Stingiest things thread(op for R&R access)

RyanDrive

Went on a J1 with a group of lads a few years ago, one of them is notoriously tight and lived up to his name when he refused to pay for any of the household items because he insisted he wasn't going to use any of them. We refused to let him use the toilet roll as he wouldn't pay for it so once a day (for three months) he'd knock into one of the neighbouring apartments and ask for a lend of some toilet paper. Near the end of a J1 a bewildered American couple arrived in with a package of toilet rolls,soap,shampoo etc. for him as they thought we were all living in some sort of poverty. We were all mortified of course but he was only delighted with himself after that and even brought some of the spare bog roll home in his suitcase (he refused to let anyone in the household use anything in this package).

Eggonyerface

It always amazes me how people like that have friends to begin with

suicide_circus

RyanDrive wrote: »

Went on a J1 with a group of lads a few years ago, one of them is notoriously tight and lived up to his name when he refused to pay for any of the household items because he insisted he wasn't going to use any of them. We refused to let him use the toilet roll as he wouldn't pay for it so once a day (for three months) he'd knock into one of the neighbouring apartments and ask for a lend of some toilet paper. Near the end of a J1 a bewildered American couple arrived in with a package of toilet rolls,soap,shampoo etc. for him as they thought we were all living in some sort of poverty. We were all mortified of course but he was only delighted with himself after that and even brought some of the spare bog roll home in his suitcase (he refused to let anyone in the household use anything in this package).

Your friend is, literally, mentally unwell.

Glenbhoy

dee_mc wrote: »

My sister in law used to save used pieces of tinfoil. Until the house got infested with mice.
If you're too stingy to use a fresh bit of tinfoil every time, wouldn't it make more sense to just buy a cheap lunchbox and be done with it?!

I'm not sure of the relationship here, are mice like magpies and like shiny things?

sligojoek

Years ago in England three of us shared a house. We all looked after our own grub but if something like soap, toilet paper, washing up liquid etc. ran out, someone got a new one. It always balanced out.

Then the landlord squeezed a new fellow over from Ireland in with us.
All of a sudden we were going through shampoo at an un-precedented rate. The new boy was in the pub every night with a head of hair Bobby Ewing would be proud of. Sherlock Holmes not required.

One evening we knew he had a date.We hid all the shampoo, shower gel and washing up liquid. I rinsed out an empty shampoo bottle and washing up liquid bottle and half filled them with cooking oil. Sure enough at 7.30 Mick arrives in half cut after work and heads for the bathroom. Witin minutes the air turned blue with f*cks and c*nts. He ran down the stairs with a towel around him and his eyes glued shut, grabbed the washing up liquid and ran back upstairs. Cue more f*cks and c*nts. He came into the living room with his hair and towel stuck to him begging up for detergent of some sort. We sold him a bottle of shower gel for a tenner, which at the time, bought us two pints each.

Two weeks later he up and left for Manchester and left us a box with 50 porn mags.

mud

Glenbhoy wrote: »

I'm not sure of the relationship here, are mice like magpies and like shiny things?

I guess it's the crumbs/smell of food on the used tin foil that attracts them?

Billy86

sligojoek wrote: »

Years ago in England three of us shared a house. We all looked after our own grub but if something like soap, toilet paper, washing up liquid etc. ran out, someone got a new one. It always balanced out.

Then the landlord squeezed a new fellow over from Ireland in with us.
All of a sudden we were going through shampoo at an un-precedented rate. The new boy was in the pub every night with a head of hair Bobby Ewing would be proud of. Sherlock Holmes not required.

One evening we knew he had a date.We hid all the shampoo, shower gel and washing up liquid. I rinsed out an empty shampoo bottle and washing up liquid bottle and half filled them with cooking oil. Sure enough at 7.30 Mick arrives in half cut after work and heads for the bathroom. Witin minutes the air turned blue with f*cks and c*nts. He ran down the stairs with a towel around him and his eyes glued shut, grabbed the washing up liquid and ran back upstairs. Cue more f*cks and c*nts. He came into the living room with his hair and towel stuck to him begging up for detergent of some sort. We sold him a bottle of shower gel for a tenner, which at the time, bought us two pints each.

Two weeks later he up and left for Manchester and left us a box with 50 porn mags.

I had a pair of room mates like that only earlier this year. One of them even had the cheek to lose the plot because her and the other one had "bought the last three batches of toilet roll in a row now, this is ridiculous!" while completely ignoring the fact that the other lad and I bought all the bin bags, detergent, and tinfoil/clingfilm/baking paper pretty much the whole time we lived together.

Little did they know my room mate and I had bought our own bog roll and were just going off that entirely, meanwhile the two girls were averaging (I kid you not!) close to two rolls of toilet paper... a day. Besides obviously deciding to use it as makeup remover, both of us are still genuinely curious what else they were up to that would see them each go through about 80-90% of a roll of toilet paper a day, especially when they were in work for 8-9 hours per day and early to bed. They basically had a 4-5 hour window to do this.

Can anyone please give any ideas what the f*** they were up to? :pac:

EagererBeaver

Billy86 wrote: »

I had a pair of room mates like that only earlier this year. One of them even had the cheek to lose the plot because her and the other one had "bought the last three batches of toilet roll in a row now, this is ridiculous!" while completely ignoring the fact that the other lad and I bought all the bin bags, detergent, and tinfoil/clingfilm/baking paper pretty much the whole time we lived together.

Little did they know my room mate and I had bought our own bog roll and were just going off that entirely, meanwhile the two girls were averaging (I kid you not!) close to two rolls of toilet paper... a day. Besides obviously deciding to use it as makeup remover, both of us are still genuinely curious what else they were up to that would see them each go through about 80-90% of a roll of toilet paper a day, especially when they were in work for 8-9 hours per day and early to bed. They basically had a 4-5 hour window to do this.

