Stingiest things thread(op for R&R access)

AndyBoBandy

Mod: And on that, we'll move the thread back in the direction of Stingy Stories, and away from wedding gifts...

the_pen_turner

I think I might have a winner.
Did a small job this morning. Replace 2 floor joists and a sheet if ply . Told him to get stuff. Turned up this morning. First thing he says is how expensive the sheet 8f ply, 2 timbers and screws are. Second thing was that one shop was x price for each 2nd shop was y , 3rd was z . So he bought the ply in one shop then drove 20 km to get the screws and timbers . .
Bought cheap screws aswell. As a reault a dozen screws striped out the heads. . I threw them into bucket to take to the bin. He took them out and said he will take them back and expects some money back. 20 km trip to bring back a dozen crap screws. .
I hope they laugh at him

AndyBoBandy

MOD: Off Topic Posts Deleted. The Wedding Presents discussion stops here.

punisher5112

I was told I needed new brake pads.... Done 40k on them since and still grand... Now they will need doing shortly.... I hope that's stingey

the_pen_turner

punisher5112 wrote: »

I was told I needed new brake pads.... Done 40k on them since and still grand... Now they will need doing shortly.... I hope that's stingey

doe guy told me to think about getting tyres. 6000km later they wore down to the indicater mark

The_Conductor

Guys- you only have 4 points of contact with the road- its foolhardy- not stingy- to deliberately see how much you can get out of it.
You obviously don't care for your own safety or that of others- if you're deliberately running brake pads and tyres to the very minimum just because you can.
If an NCT marks an advisory on tyres (or brakes or whatever)- surely its a wakeup call to get them sorted- not some sort of bizarre challenge to try and prove the NCT tester wrong? I just do not understand the mentality of this behaviour.

punisher5112

The_Conductor wrote: »

Guys- you only have 4 points of contact with the road- its foolhardy- not stingy- to deliberately see how much you can get out of it.
You obviously don't care for your own safety or that of others- if you're deliberately running brake pads and tyres to the very minimum just because you can.
If an NCT marks an advisory on tyres (or brakes or whatever)- surely its a wakeup call to get them sorted- not some sort of bizarre challenge to try and prove the NCT tester wrong? I just do not understand the mentality of this behaviour.

Not at all. Wouldn't do so.... The brake pads weren't needing change... Jaysus it was a bit of a joke too.....


I would not leave tyres or brakes.

4 new tyres on, one blew after a month, another fitted new....
This happened me on another car twice in space of 2 weeks and I bought brand new again and good ones too.... 2 of them blew out on the M50 and latest was M11. Wasn't nice.

the_pen_turner

The_Conductor wrote: »

Guys- you only have 4 points of contact with the road- its foolhardy- not stingy- to deliberately see how much you can get out of it.
You obviously don't care for your own safety or that of others- if you're deliberately running brake pads and tyres to the very minimum just because you can.
If an NCT marks an advisory on tyres (or brakes or whatever)- surely its a wakeup call to get them sorted- not some sort of bizarre challenge to try and prove the NCT tester wrong? I just do not understand the mentality of this behaviour.

thats a tad dramatic. . those tyres had only 24k on them at the time so that 6k only brought them to 30k. and at that they were still perfectly legal and only changed because i traded in the van.
its not a game . its blatant upselling and hoping the person blindly goes and buys new tyres that they dont need. .

pgj2015

the_pen_turner wrote: »

thats a tad dramatic. . those tyres had only 24k on them at the time so that 6k only brought them to 30k. and at that they were still perfectly legal and only changed because i traded in the van.
its not a game . its blatant upselling and hoping the person blindly goes and buys new tyres that they dont need. .

why would the DOE guy care if you bought new tyres or not? he isn't selling tyres.

the_pen_turner

pgj2015 wrote: »

why would the DOE guy care if you bought new tyres or not? he isn't selling tyres.

in this case he does have a garage and probably sells tyres. i have never used his garage so cant say for sure

i dont know why he would care. i checked them all and couldnt find anything wrong anywhere. local guy that is a tracter mechanic agreed that they are perfectly fine and to drive on.

KevRossi

NCT/DOE will mark it as a caution if you're annual mileage means the tyres will be under the limit at the next test. There are a huge amount of people out there who regard the NCT as a sort of annual car service.

The guy with the brake pads was trying an upsell I'd say. I've seen it a lot in the industry.

893bet

the_pen_turner wrote: »

doe guy told me to think about getting tyres. 6000km later they wore down to the indicater mark

6k is not a lot extra you got.

the_pen_turner

893bet wrote: »

6k is not a lot extra you got.

it was 6 months driing at the time and still a little life in them when i traded in

johndaman66

KevRossi wrote: »

NCT/DOE will mark it as a caution if you're annual mileage means the tyres will be under the limit at the next test. There are a huge amount of people out there who regard the NCT as a sort of annual car service.

NCT do not have a clue what anybody's annual mileage will be in the next year, they are not fortune tellers. If you have tyres that are below a certain limit you will be issued a pass certificate with a pass advisory on it for the tyres, i.e. you are close to the legal limit. If you have tyres that are below the legal limit then that's a fail.
You are right about the amount of people out there who regard the NCT as a sort of annual service though which is worrying.

