re: What's the cheapest thing you've ever seen a wealthy person do?

I have one rich relative. In college I basically was his driver on the weekends during duck season in exchange for free food and good duck hunting.

We stopped at a walmart once because he forgot to bring a whistle for the dog. After looking around, he could not make himself buy the $1.00 whistle because he knew he had two or three at home.

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My Uncle has Oil Money and refuses to buy cable. Only 3 channels. He will not buy bottled water saying he can have it free from the faucet. He drives a Mercury Grand Marquis. But yet, has a Rolex Watch!

J. Paul Getty for the win... In 1973 his 16-year old grandson was kidnapped by Italian gangsters. They demanded $3.2 million. Although J. Paul was worth well north of $5 billion at the time, he refused to pay, saying he would 'call their bluff'.

After the gangsters sent the child's ear to a newspaper by post, his father (J. Paul's son), begged J. Paul to give him the money. J. Paul loaned him $2.2 million as this was the maximum amount allowed as a tax deduction. He charged his son 4% interest on the loan.

When the ransom was paid and the child released, his mother asked him to call his grandfather to thank him for helping. J. Paul refused to take the call.

Want more? Getty owned a 72-room mansion outside of London worth over $60 million (1959 dollars). He put dial locks on all the telephones in the building and installed one pay phone for the guests. At this time he was the richest person in the world.

I know a guy who's worth something like $500M, watched he and his family pull up to his brother's house to visit as they were passing through on a family trip. Their "luggage" was actually a bunch of Hefty garbage bags.

my wife and i both have 6 figure incomes, i still base my shopping habits on places that have chicken breast for 1.99/lb.

When I coached little league I had a 12 year old all star mom approach me very mad that I didn't warn her the all star games costs 3 dollars to get in. I reached to my back pocket to offer her the money (cause I honestly thought she maybe didn't bring any money). That didn't go over well, made it worse. She then went outside the out-field fence and started hollering for her son to come on, "we're going home". The director of baseball had to go and talk her down. Thing is she was probably the only "wealthy" parent we had, all others were middle class. Then I got hit upside the head with a ball thrown in from outfield that I didn't see coming. A bad day.

I have witnessed a person worth multiple millions use a paper towel in the office and lay it over something on the counter to dry so they can use it again next time. It was funny the first time. It’s not funny every day.