Stingiest things thread(op for R&R access)

MilesMorales1

lazza14 wrote: »

So wait , this free macdonalds breakfasts, is it actually FREE ?
or free when you buy another meal ?

Any swinging dick can just waltz in and get a meal for $0.00 ?

They were doing free mcmuffins on election day.

gramar

A friend of mine yesterday was telling me that her partner's sister won €300k on the lottery. While I don't think she should have to give any of her winnings to family she gave him €100. Took the note out of her purse and didn't even hand it to him...just dropped it on the table in front of him.

razorblunt

gramar wrote: »

A friend of mine yesterday was telling me that her partner's sister won €300k on the lottery. While I don't think she should have to give any of her winnings to family she gave him €100. Took the note out of her purse and didn't even hand it to him...just dropped it on the table in front of him.

That's just bad manners, not really stingy isn't it?

maudgonner

gramar wrote: »

A friend of mine yesterday was telling me that her partner's sister won €300k on the lottery. While I don't think she should have to give any of her winnings to family she gave him €100. Took the note out of her purse and didn't even hand it to him...just dropped it on the table in front of him.

Any chance she was just fed up to the back teeth of being given hints about how she should share her good luck? That's kinda what it sounds like tbh.

gramar

razorblunt wrote: »

That's just bad manners, not really stingy isn't it?

It is but there was no 'Most unmannerly thing you've seen bad-mannered people do' thread.

Dan Jaman

gramar wrote: »

A friend of mine yesterday was telling me that her partner's sister won €300k on the lottery. While I don't think she should have to give any of her winnings to family she gave him €100. Took the note out of her purse and didn't even hand it to him...just dropped it on the table in front of him.

Just another reason to tick the 'anonymous' box.
Better to not tell anyone, lest they change their attitudes. Of course, it cuts both ways - some people keep their distance in case they might be thought to be spongers.

rawn

http://www.tickld.com/x/jaw/20-people-admit-to-the-cheapest-thing-theyve-ever-done-these-take-frugal-to-a-

1/20. “My 10th birthday present from my grandmother was a single expired McDonald's coupon.”

- deleted

2/20. “My friend's husband won't let her flush the toilet until after 5 or so trips to save water.”

- jennipho

3/20. “My ex boss was at the station to fill her motorbike with gas when she noticed fuel across the street was a penny less. She got so excited she drove over a curb and sideswiped a bollard trying to get there. Ended up costing her over $2000 to repair the car.”

- Zoot_Katz

4/20. “Went out to lunch with someone. I drove. We ate similar things and split the check. I gave her cash and she put it on her card. Back in the car on the way home she said 'you realize you shorted me 25 cents'. I gave her a quarter and never went out with her again.”

- Jaxgirl227

5/20. “My friend was selling a car, but didn't want to hand it over with any gas in the tank. The problem is that he ran out of gas halfway through driving it to the buyer.”

- unknownajax


6/20. “I used to frame houses. At the end of the day my boss would walk around the job site and pick up bent nails. He would then proceed to straighten them all out and use them the next day.”

- deleted

7/20. “I have a friend who is full-on gluten intolerant. However, he's SO CHEAP, that he'll go to ANY LENGTHS to avoid paying for food (or anything else!)...When he found out he could dumpster unlimited bread in San Francisco, that became the staple- nay, the entirety- of his diet. He spends his days moaning in agony as his insides churn and roil, suffering from constant fiery diarrhea... yet he continues to eat his glutinous meals merely because they're free!”

- WanderingBard

8/20. “Worked for a commercial laundry where, I **** you not, the maintenance manual specified you were to write the date a fluorescent bulb is installed with a marker. When said bulb burned out, you were to calculate the hours used and if it did not add up to the hours specified on the packaging, you were to contact the manufacturer and demand a partial credit.”

- Fezig

9/20. “This guy had dinner with his wife but they sat at separate tables. He had two coupons, but could only use one coupon per table. He told his wife: "'but we'll sit at adjacent tables'".

- ponyduder

10/20. “My dad was getting a hip replacement and the day before the operation I came home to find him writhing in pain as he mowed the lawn with a push mower. When I asked him what the hell he was doing he replied, 'Using the old one up before getting a new one.'"

