33 People Confess The Cheapest Thing They’ve Ever Witnessed Someone Do
We all know people who are pretty cheap when it comes to spending money. No matter how much they have, they don’t want to give it up. Even if it means they make the people around them suffer, or you know–they look really f**king cheap–they don’t care.
As long as they have their money, they’re happy. But, sometimes, our cheap-o friends and family can do some ridiculous, outrageous, and embarrassing things to save a buck. People on Reddit are sharing the cheapest things they’ve ever seen someone do and, ouch, I’d hate to have my spot blown up like this.
33.
Had a friend that would pay for his bar tab using all of our tips. He was caught after our regular waitress got fed up with not getting much of a tip after having a full table all night and having a chat with us, we were all good tippers so it made no sense. The next time we went to the bar we all threw our money on the table as usual, all except one. Dave. We had never really watched before because we didn’t think we had to. His excuse was that our tips always more than covered his bill as well as leaving some extra for the waitress. We stopped inviting Dave out.
32.
friend of mine would join us to dinner to lets say applebees. He’d order a side dish/or nothing at all, then wait till everyones done eating, and say hey you going to finish that burger/fries/chicken to everyone who had left overs. Then make him self a full plate/meal with everyones leftovers and eat it.
31.
My cousins didn’t know that ketchup & mustard came in bottles because my uncle would just steal packets from McDonald’s to use at home.
They were by no means struggling. He was just very, very cheap. So cheap it was an artform. He also drank creamers at diners and took all the jam on the table…except for grape because he found out somewhere that grape was the least expensive of the jams, so he left it to be spiteful.
30.
I paid a shawarma for me and a friend; After he eats half of it, he offers to sell me the remainder.
29.
My friend in college would never buy a chaser for his liquor and always used other peoples’ or whatever he could find in the refrigerator of a given party. Needless to say, he drank a ton of milk with his whiskey during our time as undergrads.
28.
Stuffing their date in the trunk so they wouldn’t have to pay for their ticket at the drive-in
27.
One of my college roommates would take double-stuffed Oreos out of our other roommate’s package and replace them with his own single-stuffed Oreos
26.
I was giving a dude a ride home one time and all of a sudden he yells “Dude pull over real quick!!” And I pull over, confused and a little freaked out.
He runs up to some random persons front porch, steals some cigarette butts out of their ash tray and comes back. Says to me, “Betcha didn’t see those over there did you” all proud of himself. I wanted to throw up lol
25.
My grandfather told his friends to stop visiting because he didn’t like them flushing the toilet and washing their hands, thus increasing his water bill.
24.
My gf’s ex would bring a slice of cheese to work to put on the hamburger’s he’d buy for lunch. He thought paying extra for cheese was crazy when he could buy a huge package from costco for a few cents per slice. He wasn’t wrong, just cheap.
23.
My aunt is a fucking multi millionaire who owns apartment buildings in Menlo Park CA. She is a notorious cheapskate. Just 2 days ago she gave my daughter a used sippy cup complete with teeth marks (that she had undoubtedly picked up at a garage sale or thrift store) as a 1st birthday present.
In the trash it went.
22.
I went over a friends house for dinner in elementary school and at the end of the meal the dad told everyone to dump whatever juice or milk they didn’t finish back in the original jug to put back in the fridge.
I felt like gagging after having drunk their Sunny D.
21.
You know how Chinese restaurants give you hot tea for free? My uncle used to ask for as much hot tea as possible, then put it into Thermos’s to keep for later.
20.
My friend, when he goes to Movie Theater, is waiting in a Bathroom for 30 min, locked in, feet on the toilet bowl, so he can watch the next movie for free.
19.
I had a roommate, one day we’re at a gas station, my total is like $8.26. I had $8 and a $100 bill. They couldn’t break the hundred so I asked him for 26 cents. Three weeks later when rent was due he gave me his portion of the rent minus 26 cents… I literally had a jar in the living room full of daily pocket change. He could have grabbed it anytime or more and I wouldn’t have cared, but never said a thing. That was the cheapest thing I’ve ever seen.
