We must be careful about money, if you are careful about money then there is no problem if people call you stingy because some people's job is to say bad things about others.
individuals with a sense of entitlement will eat you till you run out of money and then they will leave you hopeless and still speak bad about you. It's always an issue when you're trying to be too generous with your money and trying to solve everyone's need that you see around you just because you don't want them to call you a bad person. If you keep on spending without making plans for investment or saving some part for yourself, you will get al the ridicule and back bitting when you no longer have the money to spend for them.
The mistake we make most of the time is that we're afraid of being looked at as a stingy person and we try to solve other people's problems that they should have become man enough to solve on there own. If you're stingy today and you save up for tomorrow, you are going to get called the bad name just at the onset but when you've established yourself and still helping those people at that time, they will appreciate you at that time.