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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My FIL is like this. He’s worth tens of millions and gets stressed if we don’t pull our credit card out super fast to pay for his meal at the McDonald's drive through. Refuses to pay someone to fix serious house problems like big leaks etc and makes us do it.

Obviously at this level and OP’s level it’s a psychological issue that isn’t going to be solved in their twilight years. [/quote]

There's a huge difference between thrifty, which I think of as choosing not to spend your own money on yourself, and being cheap, which is burdening others.
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Eating at McDonalds rather than the Inn at Little Washington is thrifty. Refusing to pay for yourself at McDonalds is cheap.[/b]
My grandparents wouldn't spend an unncessary penny on themselves but were extremely generous to friends and family. Would we have prefer to see them indulge themselves a little more? Yes. But they were adults who were perfectly able to make their own decisions.[/quote]
I would not think of making my parents or grandparents pay for a Big Mac. And I definitely would not complain or make a big deal about buying gramps a McAdees meal. I would laugh about it with other family members in conversations about one of many of pops/gramps peculiarities. [/quote]

The point wasn’t that we weren’t going to pay (believe me, we pay for a heck of a lot more for him than just McDonald’s hah), it’s that he gets extremely agitated when we don’t pull our card out basically immediately after we order and before we start driving to the window to pay. “Are you going to pay or what” type comments before we literally hit the gas. Completely inappropriate.

Like I said it’s psychological and we do laugh about it amongst ourselves. [/quote]

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