In scenario 1, he is a bit stingy

In scenario 3, it's messed up and as said, it's basically stealing if he isn't paying, not just stingy.


However, Scenario 2 WTF. Unless it was agreed on before hand that when you guys went to gamble, whoever had the biggest score buys a round, I think it's pretty rude to expect him to buy a round for people. I mean, I don't expect my friends to buy a round everytime they get their paycheck.

that's not actually possible.

Sure it is. If the tax rate is 25% just price everything in increments of $1.

Also, retailers can always price their items in fractions of a cent as well.

Good point. Stinky is awful at math.

ignoring the fact that pricing in increments of $1 isn't practical, what if the sales tax rate is, say 8.875% as in new york?

not without costly changes to their computer/checkout systems.

Some places already price stuff like that, off the top off my head, movie theaters and whataburger.

Price everything in multiples of $1000 obviously.

any time someone argues with stinky regarding math, hilarity ensues.

Thread needs stories from DD, that water drinking at the airport still makes me chuckle if i think about it.

There is no law against retailers pricing merchandise to the thousandths of a cent if they want to.



Retailers can easily make the final price of any item consistent if they are so inclined.

I doubt it would be so expensive to change a few equations in checkout systems to accommodate this. However it would end up costing retailers money. It's better for them to just hide the tax on the price tag from the consumer because the average American can't do math in his head to figure the actual "tax included" price so most don't bother and consider the item to be cheaper than it actually is.

i saw a guy who i know is kinda stingy buy baking paper which wasnt cut.
Since I knew that this brand actually sells the pre-cut back paper CHEAPER than the other and them being obv way more comfortable to use, i asked him why he would buy those.
"well, the pre-cut papers are cut too big, ill cut it smaller and save that way"

choosing the cheaper and more convenient option when two options are equally readily available is not stingy

He chose the more expensive option which was less convenient (if the pre-cut sheets are too big he can cut them down too) if I'm reading that right. *confused*

I used to rent a basement in a private house some years ago. the landlord lives upstairs above us. there's a lady with her teenage daughter and an elderly couple (their relative). the place was okay. the rent we paid was average compared to the area.

After the first week of moving in, the elderly couple knocked on our door and I guess just wanted to check on us to see how we're settling in. They came down the stairs to our flat. the old lady commented on some of the furnitures, and when she saw I had a two-bulbed floor lamp in my room(you know one of those with an uplight on top and a bullet light on a pole), she pointed at it and said, "Two lights?". I said "Yeah". "U lit so many lights". "No 'cause it's really dark down here during the day" and I also went on to explain to her about how I use the computer and won't do my eyes any good with the lighting. "so many lights".

A couple weeks after they knocked on our door again to give us our letters (they had one of those mailboxes on the streets where you need a key to open them, btw we barely had any letters probably just a dozen in the course of living there). I opened the door for them, and as they're about to head down from the landing (i don't know why - they just need to hand me our letters - but they proceed anyways) The husband muttered to me convincingly, "you guys turn off the lights, turn off the lights in the living room when you go to sleep and just leave one of those small dim ones on". The thing they don't know is that we don't usually go to bed after midlight. So they're on their way down smugly and I just followed along. When i'm not watching, they suspiciously sneak to and take peeks inside our bedrooms.

It was the end of the month two months later, roommate goes up to pay the rent. It was the daughter's mother. upon receiving the rent she hands him two sticky-notes-sized paper. on it states info, highlighted in Red and Green on the Days and Times of the week when hydro are the most expensive and the cheapest with their prices on them. And she also stipulated that laundry must Only Be Done after 7PM on weekdays.

And ofc we didn't stay long after that.

Guy I know would bet loke 800.05 on football games because he wouldn't be charged juice on the .05 cents

that just seems intelligent. you optimize bet sizing in poker right?

Is the time and effort wasted for worrying about saving a cent worth it? If you don't have a nickel on you the transaction will take longer. Again: Is that worth saving one cent?

I use to do this when I was younger haha. I still do it sometimes out of habit, even though I pretty much always pay with credit card too. I would actually love to see what % of the time people in Australia do this. I would guess it would be over 10%. It was funny when you were trying to aim for that 0.02 cents mark and would go over to .03 or .04 cents and would just have to keep filling up to the next $5.00 mark to save face when paying for it haha.

I didn't really even think of this being stingy till now, but it very obviously is. And I also wonder what the people at the service station must think of people when they do this haha. Now I have to think of other things I might do stingy that I don't realize.

why not just buy 7 cents worth of gas at a time and save almost 30%??

Why go up $5? Why not just get $20.07?

because 20.05 sucks because coins suck

better to pay $25 with notes instead

I have seen comedy shows where they they keep filling for 2cents at a time. No idea where the video of this would be. Obviously would cost more starting your car each time to go back and get more, but still amusing.

To TomCollins exactly what Bennymacca said. Plus your not really saving face by putting in 20.07, you still look like a fool for trying to edge more out and go over. Funny to think of that and not think of looking like a tight ass right.

Been reading this thread off and on for awhile now, and people keep coming back to this wedding scenario.

The guy who was part of the wedding, and whose girlfriend/wife wasn't invited to the rehearsal dinner, is absolutely in the right. When people get married and have a "wedding party" who shows up to the rehearsal and is part of the big day, the signficant others are understood to be part of the festivities (the rehearsal dinner).

It is in extremely poor taste for the bride or groom to tell a member of the wedding party that "Hey, you're special to me, and I want you as part of my Big Day, but your spouse/gf/bf isn't invited to the rehearsal dinner. I hope you understand." If I was standing up in someone's wedding, especially if I was a huge part of it--like the Best Man or Maid of Honor--I'd be extremely pissed. Adding to this story is the fact that the OP got married 2 years earlier, and had included both the bride and groom (who were dating at that time) in his own rehearsal dinner.

Anyway, it just screams of poor etiquette. People can argue all day long that maybe the wedding couple couldn't afford the extra plate, or they didn't like the woman and didn't want to invite her, or any number of silly things. The bottom line is, the wedding couple made a huge faux pas. And if I were the OP, I wouldn't have attended without my signficant other either. It's a slap in the face.

What about the Flower Girl? If she's only 7 years old, and her parents aren't part of the wedding party, do they have to drop her off at the rehearsal dinner and then leave?

why do you need to leave, couldnt you just hang the pump back up then start the process over?

Ship it or bust,

I think nearly everyone gets it.

It is, as you say, completely obvious to everyone with half a brain. If you are socially inept enough to tell a member of your wedding party that their significant other cannot attend the rehearsal dinner, you probably should be sticking to the Justice of the Peace route for your wedding, because it's clear you cannot grasp situations involving other people.