Daniel Dancer, History's Biggest Cheapskate | Sam O'Nella | A History Teacher Reacts

first of all soap don't even think about it the closest thing to bathing that daniel did was during the summer months when once or twice a week he'd wade into the nearby pond and scrub his face with a handful of sand say what you will but what he lacked in deodorization he certainly made up for an exfoliation [Music] [Music] hey youtube welcome back to another history teacher reacts video mr terry as i continue my search for historical knowledge found here on youtube all right guys today's video is heading back to one of our favorite salmonella and it blew me away how many salmonella videos i've watched but a lot i have not watched and everybody keeps clamoring for him to come back because he's kind of been on a hiatus and things like that and i'm one of those too because he has these awesome stories you know of history that you usually have never heard of and then adding his his brand of of humor is always a win-win anyway today's video we're gonna check out is daniel dancer history's biggest cheapskate so another little oddity in the catalog of uh mr salmonella so i'm interested to know how much of a cheapskate mr dancer actually is all right the original video link is down below so make sure you support sam give them the like view subscribe and all that stuff and if you haven't subbed to my channel i'd love to have you around click that sub button give a thumbs up if you liked the video and hope to see you much more here in the future all right with that let's go ahead and get started this video is sponsored by skillshare skillshare learn how to do stuff hi kids hey kids you're probably familiar with at least a few characters whose obsessive penny pinching truly knows no bounds yes from ebenezer scrooge to scrooge mcduck nobody hoards money quite like misers but these guys aren't the most miserly misers out there nope sure you all knew that those characters are related right by a long shot first of all look at their top hats their extravagant use of glasses their luxurious chairs these things are worth their weight and precious shekels no true miser would waste their wealth on such frills second of all you're right these guys aren't real they're fictional characters scrooge mcduck does not exist i don't care what cnn says it's all liberal conspiracy i mean look at this art by the way it reminded me if you've seen that a family guy episode where peter jumps into the the uh the vault of money because in in ducktales scrooge would jump in like of a diving board to his vault to muddy then swim around and then peter does it and he like breaks all his bones because it's it's metal it's bunny it's not liquid article by the huffington post you mean to tell me that this wait wait i want to miss this i mean look at this article by the huffington post you mean to tell me that this picture isn't photoshopped ridiculous but you know who was real one daniel dancer of london england born in 1716 daniel's father died at a young age leaving behind a large agricultural estate for daniel to oversee when it was first inherited the property brought in a few hundred pounds a year which doesn't sound like much today but given that a general laborer could be expected to make around 19 pounds per year in 1710 it's safe to say that danza could afford to live a fairly lavish lifestyle off his passive income alone okay so we're setting up something here with cheap being a cheapskate uh he comes from money right cheapskate you know isn't just a thing that it's gonna be from the poor now i know you want some historical context here the great depression had a huge effect on people and this has nothing to do with that um so like like my grandmother's generation grew up and even like great grandma it's really more great grandma but great grandma or grandma grew up in generation that had to learn how to pinch pennies you know because of the uh um because of the great depression so for you guys man depending on how old you are maybe you if you felt like you had a grandparent or something an older relative that was kind of cheap that way it does have an effect that went a couple generations even after that where yet especially people were pinching pennies because they had to learn how to manage resources because of the great depression i know that was definitely an effect of like my grandmother and my great-grandmother who saw that effect but anyways you don't have to necessarily be poor to be able to do that because this type of behavior is also like a mental thing you know the same same way that like somebody might be a hoarder that there's like a mental tick of something that goes on there and i think it has a similar effect with with cheap skates right even if you have the money to do something there's something that goes on in here that that triggers that but dan was like you know all this food and clothing and stuff is all right but you know what i really like owning money say how much does a pound cost well that's a complicated question daniel can currency really be said to have intrinsic value some economists believe that dldr please they cost a pound jesus that's all it doesn't i better start saving thus began one of the most intentionally frugal lifestyles history has ever seen let me walk you through a few of dancer's day-to-day habits all right so they talked about money with intrinsic value it doesn't money does not commodities do and that's why to be honest through most of human history um bartering and and and trade for products for products has generally been the thing and some economies that shifted or some some places that that shifted to money economies