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The word penny pincher is the term we use to designate that individual who is characterized by accumulating money and any type of wealth and does not use it even if it is necessary or someone who really needs it asks him to borrow money. As a consequence, the use of the word as synonymous with stingy and miserable and vice versa, of course.

Among the most salient characteristics of the miser and that paint him in the most faithful way are: he is never willing to spend his own money and is capable of giving up a life of comfort if it means spending the money he owns.

Meanwhile, the miser is a cultist of what is called greed, the inclination or inordinate desire to possess material pleasures or possessions. Together with pride, anger, envy, gluttony, laziness and lust, greed, is one of the seven capitals sinswhich the Christian religion has indicated as vices and on which the teaching should be emphasized to avoid falling into them since they are at the antipode of what the moral Christian.

Furthermore, religion appreciates greed as a concrete threat for its direct influence on the realization of other sins such as: being disloyal and betraying someone to achieve material gain, cheating, stealing and robbing, in order to appropriate the goods of others and thus accumulate more and more riches.

It should be noted that the stereotype of the miser has been and is still routinely approached by the world of fiction. The movie theater, the tevé, the theater and the literature They have created legendary characters that meet the conditions mentioned above. Mr. Burns in the North American animated series The Simpsons, Harpagon in the work of the French author Moliere and Ebenezer Scrooge, one of the characters in the novel from Charles Dickens, A Story of Christmas.