Cheapest Person I Know

**Autumn1102** · 03-05-2008, 05:47 PM

Here is a link to people's funny tightwad stories.
http://money.aol.com/special/cheapes...on-i-know-2008

Here is one that I posted on their message board that actually happened to my husband:
"I had to share this one. My husband used to work with his uncle and his aunt was in charge of the company's payroll (family business). One morning he asked his uncle for .10 to buy a cup of coffee because he didn't have any cash. When he got his paycheck that week, his aunt had deducted the .10 from his paycheck."

Do you have any great stories?

**M55FF** · 03-05-2008, 05:49 PM

I have a neighbor that told me he had a very cheap electric bill....
said he warmed his hands for a month on a light bulb !

LOL !

**DJ1972** · 03-06-2008, 09:14 AM

My FIL is the cheapest person I know. He has a timer on his hot water heater, it only turns on 2 hours a day..just enough to heat water for his bath, everything else in the house is done with cold water. He also frequently calls the 1-800 numbers on products..you know the tiny print that says if you are unhappy with this product call 1-800....he gets all sorts of free products and coupons this way. And my favorite...he has super glued tiny wooden blocks to his thermostat so no one can adjust it beyond what he thinks is necessary. There are many more, but hey, it works for him, he is retired with no money worries.

**C@rol** · 03-06-2008, 09:37 AM

Great post.
Thanks for the link.

**M55FF** · 03-06-2008, 10:16 AM

funny about he guy who used blocks of wood for his thermostat...
but NOBODY is cheaper than my neighbor.
He tries to bum rides with me to the grocery store, then avert me to take him thrift shopping ( so he can save gas).
He tries to act like he's doing you a favor to give you old hollow doors and rusted metal shelving so he doesn't have to cut them up or disassemble them for trash pickup.
LOL !

**shortstack** · 03-06-2008, 11:24 AM

I come from a long line of cheapskates. The cheapest person I know is my grandmother. If she decides to use a paper plate for dinner she cuts it in half since she only uses half of it and then she saves the other half for the next nights dinner.
She also only chews a half a piece of gum. I personally would swallow a piece that small.

Andrea

**jamie79** · 03-06-2008, 11:29 AM

Well I am not sure if I know a truly cheap person but I will tell you who was really cheap when I waited on him one time and that was Roger Clemens. He came into the restaurant were I worked, a party of 4, ran my butt off, ran up a bill of $150 and left me a $5 tip

**Samigirl** · 03-06-2008, 11:46 AM

Originally Posted by singersullivan

I come from a long line of cheapskates. The cheapest person I know is my grandmother. If she decides to use a paper plate for dinner she cuts it in half since she only uses half of it and then she saves the other half for the next nights dinner.
She also only chews a half a piece of gum. I personally would swallow a piece that small.

Andrea

Ha...ha....the gum thing cracks me up. I do that. Here I thought I didn't know anyone who was cheap. It turns out, I'm the cheap one!

**shortstack** · 03-06-2008, 11:53 AM

rofl!
Andrea

Originally Posted by Samigirl

Ha...ha....the gum thing cracks me up. I do that. Here I thought I didn't know anyone who was cheap. It turns out, I'm the cheap one!

**anna021** · 03-06-2008, 02:53 PM

I have a BIL who pretty cheap, I've known him for at least 30 years, and as far as I know, he's been eating ramen noodles for dinner every day of his life. Now, he'll eat anything else if someone else is paying for it, but if he's home, and it's coming out of his pocket, it's ramen noodles, cooked in a little pot, and eaten out of that pot. Know wonder my sister in law is never home! hahaha

**M55FF** · 03-06-2008, 03:27 PM

I had an uncle who was pretty cheap, he'd buy one pair of shoes at a time and wear them until he wore them out before using duct tape to
keep the sole to the shoe ... before he got a new pair of cheap shoes to replace them.
he was from a different generation and I just chaulked up his ways to having emotional problems from the war ( WW2) ...
he also used the mesh from onion bags to make scrubbies to wash the dish he had ( yes he only had one, he said it helped him keep his house clean and life stressfree)

you know, thinking about it, he kinda scared me a little

**heartofmine** · 03-06-2008, 03:32 PM

LOL I've got several cheapskates in my family so I've got lots of stories.

I've got one aunt that won't make a long distance phone call and most of her brother's and sister's live out of state. She'll call them and let the phone ring twice and then hang up so they'll call her back.

My sil..now she's a character. She gets everything she can get. She'll go to Pizza Hut and buy one slice of pizza and then fill a ziplock bag with Parmesan cheese. She'll go to McDonald's and order a $1.00 burger and then gather up all the ketchup, mustard, mayo, straws and napkins she can get. She'll even call family and ask if they have any leftovers she can have. Even had the nerve to call my sister's house on Christmas Eve and asked if we'd bring her the leftovers. She never puts more than $3.00 worth of gas in her car at a time. Just enough to get to town and back...**she may have to increase that with the gas prices going up. She doesn't buy us gifts for Christmas but gives us some old something at her house. She always expects and will even tell us what to buy her for Christmas.

Last May my mil passed away so for Christmas this year she gave everyone something of her mom's. Thing is my dh is her brother and should have gotten something anyway. Trust me none of the gifts were anything any good either. It was better than the old chipped saucers she gave me last year though. Duh! That year she gave me 2 mismatched saucers. She gave my kids a plate each. She got them out of her mother's cabinet. She's never married and lives at home with her parents...now parent since her mom passed away.

Yep she's a character but she learned well from my fil. We had told them about this great resteraunt in another town. My fil had to go there to the doctor so they decided they would try it out since they had to eat out that day. Its not expensive plus they get the Senior discount. Anyway we happened to show up there the same day at the same time so we all sat together. My fil liked the soup spoon and said he was going to keep it...and so my sil wiped it off when he was done eating and put it in her purse. He uses that spoon each time he eats.

Now I myself consider it stealing...the spoon and all the other things they take from resteraunts but they don't see it that way.