But to your surprise, you come home to see the television lying on a crap piece of particle board, not much different than a cardboard box, what sort of extravagances would you expect from this fellow, in your future life, should you decide to get married?Please name some gifts he might buy you and the euphemisms Mr. Made-of-Money would use for them.No joke, this is how a dude I know is. I‘m all for living within your means but this guy is pathologically cheap, and he can afford much nicer stuff than he buys. When carrying a pocket full of change with you lest you need to break an extra dollar bill is a regular part of your life, something just ain‘t right, is it?
I've known cheap or poor men - Mattress on the floor was a bed, stereo system was a boom box, new car was a paint job, new clothes came from a thrift store, night on the town was a trip to the dog tracks and a fast food drive thru. Construction workers, cabbies were my taste in men at one time. Maybe the guy you know has some money hidden in his furniture or buried in his yard, sometimes cheap people do.
I'd wonder how he could look at a single crappy TV and call it an entertainment center. But I don't mind living below one's means at all.
I have this male friend, and years ago when a group of us would go out hitting the bars, he would have a coin purse, I kid you not! And he would buy himself a drink, and would stand at the bar counting out coppers for it. It was embarrassing.
