My step-dad’s so cheap he makes us eat kids’ meals at restaurants – he’ll do anything to save a few pennies

IT pays to be frugal in some instances, but according to one woman, some people take it way too far.

In particular, her mum’s boyfriend who loves to save some pennies wherever he can. So much so that he refuses to pay for regular sized meals and makes the family get kids’ servings instead.

GettyThe man is so frugal that he tells his family what they can and can’t order, just to save a few pennies[/caption]

He met her mum while she was at high school and she always believed he was a good guy

But as the years went on it became clear that his frugal ways were rather troubling.

“At fast food places he will ask my mum to forgo cheese on her burger in order to knock a few pennies off,” she explained on Reddit’s Am I The A**hole forum.

“Out at dinner places he has asked her to forgo a drink off the menu and just fill up on water, and has suggested when they’re paying that we downgrade our meat choices for the option that is usually a pound cheaper.”

“Once he even asked me and my boyfriend and his niece and her friend to swap out our regular lasagne’s for the kid lasagne to save a few quid,” she added

But recently she snapped while at dinner with the entire family when he, yet again, lived up to his cheap reputation.

“I brought it up and called him out over it. I asked him if he really so cheap that he would ask someone to change what meat they want or what they drink to shave off a couple of pounds. He was furious,” she continued.

“My mum jumped in and told him she wanted to know the answer, that she was tired of having her choice of food dictated and that she works hard so she can do things like eat out on occasion or spend a little something on a gift for someone she loves or cares about.

“And she hates feeling like a criminal about it. He said I was a rude little brat and I told him I was standing up for my mum who deserves to be treated better.”

The woman posted in the Reddit channel to ask whether or not she was in the wrong for calling him out, or if she should have just let it go.

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An overwhelming amount of people agreed that her outburst was justified and that she had every right to defend her mum whose life is negatively impacted by his actions.

“He’s pressuring your mother to live a life stripped of small joys over pennies. What wonderful thing is he going to use the money for in the future that will make all the daily petty misery he causes worth it? Odds are, nothing.” one Reddit user questioned.

“He deserves to be called out, not have his behaviour normalised. It is not normal. Let him feel sh***y whenever he does it to understand how he makes those he does this to feel.”

Meanwhile, another added: “He seems like a cheap controlling a**hole. His reaction is normal, but seeing as your mum contributes financially, she should be able to have more freedom with her spending.”

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