Extreme Cheapskates Is Hard To Watch
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 25 ส.ค. 2024
- Today we go back to one of my favorite shows on TLC (Extreme Cheapskates). We follow a family TERRORIZED by their cheapskate father as he hides finances, pays for dinner with change, and turning his house into a school.
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I feel like kids are taking pennies to gym class and tossing them on the ground to watch this guy pick them up
Hahaha
"Ay Tyler watch this, he always picks up pennies just wait for it"
*tosses penny*
*picks up penny*
"YALL DON'T UNDERSTAND THE IMPORTANCE OF MONEY"😂😂😂
That's exactly what I was thinking! They're just getting a kick out of watching their coach scrounge up dirty pennies!
Oh, I made myself sad.
I would've 1000% not let that opportunity go to waste lol
like feeding chickens
As a retail worker, my stomach dropped when he said he was paying 92 bucks in coins. Every coin that you pay with has to be manually counted by someone making minimum wage at the end of a graveyard shift. Plus all the coins that other people have paid with. ALSO that amount of coins wouldn't even fit in the register, meaning that some poor soul has to stand there, separate the coins by value, and then put them into those flimsy paper rolls, all the while continuing to handle customers.
I had this happen once; Someone paid a $95 pizza order with *only* quarters. I had to have someone else take over for me just so I could count it all and put them away in the safe ~,~"
Just go to the bank sir! They can do that with machines
The fact they didn't bother going to the bank to exchange it means they're a selfish asshole of a person.
@@TheGoodCrusader 🤡
Fr tho like he couldn't just swing by a coinstar first?
Had this happen to me when I worked at a gas station. This dude bought a couple packs of smokes in just coins I wanted to jump across the counter and strangle him
Also a little off topic, but this one lady came in and spent her entire child support and disability money ( I know cause she told me proudly I might add) on lottery tickets all day after leaving and coming back 7 times or so, blowing several hundred dollars.
I remember reading a few years back a reddit post or something by a thrifty blogger who wanted to be on this show, because she wanted to share all sorts of helpful saving tips. They told her she could be on the show, but her lifestyle wasn't wacky enough so they sent her a list of things that she would have to pretend to do in order to be on the show. In the end, she saw the true nature of what they were doing and declined the offer.
Whoa. That’s pretty damn low.
People say anything on Reddit
Did she share the tips in the post? What subreddit was it?
So that Chinese buffet is priced per plate? Doesn't really sound like a buffet to me.
@@JboBakeyPer plate buffets are a thing, though less common. Just because it's a buffet doesn't mean it's all you can eat. I still can't imagine 4 plates would come out to $92 though so there's definitely something up there.
My manager telling me we no longer need to accept large amounts of change was literally one of the best things that's ever happen to me at my job 😂
Omg what was your job that it happened often enough that it became a problem😂
Oh, HELL yeah👍
@@Sunshineattacks3 smoke shop cashier lol they making me count the change again now 😭
Definitely depends on the country and in places like the US I would guess depends on the state. In my country, stores must accept any and all legal tender, no matter the amount or denomination, so a policy like that would be illegal lmao.
In Australia you legally cannot pay 5$ or more in 5, 10, 20, and 50c coins, and you can't pay more than 10x value in 1 and 2$ coins
This one is super upsetting. Him hiding money from his wife is considered financial abuse. It’s a real thing and it’s very problematic in any sort of long-term relationship.
Not to mention he’s stealing from the school he works for. I hope his wife leaves him. And takes the children. They all deserve better.
Financial abuse sounds like something a woman made up. If you want a sofa, get a job
It's definitely abusive and controlling.
I bet you're both women 😂
@@bruceMooseman, very good point. Thank you.
Don’t worry. Him admitting how much money he really had (on national television, no less) and what a cheap bastard he is will guarantee her at least half of all that money he’s been hiding from her. He’s really going to regret bragging about all those bank accounts when she and her lawyers bend him over and bang him until rapture. He’s going to be paying for her long after he’s shoveled into the potato sack and shallow grave his kids pick out for him (to save money, you understand).
This is actual financial abuse, for real.
