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 deadly sins that the Christian religion has indicated as vices and on which the teaching must emphasize to avoid falling into them since they are in the antipodes of what Christian morality proposes.
In addition, religion appreciates greed as a concrete threat due to its direct influence on the realization of other sins such as: being disloyal and betraying someone to obtain material benefits, cheating, stealing and assaulting, in order to appropriate goods of others and thus accumulate more and more wealth.
It should be noted that the stereotype of the miser has been and is still routinely approached by the world of fiction. Cinema, TV, theater and literature 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 Charles Dickens novel, A Christmas Carol.
