If you ever want to see a real life tightarse in its native habitat:
The fact your quoting dogdeball deserves to be quoted.
Tightarse people - share your stories here
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3viltoast3r
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And everybody knows you fill your car up in the morning 
PINT of Stella. mate!
Many, many Scotches
It's a dog-eat-dog world. Particularly if you buy your poet-food from Aldi...
hach_bee
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Why pay $6 for a red bull anyway?? They're $3 in supermarkets and skinny enough to fit in pockets??
Pebble
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My father in law is the type that will boil only the amount of water he needs in the kettle. He uses powdered milk in his cereal to save having to heat milk up as well (uses boiled water with the powdered milk).
My Husband keeps a budget such that we have to write down everything we spend money on. At least it's good for my memory because the local supermarket (small town) doesn't give out receipts unless you specifically ask. Luckily I no longer have to detail specific categories (ie meat, veg etc etc) it's just "shopping" or "pet food" lol. Yeah stuff like having a meal or coffee out goes under "entertainment". I even have to write down if I buy a newspaper.
Yes he works in mining and he brings home soap, only because the cleaners insist of giving him a new bar or soap when he's hardly used the one he's got, so he just brings them home. He changes jobs often though so for a while he wasn't bringing soap home, we eventually started running out of soap I thought I was going to have to buy some!
My personal tight arseness never seem to have extended to bikes though, I've spent way more on bikes compared to how much I've spent on clothes or other stuff on myself during the last 10 years!
Recently we found some wood benches at the tip, part of a garden setting originally, didn't look in too bad a nick so we brought them home and hubby has fixed them up a little, sanded and oiled them. The look great. Love finding stuff at the tip, we found a carpet rug too, I put it on the trampoline gave it a good scrub with washing powder, upholstery cleaner and it came up great.
My husband made a bed out of pallets that he got for nothing, also made shelving in his shed out of pallets and I've made my own chopping boards out of some jarrah wood hubby cut for me or offcuts I've found elsewhere.
We use those shed shelving type racks from bunnings as book shelves in the house, and tv stand, office storage etc. Much cheaper than book cases or cabinets, just don't look as pretty.
My Husband keeps a budget such that we have to write down everything we spend money on. At least it's good for my memory because the local supermarket (small town) doesn't give out receipts unless you specifically ask. Luckily I no longer have to detail specific categories (ie meat, veg etc etc) it's just "shopping" or "pet food" lol. Yeah stuff like having a meal or coffee out goes under "entertainment". I even have to write down if I buy a newspaper.
Yes he works in mining and he brings home soap, only because the cleaners insist of giving him a new bar or soap when he's hardly used the one he's got, so he just brings them home. He changes jobs often though so for a while he wasn't bringing soap home, we eventually started running out of soap I thought I was going to have to buy some!
My personal tight arseness never seem to have extended to bikes though, I've spent way more on bikes compared to how much I've spent on clothes or other stuff on myself during the last 10 years!
Recently we found some wood benches at the tip, part of a garden setting originally, didn't look in too bad a nick so we brought them home and hubby has fixed them up a little, sanded and oiled them. The look great. Love finding stuff at the tip, we found a carpet rug too, I put it on the trampoline gave it a good scrub with washing powder, upholstery cleaner and it came up great.
My husband made a bed out of pallets that he got for nothing, also made shelving in his shed out of pallets and I've made my own chopping boards out of some jarrah wood hubby cut for me or offcuts I've found elsewhere.
We use those shed shelving type racks from bunnings as book shelves in the house, and tv stand, office storage etc. Much cheaper than book cases or cabinets, just don't look as pretty.
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jrewing
Eats Squid
We used to use 'pallet wrap' to wrap groceries on ourselves at Woolies' Distro centre at Minchinbury. It was cold in winter so a jacket concealed heaps. same to the legs.
Sure it was "stealing", but i remember tipping out 3 full pallets of flavoured milk 3l and 2l down the drain ( thousands of litres), chucking large loads of pre-packed ocean trout slices, large tubs of watermelons, many many other products into the massive wastebins out back, just because they were due to expire in a week and couldn't reach the stores with suitable shelf-time. NO one was allowed to buy it at discount or anything.
