The 'Tremendous' Tales of Tightfistedness Thread

[tamthebam]

14 hours ago, Inanimate Carbon Rod said:

I used to work for hugo boss, most of the jeans etc were made in the same factories in Bangladesh and Turkey as their competitors, some of the materials are better but its essentially the same people on the same machines. Cheap shitey next/asda jeans aren’t great, but you’re as well paying for a decent pair of jeans at £40-£50 as a pair of Boss jeans at £100+. Many of the ‘fake’ dress shirts on sale in turkey are actually just seconds from the factory in Izmir.

"Because of his early NS Party membership, his financial support of the SS and the uniforms delivered to the National Socialist German Workers Party, Boss was considered both an "activist" and a "supporter and beneficiary of National Socialism". In a 1946 judgement, he was stripped of his voting rights, his capacity to run a business, and fined "a very heavy penalty" of 100,000 DM ($70,553 U.S. dollars)(£54,008.61).^[4] However, Boss appealed, and he was eventually classified as a ‘follower’, a lesser category, which meant that he was not regarded as an active promoter of National Socialism"

Funny how some people's names survive their dodgy deeds and others don't... 

[Newbornbairn]

7 hours ago, tamthebam said:

"Because of his early NS Party membership, his financial support of the SS and the uniforms delivered to the National Socialist German Workers Party, Boss was considered both an "activist" and a "supporter and beneficiary of National Socialism". In a 1946 judgement, he was stripped of his voting rights, his capacity to run a business, and fined "a very heavy penalty" of 100,000 DM ($70,553 U.S. dollars)(£54,008.61).^[4] However, Boss appealed, and he was eventually classified as a ‘follower’, a lesser category, which meant that he was not regarded as an active promoter of National Socialism"

Funny how some people's names survive their dodgy deeds and others don't... 

 

Like Hilti? Anti-Semitic supporters of the Nazi Party who allegedly laundered money for them. 

[PB1994]

My mate is so tight-fisted he dropped a pound coin one time and when he bent down to pick it up it hit him on the back of the head.

[AyrshireTon]

Was at a family dinner (on the wife's side) at the weekend. Was meant to be the in-laws (Golden Anniversary) and the two generations below, with our ages group paying for the meals.

 My mother-in-law inadvertently invited her brother - who then ordered the rib-eye steak.

[Honest_Man#1]

2 hours ago, AyrshireTon said:

Was at a family dinner (on the wife's side) at the weekend. Was meant to be the in-laws (Golden Anniversary) and the two generations below, with our ages group paying for the meals.

 My mother-in-law inadvertently invited her brother - who then ordered the rib-eye steak.

Who’s the tight-fisted one in this story? You?

[johnthebaptistist]

9 hours ago, NewBornBairn said:

 

Like Hilti? Anti-Semitic supporters of the Nazi Party who allegedly laundered money for them. 

Prisoners around 1944 working at a Siemens factory in KZ Bobrek, a subcamp of Auschwitz concentration camp.

[Hedgecutter]

Was down visiting my mum yesterday and I gave her husband (i.e. my step-dad) a birthday present (£30 gift voucher and a beer selection) seeing as it was his a few days ago, and mine just a few days before that.

Got told by my mum "you shouldn't have bought him anything as we haven't got you anything as we're skint just now" (first I'd heard of this seeing as gifts in one form or another have always been exchanged).  He then proceeded to watch the OF game and the Liverpool Spurs on their full sports subscription with a trip to the pub in between.

Didn't actually bother me too much tbh but my other half feels that I should be angry that they couldn't put anything aside for it.  Should I?  

Edited April 1, 2019 by Hedgecutter

[DA Baracus]

29 minutes ago, Hedgecutter said:

Was down visiting my mum yesterday and I gave her husband (i.e. my step-dad) a birthday present (£30 gift voucher and a beer selection) seeing as it was his a few days ago, and mine just a few days before that.

Got told by my mum "you shouldn't have bought him anything as we haven't got you anything as we're skint just now" (first I'd heard of this seeing as gifts in one form or another have always been exchanged).  He then proceeded to watch the OF game and the Liverpool Spurs on their full sports subscription with a trip to the pub in between.

Didn't actually bother me too much tbh but my other half feels that I should be angry that they couldn't put anything aside for it.  Should I?  

You shouldn't be angry about a lack of gift (you're 35 you old hoor!) but the bullshit is definitely reason to be annoyed.

[Nutz_the_Squirrel]

13 hours ago, Hedgecutter said:

Was down visiting my mum yesterday and I gave her husband (i.e. my step-dad) a birthday present (£30 gift voucher and a beer selection) seeing as it was his a few days ago, and mine just a few days before that.