- User_Of_The_Internet

11/20. “The man at the front of the line for ice cream offered to pay for all the kids in the family behind him because he was taking awhile. He gave the booth $40 bucks and said what was ever left over should go to the charity (the church was running the ice cream booth). The people with the kids ice cream totalled $21 and they insisted for the change back. It wasn't even their money!! When the lady refused she asked for the manager!”

- quietlyjudgingyou

12/20. “I worked at a Krystal when I was a teenager, and we had a guy come into the restaurant and want to call the police to press charges (theft by taking, he said) against me because I short-changed him by a single penny when he'd come by the drive-thru. The manager gave him the penny out of her own pocket, and told him never to come back. My register, at the end of my shift, counted up dead on.”

- PowerSkunk92

13. “Whenever we all go out to eat as a group, my grandma's boyfriend (manfriend? significant other?) likes to get everyone's free lemon wedge that typically comes with their waters, squeeze them all into his, and then add a packet of sugar so that he doesn't have to pay for a lemonade.”

- Virtualgoose

14/20. “A group of folks went out for dinner at a convention, and several people had leftovers. When we returned, one of the people who had not been able to get out to dinner was bummed, so one of the diners said, "Well, I have some leftovers, if you'd like them."

"Sure!"

"Okay, my meal was $10, and there's about half of it left, so you owe me..."

- DrDebG

15/20. “My parents split everything. My mom has her shampoo, my dad has his. They have their own food, drinks, etc. Fast forward... My dad was sick and needed some Pepto Bismol. He didn't have any, my mom measured out 15 ml, then divided that by the cost and my dad paid her 23 cents or whatever it was.”

- Captain_Dip****_


16/20. “I knew someone who once went to buy shampoo at a Walmart and didn't like that the bottle wasn't filled to the very top. (Don't try explaining to her that bottles need room to expand during transport.) So she unscrewed another bottle and poured it into the bottle she wanted to buy to top it off. Well, security cameras saw her doing this and she was busted by the security officers. She got argumentative and combative and ended up being arrested. All for half an ounce of shampoo. Then she got kicked out of med school for stealing scrubs to wear because she was too cheap to buy real clothes.”

- austex_mike

17/20. “At Ikea coffee is bottomless (now a cup is free with the ikea family card) but before that it was like $2. My girlfriends friend, and her family, would go in and buy one cup and it would be passed along to each member to get their turn. They would apparently be there for hours socializing over a single coffee.”

- Skyhooks

18/20. “My mom had a boyfriend who would pull the stems off of cherries before purchasing them from the grocery store because he felt they'd weigh less without the stems and he'd get more for the money.”

- ChrissyKat

19/20. “At an all-you-can-eat buffet I once watched my grandma very slyly scoop food into her purse to eat later. I think she had a container of some sort in there to put the food in, but I'm not entirely sure.”

- cosmic_potato

20/20. “I was working at target when a woman came forward with an odd assortment of items. I rang them all up for her and it totalled to just below 300 bucks. She asked me to hold on for a second and pulled out a plastic bag. It was one of those gallon sized ziplocks and it was chock full of coupons and those 5 dollar gift cards you can get through certain deals at target. Apparently she had called the store or a store ahead of time and had a list of what order to put each of the coupons through. I scanned them one by one. Now when you use a coupon if it won't work due to some reason like "coupons limited to this amount" or "only when buying such and such product" it will stop you. In this case not a single one did, they all went through. Then she used the gift cards.She ended up paying 10 cents.”

- deleted

rawn

Also some links to some stingy reddit pages, seeing as we seem to be stingeing on the stinge lately

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/yajqv/what_levels_of_cheapness_have_astonished_you/

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/2xqhkr/what_is_the_most_extreme_form_of_penny_pinching/

Ken.

I know this guy, too stingy to provide his own story, has to steal them off the internet.

rawn

ken wrote: »

I know this guy, too stingy to provide his own story, has to steal them off the internet.

I know this guy, too stingey to provide their own story, so whines about another guy who has to steal them off the internet.

:pac:

Ken.

rawn wrote: »

I know this guy, too stingey to provide their own story, so whines about another guy who has to steal them off the internet.