It's not real
💯
For real, its not, not spending your own money isnt financial abuse
@@beepbeeplettuce5890 yes it is when you have dependents
@@beepbeeplettuce5890 when you’re treating your family like this and hiding money from your defendants, it completely is
Hiding that much money? That’s financial abuse! This family is clearly suffering from Terrence’s ridiculous aversion to spending money…they deserve so much better!!
It is financial abuse
I've been in maintenance at a high school for around 5 years now, and people just taking things piece by piece is way more realistic than you could ever imagine.
Our school had a furniture upgrade and all of the old furniture (unusable to practically new) got thrown in a skip out the back.
It would have been so easy to take some of that.
It was an IT upgrade I think because there were a bunch of cushioned swivel chairs in there.
Stationary is a very common thing to 'go missing' in offices/schools but he was taking bricks and automated towel dispensers?
He is Mr. Krabs as a human.
HAHAHAHA
Omg hahahah.
I don’t even think mr krabs was that cheap
Mr krabs paid squidward
@@NoonMight Didn't he literally sell SpongeBob for like 62 cents? 😂 Wait I'm sorry, it might have been 64. 🤣
I wish this show brought in like someone who could tell them how little money theyre actually saving by doing the crazy shit they do, the look on their faces would be priceless
he has a 100 racks saved up so what he's doing does work but likely not to the extent he realizes. Since I believe the van he purchased is something you couldn't claim on taxes (it's weird but if your car weighs a certain amount I think 6,000 it's not taxable) or if you could it likely doesn't have great gas mileage since it's a tradesman van used to haul tools and equipment so if it hits that 6k mark it's likely not saving much.
Secondly if his goal was to be cheap why even throw family events at all? If you lived as modestly as possible you'd scoff at the word anniversary dinner. I think most would agree that these types of events you either go big or go home so chinese is fine being cheap about it is fine but only 3 plates is invalidating any savings.
Lastly I think his son is gonna have to pay for therapy if his dad is this weird which wont save his son money.
@@ghostface5559 and 50 of those racks are about to go directly to his soon to be Ex wife.
What’s the point in having all the money in the world if you live in a cardboard box?
It's crazy that people are slaves to their jobs and save like crazy while being a cheapskate for absolutely no reason, then they die for whatever reason leaving behind a pointless amount of money that they cannot use
I bet you 3 dollars they wouldn’t listen. I bet you they wouldn’t. At least 80% of the people on the show would be like……. No that can’t be right. Anyways let me buy that watch off you for 10.50 take it or leave it.
The way that he just dismisses the way everyone feels by telling them that they don’t feel like that is so shitty of him. “You’re embarrassing. All of us” “I’m not embarrassing, anyone” “I’m upset” “you’re not upset”
That’s cause only his feelings matter. You can tell a lot about someone by the way they treat someone else’s feelings
This is not him being a cheapskate. This is him financially abusing his family.
Imagine all that money he saved going to his wife when she divorces him. 😂
I would laugh so hard!!
If you think that type of person wouldn't kill her with a hatchet you're crazy
I can't see how someone could date an extreme cheapskate unless they are into it as well. First time I found out a woman was an extreme cheapskate I would be like no thank you we are done. I would love to be the friend of the ex husband of the millionaire lady that fed people cat food because he would have never married her because I would have done everything to break them up
That's reality at this point
Right?! 😂she’d probably make bank for alimony too!
I’ve seen prisons with more amenities and a happier atmosphere.
in thailand... XD
Even in el salvador
It looked like a prison with those cement brick walls!
The only time I've had a customer pay with a plastic bag of pennies, they were an 8yr old 🤦🏼♀️
LOL
A person stealing school property and hiding money from his own family is clearly putting himself in legal jeopardy.
Let’s just say this was real. The family would’ve seen the episode.
They would’ve seen that they actually have 100,000+ in savings, how much y’all wanna bet that the divorce papers would be on the table the NEXT day
i was literally thinking that same thing, she's dealt with this long enough! i cant imagine having a spouse that hides crazy amounts of money from you. this guy is such an asshole
I can't believe nobody but me in these comments have wondered how in the hell he got someone to marry him
exactly, it's mostly fake. because the family will watch this show and know about the money now. also they are already embarrassed enough, what is the great incentive here to broadcast your embarrassment? are they really getting paid that much from the show? (unlikely) everything is just so exaggerated, folding chairs everywhere, the evil smile, the change bag slamming on the table while having the perfect camera angle to capture it, spending 30+ min at the check out desk counting hundreds of coins.
