconds. As far as I'm aware she doesn't reuse each bag but she easily could get 3 or 4 of her preferred strength cups out of 1 bag.