TightwadsThere's saving money, and there's being tight: saving money at the expense of other people, or simply for the miserly hell of it.
Tell us about measures that go beyond simple belt tightening into the realms of Mr Scrooge.
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chthonic, Thu 23 Oct 2008, 13:58)
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Dutch ex no. 2used to eat mouldy food he found in the fridge - the sort of stuff that has gone off to the stage where consciousness is the next evolutionary leap - because he was determined it wouldn't be wasted, even if it poisoned him. To be fair, his parents survived the final awful winter of WW2 by eating tulip bulbs so he'd been brought up to be thrifty, but he was earning over 50K a year and all his clothes were older than me.
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crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Thu 23 Oct 2008, 18:34,
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ReadRuth Reichl's book "Tender At The Bone" has a story about her mother like this. Her mom couldn't smell or taste when food was spoiled and one day poisoned her future in-laws at her son's engagement party with bad chicken and aspic.
Read it, it's hilarious!
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