what you usually find is they have a difficulty getting the trust of um people to use that it's very simple to be like all right your wheat for our goats you can consume these things they have an intrinsic value to them um a similar thing happened too when there was a shift from like metal coinage to paper money in a lot of places they didn't trust that and a lot of those like you have that like in ancient china had a problem with that where they tried to switch that because they were using like metal coins but at certain times like in chinese history they wanted to use that metal for other things they wanted it for you know yeah to to use for whether it's building materials weapons whatever but um so shifting to a paper economy which you know could use something more something more replaceable like with with paper and i've always had that that problem of that that value um intrinsically first of all so don't even think about it the closest thing to bathing that daniel did was during the summer months when once or twice a week he'd wade into the nearby pond and scrub his face with a handful of sand say what you will but what he lacked in deodorization he certainly made up for an exfoliation all of london probably wreaked a high hell back then for sure while daniel smell might not have taken people off eccentricity his clothes almost certainly did okay i might have missed it and i don't want to necessarily go back but i think i forgot what time period this is um for for britain now if it's like industrial era sort of um then or even before that right around industrial era uh pollution was terrible and and the the high urbanization of places like london and in cities like manchester saw um those places being awful when it comes out disease outbreaks like cholera and things would white people out and for a long time there like london was the the biggest city in the world and was the most densely populated city in the world it was truly disgusting on a good day he'd be seen in one of his coats which were homemade patchwork abominations of various garments that dancer found on the streets whatever dust heaps looking like a walking dementia patient sewing circle similarly all his shoes were either scavenged or frankensteined out of other pairs of shoes you already know whatever but the whole ensemble being barely held together with haphazardly tied bands made of the hay grown on his estate that's drip a lot of the time he ditched normal clothes all together and just wear the hay to his credit and his youth daniel was known to purchase a whole two shirts per year as his clothing expense but one day he looked in the mirror and said daniel you're bleeding funds like a stuck pig it's time to grow up and get your act together and cut his budget to only one shirt per year one of the few people that daniel associated with regularly was his sister whom he lived with believe it or not she shared in a lot of daniel's tight-fisted habits and it definitely showed she was described as quote having more the appearance of a walking dunghill than one of the fair sex couldn't have said it better myself honestly dancer prepared all of his food for the upcoming week ahead of time consisting of only 14 dumplings and three pounds of beef stretched out over the entire seven day period every day he'd eat only a single meal that was basically equivalent to two wads of dried out dough and one and a half quarter pounder patties from mcdonald's he kept his habit up for years without fail except for one time when he stumbled upon a fully intact rotting sheep carcass during his daily stroll he was like good lord this is just obscene who would leave a perfectly good point oh no don't do it daniel an organs just sitting around like this so he dragged the thing home and made him and his sister a nice big pile of spoiled mutton pies which they subsisted off of for several weeks that's a real life hack right there who needs refrigeration if it's already rancid am i right despite now sometimes and some of you may know this too they're they're like cheapskates people that are only cheapskates and certain things you know what i mean like for example um they have some people that might be cheap in a lot of things but like food like the opposite of this guy might be like they'll binge on food but they won't buy clothing or they'll buy tons of clothing or something like that and not buy you know a lot of food or some people get a high of like uh of and you may i bet you know i guarantee you know somebody and maybe if you're you're them but someone in your family that is one of those bargain hunters that will drive extra far for somewhere that might be a little cheaper than somewhere right near you but getting to the point where like you're gonna spend more in gas and you obviously don't value your time you know that's spent doing that but for the sake of getting the deal that like triggers i don't know dopamine or something where it's like it makes you feel good for that but you know that i don't feel i've ever been that way though i value time more than money i think in most in most ways daniel's rabid fear of any unnecessary spending he did own a dog named bob that he was quite fond of at this point i'm almost certain that dancer just decided to base his entire life off of linoleum by no effects oh no effects great band get some punk going here i i don't know if he's going to go too quick i want to make sure we got the uh the lyrics possessions never meant anything to me i'm not crazy cause i got none well that's not true i've got a bed and a guitar and a dog named bob who pisses on my floor that's right i've got a floor so what so what so what which is pretty