You think they have cable TV? They'd be lucky to have HD antennas. They're not getting the TLC channel and that's why he's grinning so much. If they're lucky a family friend would see it and inform them.
You would think and or hope but humans can be unbelievably gullible. It disturbs me how many older people used to think I was the bad guy because I told them that the random chick sending nude pics from Thailand asking for $500 worth of Steam cards was conning them.
Imagine being upset to spend $100 on your family: a range of people as young as your children and people who will not be around another 10+ years.. and literally having ONE THOUSAND TIMES that much money in an account…
sheeeeeeeeeit man black man gotta pay fo his kiiiiiiiiidz? sheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeit dat be duh racism, niggas aint payin dey child support n sheeeeeeeeeeeeeit
Yeah wow that’s insane when you put it that way
thats just torment on the families part
The important part is how in the hell he ever got someone to marry him because I understand saving money but as soon as I found this out I would be like hell no we are done
it's mostly fake. because the family will watch this show and know about the money now. also they are already embarrassed enough, what is the great incentive here to broadcast your embarrassment? are they really getting paid that much from the show? everything is just so exaggerated, folding chairs everywhere, the evil smile, the change bag slamming on the table while having the perfect camera angle to capture it, spending 30+ min at the check out desk counting hundreds of coins?
they are pretty good actors i will give them that.
as someone who grew up being incredibly poor the paying using change is something i've had to do and it's mortifying so to see him do that with no shame disgusts me.
The difference is you did it because you had to to survive and this asshat on the show did it because he thought it was funny (for himself). You were struggling while he by no means struggles, but WANTS to make a spectacle of himself and his poor family. You had and still have nothing to be ashamed of, while I hope this guy's family got fed up and left him (and took his money in a divorce settlement)
To be clear, as someone that’s taken change as payment in retail, it’s really not a problem to pay with change. Attitude is everything. The problem is guys like this that are doing it to be selfish or spiteful that most people are talking about. A lot of us have been in your shoes, I’ve definitely had to scrounge change for a meal. Hope you don’t feel judged!
if i were her, i’d find a side hustle and hide it from him. all of a sudden, their house just starts looking better, things get fixed, new furniture arrives, they start eating better food… but he gets none of it. LMAO
unfortunately it'd be a bonus for him. More free stuff!
i believe she does work but hes in control of her income as well, so when she gets that 20$ allowance its probably literally her own money.
@@Hellscap3Omg that’s even worse
Honestly idk why he trying to be the richest man in the cemetery
lmao thats good
I seriously can’t imagine what his funeral will be like. Preacher- Yup. He… I guess was pretty good at… dunno probably depriving his family of any sort of personal comfort like a fucking asshole. Amen.
I hope he still has a bag of coins saved for when he was inevitably fired for stealing from his school and misappropriation of tax-payer funds.
Isn’t that a Felony?
Many schools are constantly getting grants to update their stuff, and will regularly just throw out the old stuff, even if it's still usable. Often times they can't donate anything because of the parameters of the grants. So if he's just plucking stuff out of the dumpster I don't think that counts as stealing.
I have family members who work at the local college. Nine times out of ten, you can just ask for supplies they are throwing out. It's only a minor felony if you take it out of the dumpster. But, honestly, it's such a minor thing that the cops would just ask you to leave the premises.
All I'm wondering is how in the hell did he get someone to marry him. If the roles were reversed and I met a woman like this I would be gone as soon as I found out how they live
@@Jamessmith-xk3fh There's no way she's not cheating on him.
all of that just to save a few dollars and lose a massive amount of respect from his family. what a great guy. he couldn’t make it any more obvious he doesn’t care at all about their needs.
That lady started ringing the doorbell, and forgot how much she enjoyed ringing the doorbell and couldn't stop. 🤣
I find this sort of thing so frustrating as someone who’s parents have always worked so hard to provide for their family; yet despite their efforts we had to do things this man is making his family do for no reason. Like ppl be out here scraping by out of necessity; and this man is putting his family through it for no reason other than his own enjoyment.
