The director of our office is retiring at the end of April. We decided to get him a gift and the lady that was going to purchase it said it would like $10/person. He does a lot of bird watching and hates squirrels so she bought this squirrel proof bird feeder. Anyway the envelope came around for us to pay for it and it was $20 a person!!! There are 10 people throwing in for this thing, so that means it was $200!!
She ordered it online so if she saw it was that much money, I think she should have asked everybody if that price per person was ok with us before she got it. I know it's not that huge of an amount, but I don't have that much money to be throwing away on somebody's retirement gift. That's a box of diapers!!!
Re: Am I being a cheapskate about this?
DD - February 2011
this exactly!