horrible man on extreme cheapskates

Wzz

i'm catching up on my TLC shows, and the episode on right now has this guy who is an extreme cheapskate. i just think he's a mooch. there's a difference.

he steals ketchup packets and replenishes his ketchup supply this way. he cuts the corners and squeezes them into a bottle he's had for years.

he had a stain on his shirt, and a dry cleaner told him it would ne $12 to clean. so he donated the shirt to a thrift store, and repurchased his newly clean shirt for $1.

he asks people in restaurants if he could take their leftovers.

he has a wife. he is one of the 4 men in the world. (or maybe, she is one of the 4 women?)

NOLABridesmaid

Yes, she needs to put her foot down.

He also took her to the movies and took a large popcorn and drink cup out of the top of the trash. Dumped out the leftovers, and went to the concession stand to get free refills. His wife thought that he bought it for her, but he later told her the truth.

Cheap.

NOLABridesmaid

Wait until he goes to the ice cream place. He is so cheap. i don't care that his house is paid off. Man, can you never buy your wife something new. Not once?

Wzz

he said he took her to a place that was not cheap, but then they showed the soda fountain right next to her head. okay, dude. and he still asked the tabel near them for their leftovers. she has been with him for 25 years and doesnt mind. i am no sure i'd be willing to go into public with him.

Wzz

I saw the ice cream trip. i'm shocked he didn't get thrown out.

**O-Face**

Maybe she has a sociopathic issue with shame and had a lobotomy to top it off?

baconsmom

What thrift store cleans the clothes? That does not happen. They just Febreeze the fck out of them. 

VarunaTT

From what you listed, I don't think he's an extreme cheapskate...he's a thief.

Ganking businesses out of services is what thieves do.

Wzz

actually, i think he said he donated it. i also thought donation services want the clothes already cleaned, but what do i know. if he did donate it, then he's terrible for stealing from a charity.

Knottie_22382102

She knew this when she married him. He married her so he could get dental coverage. She agreed to it. On the steps of the courthouse, he found rice that people had thrown and he collected it to cook.

She's embarrassed that he does this but accepted it on day one and she says His cheapness has afforded them to be able to have her dream of rescuing lots of dogs... she seems happy.

He didnt steal from charity. He donated the shirt, they got the stain out , then he bought the shirt back cheaper than it would've cost him to get it dry cleaned.

I think everyone on that show is crazy though

Wzz

he knowlingly donated his shirt to get out of paying for his shirt to be cleaned. he paid $1 instead of the $12 it would cost any honest citizen in his town. to me, that is stealing.

VarunaTT

And he's taking ketchup packets from restaurants to fill up his own ketchup bottle.  

He stole from whoever dry cleaned it/cleaned it on the cheap to make it saleable.

I cannot imagine what I would do if someone in a restaurant asked me for my leftovers.  That's just gross and wrong and rude.  My food, my money and if I want to just put it on the ground outside and run over it?  My business.

Knottie_22382102

The dry clean thing isn't stealing, it's just ridiculous. The charity still got the same amount they would've gotten for it if they sold it to someone else.

It's wicked disgusting to ask other people for their food. He asked them for their food when they weren't even done with their meals yet. If I were the business owner, I would've asked him to leave.

The other weirdos on the show - there's one guy who will only put free things in his house so they have no furniture to sit on and he takes his family out for dinner once a year, makes them go to a buffet and share a plate...and pays in coins.

There's a guy who lives in his yoga client's house for free, but charges his roommates rent, only flushes the toilet once a week, washes his clothing in the shower, saves shower water for the toilet, leaves the tags on the clothes so he can return them when hes done wearing them, makes his roommates drink out of yogurt cups and doesnt let them use the dishwasher, took a date out to a bbq place and made her order off the kids menu and split the meal, then he took a rib home as leftovers so he could get free plates etc.. 

there's more too.