Stingiest thing you've seen someone do

[faustian]

I was there for a free meal with co-workers.

lol I'm busting your balls, I'm not above eating at Golden Corral myself tbh

 

[mister who]

Reminds me of my school's dining hall.

"Chicken fingers in the bag?"

*Gripping three burgers close to my chest* "Um... yes?"

The salad bar is ridiculously cheap. Also they weigh the soft serve ice cream. What I do with that is bury a bunch of brownies and cookies under the bowl and top it off with ice cream. Because individually the brownies and cookies are like $0.89 a piece but I can usually get 3-4 of them hidden under the ice cream and total is only comes out to $1.50 when they weigh it.

 

[Tycho- Taylor's Version]

The salad bar is ridiculously cheap. Also they weigh the soft serve ice cream. What I do with that is bury a bunch of brownies and cookies under the bowl and top it off with ice cream. Because individually the brownies and cookies are like $0.89 a piece but I can usually get 3-4 of them hidden under the ice cream and total is only comes out to $1.50 when they weigh it.

I will need to investigate this.

 

[mister who]

I will need to investigate this.

When I buy books I try to find people who took the course ahead of me, not a problem if you know other students in your program, and offer them cash for the books. Because the school's bookstore buys back books at a lowball rate but charge high ass prices for them.

If I can't manage to do that I buy those international editions online for 1/3 of the cost. But you have to be careful because a lot of the homework problems on those have different figures and values. So I try to avoid it whenever possible.

I work during the summers and part time when I have an easy schedule, have a scholarship and receive federal grants but still I'm poor as shit. I don't know how other people have so much damn money while attending school.

 

[cooks1]

The salad bar is ridiculously cheap. Also they weigh the soft serve ice cream. What I do with that is bury a bunch of brownies and cookies under the bowl and top it off with ice cream. Because individually the brownies and cookies are like $0.89 a piece but I can usually get 3-4 of them hidden under the ice cream and total is only comes out to $1.50 when they weigh it.

LOL at all the sneaky shit you guys try and do.

I guess I am not as cunning. Back in the day, I would just wait for a busy time, then just stand in the line and eat shit as it slowly moved. Sometimes I would get through 2 cheeseburgers and a bag of chips just in time to get to the cash register and pay for my bottled water. Hospital cafeteria's have a similar set up, and I did the same thing there when my wife was in the hospital having my first daughter.
One time it was so busy, I just at a hot dog and some chili as I was standing in the line, then I just left. :icon_chee

 

[faustian]

LOL at all the sneaky shit you guys try and do.

I guess I am not as cunning. Back in the day, I would just wait for a busy time, then just stand in the line and eat shit as it slowly moved. Sometimes I would get through 2 cheeseburgers and a bag of chips just in time to get to get to the cash register and pay for my bottled water.

Wait aren't you the poster who used to steal textbooks during finals week?

 

[mister who]

LOL at all the sneaky shit you guys try and do.

I guess I am not as cunning. Back in the day, I would just wait for a busy time, then just stand in the line and eat shit as it slowly moved. Sometimes I would get through 2 cheeseburgers and a bag of chips just in time to get to the cash register and pay for my bottled water. Hospital cafeteria's have a similar set up, and I did the same thing there when my wife was in the hospital having my first daughter.
One time it was so busy, I just at a hot dog and some chili as I was standing in the line, then I just left. :icon_chee

That shit is so obvious though. I couldn't pull something like that off with a straight face.

 

[Cmart]

Cheapest, most miserly thing I've ever seen was an older dude, the stepdad of a friend of mine. The snack he'd have at his house was a bag of pretzels; they were about a buck a bag as opposed to Doritos or some other luxury snack. That's not it though.

When the dude got to the bottom of a bag of pretzels, he couldn't bear to throw out the extra salt that had fallen off the pretzels. He saved it and used it to salt his food.

 

[Cmart]

Oh, runner-up for me is a friend of mine, but I'll admit the guy's a cheap jerk. He makes over $120K a year, mind you. Goes shopping at whole foods, and buys the pine nuts in bulk, but labels them soy nuts. Pine nuts are about $8.00 a pound. Soy nuts are like $1.79.

 

[cooks1]

Wait aren't you the poster who used to steal textbooks during finals week?

