Notice that this guy is an Engineer, go good ones, are all Cheap Charlie #10. Trained to be efficient in the use of time and materials. Waste not, want not.
One of our sons falls into that category, except his family members call him, “Cheap Bastard”!
His wife’s vehicle is a 14 year old GMC suv. His kids have 10 year old vehicles, and he drives a company truck.
He got an early inheritance on my 50 year old aluminum bass boat and still uses the same outboard motor he bought right after he got out of college. He uses this antique to duck hunt and fish for stripers in our local river.
From another engineer. Tell your son that if his wife’s 14 year-old GMC SUV A/C quits to check the clutch cycle switch. I just replaced that on my wife’s barely broken in ‘07 Envoy for $20. Oh, and my kid drove my old ‘99 pickup until he made enough to upgrade a couple of years ago. It had over 280K miles on it.
—”One of our sons falls into that category, except his family members call him, “Cheap Bastard”!”
They should not call him names.
The dollar you did not save, you stole from your grandkids!
When you see a gaggle of them together, it is a safe bet that most of them cut their own hair. The wife trims the back.
A young engineer comes into work one morning and is spotted to have two different colored socks on!!!
Not way off, black and dark blue.
Thereafter he was forced into a sock check most mornings.
He was so proud of his solution, he claimed to have dumped ALL of his socks in the trash and purchased a couple of dozen identical black pairs!
No one believes he actually trashed them, just saves them for weekends.
I have one that I’ll bet could put yours to shame for frugality. He never has any money except for the things he wants to do but he isn’t cheap. He always pays his way and I have never seen him turn down someone in need of help.
If he were slaughtering pigs he would use everything but he squeal and he would work on that.