So true. I feel low key he’s gonna need the money if he’s this cheap because I doubt he pays for health insurance to “save money”. It’s weird how some people choose to save
Frustrating and a little angry. The fact that he was showing off his bank account, which BTW was on his personal spread sheet. He wasn't pulling up his mobile banking with the actual balances. But we'll just have to take his word for it. The maddening part of that clip is how he thought it was just so funny that he was hoarding all the families money. This guy is a CPS case just waiting to happen. But you know what wud wipe that stupid grin off his face?? When his wife ends up divorcing him and then taking half of every one of those accounts & then using it to give her kids a way more enjoyable standard of life. Cuz these kids are gonna need a lot of therapy when they get older.
@@AsapMilk I wish I could do that in FL, you can get points or worse I’m pretty sure if you are in an accident here without insurance 😔
@@jcrewz9300 what a peice of s*** Thay grin was truly evil f him
@@jcrewz9300 I kind of figured the revenge would come when the kids manage to get power of attorney over him and dump him in the cheapest nursing home they can find
15:04 the way he mocks his wife being upset with this man’s bullshit shows how delusional he is tbh..
and lowkey I can see this being real
I'm glad to see his own family talk to him and resent him the way they do. He deserves all that disdain and more, from his own family for putting them through this.
I can imagine the family seeing this after the episode comes out
The wife: YOU HAVE HOW MUCH HIDDEN FROM US
The husband: they told me they’d cut that part out 👁👄👁
If he randomly and suddenly died after this episode, I wouldn’t ask questions.
This show is so irritating because, as you mentioned, there are ways to save money without living like this. There's no reason to pay in change. And a cloth towel would be cheaper and classier than a paper towel dispenser. My kitchen table that I still use is something I found at the curb on big trash day 15 years ago. Heck, my TV stand is a desk I found at the curb also that my dad and Grandpa helped me cut down and varnish. Nearly free!
Pretty sure (hypothetically, this is half fake) he borrowed it from work.
Borrows the towels too. He said it costs 5 cents a week.
There's no way that's more than electricity.
Or maybe gas to smuggle the towels home once a month lol.
My bedroom furniture set was found. Cut it to fit my living space. Had some extra left over and built some shelving.
I don't mind saving money on things but I don't go this overboard.
exactly, there's plenty of ways to get things for free or almost free. Like, he could exchange that change at the bank, go to charities, hell, get a better job??? Like I get if he loves his job, but if it's this severe you'd think he'd look into getting a job that paid more
@@markvickroy6725 Not to mention those towel dispensers run on battery power. Yeah he is 100% stealing the towels and batteries from work.
This guys family hates him and he’s laughing so hard like “ahhh it’s a joke they think I’m so funny!! This is fine…” 🤣🤣
How you gonna hide bank accounts from your family just to tell... literally all of television. They definitely didn't find out.
I'm convinced he took everything from that school and put it into his house over a period of 30 years lol 😂
Absolutely. Like I feel in my bones that he probably either notched it up, or got the school to believe that whatever it is definitely broken and worthless. Score! I’ll trade you a family for a folding table. Going once, twice, sold! (But also not?)
I would have left the restaurant. I was once at dinner with my wife’s family. Her grandmother’s boyfriend treated one of the servers (who wasn’t even ours) like shit. That shit embarrasses me so much! I stayed back as every was leaving for the Parking lot to tip the server an extra $20. My wife and I our living in our car working on saving up for a place. I was just so heart broken to see someone treating another HUMAN with such disrespect I was so ashamed for that man I felt the need to try and make it right. My wife and I also had a roommate call to order pizza once. He was so mean to the person who answered the phone before hanging up on him. I left the room and called the pizza place back to apologize on his behalf. WE NEED TO START TREATING EACH OTHER BETTER! We all have shitty things that are going on, and we’ve all been through fucked up times. We should all be a team, and NOT out for just our selves. Anyway sorry for the rant, I hope everyone is doing as well as they can be.
And just like in the movie Waiting...Don’t fuck with people who handle your food.
its called respect and decency. You just are a decent person and you should continue to be how you are and maybe even challenge the people who are dicks around you. it wont be easy, I know.