Not on a regular basis. But that was one thing I confessed to feeling bad about doing once in a 'confession' thread. I felt bad about that. I have never felt bad about maximizing food consumption.

I went to Clemson from 1987-1991. An interesting thing about Clemson was that until the 1950's it was a military academy. I have not been back in many years, but at the time I was there, a lot of it's initial infrastructure from it's early build-out was still in place. Many of the buildings were (and I presume still are) connected by underground tunnels. Which I traveled regularly as a student. Drunken underground trips to the cafeteria for 3am ice cream were not uncommon.

 

[djacobox372]

if she serves just 5 tables in an hour at the tip your mom gave + her standard wage she is making double minimum wage in my state

That's 40 tables in an 8 hour shift--how many waitresses get that much business consistently? LOL

Besides minimum wage is for people entering the workforce with other means of support, you can't live on it.

 

[mister who]

Cheapest, most miserly thing I've ever seen was an older dude, the stepdad of a friend of mine. The snack he'd have at his house was a bag of pretzels; they were about a buck a bag as opposed to Doritos or some other luxury snack. That's not it though.

When the dude got to the bottom of a bag of pretzels, he couldn't bear to throw out the extra salt that had fallen off the pretzels. He saved it and used it to salt his food.

I've returned salt to the grocery store before. It was morton salt I believe but when I opened it, it was a solid block of salt. It was stuck together. The canister was only like $2 but I returned it anyway. Most people wouldn't give a shit about $2 but I felt compelled to get a replacement. I'm easily the cheapest person I know.

 

[mister who]

Oh, runner-up for me is a friend of mine, but I'll admit the guy's a cheap jerk. He makes over $120K a year, mind you. Goes shopping at whole foods, and buys the pine nuts in bulk, but labels them soy nuts. Pine nuts are about $8.00 a pound. Soy nuts are like $1.79.

I love whole foods and this is sneaky as hell. But wouldn't the cashier know about this obvious mislabeling? Might as well print your own labels for stuff. Rofl. That would be a clever scam.

 

[Lord Commander Palis]

The salad bar is ridiculously cheap. Also they weigh the soft serve ice cream. What I do with that is bury a bunch of brownies and cookies under the bowl and top it off with ice cream. Because individually the brownies and cookies are like $0.89 a piece but I can usually get 3-4 of them hidden under the ice cream and total is only comes out to $1.50 when they weigh it.

LOL how fat are you?

 

[mister who]

LOL how fat are you?

Not fat at all. I need all the calories to maintain my weight. So I focus on extremely calorie dense foods.

 

[Lord Commander Palis]

Not fat at all. I need all the calories to maintain my weight. So I focus on extremely calorie dense foods.

Is your maintained weight about three fiddy? That's a good one

 

[Long Dark Blues]

I've returned salt to the grocery store before. It was morton salt I believe but when I opened it, it was a solid block of salt. It was stuck together. The canister was only like $2 but I returned it anyway. Most people wouldn't give a shit about $2 but I felt compelled to get a replacement. I'm easily the cheapest person I know.

You could have always shook the container vigorously to break up the salt.

 

[jackietreehorn8]

Last thing I remember was when my mother decided to take me out for lunch for my birthday and the food and service were great, and the bill was like $38.40 and she left $1.60 tip. The waitress I could tell was not happy but sucked it up and said thanks.

I waited for my mother to leave and get towards the door and I discretely left $10 on the table.

Man, I think I might respect your mom's frugalness more than your wastefulness. $5 would have been perfect. You're going to go broke making it rain at every diner you step foot in!!

 

[mister who]

You could have always shook the container vigorously to break up the salt.

It was solid. I would have needed an icepick to chip away at it.

Is your maintained weight about three fiddy? That's a good one

Nah. I only eat 2 meals a day. So I need at least 1200 calories per sitting.

 

[jackietreehorn8]

Cheapest, most miserly thing I've ever seen was an older dude, the stepdad of a friend of mine. The snack he'd have at his house was a bag of pretzels; they were about a buck a bag as opposed to Doritos or some other luxury snack. That's not it though.

When the dude got to the bottom of a bag of pretzels, he couldn't bear to throw out the extra salt that had fallen off the pretzels. He saved it and used it to salt his food.

This is my favorite so far, by a long shot.