Bad tightness from people who can afford to pay.

dandelionclock30

Has anyone ever know a really tight person who has loads of money but is so tight fisted its shocking? Im not takling here about those people who are on low incomes and have to be carefull. I mean real meanness.
One woman is used to be friends with falls into this category, she has 2 houses bought outright and gets £600 rent for one, has a pension, and loads of stocks and shares and savings accounts.She has over £250,000 in various accounts.
Bad examples of tightness are as follows, wearing secondhand pumps with no tread left for hill walking and then putting the group as risk when she couldnt walk down a mountain without slipping. Refusing to run a friend home when it was her turn to be the designated driver for the night saying it was out of her way. Asking to borrow frontline/flea spray instead of buying her own. Wearing vests/t shirts with big holes in which showed her chest, saying it was o.k for the garden.(What about if someone visited?)
Not putting any heating on in the winter and he clothes going rotton from damp as a result. Complaining about making a phone call per month. Not having a haircut for 20 years and just giving it an occassional trim with kitchen scissors. Having 1 shower per week and no baths in between.
The worst was though when a woman on a bus which she was on had a brick thrown at her window and the glass went into her neck. The woman was bleeding from her neck and needed some tissues etc whist the ambulance came. People on the bus we asking for tissues/ kitchen roll, my friend refused to give her kitchen rolls and said it was her shopping!. How bad is that when someone is bleeding refusing to help them?
Does anyone know anybody else as bad as this?

koan_2

Not quite that bad, but I do know a few mean-spirited people who have quite a bit of money stashed in the bank. And no friends!

I guess you don't accumulate wealth by giving money away. But I'd rather have less money and not be such a skin-flint :rotfl:

paulineb_2

No. I don't know anyone as tight as that. The people I know tend to fall into the skint but would give you their last category.

Tiddlywinks

Just avoid her if she annoys you so much.

Person_one

You don't get rich by being generous!

Gold_Dust_2

^I knew somebody was going to say that - this is a bit more than that.

She reminds me of the people from that show: Extreme Cheapskates. Warning: that show is beyond belief!

RancidM

Well she has at the very least given the world the term "Bad Tightness" so i applaud her for that generosity.

i will spring that on one of my elder children this week to much sniggering i think.

BitterAndTwisted

That kind of obvious tightness is a blessing in disguise. You know straight off the bat whether you want to be friends with such a miser.

Cottage_Economy

You never can tell with some people if they do have money though. Some people with lots of assets have all their money tied up in them but never much actual free cash. I've met a few over the years and two in particular whose outgoings were so large due to divorces, maintenance, poor investment choices that lost money, etc that they were very miserly.

But in this case refusing to give a bit of kitchen roll to someone bleeding is taking the p*ss and I couldn't carry on being friends with some one like that.

Hermia

I know a woman who has inherited 4 houses in central London and had millions in the bank. She eats disgusting out of date food, she walks around in rags and she spends all her spare time repairing stuff around her house that could be replaced cheaply. I remember once she looked exhausted and had a painful shoulder. Her bed sheets were so old that she had had to cut them all up into squares in order to get enough material to make into one bottom sheet. The painful shoulder was the result of spending an entire day sewing and she was exhausted because the sheet was so uncomfortable to sleep on!

Having said that I don't like the way some people sneer at wealthy people for trying to save money. I have a couple of wealthy friends and whenever they do something MS or choose not to buy an expensive item they get snarky comments. But, as they both say, if they just flashed the cash all the time they would not be wealthy for long!

barbarawright

I always puzzles me how people know so much about their friends' finances. How do people know that someone has £250,000 savings?