Got told by my mum "you shouldn't have bought him anything as we haven't got you anything as we're skint just now" (first I'd heard of this seeing as gifts in one form or another have always been exchanged).  He then proceeded to watch the OF game and the Liverpool Spurs on their full sports subscription with a trip to the pub in between.

Didn't actually bother me too much tbh but my other half feels that I should be angry that they couldn't put anything aside for it.  Should I?  

Yep- that's pish. 

[ICTJohnboy]

14 hours ago, Hedgecutter said:

 

Didn't actually bother me too much tbh but my other half feels that I should be angry that they couldn't put anything aside for it.  Should I?  

 

I would disown them if I were you.

[Melanius Mullarkey]

16 hours ago, PB1994 said:

My mate is so tight-fisted he dropped a pound coin one time and when he bent down to pick it up it hit him on the back of the head.

Did you and him inadvertently invent copper wire fighting over a penny?

[port-ton]

Was down visiting my mum yesterday and I gave her husband (i.e. my step-dad) a birthday present (£30 gift voucher and a beer selection) seeing as it was his a few days ago, and mine just a few days before that.
Got told by my mum "you shouldn't have bought him anything as we haven't got you anything as we're skint just now" (first I'd heard of this seeing as gifts in one form or another have always been exchanged).  He then proceeded to watch the OF game and the Liverpool Spurs on their full sports subscription with a trip to the pub in between.
Didn't actually bother me too much tbh but my other half feels that I should be angry that they couldn't put anything aside for it.  Should I?  

A double murder is probably the only way you're going to save any face here.

[Hedgecutter]

I got an email yesterday from somebody asking if he could send an additional invoice for a taxi fare he forgot to claim back in May.  It was for £5.60.

Eta: Bristow heliport to Aberdeen airport

Edited August 24, 2023 by Hedgecutter

[GTG_03]

1 hour ago, Hedgecutter said:

I got an email yesterday from somebody asking if he could send an additional invoice for a taxi fare he forgot to claim back in May.  It was for £5.60.

Eta: Bristow heliport to Aberdeen airport

That's such a short distance he could have walked, even with his offshore bags. I hope you ignored him or told him to ram it.

[Fullerene]

3 hours ago, Hedgecutter said:

I got an email yesterday from somebody asking if he could send an additional invoice for a taxi fare he forgot to claim back in May.  It was for £5.60.

Eta: Bristow heliport to Aberdeen airport

"Happy to oblige.  However there will be a £8.40 processing fee, which we could reduce to £7.00 if you just send us a cheque for £1.40 and we call it quits."

[scottsdad]

18 minutes ago, Fullerene said:

"Happy to oblige.  However there will be a £8.40 processing fee, which we could reduce to £7.00 if you just send us a cheque for £1.40 and we call it quits."

When my dad died, his credit card company owed him something like 9p. He just ignored it and never used the thing. 

When he died, my mum contacted them to close the account. She had to post them his death certificate. Eventually they posted her a cheque. The postage costs alone far outweighed the amount involved. 

[thistledo]

Some good examples of tightfistedness in there, as mentioned pubs always bring it out in people. One of the lads we meet in the pub before games isn't quite a round dodger, but will never refuse a round when people inevitably arrive at different times, I've seen him sat with 2 pints of T untouched and frantically drinking the pint he has on the go. I don't know where the line is, tbh if I'm at the halfway point of a pint I'd be inclined to accept another. 

There was always good stories about a lad I used to work with being a tight b*****d. Struggling to remember most of them except for making his family (of 4 or 5) use the one electric toothbrush and just swap the heads over. Whenever he told me of any money saving things he'd managed he'd always give me that same wink, smile and head nod as if he was making a huge saving on something when it was literally pennies at times.  

[Northboy]

43 minutes ago, scottsdad said:

When he died, my mum contacted them to close the account. She had to post them his death certificate. Eventually they posted her a cheque. The postage costs alone far outweighed the amount involved. 

We moved house back in the early 90s and for various reasons the transactions were complicated resulting in additional and unwelcome solicitor's fees. Nearly a year later we received a formal letter from the solicitor with a grovelling apology for an error in their fees. Our excitement was short lived when we saw the cheque for 17p.

[Northboy]

2 minutes ago, thistledo said:

Some good examples of tightfistedness in there, as mentioned pubs always bring it out in people.

When I was old enough to legally go to pubs (late 80s) one of our group had a bit of a reputation as a round dodger. He'd take £20 out of the bank then at the end of the night go back and deposit what he hadn't spent. He banked with the TSB who at that time, and maybe still do, had a such a deposit option. Sure he was challenging himself to return as large a % of the initial £20 as he could get away with.

[Central Belt Caley]

I had a pal who used to be one of those “Transfer me that £3.85 when you can mate” folk. Think it might’ve been cause he didn’t earn much at the time because nowadays he flings money about like nobody’s business.