Tales of Extreme Stinginess

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Eric Lund
Mar 30, 2020 1:00 AM EDT

We personally have done some ridiculously inconvenient things to save not enough money. When you realize that you're spending 3 hours and gas money to go to a store the next town over save three dollars on apple juice, it really makes you reevaluate how much your time is worth. That said, we love a deal and here are stories of people's sketchy cheap buys that ended up being their best purchases. On the other side there are people who try to bully and swindle people out of their dollars or complain over the contents of a dollar taco, and those entitled people need to pack up their rotten attitudes.

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  • 01
    Text - "My ex boss was at the station to fill her MB with gas when she noticed fuel across the street was a penny less. She got so excited she drove over a curb and sideswiped a bollard trying to get there. Ended up costing her over $2000 to repair the car."
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    Text - "I knew someone who once went to buy shampoo at a Walmart and didn't like that the bottle wasn't filled to the very top. (Don't try explaining to her that bottles need room to expand during transport.) So she unscrewed another bottle and poured it into the bottle she wanted to buy to top it off. Well, security cameras saw her doing this and she was busted by the security officers. She got argumentative and combative and ended up being arrested. All for half an ounce of shampoo. Then she g
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    Text - "As a broke college student I used to line my purse with a gallon size ziploc bag and fill it up at buffets or all you can eat shrimp at Red Lobster. It was awesome until I came across a old dried up fried shrimp in my purse 2 months later."
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    Text - "There is a lady in my town that goes through the garbage, we know she isn't homeless atleast we think she isn't. She starts walking from one end of the town to the other and will stop at every garbage and eat whatever she finds that is good enough. However we have seen her leave the local gym and she always has the best looking gym equipment and gym bag. People have offered her money and she has never once accepted it to my knowledge. She is just a lady that saves money by eating garbage
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    Text - "Went out to lunch with someone. I drove. We ate similar things (no alcohol) and split the check. I gave her cash and she put it on her card. Back in the car on the way home she said 'you realize you shorted me 25 cents!. I gave her a quarter and never went out with her socially again."
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    Text - "I knew a girl that for an entire summer ate nothing by fish sticks and peas. Apparently she researched it and that was the most cost efficient way to get all the nutrients she needed."
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    Text - "My dad was getting a hip replacement and the day before the operation I came home to find him writhing in pain as he mowed the lawn with a push mower. When I asked him what the hell he was doing he replied, 'Using the old one up before getting a new one."
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    Text - "I used to frame houses. At the end of the day my boss would walk around the job site and pick up bent nails. He would then proceed to straighten them all out and use them the next day. BTW nails are weighed by the pound. He probably spent a half hour each day to save himself 15-25 cents."
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    Text - "Stockbroker here. Client is mailing in a $1.2 million check, and refuses to pay for his own stamp. We had to mail him a prepaid envelope."
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    Text - "My parents split everything. My mom has her shampoo, my dad has his. Their own food, drinks. Fast forward... My dad was sick and needed some Pepto Bismol. He didn't have any, my mom measured out 15 ml, then divided that by the cost and my dad paid her 23 cents or whatever it was."
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    Text - "Friend was selling a car, but didn't want to hand it over with any gas in the tank. Problem is he ran out of gas half-way through driving it to the buyer."
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    Text - "I worked at a Krystal when I was a teenager, and we had a guy come into the restaurant and want to call the police to press charges (theft by taking, he said) against me because I short- changed him by a single penny when he'd come by the drive-thru. The manager gave him the penny out of her own pocket, and told him never to come back. My register, at the end of my shift, counted up dead on."
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  • 13
    Text - "Dated a girl once whose mother would take mail she had gotten and float the stamps off if the postmark didn't sufficiently cover the stamp. She would then reuse them. Call me crazy but I really don't think the effort to A) sort the mail to find the un-postmarked stamps B) float them off in hot water, and C) re-adhere them to new envelopes is really worth it when you could be doing...literally anything else."
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  • 14
    Text - "A guy sat at my table the other day, ordered one appetizer with a coupon for it for free, ate three loaves of the free bread, and made a big show about giving me a tube of generic brand antiseptic cream as a tip."
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    Text - "Worked for a commercial laundry where, I shit you not, the maintenance manual specified you were to write the date a fluorescent bulb is installed with a marker. When said bulb burned out, you were to calculate the hours used and if it did not add up to the hours specified on the packaging, you were to contact the manufacturer and demand a partial credit. That is only one of many, many examples."
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    Text - "When I was living in my first apartment, I had one light bulb that I unscrewed and carried from room to room. I may have stolen that light bulb from one of the common rooms in the dorms. Edit: re: questions about complex replacing bulbs for me. There was only one light fixture in the place, the bathroom. It worked, didn't bring the bulb in there. The rest of the apartment was lit by byo lamps. This was only for about 2 weeks, till my second semester grad school stipend came."
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    Text - "I was working at target when a woman came forward with an odd assortment of items. I rang them all up for her and it totaled to just below 300 bucks. She asked me to hold on for a second and pulled out a plastic bag. It was one of those gallon sized ziplocks and it was chock full of coupons and those 5 dollar gift cards you can get through certain deals at target. Apparently she had called the store or a store ahead of time and had a list of what order to put each of the coupons through.
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