Antares35

Greta_Funberg wrote: »

Wife's cousin wedding recently. Didn't go to it, but we did go to the meal after. Now in these situations, I consult my book. When we got married, I recorded what everyone gave us. They get the same back on their day. It's a system that works for me. But anyways, I noticed what the cousin's brother gave us. So him, his wife and his two kids came to ours for the full day and meal. They gave us a lovely gift of... thirty quid! I must have suppressed that memory...

But sure what it there's a couple of years difference, do you take inflation into account?

antimatterx

My brother has become very stringy recently.

He has been working with my dad over the summer, and he has a few grand saved, which is pretty good going at 19. The issue is, he won't spend any of it, and is trying to get people to spend there money on him.

For example, last weekend for the Champions League my final, my and another brother were getting a Chipper. I asked the 19 y/o was he getting anything, he looks a the menu and goes to me "Who's Paying?". When I said that he is, he goes to me "Well, that changes everything", and decides to get nothing. As if I'm going to buy you a chipper because you don't want to spend money.

The funny thing is, when he had **** all he spent it on clothes, aftershave etc.

Yyhhuuu

antimatterx wrote: »

My brother has become very stringy recently.

He has been working with my dad over the summer, and he has a few grand saved, which is pretty good going at 19. The issue is, he won't spend any of it, and is trying to get people to spend there money on him.

For example, last weekend for the Champions League my final, my and another brother were getting a Chipper. I asked the 19 y/o was he getting anything, he looks a the menu and goes to me "Who's Paying?". When I said that he is, he goes to me "Well, that changes everything", and decides to get nothing. As if I'm going to buy you a chipper because you don't want to spend money.

The funny thing is, when he had **** all he spent it on clothes, aftershave etc.

Well that's why he had f*** all. I noticed how people start to hoard money when they get the taste of it.

The_Conductor

Yyhhuuu wrote: »

Well that's why he had f*** all. I noticed how people start to hoard money when they get the taste of it.

Its a compulsion- a bit like gambling- but totally irrational nonetheless.

yaboya1

Greta_Funberg wrote: »

Wife's cousin wedding recently. Didn't go to it, but we did go to the meal after. Now in these situations, I consult my book. When we got married, I recorded what everyone gave us. They get the same back on their day. It's a system that works for me. But anyways, I noticed what the cousin's brother gave us. So him, his wife and his two kids came to ours for the full day and meal. They gave us a lovely gift of... thirty quid! I must have suppressed that memory...

What do you do if you give somebody who marries before you a gift of €200, then they give you €250 when you get married?
Do you/Did you return the €50? If you don't, you're a hypocrite.

pgj2015

yaboya1 wrote: »

What do you do if you give somebody who marries before you a gift of €200, then they give you €250 when you get married?
Do you/Did you return the €50? If you don't, you're a hypocrite.

no he isn't, because he cant see into the future.

odyssey06

Hmm, there must be some stinges secretly delighted they only have to host 50 people max for their weddings...

pgj2015

odyssey06 wrote: »

Hmm, there must be some stinges secretly delighted they only have to host 50 people max for their weddings...

why? it will mean less money for them. they will probably get cheap gifts rather than 100-200 in an envelope.

Electric Sheep

odyssey06 wrote: »

Hmm, there must be some stinges secretly delighted they only have to host 50 people max for their weddings...

Perhaps the whole Covid situation will help Irish couples to see through the whole wedding industry foolishness, and realise that they don't need to spend that kind of money on a wedding just to show off.

happyday

AndyBoBandy wrote: »

Mod: And on that, we'll move the thread back in the direction of Stingy Stories, and away from wedding gifts...

I think we went off track again.

yaboya1

pgj2015 wrote: »

no he isn't, because he cant see into the future.

Why would he need to see into the future?
If his philosophy is that you get what you give, my suggestion is exactly what he should do if he believes that. I doubt he did though.

Eleven Benevolent Elephants

A friend of mine was in SuperValu before rounding was introduced.

He bought the pick n mix cone of Lindt Sweets where you select a certain number of Lindt and it costs €X.98c .. I can't remember the exact price but 2c change was due and the machine didn't give it.

He asked the person attending the self service tills for his 2 c, she opened it up and gave him 5 c.

He bolted out the door.

Little did I know at the time, or the checkout girl, he squeezed in 3 sweets extra anyway.

Eleven Benevolent Elephants

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/12576516/cleaner-31000-charity-shop-90000-9-refund/

The_Conductor

Eleven Benevolent Elephants wrote: »

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/12576516/cleaner-31000-charity-shop-90000-9-refund/

Thats just theft- not stinginess?
If it was stinginess- she wouldn't have given away 30 grand?

joeguevara

The_Conductor wrote: »

Thats just theft- not stinginess?
If it was stinginess- she wouldn't have given away 30 grand?

Queue 10 pages of posts about the difference between theft,stinginess and frugality.

the_pen_turner

The_Conductor wrote: »

Thats just theft- not stinginess?
If it was stinginess- she wouldn't have given away 30 grand?

the worst part is that the charrity had the money in the bank. why wasnt it handed over to the charity or being used . they said 30k is 15months of profit, so they had nearly 4 years worth stockpiled