Can anyone please give any ideas what the f*** they were up to? :pac:

That's just a fact of living with women. They *need* half a roll to pat down after a pee. No concept of folding. Infuriating.

Glenbhoy

mud wrote: »

I guess it's the crumbs/smell of food on the used tin foil that attracts them?

Tenuous in the extreme, unless the house was coming down with pieces of tinfoil (ala those decluttery type houses you see on TV!).

ItsShane

ItsShane wrote: »

There's a shop here in Mountrath.
The guy is selling a printed picture of a horse for £1.50.
Yep.
It's been in the shop so long, it still has the Punt price on it. The picture is faded and was clearly printed on a home printer.

On closer inspection, he's actually upped the price by 40p after buying it in a market..

Dan Jaman

ItsShane wrote: »

On closer inspection, he's actually upped the price by 40p after buying it in a market..

It's a fetching colour, too. I simply don't understand why that wasn't snatched up years ago.

amber2

Employer doing same Lotto numbers as
Employee syndicate, so that they
Would never win a life changing amount & leave their jobs.!

Digital Solitude

amber2 wrote: »

Employer doing same Lotto numbers as
Employee syndicate, so that they
Would never win a life changing amount & leave their jobs.!

That's just being a dick

razorblunt

amber2 wrote: »

Employer doing same Lotto numbers as
Employee syndicate, so that they
Would never win a life changing amount & leave their jobs.!

Did they say that's the reason? We used to do the Euro millions and our boss, who would be on well over a 100k bought in too under the "I can't be the only idiot here if we win a rollever", which was fair enough.


That horse photo is mental, why even bother, I'd be half tempted to buy it though so he's encouraged to keep printing them!

pq0n1ct4ve8zf5

EagererBeaver wrote: »

Billy86 wrote: »

I had a pair of room mates like that only earlier this year. One of them even had the cheek to lose the plot because her and the other one had "bought the last three batches of toilet roll in a row now, this is ridiculous!" while completely ignoring the fact that the other lad and I bought all the bin bags, detergent, and tinfoil/clingfilm/baking paper pretty much the whole time we lived together.

Little did they know my room mate and I had bought our own bog roll and were just going off that entirely, meanwhile the two girls were averaging (I kid you not!) close to two rolls of toilet paper... a day. Besides obviously deciding to use it as makeup remover, both of us are still genuinely curious what else they were up to that would see them each go through about 80-90% of a roll of toilet paper a day, especially when they were in work for 8-9 hours per day and early to bed. They basically had a 4-5 hour window to do this.

Can anyone please give any ideas what the f*** they were up to? :pac:

That's just a fact of living with women. They *need* half a roll to pat down after a pee. No concept of folding. Infuriating.

You've obviously never lived with any hairy-holed pints-loving men if you think women are the worst for this. I've some former housemates who must have made an appreciable contribution to the greenhouse effect with the amount of trees that they put to work sorting out the bum beard.

Kat1170

Amanda Screeching Housewife wrote: »

You've obviously never lived with any hairy-holed pints-loving men if you think women are the worst for this. I've some former housemates who must have made an appreciable contribution to the greenhouse effect with the amount of trees that they put to work sorting out the bum beard.

You might be able to hook up with them again over here. http://touch.boards.ie/thread/2057630269/3/#post100582949

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Birneybau

Shout out to the 2 girls that brought Supermacs snackboxes to munch on into the pub last night. The pub, in Dublin city centre. That serves food.

podgemonster

Birneybau wrote: »

Shout out to the 2 girls that brought Supermacs snackboxes to munch on into the pub last night. The pub, in Dublin city centre. That serves food.

They should have been told to eat outside.

Birneybau

podgemonster wrote: »

They should have been told to eat outside.

Oh, they were. After they'd scoffed half each.

chewed

Birneybau wrote: »

Oh, they were. After they'd scoffed half each.

Bubbaclaus

A few personal stinges of mine:

1. I wait until getting to work before having my breakfast, just so I can use the free milk instead of getting my own.
2. I also only drink coffee at work for similar reasons.
3. 90% of the clothes I buy are on sale.

NegativeCreep

Bubbaclaus wrote: »

A few personal stinges of mine:

1. I wait until getting to work before having my breakfast, just so I can use the free milk instead of getting my own.
2. I also only drink coffee at work for similar reasons.
3. 90% of the clothes I buy are on sale.

That's just good sense. The first two are a bit crazy though!

fleet_admiral

Birneybau wrote: »

Shout out to the 2 girls that brought Supermacs snackboxes to munch on into the pub last night. The pub, in Dublin city centre. That serves food.

If they walked into my job like that they would be marched out in seconds

SuperS54

fleet_admiral wrote: »

If they walked into my job like that they would be marched out in seconds

Where do you work? McDonalds?

Capt'n Midnight

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Frigating

^^

redbel05

Saw a guy taking change from the collection basket at mass. Its not like he even put in that much to begin with so I was genuinely puzzled at his stinginess, not to mention that I thought it was an unspoken rule that once it touches the basket, consider it gone.

EagererBeaver

redbel05 wrote: »

Saw a guy taking change from the collection basket at mass. Its not like he even put in that much to begin with so I was genuinely puzzled at his stinginess, not to mention that I thought it was an unspoken rule that once it touches the basket, consider it gone.

Giving away money is stingy?

redbel05

EagererBeaver wrote: »

Giving away money is stingy?

It is if you put in €1.10 in five and ten cents and take out a €1 coin. All the while leaving me awkwardly waiting for them to count it out....

Dan Jaman

Putting in a fiver and taking two quid back out is fine, in my book.
Taking a tenner back is not, though.