:pac:

Ok, you win.

quickbeam

rawn wrote: »

20/20. “I was working at target when a woman came forward with an odd assortment of items. I rang them all up for her and it totalled to just below 300 bucks. She asked me to hold on for a second and pulled out a plastic bag. It was one of those gallon sized ziplocks and it was chock full of coupons and those 5 dollar gift cards you can get through certain deals at target. Apparently she had called the store or a store ahead of time and had a list of what order to put each of the coupons through. I scanned them one by one. Now when you use a coupon if it won't work due to some reason like "coupons limited to this amount" or "only when buying such and such product" it will stop you. In this case not a single one did, they all went through. Then she used the gift cards.She ended up paying 10 cents.”

- deleted

Most of the stories are justifiably stingy, but the above is pure genius - somebody who knows the system and works it to their advantage. Bravo!

rawn

quickbeam wrote: »

Most of the stories are justifiably stingy, but the above is pure genius - somebody who knows the system and works it to their advantage. Bravo!

It's like Extreme Couponning. I saw an episode once where the supermarket ended up owing the customer money. Shame our coupons don't work like that...

Pablodreamsofnew

I was in McDs and this woman comes up to me and asked could she have the stickers off my cup ( collect 6 stickers from hot drinks get a free cup of hot whatever) I was kinda taken aback and gave it to her, she then went on to collect the other stickers off random people and went up and got herself a hot drink and a meal.

Might be more cheeky than stingy. Maybe someone should start a thread called 'The cheekiest thing someone has done'

Had a couple over for dinner a few years back and they brought a cake. Lovely gesture, went to serve up the cake to them, they said no thanks. I had some. Got the runs all night, turns out they brought a lemon meringue cake that was a couple of days out of date. It also had the tesco reduced sticker on it. Bastards.

Stonedpilot

A new one from a notorious stinge recently. He went to an event and filled up a flask with the tea there, took biscuits, stole a load of pens too.

Remember once in a takeaway he nearly had a heart attack as they wouldn't honour his coupon for free chips as it expired. He went on about it for a week!

Penny Tration

rawn wrote: »

It's like Extreme Couponning. I saw an episode once where the supermarket ended up owing the customer money. Shame our coupons don't work like that...

That's common in the Extreme couponing programme. I've seen about 10 episodes. In one, a guy got like 800 dollars worth of stuff, ended up being paid 58 dollars to take it all away. Insane

osarusan

I don't find the use of the coupons all that stingy (even in the 'extreme' examples on here) - that's what they are for, and they'll save the same money whether they're used all at once or bit by bit.

The supermarkets are (presumably) happy to produce them.

Bubbaclaus

All this coupon talk reminds me that I have a coupon for a free coffee in McDonald's. Going to feel like a right stinge going in to get that!

ProudDUB

Was up in Newry last weekend for the Down v Dubs game. Went into the Centra type shop beside the ground, to fill up my flask with boiling hot water for the tae & hang sangitches. The tea/coffee area was at the back of the shop & not near the cashier. When I was done, I told a staff member I had taken some hot water and asked was there a charge for it. He said they would charge 20p for the paper cup. He didn't realise that I used my own flask and, didn't use one of their cups.

So I realise his mistake & head off to join the queue for the cashier. But there was about 15 people in the queue ahead of me, so I said "feck that, I didn't use one of their cups" and left the shop. If the queue wasn't so long, I would have stayed and asked the cashier if there still was there a charge, if you don't use their paper cups. Honest !

A week later, I am still racked with guilt, that I did something stingy and, that Down people in their thousands, are giving out yards about stingy Dubs "stealing" all their hot water.

Give me absolution Boardsies. Please !

Dan Jaman

ProudDUB wrote: »

A week later, I am still racked with guilt, that I did something stingy and, that Down people in their thousands, are giving out yards about stingy Dubs "stealing" all their hot water.

Give me absolution Boardsies. Please !

Oh; tut, tut.
<shakes head>
There's no excuse for that

Billy86

ProudDUB wrote: »

Was up in Newry last weekend for the Down v Dubs game. Went into the Centra type shop beside the ground, to fill up my flask with boiling hot water for the tae & hang sangitches. The tea/coffee area was at the back of the shop & not near the cashier. When I was done, I told a staff member I had taken some hot water and asked was there a charge for it. He said they would charge 20p for the paper cup. He didn't realise that I used my own flask and, didn't use one of their cups.

