Good movie.

This might be annoying if you're waiting, but it's far from stingy.

nit

I even drain the hose of all the gas, so I guess this thread's about me.

lol at "Cafe Ole'"

I agree it might not really meet the definition of stinginess but people who buy like $10 worth of gas instead of just filling the gd tank are annoying as **** and it's probably strongly correlated with stinginess.

The last time I filled up, the automatic pumper on the gas randomly stopped when the tank was like 1/3 full and I had to run my card twice. I felt very dumb.

This seems more poor than stingy imo

A perfect example of only being cheap when it affects only me.

I had forgotten about that. haha

It's probably changed now since they're allowed in other countries again without being chastised, but German tipping culture is/ used to be to just round up to the nearest whole number.

Also, how the **** do you end up with a bill with 1 penny at the end?

People often think theyre being stingey or rude but it's not that, it's just the way ze germans do it, it's more efficient than trying to calculate 12.5%...

Notice to waitstaff- Always save your crappy service for Germans, I however tip 15-20%.


I wish the US would get rid of pennies and all business transactions should end in even dollar amounts...

A friend wanted to make a bunch of us fish tacos for dinner, so we agreed. He went to the store and bought $35 worth of groceries and made the meal in a different friend's kitchen (on the terms he would clean the mess). He made a mess and the food was ok, nothing special. He then took the receipt and split it 6 ways coming to $6 each. I thought it was pretty cheap but I didn't say anything, a couple other people grumbled.

The kitchen was destroyed and everyone paid but the friend whose house it was. He said he wasn't paying because the kitchen was a mess. Our "chef" said he wasn't cleaning until he was paid. They went back and forth for an hour. It ended up that he didn't pay, but ended up doing the dishes.

My friend still insisted on getting $6, even upon seeing each other years later. I would say they were good friends before the fish taco disaster, but were never again after that.

One of the cheap things people do that drives me nuts is the following. Go out to lunch with some co-workers and the bill shows up. I whip out cash and look at the bill + tax + a generous tip and add up what I owe. Sometimes on a $10 meal +1 tax Ill still tip like $3. Then one cheap bastard will usually whip out a credit card pay the total and take the cash but leave like a ridiculously cheap tip like $4.

This tilts me as I paid the majority of the tip and still end up looking cheap.

zero

This post killed me for some reason.

Ive gotta mate ( His family are **** minted ) and he is such a tight arse its untrue..

One lent 10p of him (15cents?) week later, "Hey you , you pay me back that 10p cos am gettin a bad of crisps!"

Now, he says somethin like Town any1? 4 of us agree and so off we go (He drivin) he always goes.. "UGH ermm running low on peccy boys" ..

Pulls into peccy station, donations? Dontations? anyone (With a sheepish smile)

He is clever and loaded, its astonishing. (orisit?)

iirc, the reason everything is 99c instead of $1/£1 is so that cashier's would always have to open the till to give change, i.e. couldnt just pocket the single coin/note

IMO isn't it customary for significant others of the bridal party to be invited to the rehearsal dinner and the reception? And he sprung this on you the day before the rehearsal dinner? FWIW if they didn't have enough money to pay for $50 plates for the bridal party plus significant others, maybe they could have gone somewhere else that was $25 a plate? My sister-in-law didn't have much money for their rehearsal dinner. They had their rehearsal dinner at a pizza joint, and it went over just fine. Or maybe you could have paid for your wife's dinner.....although assuming you pitched in your fair share for the bachelor party and whatever other expenses you had for the wedding (tuxedo, etc.) then I think $50 extra for your wife to attend isn't too much to ask.

Also FWIW, you made it clear that you wouldn't attend without your wife. He should have just accepted that and dropped it right there. If anyone tries to make you choose between them and your wife, if it's your mom, your best friend, whoever, you back your wife 100% of the time.

Cheapest thing I've ever seen.....a woman came into our bank and wanted to deposit rolls of coins. The teller asked her "ma'am, are these rolls full and correct?" She looked a bit taken back, and even I thought that was a weird question. She said "yes, they sure are." He then took a roll of pennies, emptied it, and counted it down. 49 pennies in a 50 cent roll. She said "oh, I'm so sorry...maybe just that one is short." Then he emptied each one out...three rolls of pennies, two rolls of nickels, and a roll of quarters. Each one was short one or two coins. After making the deposit for the right amount of money, the teller told me that particular woman was notorious for doing that.

Can someone translate this into English please?

This happened to me a week ago, but it was at a hamachi bar. I tipped pretty well cause the cook was very entertaining, and the guy that proceeded to pay with his card ended up tipping nothing, literally pocketing my tip for himself. I obviously wasn't supposed to see that he tipped nothing, but I almost always make a quick glance just to see. Like the pussy that I am I ended up simply tipping again once everyone had left the table, but this pissed me off pretty bad.

I wouldn't hesitate in saying "what about the tip?"

An ex-friend of mine used to do this all the time. We'd get the bill for the table, figure out what we owed + tip, and each throw in the cash. The ex-friend would then claim to not have any cash on him, and would scoop up the cash and pay the entire bill with his credit card.

After he did this a few times, I thought to look at the credit card receipt after he'd filled it out. He had left a $5 tip on a $100+ bill. All of us had contributed at least a 20% tip on our portions of the bill, so by pocketing our tips, he was basically getting his meal for free.

I confronted him about it in the restaurant, and he claimed that he didn't feel the waitress deserved more than $5 because "she hadn't been quick bringing me my (free) refills of Coke". He said this within earshot of the waitress, which made everyone uncomfortable. She had actually given us great service. I guilted him into leaving another $15 in cash from the money he had scooped up from the table, and he acted all angry and douchey about it as he fished the money out of his wallet.

Afterwards, one of the other guys who had been out with us that night mentioned that they'd seen him do the same thing on other ocassions, but he didn't want to make a big deal about it so he didn't confront the guy about it. He did the same thing that Klompy did -- he'd leave an extra tip on the table to cover up for the other guy's stinginess.

haha yeah anyone who 'saves' a five piece of weed and also wont let his friend smoke their dirty ass resin is sooo stingy. gotta say.

Sounds like she's a klepto.

I walked from downtown to the airport in LV in the summer (only 90 deg or so though I think) with a suitcase from a mixture of being cheap, not minding a walk, and underestimating how far it was.

And easier to store/transport. Gosh.

My mom refuses to use lights. Her house is often completely dark and freezing. I get it, that's fine, the electric bill is expensive - i'll wear another pair of socks. Problem is, she's not afraid to spend a boat load of money on practically anything else.

I can't decide which story tilts me the most, but they're all insanely tilting.

i can defend saving fast food condiments, even as someone who is quite wasteful. it is a strategy move. i am batting a .400 at best when trying to get bbq sauce from a wendy's drive-thru. sure i guess i could check the bag, but i just cbf, especially since it not being there would require being a window-tapper. but the times it is in the bag, there is always extra. so throw those in a cabinet and avoid later tragedies.