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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That story came up in one of ye olde QOTWFour years ago:
http://b3ta.com/questions/skint/post16232
(, Mon 27 Oct 2008, 3:15, 1 reply)
I first heard thiswhen I was a student in the 80s.
There was an extra detail that made it more convincing: the skint/tightwad student in question went out and bought loads of porridge, and greaseproof paper, lined his drawers (ooer) with the paper, cooked the porridge, then poured it into the drawers, where it cooled and hardened. He then chipped blocks off it with a screwdriver when hungry. Result: malnutrition, scurvy.
(, Mon 27 Oct 2008, 13:00, closed)
yupI heard that one in 1990
(, Mon 27 Oct 2008, 21:44, closed)
My cousinsaid his flatmate at uni did that. He said he pissed his loan away on a hifi and spent the rest on a big bag of porridge oats. He got scurvey as a result. Now I don't know what to believe!
(, Tue 28 Oct 2008, 11:48, closed)
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