There is a saying in my language that a stingy person has no life. Furthermore, we also have another saying that's stingy person cannot enjoy his or her life neither can his family enjoy him. The break down of the saying, especially the second one is that, while a stingy person is trying to hide his or her resources, he or she will be deprived of those resources as well because he or she does not wish to share.
Being greedy as well is a problematic attitude too, because when too excessive, it can be destructive to the person and the people around the person. A greedy person is never satisfied with what he or she has. Coveting more might make them go extra length to get
more to theirs.
I always do away with people like that because I do not have the energy to deal with me.
I had a friend in my senior secondary school days. She is also my seat mate. She is both stingy and greedy. Whenever I bring food, we always share. She will even eat a larger portion than I did. I never made a big deal out of it. Not just my food, virtually every girl's food in the class.
She will also borrow money from me promising to return it the next day. Only for the next day to come and refuse to pay back. She would not even talk about the money. If you remind her of her promise to pay back, she will procrastinating.
She has never offered to share her food with anyone in the class. Jam not saying I am or probably anyone in the class will jump at the offer as soon as she asks but just to show that she is willing to share. That is when she will pick fight with everyone so as not to share.
I could not really remember how I did it then but I cut off ties with her. I consider people like her parasitic. A parasitic relationship is never an healthy type of relationship because one of the party in the relationship will benefit and the other will suffer.
I also have a friend who vent to me about his room mates in the university. They always use his things till it is finished. After they have finished his stuffs, they will bring out theirs, use it and keep it away.
He sighted an example of him being gifted a cologne by someone. He cherished it so much. So after use, he keeps it on his desk. He watched his roomies used the spray with him and within a week, it finished.
After the cologne has finished, they all acted as if nothing happened. They will get dress for classes and still smell nice. My friend now confronted them that when they had theirs, why would they use his own till it was exhausted. Worst past, they will use their own cologne in hidden spaces, and keep after use.
He had to adjust his relationship with them. He never benefited anything from them, instead they feed onbhis own resources till it is finished then keep theirs and use in secret.
Can you imagine that! Terrible people. Whenever I observe people like that, I stay away, because prevention they say is better than cure.