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Mega64 posted:I mean if you're cheap why the gently caress have kids in the first place. skimping on birth control i guess
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Mega64 posted:I mean if you're cheap why the gently caress have kids in the first place. Because that's what people of a certain wealth class do to compete with each other after they all establish they can afford big cars and houses, I think? For anyone but millionaires: because they want others to suffer as they do and kidnapping adults is illegal, manufacturing children is socially sanctioned.
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Apr 22, 2017 01:01
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pick's very cheap dad probably washed out and reused condoms i'm guessing
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Apr 22, 2017 01:01
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Dial-a-Dog posted:skimping on birth control i guess If you take one pill a week you can make a single pack last over half a year!
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Apr 22, 2017 01:01
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Mega64 posted:I once made a "Post here to boost your post count" thread on another forum, and someone paid me five bucks to delete it. The forum's gone now. You deleted an entire forum for $5? drat.
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Apr 22, 2017 01:03
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Tiny Deer posted:Most cheap people aren't actually fiscally wise, as a PSA for the thread. Some people really ride the line on the false economy. I think my parents normally do it correctly in the sense that they actually do spend less money this way and get most of the things they want. Other times they drive across town to save 2 cents per gallon on gas.
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Apr 22, 2017 01:02
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I've seen lots of grown chickens scratching around for even a small grub through, provided it's free
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I routinely rifle through the trash at my apartment complex but that's because there's good poo poo in there.
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My [25F] boyfriend [26M] of 1 year just told me that he wants me to pay him a rental fee for borrowing his car to visit my family. Am I wrong to be upset?Relationships 1,339 points 727 comments submitted 1 year ago by crystalcleric to r/relationships Ordinarily this wouldn't be a problem. I would just take my car, but it is being fixed right now. This meant that in order for me to drive to see my family for Thanksgiving I would have to either rent a car or borrow someone's. Since my boyfriend was flying out to California for Thanksgiving and wouldn't be using his, I asked him if he would mind if I borrowed it. He told me that of course I could borrow his car. Nothing else was said about it until today (other than some minor things). I texted him to thank him again for helping me. The way I worded things apparently made it clear to him that I was only planning to cover the gas I used, and he told me that he expected me to pay him a "reasonable" fee for using the car. Reasonable to him is $50 a day plus replacing the gas I use (so the visit will cost me at least $250 in addition to whatever the gas costs). It is his car, so I don't think I can really argue with him about this. I do understand in principal. I don't think being his girlfriend entitles me to use his stuff whenever I want, but I am hurt that he is being so stingy. We've been together for a year; it's the holidays; and my only other option was renting a car through a private company. I guess I would have hoped that he would have been more sympathetic, but maybe he has a right to expect that he be paid for use of his car. I don't know. I very rarely ask him for any favors and cover all of my expenses myself, so he can't say that I am using him or exploiting him financially. This has never come up before, so I have been taken off guard. Maybe I am being too sensitive? EDIT: Just so you guys know, I am already at my family's house. Sorry if that wasn't clear. tl;dr: I had to borrow my boyfriend's car to visit my family. He wants me to pay him $50 per day for use of it. I am upset by this, but I think that maybe I am just being too sensitive.
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quote:My (25/f) fiancee proposed to me but it turns out the ring is fake. He bought a name brand box off of ebay
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Apr 22, 2017 01:06
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Birds in general are always trying to hatch something up
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My (28F) SO (34M) of 6 months is incredibly cheap and expects me to pick up the bill and pay for dates when we go out. I've been with my SO for 6 months now and for the most part things are going great. We get along fine, he's easy to be around, he cooks for me, he's considerate of my feelings and all that jazz. The only thing is that he's a complete tightwad. In the 6 months we've been together, he's only paid for one dinner. I end up picking up the bill wherever we go. He doesn't even offer to go halfsies on anything anymore - movies, gas, snacks, dinners, pretty much nothing. It's starting to become a bit of a drain on me, especially now that I've been laid off from my job. I may have unwittingly contributed to this problem in the beginning of our relationship. When we first got together, he quit his job; so in order to not add anymore stress to his situation, I would just volunteer to pay. I just didn't want to be a burden on him. Now on the flipside, he has a job, it pays much more than my lovely job ever did and he STILL expects me to pick up the bill wherever we go. Even though I don't have a steady income anymore and he knows this. I wouldn't be so pissed about this if he'd just offer once in a while. He doesn't. I mean I don't need him to buy me gifts or flowers (which would be sweet, but hey, guess what? He's never done that either) but at the very least I would expect him to be a bit understanding of my situation and y'know not, for a lack of a better word, mooch off me. So my question is, how can I talk to him about his behaviour without sounding like a nag or a gold-digger? Obviously, I'm not interested in him for his money. If I was, I would have bailed on him 6 months ago. I don't think relationships are measured in money, but I still need to look after my own basic needs as well. I'm just frustrated right now. Thanks for listening to my bullshit rant. tl;dr version: Boyfriend is a complete loving tightwad and always expects me to pay when we go out.
