Thrifty Yorkshire People on the Tenerife Forum

addy · 5th May 2007, 16:09

I was just browsing johnh's thread as a new member and noticed a few fellow Yorkshire people on! Do you think we warrant our tag of being thrifty with our cash? Plus lets drag the Scottish contingent in because they also are tarred with the same brush????

Daverock · 5th May 2007, 16:13

I wouldn't say that. As an aside though are you keeping an eye on the electricity meter whilst your pc is switched on?

addy · 5th May 2007, 16:15

Don't be daft I've got Bev peddling a bike at the side of me to power the damn thing

robby1234 · 5th May 2007, 16:17

he doesn´t need to dave as his pc is connected to a bike dynamo

anyway it was two scots men that invented copper wire as a by product of fighting over a tuppence.

addy · 5th May 2007, 16:41

Perhaps we could make it into a Scots v Yorkshire showdown on tightness??
Oh yes and Geordie Daverocks a canny spender an arll

PeterRayner · 5th May 2007, 16:51

Its a well known fact that...

They heat the knives in Yorkshire restaurants, so you don't use too much butter.

robby1234 · 5th May 2007, 16:56

it was a scotsman that invented texttype so as not to wear out the buttons on his mobile phone.

scots men are so tight that there is no chance of one of us ending up in hospital with hamsterus anus.

scots mean don´t eat beans cause we don´t like to give things away for free.

mac · 5th May 2007, 17:31

I once worked for a very wealthy yorkshire man that sifted the ashes from the fire grate in case there were any unburnt bits of coal in it then put them back in the fire.
He also insisted that his family walked up the side of the steps on the stairs so the carpet would not get worn in the middle.
If he gave you a lift into town he told you before you left it would cost so much per mile.

There are plenty more.

Daverock · 5th May 2007, 17:34

My partner worked in a shop in Aberdeen for a while as a window dresser.

One day he needed drawing pins for a display he was doing. The owner a Canny Aberdonian made him spend half a day looking for a box of them in the shop. He was sure they had some in the shop and was not forking out a pittance for another box if there was.

Time well spent methinks - NOT

When I first moved to Aberdeen myself around 1990 I remember being astounded that I had to pay 50p for every house schedule I got from the property centre

I have to say though that I have never come across people so kind and generous as the Glaswegians. Moving from Aberdeen to Glasgow was seeing the 2 opposite ends of the spectrum.

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Originally Posted by mac

I once worked for a very wealthy yorkshire man that sifted the ashes from the fire grate in case there were any unburnt bits of coal in it then put them back in the fire.
He also insisted that his family walked up the side of the steps on the stairs so the carpet would not get worn in the middle.
If he gave you a lift into town he told you before you left it would cost so much per mile.

There are plenty more.

And your problem with this is?.............

Melders · 5th May 2007, 17:41

I once saw a Yorkshireman counting his change when he dropped a penny....
it hit him on the back of his head......