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My dad is such a tightward cheapskate.

He makes money, but he's overly obsessed with saving money. He never shuts up about people who win the lottery and then go broke because they don't know how to handle money. It's good to save money, but he goes overboard. There are limits. He has a serious fear of spending money, and/or an obsession with saving it.

He has made a million just from inheritances alone. I shit you not. When my grandpa died in 2003, he got a large sum, plus 1/3 of his house value, plus his Mercedes. He still has the Mercedes now and has put thousands in it over the years to keep it running. It has over 300K miles. There have been many in between, and just yesterday he just inherited another large sum, plus 1/2 of a house, plus another vehicle, a Nissan Pathfinder. Now he has 3 cars. Their first world problem is to make sure to take one of the cars out at least once a week so it doesn't sit for too long.

My grandparents had an estate in the country where I spent a lot of time with my siblings and cousins growing up. When they died, my dad and his brothers inherited it. Knowing my dad, he'd sell his share, and I told my dad several times, do not under circumstance sell your share, as I want to get a portion of that some day, as I have a lot of memories there. So he keeps it for 10 years then sells his share to my Uncle without even talking to me about it first. He did it out of spite. He didn't need the money; he just wanted to add another 100K+ to the existing million in his savings that he doesn't use in the first place. He's an asshole who doesn't care about my feelings.

He always acts like he's broke. He paid cash for a 300K house. He has no mortgage. Yet if my mom wanted stainless steel appliances, or renovation, he'd say we should save right now. He finally just bought a black refrigerator (not a stainless steel one) because he a got a good deal, $600 plus a dishwasher off the asking price of $899 without the dishwasher. Yes, good deal, but he doesn't need to rely on deals like that! He literally has the money to renovate his kitchen top style without going into debt to do it!

His fireplace had been broken for 8 years, and he didn't want to pay to fix it, until my mom finally called them to come fix it without him knowing. It cost $700: a $700 check out of one of your checking account in which you have $45K - oh no! He's broke! However will he financially recover from this? For fuck' sake!

One time we were in the drive-thru for McDonalds. He asked if I wanted anything, I said no, because I know how he is. Finally, I said, "you don't mind getting one fry do you?" Then he doesn't mention fries to the cashier. I reminded him, when he was still at the dive-thru menu, too add fries. Then he acts like he's confused, even though he's still waiting at the menu, plenty of time to add fries. He stalled for time, and now it's time for his car to pull forward. He pretended that he forgot. I know that he did that on purpose because he didn't want to spend the extra $2 on fries.

Whenever he wants to spend time with me, it's always free, cheap stuff like sight-seeing. I see right through that now. And we skip out on getting food. When he asks about food, it's "you don't want anything to eat, do ya?" "You're not hungry, are ya?" He will purposely ask in the negative hoping that I say, "no I'm fine" so he can save the money. I'll be like, dad, I'm hungry, let's just eat, I will pay.

One time we took a road trip to Nashville. And he was looking for a Subway. I said,
"why don't we stop at a restaurant only Nashville has? We can eat at Subway anywhere." He's looking for a Subway because Subway's cheap. His vacations are on his terms: what he wants to do.

Even he and my mom have clashed before. In the past on vacations, if she wants to go to shopping, he would be passive-aggressive and wait in the car. "You can go shopping anywhere" he says. it's really because shopping cost money. He's not fooling anyone.
On vacations, he'll do the "cheap" stuff, like paying $12 to ride a train, do a zipline, seeing a statue, going in a cave, but when it comes to eating at restaurants, shopping: nope.

He'll splurge to pay to get into amusement park, but won't purchase souvenirs like t-shirts when he's there. He'll play to go to a concert for someone he wants to see, but spend nothing on concessions or memorabilia. It's the bare minimum with him.

I never ask him for anything, but I find it quite hilarious I'm thousands of dollars in debt with credit cards and student loans, and he has a million sitting stagnate in various bank accounts. If he owed $100 on a credit card, he'd have a heart attack.

Now, if he was cheap regarding what he spends on himself, like clothes, but didn't take this out on when he spends time with other people, then fine, but the problem is, his cheapskate attitude out on others, and it makes him not fun to be around. If he's with a bunch of buddies and their wives, and someone mentions "we should all go out to eat" he'll get that look on his face, like fuck me.

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PE's back?

Hey Diddler, Diddler….the cat and the fiddler LOL

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File for bankruptcy and stop seeing your cheapskate dad

If we take the time to see with the heart and not with the mind, we shall see that we are surrounded completely by angels ~ Carlos Santana

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Wealthy people did not become wealthy by spending money.



PS If you need money, why don't get off your dead ass, and get a job?

😺 Schrodinger's Cat walks into a bar, and doesn't. 🤨 Let's go, Brandon! 🤨 Try that in a small town.

Re: My dad is such a tightward cheapskate.

This story maxes out on all perceptible levels of tl;dr. From this, we must deduce that PE has quite unfortunately returned.

Hark! Harold the angel sings.

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Maybe it's time you moved out of your parents basement.

Just sayin'.

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That was so captivating I read it 5 times.
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