TL;DR:Not sure if BF is filthy and cheap, or if what he is doing makes sense.
I am dating a man who works in I.T. yet his hands are always filthy. He gets a bath everyday, and wears gloves when he works on things around the house, but it is like his hands are permanently stained from grease.
If he ever goes to an event like a wedding he has to scrub and scrub on his hands with aa green scour pads to clean up his hands, which I think is actually just removing the dirty skin at the surface.
He washes his hands as he works, but in some cases the grim just never seems to go away after the work the first day.
He will also wear all of his clothing for years until it wears out. While working on a plumbing job about 2 years ago he was walking though our town and a homeless person thought he was also homeless and took him to a shelter and got him a coat, which he accepted and still wears.
He does have clothes for work which he does not dirty, but they are also ancient, some belonged to his late grandfather. They are not in disrepair, but they do look worn out. He agreed to clean out some of the worse clothing, but he has said his intended policy on clothing is he keeps something until it is down to about 60% capacity. So if his old jeans have rips or holes he doesnt get rid of them until they are long past the point of anyone else getting rid of them.
He keeps everything past the point I would personally get rid of it. He was putting an alternator in his car last year, a diesel beetle with 280K miles on it, and his argument was that even with replacement parts totaling a few hundred a year and spending the time to do it himself, it makes more financial sense to keep his older car until it is completely done or so expensive to fix that he would get rid of it.
He did break down and bought a replacement vehicle this year, it is the same model vehicle, one year newer, with about half the miles on it. He intends to repair the engine on the old one and give it to a friends daughter for her 16th.
Is he being cheap and unreasonable in how he lives?
Submitted January 27, 2020 at 08:48AM by downthetubes- https://ift.tt/2RwDhh0
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