Not a lot of people have respect these days because most are selfish and self-obsessed. People really be thinking they the main characters in a movie these days.
My severe anxiety prevents me from being rude to servers handling my food.
Why not say anything at the time?
I'm just curious. I have experienced really rude customers and often the person they are with looks embarrassed. But they don't say anything.
It's amazing you back and apologise for them though! But these people are never going to change if their family doesn't call out the behaviour. Are they bullies with everyone else in their life as well?
Or just save up all their anger and dissatisfaction in life and take it out on service workers?
@Kizzabell in my case and probably many others, the rude person is abusive... So they're afraid (or I am) to say anything, especially publicly, because that just means you're gonna get it later. Or even right there. After all, if someone is hell terribly rude to a stranger, imagine how they are with the people close to them!
My first apartment the couch was less than a pack of cigarettes. It was $6 at Goodwill. Classic white 60’s-70’s era couch. It was really nice, high quality, perfect condition, and the worker told me the only reason it was so cheap is bc no one wants a white couch.
So, he could go to Habitat for humanity or Goodwill and easily get furniture for super cheap.
Terrance would be like "$6?! Who do you think I am, Bill Gates?"
Not going to lie, before my husband and I married, we literally found a couch outside goodwill because they even rejected it. Even though it was terrible and there weren’t springs and we pretty much sat on the floor, nostalgia makes this this the most awesome memory around.
That couch was 100% full of semen
I don’t believe for a second, that this guy and his family aren’t just living inside the school
As a delivery driver who's received literal pennies as a tip, when he counted out all that change and said You're welcome for the tip... ooo boy. Triggered every bone in my body.
I feel so sorry for his wife I hope she left him no one should have to deal with
That shit.
I hope she gets half of the money that he's been hiding in swiss accounts
@@FrancisR420 once lawyers get involved you best believe they'll find all the accounts
She chose to marry an educator and basketball coach, she got what she deserved.
She also literally looks like a man.
@@J_Clean_1996 you seem like a really happy person
Lol, I was thinking an administrator was going to walk by and realize there's an entire family living in the school... Tell me it doesn't look like a school basement or something 😂.
Your bit on the doorbell electrocution is some of your best work, ever. In my opinion, of course.
It's just well done in sarcastic tone. "They're here!"
Imagine getting 2 PHDs just to coach peewee basketball and live without furniture
Did he not realize that his whole family would know he has over $150k hoarded away as soon as this aired…?
I hope his wife left him on the spot and got half of it.
Lol facts
My exact thoughts!
That's terrible, what if that was savings for retirement for them to live off of? We don't know his plans.
$150k is not a lot for their age, especially if that’s for a retirement account
You never heard of saving money? lmao
"My family is showing an EXTREME lack of appreciation". Tell me, what should they be appreciating?! They live worse than "Fun With Dick and Jane", yet he's got plenty of money to give them a comfortable life, for what? This is definitely some sort of sick power trip. Bet they'll really love him more when they find out he's been hiding over $100,000+ from them.
Yeah it's shitty, but 100k isn't a large sum of money, especially as close to retirement age as this guy is.
Distinct *😭😭
100k is a good amount of money. He can save still without being this cheap
@@pleasestfu4801but you know he at least could let the house look like home or give the son the chair and desk he asked for… that doesnt mean he has to spent the whole money but at least give something to your family…
His entire family LOATHES him after seeing this episode lmfao
If I grew up like this, I would call CPS on my own parents.
Same
I grew up in a situation like this and I just recently realized how much it scared me and made me feel invaluable and glutenous as an adult
Bro go exercise a little bit you'll feel way better
@@modest1989 I exercise daily. Exercise is so important though for mental and physical well-being and self-respect. I was more or less speaking in past tense. But exercise is really the best foundation for self-care/self-love/self-control/mental clarity and so many other things. I learned a lot of that the hard way, had a relatively empty/traumatic childhood got in trouble alot in my teens early 20s and spent my mid 20s drinking overeating and overall just bad habits, and just recently in my late 20s found the best solutions, and honestly for me anyway 50% of it is getting exercise. I spent over a year in rehab and they mostly focus on AA but what I found is just getting exercise, staying positive, balanced, working towards goals is what seems to be effective
@Douglas Davis lol you got to it before I did. Dang. Anyway, to the OP/Travis something, I'm so sorry you had to grow up like that 😭 I know how it is to be financially abused (and otherwise, I doubt it's ever just that alone with any case) and it sucks, it's made me not be very good with money.
thats on you
@@modest1989are you trying to be one of the most annoying stereotypes on TH-cam?