incredible considering linoleum wasn't even invented for another hundred years anyway the one day daniel's neighbor came to complain about how bob had been harassing his sheep so daniel said don't worry boy i ain't gonna kill you but we don't want a lawsuit on our hands do we no we don't what will we do if a lawyer came around here huh that's right and make his children watch yeah so he decided to take the dog to the local farrier which is basically a blacksmith that specializes in horseshoes and the like hey could you make my dog like not have teeth anymore uh what kind of business you think i'm running here boy come on man you file down horses hooves for a living teeth are just tiny mouth hooves sorry buddy but close only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades got me there say what's a hand grenade none of my sources say what happened to the dog after his untimely nubbining but i do know danny got sued so i guess the operation was a success daniel's sister passed 07 for that dog right there away in 1766 leaving himself oh that he actually went out of his way to buy morning clothes for her funeral and by that i mean he bought a pair of secondhand black stockings and that's it still that's a big deal when it comes to the likes of dancer at this point the only person close to a friend that dancer had was a woman known as lady tempest she was so influential over him that she was actually able to convince him to buy get this a one shilling hack this was quite an accomplishment as daniel's last hat was older than half of you at 14 years old what i'm not you don't is this you you wait what now you why the cat of course the next time lady tempest went to hang out with him he was still wearing his old disgusting hat when questioned about the one he bought he goes oh yeah that frilly old thing sold it for a six pence profit super easy too i tell you forget house flipping hat flipping is going to be the cool new thing soon lo and behold 250 years later he was wrong well actual audio of the car that parked outside my apartment while i was trying to record nice how many of you are the fedora are you the fedora kid at school are you the fedora kid i think there's a few yeah the ripe old age of 78 which seems pretty shocking considering the whole not using soap eating rotten food thing but i guess isolation from other people and pre-industrial because of the 1700s there it's pre-industrial living to 78 is very impressive usually you come down with something by then and with his cognos habits that's actually really impressive i don't know maybe it had the opposite effect where he was exposed to so many gross things he just was immune to everything people made up for that when it came to preventing illness though he never ended up shelling out any of the massive horde of wealth that he accumulated over this time his efforts weren't completely invaded by the time he passed away daniel's estate was now pulling in about 3 000 pounds in yearly net revenue 10 times the amount it earned when he first inherited it so what are you making money though off of that i mean what what does the manor do is there agriculture or something like how does it bring in money you know of the story parsimony has its place while it's good to save money don't torture yourself just for the sake of a few bucks next time your parent or significant other insists on turning down the thermostat or keeping the windows up to save gas i'm that person like in the house i low thermostat but not not necessarily because of the money i just like things a little bit colder i do like things colder and um as far as the car goes i like the wind down because i like the sun sorry the window down because i like the sensation of the wind but maybe there's a little bit of thing though it's like ah ac it's going to make my engine work hard or whatever i'm going to use more fuel and stuff but i don't know just say hey are we human or are we dancer but you know what else is the killer than money knowledge that's why you need to try skillshare.com skillshare is an online learning community with over 23 thousand classes in technology design business and more premium membership you need to learn how to make access to high quality classes on must-know topics so you can improve your skills unlock new opportunities and do the work you love want to learn how to budget your life without turning into a filthy carcass eating loner try the core four of personal finance you'll learn all the money management skills that really should be taught in school but aren't in no time if you're looking for something a 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by necessity and then there's being a cheapskate by just it's how your brain is you know what i mean if you're if you're a poorer person it's like you have these options anyways yeah you need to wear the 14 year old hat and buy a shirt once a year but to be a cheapskate i think you got to be somebody that is doing it more than you need to or you know i think i think another way in a way you'd have to be considered a cheapskate is if you're doing all these things to save money but you don't use that money for other things you know what i mean like okay i'm going to i'm going to keep my thermostat down to save money so i can use that to do this other thing or invest in something right that's just that's just being good at managing your money right but yeah doing it just for the sake of doing it that's that's where you get that mental thing all right another great story though from sam glad to hear it um there's plenty of other salmonella videos i know i haven't watched and you can 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