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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The thought that counts..My last Birthday was my 21st, my family and I had agreed to celebrate my 18th as my “special birthday” and so I wasn’t expecting much in the way of presents.
I wasn’t surprised to open an empty card from my Dad’s only sister and her husband, who are easily the richest people in our family, live in a massive house and have holiday homes abroad. They decided “to stop with the Birthday and Christmas shenanigans” when my sister and two cousins turned 18. It doesn’t bother me; we don’t see them often and so don’t know them as well as our other aunties and uncles-it seems fair enough.
I was however, surprised and touched to receive two completely unexpected cards one from a neighbour who moved away five years ago and fifteen pounds in a card from the widow of my Dad’s ex work colleague from when we used to live 200 miles away, 15 years earlier.
(, Sat 25 Oct 2008, 16:03, 1 reply)
!Talk about the widow's mite!
(, Sat 25 Oct 2008, 19:47, closed)
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