Hetty Green: Wonders of world’s most stingy person
Hetty Green is considered the most stingy woman in history, her wealth is estimated at more than $2.3 billion. Hetty Greene was born in America in 1835. She was the only daughter of a wealthy businessman.
She inherited from her father a fortune estimated at $7.5 million. When she was twenty-one years old, she moved to live in New York to invest her money in Wall Street and was called the Wicked Witch of Wall Street.
She married a millionaire like herself, but still lived on leftover cakes and broken biscuits in grocery stores and argued to get a free bone for her dog every day!! Hetty Greene was a very miserable woman. She sewed underpants when she was 16 years old and did not change them or buy others until the day of her death.
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She never spent a penny, so it was said that she never used hot water, that she wore a black dress which she did not change until it was completely worn out, and that she lived eating a pie that cost only two cents.
Hetty caused her son to amputate his leg because when he broke it, she delayed treating it because she insisted not to spend any money and kept looking for free medical attention.
Hetty Greene died in 1916 at the age of 81 in New York City. According to her longstanding “World’s Greatest Miser” entry in the Guinness Book of World Records, she died of apoplexy after arguing with a maid over the virtues of skimmed milk. The New York Times reported she suffered a series of strokes leading up to her death.
She left behind a huge fortune, and her children did not inherit her extreme stinginess, but rather, they were generous to the point that her daughter built a free hospital with her money.
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