There’s nothing wrong with saving money and spending wisely. But this is some weird obsession (assuming it’s all real). To your point about cheap furniture, I bought a couch and coffee table both clean and great condition for about $45 at a Habitat for Humanity.
exactly lol
lol i just saw this and essentially commented the same thing. Habitat for Humanity is awesome
My first apartment the couch was less than a pack of cigarettes. It was $6 at Goodwill. Classic white 60’s-70’s era couch. It was really nice, high quality, perfect condition, and the worker told me the only reason it was so cheap is bc no one wants a white couch.
Saving money involves not spending money ...being a lazy bitch and not putting that cash in the bank for convenience, saving a solid hr of prep time to pay with copper coin
@@blindworship2281 THEN WHY HAVE A FAMILY?! He could just be alone and rich in his own personal squalor but no he wants kids involved in this for what? If real it's just the "works hard to give kids a better life yet is mad kids are enjoying said life" meme but with one extra step of never letting them enjoy a better life in the 1st place lol.
The worst thing is he probably could have gone to his bank and got those coins exchanged for cash... for free.
He's like if a sitcom dad was wished into reality.
Keep in mind this was still when McDonald's had a $1 menu instead of a $3 menu just 10 years ago or so.
Inflation on steriods recently
I think I would beg my mom to leave my dad if I grew up in that situation. I wouldn't even look him in the face cause I consider this kind of shit abuse. Denying your family basic comforts is piece of shit thing to do.
The side eye his uncle was giving at the restaurant. 😂
I have been an “educator” for 10 years. I have found a TOTAL of 20 cents at school.
Imagine how he would pay at olive garden.? 😂
"Here I have 38 cents left in this chilli's gift card .. and oh yeah . Ten pounds of car wash tokens, it's equivalent to 3 weeks of free car wash .. oh and 30 pounds of aluminum cans .. Wait here's your tip,. 100 Mexican pesos ."
Awesome content. ✌️
In his defense, the conversion rate of MXN to DLL wouldn't be as shit as it is now lol
This guy is the definition of, "We have food at home."
He's worse because he'd be the kind of person to say "we don't even have enough money for food at home" when over 20K is sitting in a bank account.
@@moodycowcrafts4862 He's all-around awful.
I love how these folks are bragging about saving .05 cents by reusing their toothpaste from the morning brush, while also owning and operating a giant car for thousands and thousands of dollars each year
Does this guy think the family isn’t gunna see how much money he has saved when they air the episode? He prolly thought that part was gunna get cut lol
This school has got to be in shambles at this point based on how much stuff this guy is taking home 😭
It's like the spongebob episode where they steal the entire hotel room
Wow, the financial abuse is astonishing. I bet if she were to hold down a job and bring in the dough, he wouldn’t bat an eye when she buys the furniture.
she does have a job, but gives terrance her money
@@UserName-ts3sp my god, that is so wrong on so many levels
“That’s fine dining mother” just kills me every time
Taking and using furniture off the side of the road is less embarrassing than taking stuff from a school. Tbh though, I do kind of want my own paper towel dispenser.
I agree most plausible thing, anyone can own
‘Distinct lack of appreciation’
Let me translate
‘I hate my family now’
Yo I was dying when that dude got wicked turnt up over that electronic hand towel dispenser
Dude, some times your jokes land so hard for me. The doorbell skit had me rolling. Lmao 😂
I really hope that the family watched the episode when it came out, and that as soon as the wife learned of all the secret bank accounts, she immediately went to file for divorce
i used to work retail and still remember one time a customer paid like $20 in a bunch of loose 25c coins. i was PISSED. i cannot imagine how much the waiter at that restaurant fucking hated his guts when he paid up with a BAG OF PENNIES that shit is straight up evil.
