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A post just reminded me of another stingy story. I worked in a very small bank as a teller when I was much younger. One of our very wealthy customers gave us calenders for Xmas with their company name on it. We noticed they were for the previous year, so one of the girls said "I think you gave us last years by mistake".

The reply was that it wasn't a mistake, they had extra so wanted to give them to us. Why give us anything at all? A calender that would be good for less than a week?

If they save the calendars for enough years they will repeat themselves. I know people who have done that (mainly great-depression survivors).

For example, in 2011 you can re-use your 2005, 1994, 1983, 1977, 1966, 1955, 1949, 1938, 1927, 1921, 1910, or 1898 calendars without having to buy a new one.

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12-29-2010 , 02:09 PM

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Originally Posted by Run Ricky Run

definitely. unlimited chocolate milk.

The only bad part of this was they gave us tiny ass glasses that were maybe 8oz tops. I would solve this problem by getting 4 at a time, and refilling 2 of them if I wanted more.

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12-29-2010 , 02:09 PM

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Originally Posted by Shoe

How do you know this?

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12-29-2010 , 02:10 PM

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Originally Posted by 5-Ton Hammer

How do you know this?

http://www.timeanddate.com/calendar/...2011&country=2

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12-29-2010 , 02:14 PM

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A friend and I were sharing drinks in town, he had an invitations for a barbecue from his students friends, to which he took me with him.
To my astonishment, the barbecue host denied us any food or drinks and pointed me to one his girlfriend with a what looked like plastic bag of steaks and beers at her feet, saying she might sell me one(!). Freakin disgusting students...

Even though I would never ask guests for money at a party, at college aged BBQ's it isn't that uncommon for everyone to pitch in 10 bucks or w/e for food and beer.

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12-29-2010 , 02:14 PM

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Originally Posted by Shoe

http://www.timeanddate.com/calendar/...2011&country=2

LOOOOL!!

"Calendars tend to repeat themselves so you can use this service to find which years share the same calendar dates. By doing so, you can reuse an old calendar, or save the current year's calendar for later on."

I wonder why you know of this site!

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12-29-2010 , 02:14 PM

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Awesome ty, I'm gonna go get my 1898 calender out of storage.

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12-29-2010 , 02:16 PM

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Originally Posted by 5-Ton Hammer

LOOOOL!!

The 2nd google search result: http://www.google.com/#sclient=psy&h...f87efc6f926f13

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12-29-2010 , 02:17 PM

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Awesome ty, I'm gonna go get my 1898 calender out of storage.

Too bad holidays don't always match.

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12-29-2010 , 02:18 PM

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No problem: our yearly calendar has a 28-year cycle. For example, if you received a calendar from 2009 this year, you would not be able to use it THIS year. But in 2037, it would become useful again. You would simply take a magic marker, cross out the "09" in "2009", and write in "37".

Keeping an outdated calendar for 27 years just so you'll get to use it: now THAT'S stingy.

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12-29-2010 , 02:27 PM

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Originally Posted by Aabelno

That means, if you start collecting from 10yo, when you get 37, you wont have to buy calendar never again!!!

You can save like..........MILLIONS !!!!

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12-29-2010 , 02:54 PM

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I also have people who return my bottles and cans, I call them "the homeless".

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12-29-2010 , 03:30 PM

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I know a guy who used to throw shopping carts down a hill and collect them at the end of the day, take them back to his shack and fix them. Then he would sell them to another grocery store, I think he did this for a living.

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12-29-2010 , 03:58 PM

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I know a guy who used to collect shopping carts and at the end of the day, take them back to his shack and repaint them. Then he would sell them to another grocery store, I think he did this for a living.

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12-29-2010 , 04:38 PM

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I know a guy so stingy he would reuse other peoples posts.

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12-29-2010 , 04:44 PM

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The only bad part of this was they gave us tiny ass glasses that were maybe 8oz tops. I would solve this problem by getting 4 at a time, and refilling 2 of them if I wanted more.

This.

The school tried to think up every humanly possible way to try to try to cut back on food wasting. First small cups, then removing trays and getting rid of self-service. They also had a big display that was supposed to represent of the amount of food people threw away everyday. Not sure how much it affected a bunch of hungover undergrads shuffling into the food court for breakfast at 1 PM.

Sorry to get off the topic of the thread.

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12-29-2010 , 05:32 PM

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ive never actually witnessed this because and i was a small child at that time but we had restaurant in our town and the word was that the old women who owned it with her husband was seen refilling the winebottles with what customers left in their glasses.
beside the fact that its pretty disgusting i also think that is pretty stingy.
of course i dont know if it was true but there were several similar stories about that woman.

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12-29-2010 , 06:25 PM

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Originally Posted by 27AllIn

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Originally Posted by stanek

Is this him?

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12-29-2010 , 06:26 PM

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Originally Posted by GetOffMyLawn

They would probably mix them together to create their own "homemade" wine.

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12-29-2010 , 07:01 PM

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Originally Posted by TomCollins

Too bad holidays don't always match.

http://cgi.ebay.com/1898-R-Reich-Son...item1c17559391

probably dont have mlk day

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12-29-2010 , 08:26 PM

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A new TLC series Extreme Couponing starts tonight.

"Extreme Couponing profiles four shopaholics who use coupons to save thousands of dollars and amass huge stockpiles of goods.These shoppers go to the extremes, dumpster diving for coupons and spending hours a day searching the internet for great deals."

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12-29-2010 , 08:37 PM

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Exactly where are these magic coupons that get me 98% off? And when you have 2,000 cans of soup in your garage (or whatever), you should be over on A&E's Hoarders.

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12-29-2010 , 08:41 PM

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THE MORE YOU SPEND THE MORE YOU SAVE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

You can buy a $1,000 t-shirt for $100 and BOOM $900 right in your pocket.

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12-29-2010 , 10:30 PM

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Exactly where are these magic coupons that get me 98% off? And when you have 2,000 cans of soup in your garage (or whatever), you should be over on A&E's Hoarders.

Watched this. was pretty interesting IMO. those people have an illness for sure but if you hunt around you can definitely find such deals, e.g., some store sells a candy bar 2/$1 and you have a coupon for $.50/2 but the store doubles coupons. free candy. the difference is the ppl in the show would collect 100 coupons and get 200 candy bars.

now apply this to soap, tp, deodorant, toothbrushes, cereal, etc. Not so crazy to think you could save quite a bit off your total bill if you had the time, patience, and desire.

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12-29-2010 , 11:34 PM

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I have a family member that spends a couple hours every day entering contests online to win prizes. It's sweet when I get them as gifts or whatever but he's also really stringy. He's done the take a popcorn bag out of the garbage to get a free refill and whenever I tell him I bought something or did something his first question is always "oh how much did that cost?".

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