But they would collect all the dented cans, dirty bottles and packets of food that were rolling around at the back of the rat infested hole, wash them in a sink and put in a laundry basket, then shrink wrap it up for a silent auction/raffle.
Sure it was "stealing", but i remember tipping out 3 full pallets of flavoured milk 3l and 2l down the drain ( thousands of litres), chucking large loads of pre-packed ocean trout slices, large tubs of watermelons, many many other products into the massive wastebins out back, just because they were due to expire in a week and couldn't reach the stores with suitable shelf-time. NO one was allowed to buy it at discount or anything.
But they would collect all the dented cans, dirty bottles and packets of food that were rolling around at the back of the rat infested hole, wash them in a sink and put in a laundry basket, then shrink wrap it up for a silent auction/raffle.
cameron_15
Eats Squid
So my friend won $160 (not a huge win, but still a few $$!) at Crown last night, which to me would entail buying the next round of beers (for 4 people). He simply pocketed the cash and let us know how much better he is than us at games of chance.
We ended up catching a taxi home and his dad agreed to foot the bill as he didn't want to catch the train home. When we got out he still ensured he took my $25 share for the taxi, Money which I didn't see handed back to his dad...
To top things off the next day he dragged me along to a game of paintball (which I didn't really want to play due to hangover related illness) and wouldn't lend me the last $5 I needed to pay for the games (I was out of cash and the eftpos machine was out of battery). luckily the operator let me off the $5 (NOT a tight ass!).
In the end I guess it's fine, I just expected a mate who happened to get lucky at the casino to share his good fortunes a little with his mates who were playing in the same games!
for reference, this kid is quite loaded and his parents give him money every time he goes out and pay for things like taxi's for him. While he might not be a tight ass (he has no trouble buying himself things!), he isn't a very good bloke!
I'm sure if anyone else had won, they would have shouted the next round...
We ended up catching a taxi home and his dad agreed to foot the bill as he didn't want to catch the train home. When we got out he still ensured he took my $25 share for the taxi, Money which I didn't see handed back to his dad...
To top things off the next day he dragged me along to a game of paintball (which I didn't really want to play due to hangover related illness) and wouldn't lend me the last $5 I needed to pay for the games (I was out of cash and the eftpos machine was out of battery). luckily the operator let me off the $5 (NOT a tight ass!).
In the end I guess it's fine, I just expected a mate who happened to get lucky at the casino to share his good fortunes a little with his mates who were playing in the same games!
for reference, this kid is quite loaded and his parents give him money every time he goes out and pay for things like taxi's for him. While he might not be a tight ass (he has no trouble buying himself things!), he isn't a very good bloke!
I'm sure if anyone else had won, they would have shouted the next round...
udi
swiss cheese
Thus free.
mtb1611
Seymour
Wrong. In the end it's NOT fine - mates don't treat each other like your turd acquaintance does. Ditch him, ditch him fast.
Pebble
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Yeah I must say I'm surprised some of you still consider these people mates.
And from my experience the people that have the least are usually the most generous. I go to my elderly pensioner neighbors to buy eggs whenever I need some, rarely can I come back home without extra stuff weather it be fruit and veg they've grown or plant cuttings for my garden or anything like that. They won't accept extra money, I tried not to take money for feeding their dogs once and they wouldn't hear of it, I said I'd have some chook poo instead but that didn't work, now there are a few bags of chook poo waiting for me and they still wouldn't keep the cash.
I think it's easier to feel good about giving then it is about receiving! I guess there is also a line when it comes to letting people have that pleasure of giving and just plain taking advantage of their good nature.
These neighbors of mine grow a lot of their own fruit and veg, have their own sheep (for meat), chooks. They dry their own fruit. They don't drink much, don't smoke, don't go out and spend on eating out much. They sell some of their produce (eggs, raspberries etc) and they manage to save up to go for a decent overseas holiday every year (they're pensioners).
In the end I still can't believe how tight some of the mates you guys have are though, and some seem to be just blatant bludgers or rip offs!
And from my experience the people that have the least are usually the most generous. I go to my elderly pensioner neighbors to buy eggs whenever I need some, rarely can I come back home without extra stuff weather it be fruit and veg they've grown or plant cuttings for my garden or anything like that. They won't accept extra money, I tried not to take money for feeding their dogs once and they wouldn't hear of it, I said I'd have some chook poo instead but that didn't work, now there are a few bags of chook poo waiting for me and they still wouldn't keep the cash.