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Apr 22, 2017 01:06
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But hey, whatever it takes to build that nestegg
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Apr 22, 2017 01:09
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um i cancelled my nyt sub that was only 4 dollars a month does that count
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Apr 22, 2017 01:12
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My cousin's husband runs a snow plowing business in the winter and he goes and does the driveways of all the rich pieces of poo poo up in Winnetka and other well off suburbs of Chicago. He once did Bruce Rauner's driveway, and when it came time to pay him the 80 bucks he agreed on, Rauner quibbled with him and only paid him 40. Then we elected Bruce Rauner governor of Illinois, and he governs basically the same way and we're all going to die.
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Apr 22, 2017 01:12
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You should see them flock to the discount isle lol
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Apr 22, 2017 01:14
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All cheap people are miserable shells of human beings.
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Apr 22, 2017 01:15
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I've already told this story but one time as a 6 year old or some poo poo I got screamed at for losing a dime. It was my own dime.
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Apr 22, 2017 01:17
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If I hadn't lost that loving dime, and then got another dime, I could have gotten some expired clam juice 20 years later. god i suck rear end.
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Tiny Deer posted:Most cheap people aren't actually fiscally wise, as a PSA for the thread. i sold cars for a while and there is a saying - "The happiest people are the ones that pay the most" but as crazy as it sounds, it's true. the 60 year old guy would come in, drive a truck and say "well I'll take it if you give me xxxxx for my trade" and never haggled down the price of our vehicle would always give us perfect surveys and chat with us about their truck when it came in for service. they'd also be first in line for any little things that popped up for warranty work, but they never even seem too concerned about that. the guys that would come in with a spreadsheet of various data points, fretting every little penny on a 2 year old certified used truck would almost always be the unhappiest people on the face of the earth. They would come in, drive a it, and yell at me "I'm only buying this truck if you give me a good deal." "Well I'm happy to discuss pricing if this is the right vehicle for y-" "I'm only buying this truck because it's the cheapest, if there were a truck $500 cheaper 4 hours away I'd go buy that." they'd hem and haw and act like they're being forced to buy our lovely truck, and that's only because I'd refuse to sell them a car from our auction lot (sometimes I'd bend some rules to sell a car that was a bit too old or beat up to a customer who seemed like they'd be fine knowing it would take some work to get it road-worthy again, but if they were cheap assholes from the get-go you can almost guarantee they'd be back demanding us to fix any issues for a car we legally and obviously sold 'As-Is'". Cheap people are delusional about how other people should value their money. Just because you're angry about having to spend money doesn't mean your dollars buy more.
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tales of really loving cheap people was my favorite game in the series
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quote:Me [25 M] with my girlfriend [25 F] can't agree on an engagement ring "rock".[new]
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Pick posted:I've already told this story but one time as a 6 year old or some poo poo I got screamed at for losing a dime. It was my own dime. WHAT THE gently caress IS WRONG WITH YOU!? SLICK GOKU BABY posted:You deleted an entire forum for $5? drat. I loving wish. Though I wouldn't delete the SA forums for $5, hell no. I'd do it for $20 though.
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Apr 22, 2017 01:28
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Mega64 posted:WHAT THE gently caress IS WRONG WITH YOU!? I'm sorry!! I didn't mean to!!! I don't know what happened!!!!!!