So I realise his mistake & head off to join the queue for the cashier. But there was about 15 people in the queue ahead of me, so I said "feck that, I didn't use one of their cups" and left the shop. If the queue wasn't so long, I would have stayed and asked the cashier if there still was there a charge, if you don't use their paper cups. Honest !

A week later, I am still racked with guilt, that I did something stingy and, that Down people in their thousands, are giving out yards about stingy Dubs "stealing" all their hot water.

Give me absolution Boardsies. Please !

There's a place worse than hell for people like you.

It's called Cavan, and you're getting relocated in work there first thing Monday morning!

dee_mc

ProudDUB wrote: »

Was up in Newry last weekend for the Down v Dubs game. Went into the Centra type shop beside the ground, to fill up my flask with boiling hot water for the tae & hang sangitches. The tea/coffee area was at the back of the shop & not near the cashier. When I was done, I told a staff member I had taken some hot water and asked was there a charge for it. He said they would charge 20p for the paper cup. He didn't realise that I used my own flask and, didn't use one of their cups.

So I realise his mistake & head off to join the queue for the cashier. But there was about 15 people in the queue ahead of me, so I said "feck that, I didn't use one of their cups" and left the shop. If the queue wasn't so long, I would have stayed and asked the cashier if there still was there a charge, if you don't use their paper cups. Honest !

A week later, I am still racked with guilt, that I did something stingy and, that Down people in their thousands, are giving out yards about stingy Dubs "stealing" all their hot water.

Give me absolution Boardsies. Please !

You should probably drive back up and give them their 20p, I wouldn't get a wink of sleep until the situation was resolved if I were you!

Ken.

ProudDUB wrote: »

Give me absolution Boardsies. Please !

I have relatives from Down. I can give you a yellow card for your post if it'll help.

maudgonner

ProudDUB wrote: »

A week later, I am still racked with guilt, that I did something stingy and, that Down people in their thousands, are giving out yards about stingy Dubs "stealing" all their hot water.

Give me absolution Boardsies. Please !

http://static.comicvine.com/uploads/square_small/5/54965/3600276-down_with_this_sort_of_thing.jpg

AndyBoBandy

ProudDUB wrote: »

Give me absolution Boardsies. Please !

You've set back North/South relations by at least a few more years!!

God I hope the DUP/TUV don't trawl these boards as you've just given them carte blanche to go beat up some catholics tonight!

ProudDUB

*SOBS*

I KNEW it.

I'm a horrible, horrible person.

And the Dubs probably won't win the AI again now, all thanks to me.

I've jinxed them with bad stinge karma.

*SOBS*

podgemonster

A notoriously stingy lad in the office was heading skiing and was trying to source cheap winter clothes. One day he approached a guy in the office who wears a fashionable large wholly hat on his commute. It's a nice hat now probably NorthFace or the like.

Stinge "Eh do you know that hat you wear, the beanie?"
Hat Guy "ya"
Stinge "do you have a spare one of them that i could borrow for my ski trip"
Hat Guy "...(stunned)..eh no i just have the one hat"
Stinge "are you using it next week?"
Hat Guy "......using my hat......yes but like you could go buy one?"
Stinge "nah, sure I'd only need it for a week, no point in buying one"

Stinge guy walks away in a huff.
Too mean to buy a hat but brazen to ask for one off a lad he barely knows

Dan Jaman

Surprised he sprung for a skiing trip in the first place. Perhaps he knocked up a pair of skis from an old pallet.

rawn

Visited the mother-in-law last night, she had just moved in to a new apartment with a lovely little terraced garden. She had plant pots everywhere, inside and outside that I had never seen in her old house so I asked where she got them. She admitted that she went to the nearby graveyard when it was empty and went through the big rubbish pile that they left and filled up her car with them to bring home!

This for me is on the borderline of stingey and thrifty... I mean, they were being binned anyways but it seems a bit disrespectful at the same time!

rawn

Visited the mother-in-law last night, she had just moved in to a new apartment with a lovely little terraced garden. She had plant pots everywhere, inside and outside that I had never seen in her old house so I asked where she got them. She admitted that she went to the nearby graveyard when it was empty and went through the big rubbish pile that they left and filled up her car with them to bring home!

This for me is on the borderline of stingey and thrifty... I mean, they were being binned anyways but it seems a bit disrespectful at the same time!