Why Are Some People So Mean?

[NoMercy]

Mum's twin literally squeaks when she walks.

She paid off mortgage about 15 years early. She comes over all the time to borrow a cup of sugar or some gravy granules. Today she came over to "borrow" an egg and an envelope! For Funks Sake! She even borrows my mother's mop to mop her kitchen floor because she's too parsimonious to go to the pound shop.

She's got roughly £100k in her current account and yet she's too stingy to buy a coat - she borrowed Mum's 6 months ago and is still wearing it!

Do you know anyone who's tight as a duck's arse ??

[DTCwordfan]

you should have punctured the tip and, if they found out, claim that you had become Catholics.....

[DTCwordfan]

You should trying living with the Dutch (daisynonna around?). They take the meaning of tight-arsed to another level.

I had to go down to Germany for a sales visit, taking two Dutchmen with me, one out of our energy savings consultancy team, the other was a really nice guy and had travelled a lot. I don't know how we got onto the subject but as we got going down past Utrecht, the energy guy claimed that he only used one Gillette razor-blade a year. The other guy piled into him, saying that was impossible and how?

"I heat a kettle up and pour near-boiling water onto a towel and then soak my face with it to open the pores up"

My question was "Don't you spend more money on heating the kettle up each day than a new blade every so often?"

He sat in the back in a huff for the rest of the trip down, the other Dutch guy wetting himself with laughter......

[starone]

It might be force of habit, in some cases, but not the ones who are robbing you. I was brought up in a poor (but loving and happy) household and was always taught to 'make do and mend'. When I first set out in married life we did not have very much so I continued in the same way. Unfortunately it became a way of life and even now when I could quite well afford it, I find myself scrimping almost as if I was afraid to spend. However I do not extend that to others and I think I am very generous to others, but not to myself. For instance, I always insist on paying for the meal for everyone if we go out to a meal. I could not bear it if anyone thought I was a miser. The old saying about it is better to give than receive is true.

[DTCwordfan]

"A Dutch man is a Yorkshire man without a sense of generosity."

That's fair enough starby, I also applied that to business as to supplier meals and corporate hostility, as I preferred that they were in my pocket, not the other way around.