Stingiest things thread(op for R&R access)

Dodge

enjoying 10 month old stinge having to be explained

(miss this thread…)

JCX BXC

Had a woman Ive never seen before at work today come up to me and ask me if she could have my can of coke when I was finished with it! (For the deposit)

I get some people throw them away still, but I actually do keep them and I just can't imagine the nerve of going up to strangers and asking them for an empty can, lug it all the way home and then to the shop, for the sake of 15c.

Quazzie

There's a video doing the rounds of a guy driving for Panda and he's at one of those can/bottle return machines returning hundreds of cans and bottles he recovered from the garbage he collected.

the_pen_turner

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122003744#Comment_122003744

not sure thats stinge. more cute heur

loyatemu

Panda won't be impressed, they presumably sell their recovered material. I know the new scheme is designed to stop bottles and cans going into the general recycling but it's still material Panda is collecting by truck, so it's theirs.

JohnCleary

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122002897#Comment_122002897

You've never been to Germany, i'm guessing. Only last week in Cologne / Dusseldorf, I had people reaching out their arm as I walked by with an (even almost) empty bottle / can.

In Germany, people don't put bottles / cans / glass into the bin, they leave it BESIDE the bin. A minute or two later, it's in someones bag. Great system! (The 'not throwing it in the bin' system, not the recycling charge system)

JCX BXC

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122004835#Comment_122004835

I've been to Germany many times.

Have often done the "beside the bin" thing because who wants to return bottles when they're abroad for a few days!

However I feel that's different. The people begging you for cans on the street are often homeless or beggars. This is within the workplace. It just seems like alot of effort for someone who's likely on 50k+ a year.

fitzparker

Not sure if stinge or not, more cheeky

Was at the jet wash recently and there was alot of silt on the ground (allbeit not from my car but an accumulation of all the cars)

As I cleaned my car the lady behind asked me if I would wash all the silt away as even though its not off my car it would dirty her car as it was "so low down" and get onto her trousers

I laughed and said if she gave me a fiver id do it as it would take about 10 minutes to get rid of half of it… she just rolled up her window (actually, maybe im the stinge for asking her now haha)

steinbock123

Thirty years ago or so, my brother in law used to bring his elderly mother to the bingo every Tuesday and Thursday. About 3 miles there and back on country roads. Every time he’d ask her for a fiver “petrol money”! This was his own mother, who gave him his dinner once a week, and another on a plate to take home, ( as his then wife was a lousy cook.)

antimatterx

I was in a taxi recently coming home from the airport and I went to pay at the end ofmy journey. The card machine wouldn't work, it initially wouldn't turn on and it kept declining my card (I tried multiple).

Now he shouldn't have been working in this scenario as it's mandatory to accept card but I just wanted to get into my house, and I happened to have cash on me which I never do, because I hate cash. The fare was €25.20, and he wouldn't even round it down and give me a flat €25 back. He gave me the exact change and I had to deal with coins. The man could have been fined €200 for this.

JCX BXC

Cash is King.

Can't imagine you'd be fined if the card machine genuinely malfunctioned.

antimatterx

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122297011#Comment_122297011

Cash is not king. Cash is a pain in the hole.

What if I didn't have any cash. I usually don't, i just happened to this time because I was paid by a friend for something the same day in cash.

fitzparker

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122297011#Comment_122297011

id say its been on the blink for weeks and everyone who gets in is told "it just went on me"

hoodie6029

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122010543#Comment_122010543

That was pure stinge of her expecting you to use your time on the machine to clean the ground for her.
Those unattended car washes are a joke. Never cleaned. In my local Tesco one all the builders etc roll in on a Friday evening to blast all the mud off their jeeps and vans. They leave mounds of dirt on the ground and drive off.

PTH2009

People collecting 'return bottles and cans' for personal profit

EmmetSpiceland

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122300258#Comment_122300258

Do you mean the homeless or ordinary folk?

fitzparker

Not sure if stinge but i'll mention it, On a more than a few occasions I have witnessed staff from a local restaurant bringing cans to machine for the deposit return scheme ( in full restaurant attire so its during their working hours)

I am not sure if

1) they now fill up the customers glass with their can
2) they are getting staff to go through the bin and or keep the cans/bottle when cleaning after the customer

Brian2208

Customers generally aren't charged the deposit for drinks served in the restaurants, and it would be standard to separate cans and bottles for recycling when clearing tables

antimatterx

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122300258#Comment_122300258

That doesn't bother me tbh. I haven't returned one can or bottle. It's degrading. They all go in the green bin.

kowloonkev

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122300677#Comment_122300677

Nice of you to grace our presence, your majesty.

Cork Lass

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122300677#Comment_122300677

I’m at a loss as to how it is degrading, can you explain?

JCX BXC

The most annoying thing about the scheme is the uncollected deposits are retained by the scheme operator. The lack of transparency is a real issue.

