09/06/2024
Meet Hetty Green, her wealth was 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. Despite her growing wealth at the time, she 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 started sewing her underpants when she was 16 years old and she did not change them or buy others until the day of her death. She never spent a penny. She wore a black dress that she did not change until it was completely worn out, and that she lived on eating a pie that cost only two cents.
Hetty caused her son to amputate his leg because when he fractured it, she delayed treating it because she insisted not to She spend money anyhow and kept looking for free medical attention.
Hetty Greene died in 1916 at the age of 81 in New York City. The cause of her death was a stroke due to a quarrel with her maid because the maid had asked for an increase in her meager salary.
She died and 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!! ☕️
Hetty was entered in the Guinness Book of World Records as the most "stingy" person in history.