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Apr 22, 2017 01:29
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Sometimes their antics can be downright seedy
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Pick posted:I'm sorry!! I didn't mean to!!! I don't know what happened!!!!!! Well too bad, you already know the penalty. Which one of your stuffed animals gets put on death row?
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Apr 22, 2017 01:31
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Pick posted:(she wants a TARDIS on our wedding topper, which I love)
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Apr 22, 2017 01:32
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*sobs and crumples scraps of aluminum foil onto ever-growing aluminum foil ball which will someday be redeemed at the scrap yard for four cents*
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My old man can eat spoiled meat with basically no ill effects because he's been doing it since he was old enough to eat solid food.
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Pick posted:*sobs and crumples scraps of aluminum foil onto ever-growing aluminum foil ball which will someday be redeemed at the scrap yard for four cents* WHICH STUFFED ANIMAL PICK
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My mother will take butter pats from restaurants and put them in her purse. She will then take them all ou t at home and put them in a Tupperware container and use that as her butter. I've also caught her taking ketchup and soy sauce packets.
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Apr 22, 2017 01:36
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Gonna second the intense rage that's triggered by 'getting ripped off'. For cheap people they're either winning or losing any given financial transaction, and for a certain kind of cheap person that extends to screaming at small children over dropping dimes or making salespeople's lives hell. Money is just a way to keep score.
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Grand Prize Winner posted:My old man can eat spoiled meat with basically no ill effects because he's been doing it since he was old enough to eat solid food. I knew someone who preferred old stale cookies and flat soda because his family owned a store during the depression and they'd eat things to old to sell I once watched my tiny elfin grandmother eat five whole pumpkin pies that had gone green with mold after thanksgiving
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The yogurt thing is real. He bought five yogurt machines and doled them out to his children as he slowly realized ain't nobody wants a loving yogurt machine. It sits now forever unopened in my house because I can use money to buy fresh yogurt from a health food store at a fraction of the trouble and expense of making my own yogurt the two times a year I think I like yogurt. I also buy whole blocks of butter at the store like a goddamn frivolous maniac.
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Apr 22, 2017 01:40
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joke's on my parents because I take butter from their house when I come to visit 
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My friend is a cheap rear end in a top hat. The last time I visited him Chicago he made me and my wife ride 20 minutes on the metro to go to this "great Chinese place he knows." It was completely unremarkable, and confusing as hell because he lived in what was known as the Little Saigon area of town and there were dozens of better options right outside his door. Then the mystery was solved at check time when he pulled out a buy one meal, get one free coupon out of his wallet. Of course he used the "free" meal for his own as we paid for ours. And he wonders why he's single.
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NomChompsky posted:WHICH STUFFED ANIMAL PICK I still get upset when I see little crab beanie babies because the two she made me pick between were my two favorites, one of them being the little crab beanie baby. There was no way out.
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My [24/F] family (Dad 56/Mom 54/Twin Brother 24) keep letting brother's wife (F/22) treat me like poo poo/a doormat ever since she had my twin nieces (14mo/F). And my brother hasn't given a poo poo about my feelings since the day he met her.Non-Romantic 1,535 points 425 comments submitted 1 year ago by throwawayla67q12 to r/relationships I'll preface this by being honest about the face I've never really liked my sister in law. Despite being younger than me, my sister-in-law (wife of my twin brother) has been nothing but condescending to me but my family was all too scared of saying anything to her that they just let her be hurtful. She's criticizes me for being 'behind' in life compared to her because I'm not married like her, she treats me like I'm loving stupid and my family tells me to just take it. There are times she has been only wrong, and I've corrected her and I've been made out to be the bitch. It's gotten worse because now she is the golden princess for giving my parents their desperately wanted grandkids and I'm just chopped loving liver. I'm over it. I'm sick of keeping the peace. I'm sick of being walked all over by this woman who everyone else thinks is an angel. A few instances since I've known her