What's the most stingy thing that you have ever done or seen someone do?

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What's the stingiest thing you've ever done yourself or seen someone else do?

I went out for lunch with a friend who was a (mature) student at the time. I paid for lunch as I was more flush than her at the time. I left an appropriate cash tip on the table which she scooped up as we were leaving and said oo, I’ll have that! .

I was so stunned I didn’t say anything.

Worked in a shop. Woman came back in the shop 20 minutes after she left because she was over charged by 2p.

As a teen I worked in a café. As we waitresses brought plates back to the kitchen, the owner would delve in for uneaten salad, rinse it off and stick it in the salad bucket to be sent out with the next meals.
This was back when all tables had ashtrays - we used to put fag ask on the lettuce, or smear ketchup - anything to stop her.
Sometimes she used to tut at our plates and comment what animals people were, stubbing cigarettes out on the plates!
She wasn’t always in the kitchen, so we got a lot straight into the bin, too.

Ex boyfriend made a big fuss over telling me to put my card away and paying for my share of the meal when out with his friends. He had a reputation for being mean so there was general banter about how he must really like me etc. I thanked him and bought the drinks later.

The next morning he accused me of fleecing him and asked me for the money for my meal . He genuinely couldn’t understand why I was upset.

Back in the 70s, having a late night drink in the 3 Johns in Islington, a very drunk man went up to order a pint and the barman tipped the contents of the pump drip trays into his glass and then topped it up from the pump. As an aside, the pub was my local for a couple of years and I recently found out that the early members of the Russian Communist party met there to plan their manifesto. I know Lenin lived close by for a short time. I wonder if they served them slops? No wonder they were angry with capitalists!

@Toomuchtoodo

Ex boyfriend made a big fuss over telling me to put my card away and paying for my share of the meal when out with his friends. He had a reputation for being mean so there was general banter about how he must really like me etc. I thanked him and bought the drinks later.

The next morning he accused me of fleecing him and asked me for the money for my meal . He genuinely couldn’t understand why I was upset.

I had an ex a bit like this. He liked to people he didn't know that well to think he was really generous so if we went out for dinner with a group of friends/colleagues he would make a big deal about encouraging everyone to order lots of drinks/extra food etc and saying he would pick up the tab. The following day he would invariably ask me and some of his closer friends to share the cost. He had plenty of spare cash so if he really wanted to look flash he could have afforded to actually pay for everyone. He couldn't understand why his friends 'suddenly became tight' (ie asked for individual bills).

He also used to buy multi-packs/gift packs of things like books, toiletries, socks from discount shops and split them to give as presents to his friends (including me) and family. eg. each person would get one item from the set (even if these were linked eg. trilogy of books)

A relative of mine who carries around T bags goes to cafes or bars and asks for a mug of hot water and a a splash of milk.

I worked as a waitress at a restaurant called Chez Jules in Birmingham in the early 2000s. Once the head chef called over the owner saying there were lots of worms in some of the fish. The owner told him to pull them out, and he put them on as a special.

A man that cut coupons and deducted the value from the amount he gave his wife each week for housekeeping! Not related to me in any way shape or form!

Out for lunch with a friend. Said will we just half the bill when it arrived and she pointed out that her toastie was 20p cheaper than the one I had…

Colleague of my father used to shower in the work gym every morning to spare the hot water at home. He was well paid, lived in a gorgeous house and was married to a doctor….money not a problem!

25 years of bringing lovely wine to SILs events only for them to have ‘run out of wine’ and offer a bottle of beer or a vodka n coke to us. I know they keep the wine we bring round to regift.

My mom used to take napkins from restaurants etc.

Thought there was a glitch for a minute

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