Just for clarification for future generations:
Everyone criticizing people who take their laptops battery out
while it's going to be running on outlet power anyway
are ******s. If you keep your battery in a room-temperature or lower environment at 15-40% of its charge
you can extend its 80%< chargeable lifetime by years.

Enjoy spending $150 on batteries every 1 year and/or sacrificing the travel-ability of your laptops idiots.

I need opinions on if this is stingy or not?

My roomate thinks its cool to walk around the apt shirtless after he wakes up, he has back hair like you have never seen and on some mornings, Ill be able to get a whiff of his B.O.

This being said, he will sit on the couch that I own and at least play fifa for an hr or two shirtless. I've started to notice the couch doesnt have an awful stench, but anyone with avg senses could detect something.

This roomate also is a one upper, a little insecure (for ex, he loves to watch Jeopardy when no one else wants to, and when we do, he always has to be the first to answer and when he does, its sounds like the southpark smug tone) and then expect us to be in awe of his knowledge.

With this kind of personality, should I just let it be or actually confront him about it?
I know he will take it personally but If I can't sell it before after I move out, I don't want to be stuck with a smelly couch thanks to a room mate I lived only one year with that he didnt pay for and I feel like that gives me enough of a reason to do this.

Thoughts?

Cover couch in plastic, explain that you want to sell the couch. He's probably Italian so he will be comfortable with everything covered in plastic.

this wouldn't work with my inlaws. they'd just get pissed at me that I "threw away" $30 on their cab ride

Go on, let it all out.

Serious business, these laptop batteries.

Yeah, but it doesn't really work that way with older relatives. I always offer to pay for a shuttle, but they want me to drive them to the airport. So, unless I'm going to be in the area, I tell them to "take it or leave it."

One of my other siblings usually caves in and does it. I guess that's what happens when mom and dad paid for everyone else's college except for mine - they got nothing on me.

I couldn't care less about laptop batteries as I never intend to own one.

I however do care when charlatans, fools or pseudo-know-it-alls cause people to lose money.

That is serious business. [/soundbite]

Have a coworker who always takes advantage when our Director takes us out to lunch. Although not directly mentionned, our Director usually expenses our lunches as a team outing. This one time the whole team arrived for lunch at a restaurant before our Director. While everyone orders a sensible lunch from the lunch menu (~$10); Ass Coworker orders a Pint of Guinness, side salad, and something from the Dinner menu. Finishing our lunches, we're notified that our Director wont be coming after all; so the next-level Mgr. takes the initiative to not-expense on his card (ie 'cut costs') and decides to ask for separate bills for all. I was sitting across from said coworker and the look on his face was priceless when he got his $35 bill, while everyone else had a more sensible $12-14 bill...LOL

Not really a stingy story, but kinda a cheapass thing to do - going all out when its 'supposedly' going to be paid for...Well, he learned his lesson - he now orders more sensibly...lol

Another story or two from my experience with my "roommate" cheap-o. I wish I started a thread about him when I moved in last May and kept a log of all the cheap sh*t he does.

- Every month when our security deposit statement comes in from the saving account we have it in, he has to update me on how much money we have accumulated on it. I think it's up to like 4 dollars.

- Forgot to mention when we moved in and I got the cable set up they accidentally gave me a DVR box and it was an additional 10 dollars a month. I thought no big deal (this is right when I moved in and before I knew how extremely cheap he was) it's like 3 dollars more per person per month. When I alerted cheap-o he threw an uproar about how I needed to contact the cable company and get it taken off immediately because he is NOT paying for the service. My actual roommate (cheap-o lives in the single) wasn't living here over the summer and didn't really know what DVR was so he was like "Nah I'm not gonna use it but if you want to keep it go ahead and see if it's worth the extra 10." I didn't really care because I grew to love the DVR and eventually my roommate caved and agreed to split the 10 because of how convenient the DVR was. Cheap-o still refused to pay the extra 3 dollars so that it was equal among the 3 of us. Then one day I was watching Pawn Stars that I DVR'd and cheap-o came into the living room and sat down and I said with a dead serious face "Sorry, this is DVR'd" and paused it until he left. He tried to laugh it off like I was joking and he didn't really want to watch the show. Also caught him rewinding and pausing live TV and I had to remind him that was a DVR feature again in a dead serious tone.

I look forward to your 2nd post in another 2.5 years

this is awesome

although i am sort of surprised that he didn't sit down and read a book or magazine while you had the Pawn Stars paused, just to spite you. I think that's what I would have done.

If you spend $40 or more at our local supermarket, you get a 4c per litre discount voucher on fuel. My grandparents bought a microwave to get their purchase over $40, so they could get the voucher, then walked straight to the returns and returned it.

Some grandparents would use the microwave for a week first.

I think if you are a reasonable person you would've just paid the 3 dollars a month to enjoy the privilege of being able to record and watch your shows whenever you please.

Another odd thing about him is that for someone who is so damn cheap, he has not cooked his own meals ONCE all year at the house. He either bums mealswipes off of his sister or goes out to eat. He goes out to get Wendy's, Taco Bell, Subway etc. at least 4-5 times a week. If he just cut back on a dollar menu item a week he would have enough to cover the DVR.

My grandpa is not cheap by any means but he sure as hell will take extreme actions when he feels that he has been defeated by somebody financially or not given the quality that he paid for.

He will buy a bag of M&M's where like 20% of the candies are cracked or something and he will call the company that day and demand retribution. He did it the other week when a bag of chips he got was half crumbs and complained to Frito Lay to the point where they sent him 3 coupons worth 5 dollars a pop.

He won't do this just to get free things like other cheap people though. If something is up to par, you won't hear a peep out of him.

He once yelled at me at the top of his lungs for a solid 5 minutes because the $5 Reward Zone coupon from Best Buy that he gave me expired and it was like throwing 5 dollars away. He will go buy something he totally doesn't need that costs 60 dollars just in order to use the 5 dollar coupon.

Well yeah I mean three dollars is nothing but had I been a cheap-ass like your roomie, I would have gone the sit on the couch spite route for sure.

AHHH now I see where you're coming from, excuse me. I probably would've then continued to grab my laptop and just start watching porn and breathing heavily until he eventually left. I'm usually good at thinking quickly on my feet like that.

lol pausing the show til he left is pretty awesome

You sound like a fun guy.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_locald...of-food-stamps

This reminded me of this thread. Guy wins lottery, refuses to go off food stamps.

A friend dealt for pain pills

That's from the area I grew up in, I'm glad I never knew that douchetard.

Today I played a muni course and the group in front of us played super slow because they kept searching for errant balls in the rough/water. Finally got super annoying and they waved us through so they could pilfer balls from the water hazard. Not the stingiest thing Ive seen but pretty f-ing annoying.

This is a clear "tell him like it is" situation. I cover up most things I or my friends sit on shirtless cuz sweat and other stuff is always coming out of human skin. If you wanna keep ur stuff nice this is standard. Ive heard that 30% of human waste comes out of the skin, that is a lot.


Also, him having a hairy whatever needs to be addressed. Either shave that **** or wear a shirt, I am not gonna look at some hairy dude all the time. **** that ****!!

But shaved and smooth men are great right?