How tight are you?

[User42542]

Whilst none of us enjoy being ripped off, I find it odd to see a thread being so successful in celebrating one of our most least attractive qualities. What next, " I pick my nose and eat it and in public, yay! "

Saves wasting a few quid on bar snacks!

 

[Joey Shabadoo]

Organic and low fat too!

 

[classic33]

I purchased an Amplifier 2nd hand in 1985, still giving sterling service to this day.

Bought a B&D drill in 1982, cord replaced, with a longer one, after it was borrowed and came back with bare wires showing. That and brushes are the only things replaced.

 

[Mugshot]

View: https://youtu.be/LAh8HryVaeY

 

[Hyslop]

I don't consider myself particularly miserly,but IlI'tell you this.When last winter I needed a fleece hat,I discovered that children's clothes attract no VAT.I don't have a large head(though my friends may incline to disagree!!!) so off I went to Millets,bough a superb hat for a fiver.My friend on the other hand paid£23.The difference would probably have been even greater at Cotswold.

 

[Blue Hills]

I trust it didn't have " hello kitty" or similar cartoon on it?

or
little tyke
or
daddy's favourite

or whatever.

 

[Paulus]

My abiding memory of tightness was when I first started work, in 1974, and there was this old hippy type who smoked very thin roll ups, but when he got down to the end, he stuck a pin in the stub as it was too small to hold with his fingers to get the last quarter inch.

 

[Hyslop]

I trust it didn't have " hello kitty" or similar cartoon on it?

or
little tyke
or
daddy's favourite

or whatever.

I trust it didn't have " hello kitty" or similar cartoon on it?

or
little tyke
or
daddy's favourite

or whatever.

Thankfully noBut it's fortunate that they had a little black hat, because one of them,in blue,had the legend"Im lost"or something such written on it.Again though,my pals would probably say that was apt!

 

[bruce1530]

Two of my acquaintances are librarians, and both started work in a library on the same day.

They were summoned to the Head Librarian’s office.

After a short pep talk, he took out a bunch of keys and unlocked the stationary cupboard. “You’ll need some stuff”.

He took out a box of pencils, a box of pens, a box of notebooks, a box of rubbers, and a box of stanley knifes.

He gave them a pencil each, a pen each, a notebook each.

Then took the stanley knife, cut a rubber in half, and gave them a half each.

 

[Joey Shabadoo]

For our American viewers, a "rubber" in this context is an eraser. Librarians are not known for their need of condoms.

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

In 'The Bridges Of Lancashire & Yorkshire' book, that I mention/showed, an early chapter reveals this paragraph, about the 'reluctance of villagers to pay' was obviously wrote by a Lancastrian

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

Must be loosing my touch. I put a new chainring on today instead of rotating the old one to a less worn section

 

[tyred]

My umbrella has been repaired many times with random bits of stiff wire and some insulating tape on the damaged spars.

 

[swee'pea99]

Two of my acquaintances are librarians, and both started work in a library on the same day.

They were summoned to the Head Librarian’s office.

After a short pep talk, he took out a bunch of keys and unlocked the stationary cupboard. “You’ll need some stuff”.

He took out a box of pencils, a box of pens, a box of notebooks, a box of rubbers, and a box of stanley knifes.

He gave them a pencil each, a pen each, a notebook each.

Then took the stanley knife, cut a rubber in half, and gave them a half each.

A whole pencil? Each?

 

[classic33]

A whole pencil? Each?

And notebook, each.