"i think its quite amazing that your aunt and uncle didnt die shocking themselves on your live wire of a doorbell" pls ive been laughing at that for so long
This episode alone is the prime example of extreme cheapskate divorces everywhere and let alone it be on live television, he had some brass balls 😂
I really hate how he insists that everyone’s feelings and opinions aren’t valid. You’re not embarrassed, you don’t actually need a chair in your room. It makes me question how good an educator he is because he’s not listening to anyone. I also noticed how nice his clothes are while his family wears cheaper clothes.
It would be funny if he was fired for stealing that paper towel machine.
Imagine their reaction seeing this episode then finding out about the bank accounts and all the money he’s hiding.
Do they even have a tv let alone cable or satellite
@@Jamessmith-xk3fh no but their friends, co-workers, and extended family members most likely did. So that must have been a fun conversation.
"Hey! I saw your episode of extreme cheapskates. Your husband is hiding over $100k from you."
@@AnimalLover101195 proceeds to show them the clip
Omg, it just makes me happy that someone else love-hates Extreme Cheapskates as much as me lol
I just found the channel a little bit ago and love it so much! I hate I didn't find this sooner though! He deserves way more subs
That doorbell thing is actually legit. My doorbell has been like that for 10+ years. And thank god for that.
This man is literally stealing from his job... at this point it isn't even cheapskate behavior, its criminal behavior.💀
Well the doorbell is only 12 volts, so it's not dangerous, but you could also rob any switch off of any discarded appliance to replace it. An actual doorbell switch from home Depot is less than 5$. I can find 30 switches for free right now that would work for their doorbell.
The amperage can still mess you up. Don’t let the voltage fool you. I do agree about the doorbell switch though lol.
@@superQman600 Sure, 5 volts at 100 amps is dangerous. It's probably good practice not to publicly say that low voltage is inherently not dangerous. I see your point.
@@somethingelse4424 dangerous maybe but pretty unlikely to shock you unless you were wet or something
@@FrancisR420 right if gas or any type of flammable fumes got around there when their putting the neutral and power wire together, it will arc flash it won't kill them but it will definitely burn their hands badly
But she was holding the rubber part? It’s not like she was just grabbing the metal wire itself, unless there’s something I don’t understand about electricity
I actually know someone that was on a TLC reality show, so if their other shows are anything like that one was, this is at least 75% fake, and that's being generous lmao
I had a professor that was on Ancient Aliens as a "Satan Expert." He bragged about how much money he made spouting bullshit all the time.
@@stevem.o.1185 that's hilarious 🤣🤣 get that coin prof
@@stevem.o.1185 bag secured
@@stevem.o.1185 my Latin professor at UNLV was on Pawn Stars as an “expert” (I mean she really is an expert in Latin so it was true) but she said the set up was completely BS.
One of my coworkers was on some reality show as an extra - I think it might have been the History channel. He was pretending to shop for Civil War Memorabilia.
From the perspective of a child having a father that acted this exact same way.....he was looking out for all of us. He didn't spend money and recycled what he had, in order to save. He never spent this money on himself. He was looking out for all of us. (His children and grandchildren).
You would think, by looking at him on the street, that he was homeless. It would pain him to spend his hard-earned money on himself....he wanted nothing more than to save it for his family. He was so selfless. That meant sacrificing luxuries today in order to provide for tomorrow.
He left this world giving all of us the security that we could never have amassed in our lifetimes. He gave us wisdom. He gave us the ability to understand that saving is worth far more than spending.
WE LOVE YOU PAPA. THANK YOU SO MUCH!!! We shall take your wisdom and make sure that ourselves, and our children will do the same.
I'll never forget the time a guy came into the convenience store I worked at and paid for a $32 carton of cigarettes with nickles and dimes. There was only one register. The line was out the door.
The amount of rage in my body after watching this cheap a** sh*t is palpable. I mean it's not MY Dad and it's not my problem. However I have empathy towards those who suffer in relative silence. I need somebody to genuinely SPEAK to this man and knock some sense into him. Why am I so mad? Good lawd. 😣😣
The fact that he has 2 Ph.Ds actually explains a lot. I imagine he made a lot of sacrifices to pay for his education early in his life and is dealing with the lingering financial trauma. If any of this is real, then he needs serious mental help for the sake of his family. He can certainly afford a therapist.
