SUBSCRIBETips for Dating a Cheapskate
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Is your guy so cheap he squeaks when he walks? Is your girl so thrifty she uses tea bags thrice? I feel your pain.
I too was a long-suffering companion of a date who felt that a root canal was preferable to spending money.
Allow me to introduce him. We’ll call him Rob. (I’ll call him the most miserly, tightfisted Scrooge to ever walk the face of the planet.) Let’s have a look at some of Rob’s endearingly frugal ways, penny-pinching behavior that bought our relationship to an untimely end.
Restaurant dates were for special occasions only. Lucky me, my birthday counted as special enough to warrant forking out the cash for dinner. But tightwad Rob would insist that we order main courses only — no dessert or starters. And he would hound the wait staff to replenish our bread, which he then wrapped in a napkin and stuffed in his jacket pocket. For breakfast.
On the rare occasion we would stay in a hotel (usually when someone else, such as my work, was paying) he’d load up on all the toiletries from the bathroom and then call housekeeping to replace them. This would go on every day during the stay and we’d depart with a suitcase full of crappy miniature shampoos.
Sound familiar? Perhaps you’ve got your own special brand of skinflint in your life who is forever calculating the cost of things, bemoaning spending money on things that aren’t considered essential or practical and basically ruining the romance by being so damn cheap.
How do you get your stingy date to see that splashing the cash now and then isn’t such a bad thing? Our tips will help your prize open his steel-trap wallet or loosen her purse strings — if only for a moment.
Pay Your Way
The classic cheapskate hates the idea of spending good money on food in restaurants when you can cook for yourself at home. True but not very romantic. Tightwads, particularly guys, are wary of restaurant dates because they feel the onus is on them to pay. Put your Scrooge’s mind at ease by offering to split the cost of eating out and letting them choose a restaurant with prices they are comfortable with — and no, McDonald’s doesn’t count as a date-worthy restaurant.
Discount Vouchers
There’s nothing the money minder loves more than discount coupons. Use these to your advantage by collecting as many offers and two-for-one deals as you can, then when you next want to see a movie or go to an exhibition and your honey whines that it costs too much money, you can whip out one of these babies and show them that you’re actually saving them money. Watch their little eyes light up as they do the math. Then sit back and enjoy your date.
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I have been dating a single father of an 8 year old girl for 9 months. She is a wonderful child and I have a nice relationship with her. However, my issue is that he is a doting father. I understand that she is his princess but it is out of control. I come a far second to her. Sadly, I am beginning to resent her and it is feeling like a competiton between her and I. Uh Oh, what do I do?
Danielle, You give yourself a reality check and take a big girl pill or you move on to someone who doesn’t have a kid that isn’t yours.
Of course he is going to be the doting father. Who knows what that child went through when he split up with her mother. He is feeling guilty either because she never sees her mother or because he rarely sees her. Just depends on how custody turned out. If her mother died then it will be even worse because he will feel that he has to fill both rolls. She is his princess. To quote a popular country song airing these days. “Shes playing cinderella” He knows one day some other prince charming is going to come along and take her away from him but until that day she is his princess. The woman he can put on a pedestool and never have to hear, “I don’t want to be up here. What if you don’t catch me?” No little girl in the history of mankind who had a good and kind father ever thought for an instant that if she jumped he wouldn’t catch her.
Its a time of faith building in men. She needs that from him and he needs as her father to give that to her. So you can either suck it up, realize it has nothing to do with you other than your wanting to be the princess and feeling usurped. She was there first and she is the real princess. Your the outsider wanting to become queen and if you can’t fit yourself into their world instead of trying to force them to change to fit into yours then you will be the one who loses out.
Grow up. Its passed time you realized that being grown up means you don’t get to be the princess anymore. Just be happy for them. They are creating a relationship she will never forget. Memories she can hang on to if say he decides to have a heart attack and die at 55 the way my father did. I will forever be grateful that my sister and I were my fathers princesses and that he doted on us because I will forever have those memories of him even if he won’t be there to see his grandchildren graduate highschool, or get married or anything else. Don’t even think about trying to deny her that. Its to important to her later. She needs it in order to have a healthy relationship when shes grown.