Do you know or have you ever known. Someone who can be labelled a real life Scrooge?

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I had an uncle, rest his soul, who would complain every ********* when I was small about how much everything costs. He wasn’t married or had children. There were four of us and he gave us each $5.00 for *********. Of course, back then $5.00 was a lot to a child, but looking back he really ruined it for all of us with his constant complaining. To this day, I think he died an unhappy man.

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