Do You Know Anyone Who Is Cheap?

My mother and father in law are loaded rich but are so stingy about spending. I don’t want any of their money I just get tired of hearing them contemplate dollar store prices and how they got a great deal at Cost Co. when I hear them also bragging about their $500,000 bonus. For god’s sake I will buy the extra avocado at Chipotle for you so I don’t have to hear you talk about how expensive it is. His mom will argue with bartenders over the price of a glass of wine because she “could literarily go to the store and get a whole bottle for that price.”

So my husband just had a birthday and they usually send him money and a card. Every year they get richer yet every year they send him less money. They used to give him $100, this year he got $55. He has substantial student loans which his parents know about so to see them be stingy in this are was sorta hurtful to him.

Especially since one of the reasons his loans are so expensive is because when he started college the loan company decided his parents made so much money that he would be able to afford higher monthly payments with the assumption that they would be paying for his schooling…. His parents haven’t paid a single cent of his college and have never offered to, he has never asked for money. He has complained to them about how his salary is under $50,000 and his loans payments are based on a $1million+ salary.(I am not exaggerating I saw the paperwork)

We about died laughing when I opened my bday gift card for $15. He said “man they really skimped on you this year” :D

In light of it all, do you guys know anyone stingy? What are some funny stories about ways people can be cheap?