18.
Late but, I was once eating at a Costco’s outside food court, where they have ketchup, mustard, relish and onion dispensers. A saw a mini van pull up to the curb, a woman hopped out with a large zip lock and filled it with chopped onions. She ran back to the van and left! Cheap and lazy, onions aren’t expensive in the least.
17.
Roomate in college would wash out his condoms and reroll them.
Dude fucked a different girl everyday, used 1 condom a week.
16.
My mother went all the way back to the grocery store after discovering her 8-piece bucket of fried chicken only had 7 pieces LOL she made us drive back almost 30 minutes in rush hour traffic for a chicken wing.
15.
A good “friend” of about 8 years ghosted me, because he owed me 30$, I met him months later and asked him about the money, he told me, we don’t see each other anymore, why should I pay you back the money.
On one hand it was sad, because we had some good memories, on the other hand it was 30$ well spend.
14.
I knew someone who used duct tape to cover a giant hole in the back of their car’s window. Months later, I wanted to buy the car and get it fixed,but when we checked there was so much moist coming into the back that there were was mold growing on the seats.
13.
I had a friend who’s parents reused plastic baggies, aluminum foil, and plastic wrap. They legit rinsed them out and let them dry on the dish rack. I thought it was weird when I was in college, but now that I’m older I kinda get it.
12.
At a restaurant asked for water, which is free plus, sugar and lemons. Pretty embarrassing because he had just ordered toast and then he just buttered with the table’s portion and asked for more sugar.
11.
Walking down the streets of my hippie town, I watched one of my friends casually grab a takeout box off a garbage can and start eating out of it. Didn’t break stride. We’d literally just come back from dinner. This was semi-normal in my friend group, though.
10.
Take their dirty laundry on vacation with them. They used the washer and dryer in the rental to save on power and water at home.
9.
I saw a coworker wash and hang dry paper towels for reuse. Hung a line right up in the kitchen about once a week for drying.
8.
My aunt would go to Long John Silvers for a promotion they would do for major league games. If the local team one, a meal would be free the next day if you wore that team’s hat. She would go to every Long John Silvers in the city each day and freeze the food so she could eat it all summer. It was disgusting.
7.
I’m told that one of the previous owners of the car dealership that I work at used to go to gas stations and line his pockets with coffee creamers and sugar packets to stock up the dealership’s coffee center.
6.
My mom learned that there was an additional charge at our small hometown grocery store deli for slicing cheese (literally something like 2 cents) so she just started ordering blocks of cheese…
5.
My wife and I were hosting dinner for extended family during the Christmas holiday. We were hosting a total of 15 people. When my Father asked what he needed to bring, we told him to bring drinks. When he showed up with his wife and her little shit of a grandson, we found that my Father had brought 3 cans of off-brand soda. One for him, his wife and her grandson. I guess screw everyone else! My wife found this so ridiculous that she took a picture of the three cans on the counter so that she could send it to her sister to show her how cheap my Dad was.
4.
Use cheap shampoo to wash the dishes. After letting the dog lick the plates too.
3.
My dad had 5 kids and his girlfriend had 2. The girlfriend would complain about the cost of having us over one weekend a month. We had to shower in pairs until we were into our teens.
2.
A guy I had just met asked me out once, he was so-so, but asked me to a show a second time and afterward asked me to grab something to eat and made me pay for my own meal. I was out of work and he knew it. He THEN begged the waitress for a free slice of cake. She gave it to him, and he left like a $2 tip. He makes somewhere north of 70 grand a year and lives with his mother “because she’s sick and the insurance is still repairing the mold problem at his house.” He genuinely believes he’s “frugal” not cheap.
1.
Didn’t see it, but my family tells stories about my grandpa who used to use only one sqiare of toilet paper. He would fold it half twice and wipe. Then fold over the used part and wipe. When he was done he would tear out the middle corner and use it to clean beneath his finger nails…. So, cheap and gross.
