This question was on a radio station in Corpus Christi a few months ago and I won 2 tickets to see David Alan Coe for the best story. Would like to hear some of yall's.
My answer was dear ol' dad. He is so tight, when he goes to the restroom, he will holler and ask if anyone else needs to use it before he flushes to keep his water bill down. He did it with a house full of company and everyone got a big laugh out of it!

 

My old roommate. That was the cheapest SOB I've ever known. No specific stories that I can remember right now (gotta thank Ziegenbock for that) but I know he was the cheapest person ever.

 

an old teacher of mine...

sometimes i think that he would bite the turd before he would flush the toilet.... he was the downright cheapest person that i have ever known or met. I swear, i rolled a penny across the shop floor once and he actually chased it shoutin HEY MAN FREE MONEY!! got it, picked it up and said it would go to his truck payment...

Tx

 

I got some old timers in my church that are some of the tightest penny pinchers I know. Example, we have a 6 figure bank account, the oven in our parsonage is pretty old and keeps breaking down and we keep paying a repair man to come fix it every couple of months. Minimum of $100.00 for service call plus whatever it is to fix it. They finally ok'd to buy a new oven.

 

Guy we know leaves coupons instead of a tip for the waitress.

 

i know a guy who has more money than any ten of us and he just got on a plane with a half used tube of silicone caulk because he didnt want to waste it, wanted to use it at his summer home

 

My dad


He has more in one of his checking accounts than I grossed last year, and he pays credit cards off $100 a month






I had to ask him why he even used a credit card

 

My father in law has you all beat easily. Hes a great guy, but MAN, he's cheap! Some examples:

Every spring he sweeps the road in front of his property. He is proud that it takes him aprox. 35 hours to finish the job. He sweeps up all the sand left from sanding the road through the winter and uses it to fill low areas on his property.

I watched him spend about 4 hours repairing a very old snow shovel because he didn't want to go spend $10 on one at Walmart.

When he used to log for a living, he would haul out all of the larger logs to sell. But he wouldn't let a single stick go to waste...anything larger than a pencil was cut up and brought home for firewood. He would sell the larger firewood for the most money, but then sell all of the small stuff to older women who used it to heat their homes and (in those days), their cook stoves. The older women liked the smaller wood because they could handle it easier.

He is looking for a truck to replace his old plow truck, but he won't spend any money on one. My father had purchased an '01 Chevy 4x4 2500 with aprox. 45,000 miles that had been hit in the side of the bed. The bed was trashed, so he got a great deal on the truck. He pulled the bed and offered to sell my father in law the truck for what he paid...$4500. He then offered to install a custom dump stake/flatbed for the cost of materials...aprox. $1000 over the price of the truck. My father in law wanted to think about it for a few WEEKS, and thought it was a lot of money! Keep in mind he sold enough land in the past 2 years to be able to buy 2 brand new loaded Cummins Rams...but he won't spend any of it.

I'll have to think of some of his other "cheap" ways...

Jim

 

I have a friend at work that chews. He will take out a golfball size chaw out of his mouth and put it back in the bag for later. Sometimes for the next day.He leaves it on the dash of his truck in 100* temps No one ever bums a chew off of him.

 

My buddy runs biodiesel in his truck...and to save even more money he has a diesel gererator that he runs the bio in to help ofset the cost of the electric bill for his house

 

Yea, I can remember my dad used to chew redman. I would work with him when I was a kid and at lunch he would put his chaw on the dash of his welding truck. When we came out of the cafe he would put it back in .

 

Have you seen my picture of the "Guage mount for tightwads"??? Or my black fender flares???
I'll waste a lot of money on my truck but some things I just won't spend anything on. I've needed new underwear for about two years now but I need a turbo more so let's just say I'm "Air conditioned"....

 

thats my kinda penny-pinching....

The BOSS says I am a cheap -skate.... I never buy myself new clothes, told her having more than one good pair of boots was a waste of money, and wont buy the $4000 dollar ring she wants.............

 

Ask my wife and kids.

 

I thought about another one. (dad again). He and my mother went to walmart on there anniversary. They go to the card section, pick out there cards to each other, exchange and read them. Then put them back on the shelf!