That makes me more inclined to make returns than anything else!

Jesus though, how do you expect a few lads drinking down sparch to bring the bags of cans around with them all day is beyond me.

I've 3 shops within a 10 minute walking distance, all sell drinks but none accept returns. I've to walk 25minutes.

D3V!L

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122300258#Comment_122300258

My wife works in a DCC community centre and the sheer amount of bottles and cans dumped by the general public is shocking. Shes started to take out the deposit return ones from the bins and saves them in plastic bags. We've cut our grocery bill down by a third a week from her doing this.

She's gloved up and all when she's empting the bins so its no big deal to her.

pgj2015

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122295238#Comment_122295238

Anyone decent would throw him 30 euro anyway. card readers break at times, technology, you know how it goes. the NTA wouldnt fine the driver for this in reality. And if the fare said 25.20, he wasnt doing anything wrong by asking for the full amount.

If you bought a few items in a shop and the bill was 25:20, do you think the guy working behind the counter would say ah sure we will leave it at 25 euro? not a chance.

pgj2015

paypal? but obviously it would be up to you to pay the driver at some stage, no free taxi trips.

OhHiMark

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122302416#Comment_122302416

If you bought a few items in the shop and the bill was 25.20 would you give them 30 euro?

Esel

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122303619#Comment_122303619

Shop is not legally required to give you change, or so I read somewhere sometime.

antimatterx

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122302416#Comment_122302416

€25 is on the high side anyway. Why would I pay 30

pgj2015

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122303751#Comment_122303751

lots of people would. I would.

HildaOgdenx

Mod - Can we quit the tedious arguments on thread - take them to PM.
No stinge, no post.

Thanks.

pgj2015

Someone I known bought a brand new tractor once, the seller is known to be extremely tight. it ran out of diesel on its journey from the garage to the buyers house.

Markcheese

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122303905#Comment_122303905

I remember dealing with a large main dealer , - was buying an old banger ,that was kept in a different yard , so the sales man was driving me down there ,he had to go get petrol , and only put a couple of euro of petrol in - said that was policy - all the cars were run on vapours

hoodie6029

I remember my brother buying a Corolla in the mid 90’s. Met the seller at a petrol station to collect it. Rural Ireland. We were hanging around waiting for him and we hear this car roaring up the street. Unusual back then before boy racers were a thing.
It was the seller, driving the guts out of the car. He pulled in and gave the car a few more hard revs before he got out. (even now, nearly 30 years later I still remember the big grin on his face as he did it)
The B@&€&x was reviving all the petrol out of it before he handed it over.
The aul lad was fuming and was about to walk away from the car only he knew he wouldn’t get the deposit back.
It’s an attitude I’ve come across a few times in Ireland and the people have openly said that they ‘wouldn’t want to see someone else getting the benefit of something.’

pgj2015

A millionaire professional driver, driving around at night for the last 3 months with a dipped headlight gone, too mean to buy a new bulb.

loyatemu

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122303977#Comment_122303977

we recently traded in our car. It had 3/4 of a tank of diesel still in it, I was cursing my own stupidity (but in fairness I wasn't stinge enough to syphon it back out).

antimatterx

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122447602#Comment_122447602

With the price of fuel I'd be raging as well

Buddy Bubs

I took a load of copies of the free newspapers in the local shop yesterday, for cleaning the windows of the house, great they are.

I remember someone once telling me newspaper is great for cleaning in windows, I thought to myself I'm not buying a paper just to clean the windows, until I realised there's loads of free ones I've been taking them ever since.

Newspaper is a stretch, just full of ads which I suppose makes sense

Lonesome Rhodes

A fella I work with nice man but he's unbelievably cheap and he's on good money easily six figure salary as he's a manager. This is about the return plastic bottles this fella watches like a hawk for them, he asks others for theirs 'are you going to recycle that' etc anyway last week I was with him in the cafe close to where we work. As we walk out of the cafe he uses his hawk vision to spot a plastic bottle in a ditch on the otherside of the footpath. It was well wedged in and he had to get onto his knees and reach into a mucky bush in the pouring rain to get it. took him a good 30 seconds to get it and then he triumphantly turns around with his shirt sleeves destroyed in muck and possibly even a little ripped and holds the filthy crushed up bottle aloft declaring with a huge smile on his face 'can't believe people throw away good money like this' I had to remind him his efforts would get him 15 cents. 🙃

Anyone else know these plastic bottle zealots who would crawl through hell on their hands for that 15 cent?

lisasimpson

We would pick up a bottle if there was one on the footpath when out for a walk. Then again it was something we did before the scheme to keep tidy near the house.But no way would I ask someone for their empty can/bottle or rummage through bins for them or ruin clothes in the pissing rain to dig out of ditch

Markcheese

The interesting thing would be his response if it didn't have the little deposit return logo .. i.e a mucky bottle needing recycling - but no 15 cents

Capt'n Midnight

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