It just happenned to me....
Lucky you.
Cheap is an aunt who charges her mother expenses to visit her weekly in a nursing home.
Itemised bill of petrol, tunnel fees and parking.
You couldn't make it up...
So basically you believe that we, the paying customer who is putting a 500% profit margin into a restaurants coffers, should also be supplementing the wages of their poorly paid staff? Over. My. Dead. Body.
And hairdressers and taxi drivers are not badly paid, especially in Switzerland. This isn't America!
Hm, I think some people cannot afford charity, simple as that. Those peanuts one gets for selling used clothes to thrift stores are not peanuts for some, but real money.
I would find it cheap if the people actually selling beat up clothes to second hand places or at flee markets actually did have plenty of cash and did this out of principle. I did see some horribly overpriced and horribly worn kid clothes in 2nd hand shops.
Actually isn't that called being an SOB?
True, boots (plastic) for 60 CHF!!! Scarfs for 15 CHF, that is just a bit under the price of new clothes! I saw this on saturday and almost fainted
Wow. It is weird. Cheap is paying your mom to clean your house once a week as somebody I know here. Or a couple who sold their house to their kid and his wife for full price. I find that strange.
I once gave my wife some oysters and a rabbit's foot,
because she asked for pearls for her birthday...
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In the UK, one way of being seen as cheap is to avoid buying a round. e.g. by waiting 'til everyone else has bought drinks and then remembering they have to be somewhere else.
Round buying etiquette is such that people will remember whose round it is even if there is a gap of months between pub visits.
Woe betide those who fail to observe the social norm.
re-gifting *
i once received a box of chocolates for my birthday (wasn't sure if it was a re-gift until i noticed it had expired 3 months before... )
*ok i've done it with bottles of wine, but only for taking to parties not for a b-day or anything
Another version of this is someone who uses a present before they give it to someone.
Cheap is moving apartment and taking the lightbulbs with you... wait a second
Cheap is buying the majority of your clothes at TK Maxxxxxxxx.
when we moved into our current place, the toilet seats were taken away
Service charges are automatically included on the bill in Switzerland. Anything you tip above this would be for extra special service
ah presents from cheap people, those are the best. I heard a story that one woman got a used perfume bottle from her mother in law for Christmas. the MIL had said it had been given to her the previous year, but she just can't stand cheap perfume...
I had a wealthy ex who could not tell me often enough about his income and everything he owned. It was my birthday, he did not show up for the party, as he did not like my friends. He insisted though that I should organize a separate celebration just for him. So I did (what was I thinking??), cake and all. He gave me.. a little ceramic pic from a dollar store. really.
was she from Yorkshire by any chance ?
have two mates that are both from The Dales that do the wallet pat down routine .... annoys the feck out of me when we go for drinks.
Many years ago I when I was backpacking I went to a pizza place in London with some friends that were living/working there. When the bill came, everones bill was 10 pounds, mine only 5. I only had a tenner as did everyone else. They all said to the waitress to keep the change (5 pounds doesnt sound like much but back then it was about 12 aussie, to put in context you could buy 25 pints of beer in Prague with that kinda loot ) when I said hey guys, what about my change, I was howled down. Being cheap is tipping with other peoples money while at the same time calling them cheap.
If it's already included i nthe bill then that makes me feel doubly justified!
Or when one person in the group "hasn't been to the bank" so can only pay by credit card so pays the exact amount on the bill and pockets the cash paid by everyone else.
Including their tips.