I think it's easier to feel good about giving then it is about receiving! I guess there is also a line when it comes to letting people have that pleasure of giving and just plain taking advantage of their good nature.
These neighbors of mine grow a lot of their own fruit and veg, have their own sheep (for meat), chooks. They dry their own fruit. They don't drink much, don't smoke, don't go out and spend on eating out much. They sell some of their produce (eggs, raspberries etc) and they manage to save up to go for a decent overseas holiday every year (they're pensioners).
In the end I still can't believe how tight some of the mates you guys have are though, and some seem to be just blatant bludgers or rip offs!
nick_dales
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On my 18th i lent a mate of mine $20 to go up to the bottle-O and buy a six pack, when i asked for the $20 back i was hand $17 because he'd forced me to scull one of his beers. I was at the pub with same mate about a week ago when the people behind us got up to leave without finishing their schnitzel. He quickly went over and grabbed it. Turns out the fella was just up to buy another beer, but my mate was halfway through his schnitzel by the time he'd gotten back from the toilet
John U
MTB Precision
What was the result?
Rider_of_Fast
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How about those guys in the 'cash splurgers' thread blatantly flaunting their frivolity with money...
Clearly they didnt consider the poor buggers in QLD before parting so easily with their fortunes... I heard one bloke over there paid $27 for lunch! Can u believe it?
Imagine the things you could do with $27 in a whole week, let alone one day! And this wasnt even a whole day, this is lunch we're talking about (one lousy lunch!!)
So say instead "Mr.$27" packed himself a soggy sandwhich, a bent banana and an almost-rotten apple every day for a year, he would save himself $5,280pa, thats the value of my fuel-efficient 4-cyclinder 1.4L second hand car. He could buy himself a car every year!!!
Some people
Clearly they didnt consider the poor buggers in QLD before parting so easily with their fortunes... I heard one bloke over there paid $27 for lunch! Can u believe it?
Imagine the things you could do with $27 in a whole week, let alone one day! And this wasnt even a whole day, this is lunch we're talking about (one lousy lunch!!
)So say instead "Mr.$27" packed himself a soggy sandwhich, a bent banana and an almost-rotten apple every day for a year, he would save himself $5,280pa, thats the value of my fuel-efficient 4-cyclinder 1.4L second hand car. He could buy himself a car every year!!!
Some people
Joy
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If I could afford a $27 lunch I would. Bet it tasted freakin' awesome! How much did you donate to the flood appeal? What kind of bike do you own?How about those guys in the 'cash splurgers' thread blatantly flaunting their frivolity with money...
Clearly they didnt consider the poor buggers in QLD before parting so easily with their fortunes... I heard one bloke over there paid $27 for lunch! Can u believe it?
Imagine the things you could do with $27 in a whole week, let alone one day! And this wasnt even a whole day, this is lunch we're talking about (one lousy lunch!!
So say instead "Mr.$27" packed himself a soggy sandwhich, a bent banana and an almost-rotten apple every day for a year, he would save himself $5,280pa, thats the value of my fuel-efficient 4-cyclinder 1.4L second hand car. He could buy himself a car every year!!!
Some people
Rider_of_Fast
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Don't you worry, I've go that covered:
- I donated some elbow grease on my Saturday and Sunday of last week to help out with the BCC volunteers. So lets approximate that to 6hrs/day * 2. My casual job pays $20/hr, so this would amount to a volunteering equivalent of $240 donation. I dono man, Im just sayin'.
- I have a Giant XTC1 and Felt F75 roadie (bang 4 buck baby!) and although my rides are vastly inferior to those of my competitors/friends, its all about the engine. Nuff say'ed.
But seriously, there's silly buggers even here at uni that pay $10/day for lunch and complain that it takes them 3 weeks to earn $350!! I mean, c'mon guys a bit of common sense. Even if you could afford it (back to "Mr.$27"), you'd wanna be earning a decent wage, either way i'd rather pack my lunch and use the money saved to meet the repayments on my *hypothetical* investment property.