The uncle is internally screaming😂😂
There is no way in hell that meal was $92 😂😂
I mean they probably told them they have to pay for everyone eating i think that seems reasonable its probably 15 bucks a person so like 90 plus tax
@@brandonloaiza8595 I'm thinking its closer to like $12 a person, because this was maybe over a decade ago as well as most chinese buffets you can still find between $10-$15 a petson. So say $72 plus maybe $5-7 tax and then a tip, and then im hoping he wasn't a absolute scumbag and left at least like a $10-$12 tip. Thats literally the lowest he SHOULD leave as a tip for thet amount.
@@Rykiz_Vidz inflation is somthing i definately did not take into account, i think your math is def more precise but i know that dude diddnt leave a tip, he started out tryna cheat the system lol
@@Rykiz_Vidz as the kid I would have went to the bathroom when it was time to pay so nobody would see me with him paying in change lol
@@Rykiz_Vidz you already know he only tipped them between two and five dollars.
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14:22 that face sums up this entire episode.
In Germany you pay a deposit of 25 cents on every plastic bottle and when you return them to the supermarket you get the money back. One cleaning lady at my school told me that she collects about 20 bottles each day. Many students are to lazy to carry the bottles back home and just put them in the trash. My mum would have been very angry with me if I had wasted money like this but luckily for the cleaning lady many other children weren’t taught to value money, no matter how little the value is. She made around 150€ per month just from collecting and returning bottles. At the time that was about 10% of the monthly median net income in Germany and covered most of her food expenses for her and her son.
Ohhhh I bet the family was beyond pissed when they watched this episode, only to found out the husband has 182,846 saved up………
I bet the bank even has a machine that can quickly count all that change and get him bills for it. There is no sense in keeping that giant bag of change.
Looking at his walls I’m convinced they live in a church to avoid paying taxes
Their house is so utterly depressing, it just fills me with dread. I’d off myself if I had to live there, it’s like solitary
Severely underrated channel. Can't wait til you blow up big, my guy!
There's no way those kids aren't dropping pennies on purpose coz they know he'll stop to pick them up
Wait for the guy to go to the bathroom, then call over the server and be like, 'Yeah, he paying for all this, so when it comes time for the check, we leave for the car, he can pay.'
The way Chris talks just basic logic and common sense is almost like, a relief for my brain after dealing with just reality and people in general~ He legitimately keeps me sane at times because even on the worst days, I can watch his videos and I'll be like, laughing out loud within five minutes even if I'm sitting alone in my room~ He makes you feel not so alone when it seems like the rest of the world has just gone completely bonkers~
I remember in middle school, you could get sweet tea for $0.25! I had to ask my mom for a quarter.. once she gave me 2 quarters. Funny who's your friend the day you have an extra one..
I wish I wasn't struggling and living check to check. This man has over 6 figures saved and still chooses to live like this.
Change laying on ground in school was pretty common at my high-school. They sold cookies for 80 cents at lunch so students would normally throw the dimes in the hallways alot.
I have to say , watching this I thought I was prepared, but 5 mins in my jaw DROPPED. The children don't even have furniture... this is so sad. I hate this man
I know this shouldn't be the take away, but I feel bad that the whole family went on tv and roasted a local restaurant. I almost don't feel bad for them.
I didn’t even think of that lol
@@ChrisJamesTV imagine your excitement when a tv crew comes to shoot at your restaurant. You're thinking you're about to be known the world over. And then they pay you in nickels and call your food shitty.
Well besides the fact that I think it's reasonable for them to be incredibly pissed off given the circumstances, empire buffet is actually a multi-store business here in Appalachia. Trust me, it is even shitter than it looks and this likely did nothing at all to hurt their bottom line lol.
This guy has won the devious lick trend
As a middle/high schooler, I would walk through parking lots behind the school on my lunch breaks to collect change and would normally find 5-10 dollars in change. The guy does have a point about kids dropping money.
This is how families end up with a missing father and a shared dark secret.
" i could save 500-600$ by not buying a desk" I mean I dont know what desks your looking at but I only spent like.... 150 to build my own and It's a massive desk that is quite nice and was extremely easy to build lol. don't need to spend crazy money to have something nice my guy.