that pissed me off: I had a spare NHL playoffs ticket this year that came about after a friendship ended and the person never gave me back my money. I told my parents I was going to sell it because Habs tickets are incredibly expensive/rare and I could recoup my money. I can think of at least 5 people off the top of my head who'd have jumped at the chance to buy the ticket at the price I paid for it. My mother offered it to my sister in law who is also a Habs fan. She never paid me and when I asked about it, both my mother and her were like 'oh, but she/I has/have two babies money is tight'. I guess my money doesn't matter. I'm a student, not exactly rolling in money. I can't exactly be affording to gift her Habs tickets. If I was giving it away, I'd have rathered gone with a friend, like treating my friend from South Africa who was on exchange to a really great 'Canadian experience'. I told my mother I was going to sell it anyway and my mother said not to 'cause poo poo' and she'd 'already told everyone she was going'. I'm sick of being expected to buy expensive presents for my nieces only to be barely acknowledged by them in return at present time. Yeah, I know that sounds selfish, but I don't see why I should be pressured to give generous gifts to all of them only to be given a card and a cheap box of chocolates in return from the whole family. In October, I was expected to gift them over $150 of stuff each. They forgot my birthday in November. My parents were like 'oh well, the childless always get shafted, just the way it is'. Sorry, but I think it's unfair. I don't want to punish my nieces, but why do I have to throw money at them to receive little in return? It feels unfair. I'm not saying they have to match me dollar for dollar, but I'm basically spending $200+ on them at Christmas to get a cheap $10 box of crap chocolate in return. Purposely put me in a very unflattering bridesmaids dress/hair because 'V is prettier and skinnier than me so I need to make her look bad so she doesn't steal the pics'. I was so humiliated by it. And had to pay $400 for the ugly dress. Felt I couldn't say now because of my brother. My sister-in-law picked out the same name for one of my niece's that is my cat's name and asked my mother if I could change my cats name so my niece could be the only 'name' in the family. My mother told her I'd do this without asking me and when I said I am not doing that, I was made out to be evil. Now all anyone says is 'isn't that your cat's name' and I say 'yes' and they are like 'she didn't care?'. No. She never has. The thing is that I don't care she used the cat's name, I care that she expected me to change my pet's name to suit her. No. The cat was here first. My other nieces name is my name with only a slight variation. Not the real names, but for example, if I am Amelia, my niece is Amalia. I tried to gently point out to my brother it feels a little like I'm being 'replaced' in my family and she said 'who cares, she really wants to use this name'. Wow. Thanks. If I had a dollar for every time someone has said 'could she be more obvious about trying to replace you in the family', I'd be rich. My mother and father refused to talk to my brother about it and whenever I said it was kinda hurtful to me that they were doing this, I was dismissed. I was expected to go and babysit for her when she had surgery and my brother worked. I live in the Plateau, they live in Laval. I got told off for being angry I was left waiting at the train station for over forty minutes in freezing weather because she didn't pick me up at the designated time. When I complained, I was told not to whine and to understand she has kids. If I refuse to babysit, I'm being a 'selfish bitch'. She does nothing but make fun of my interests. News flash. I don't care if you think Taylor Swift 'sucks' and that learning Polish is a 'waste of time' (our maternal grandparents are from Poland, I'm taking lessons because I want to be able to transcribe old diaries of my great grandparents and grandparents from the war etc) just stop mocking me for what I like, especially when I'll be treated like poo poo if I mock you because you're obsessed with loving Kendall Jenner. Yes, I'm 24 and still a student. You don't need to call me childish for trying to better my life. I'm always expected to sleep in the freezing cold basement when we visit our parents house for holidays so the twins can have their own room. How is that loving fair? Put them in fold up cots in with you. She is always wasting money on clothes and manicures and then hitting my parents up for money and they let her. That really annoys me. The worst part is my own TWIN BROTHER doesn't care how she treats me. He thinks the loving sun shines out of her loving rear end and doesn't CARE that this woman does nothing but criticise me. I hate that my parents always defend her because of my nieces. I hate that no one CARES how she makes me feel and the way she is awful to me and with Christmas coming up, I'm at my wits end. ** tl;dr Twin brother is married to a bitch who condescends me, mocks me and expects me to give generous gifts with nothing in return. Parents completely enable her. At wits end.
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I just realized Pick is Sophia Amoruso, creator of Nasty Gal Inc. and subject of the new Netflix series Girlboss.
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