Bizarre stories about the “money conscious”
Posted on 16. May, 2005 by Cashzilla in lifestyle
Here are some of the stories Cashzilla has heard about various Scrooges and their money saving tactics:
1. Parents who give children their own books at Christmas
2. Present of dandruff control shampoo (buy one get one free offer) in office Secret Santa
3. Recycling of tea-bags
4. Carpeting house with scraps and free samples
5. Buying Christmas presents in the January sales
6. Driving at 56 miles an hour on the motorway to save petrol
7. Using dustbin bags for curtains
8. Accumulating toilet paper from public places
9. Accumulating light bulbs from public places
10. Clearing out the complimentary mini bar and toiletries from hotel rooms
11. Going one step further and clearing the maid’s trolley, apparently you can pick up a month’s supply in approximately 20 seconds!
12. Coasting downhill
13. Scouring conference rooms for leftover sandwiches
14. Always buying out of (display) date food at supermarkets
15. Checking fruit machines for leftover change
16. Conveniently needing the toilet when it’s your round
17. Combing the streets for leftover change
18. Asking for a student discount, four years after graduation
19. Steaming un-franked stamps off letters
20. Putting on extra jerseys in winter instead of just turning up the heating
21. Trying to claim half fare on buses/trains despite being quite clearly in your mid-twenties
22. Keeping bottle bags that you got for your birthday and giving them to out-of-favour relatives (minus the tag that has, unfortunately and inconsiderately, been written on)
23. Becoming a Jehovah’s witness just to avoid shelling out on expensive Christmas gifts
24. Collecting AOL discs from the stand at Tesco
25. Collecting the free miniature pencils from Ikea
26. Free ‘tester’ food in supermarkets
27. Sleeping in airports to avoid accommodation costs
28. And the “old classic” – legging it out of a restaurant without paying the bill
29. Scooping out the mint imperial bowl on your way out of the door
If you know of any other tactics a Scrooge has employed, please mention them in the comments.
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Anonymous
May 16th, 2005
1/ Emptying out disposable hoover bags
2/ Asking who had nan bread when the bill arrives
3/ Buying crap sweets in airports to avoid being left with a penny of foreign currency
4/ Filling your iPod with crap music that your friends have and you don’t even like
5/ Getting your car tyres from scrap yards
6/ Hiding foreign coins in your bus fare
7/ Never buying crisps with your round of drinks
8/ Hanging around fruit machine hopping to get a cut of the winnings
9/ Begging from beggars for bus change
10/Borrowing someone else’s sledge every winter
11/ Asking for 30p so not to ‘break’ your fiver
12/ Asking for a doggy bag at the Chinese buffet
PS should be driving at 56mph instead
jojo
May 16th, 2005
Eating fine cuisine in Edinburgh’s most exclusive restaurant. Loving every bite but then a ‘hair’ miraculously appears in your last bite. Claiming to be a health inspector, you demand at least a 50% reduction on your bill
Going home with a guy at night just to get a free taxi ride
getting a round of vodka cranberries in (minus the vodka) and claiming that your mates must be too drunk to taste the alcohol!!
Anonymous
May 16th, 2005
Pretending to be a world famous extreme sports star to blag free entry to a nightclub as well as getting a round of drinks “On the House”.
Reverse Mortgage Help
May 18th, 2005
Buying crap sweets in airports to avoid being left with a penny of foreign currency
True and funny!!
Anonymous
May 25th, 2005
Apparently not all Scrooges are as exciting as the ones who comment on Cashzilla… look at the yawn yacking here:
Bore Me