Quotes About Thriftiness

I always have this feeling that I'm losing everything, so I'm a real saver.

I'm all about saving money.

I'm Scottish, so I took care of my money.

People were so cheap there... they ate beans to save on bubble bath.

win a game of Scrabble using only three vowels. He can also bring fresh air into an unventilated bathroom, and he can renovate castles and huts on small budgets using knick-knacks from thrift stores and some well-chosen latex paint colours.

It is thrifty to prepare today for the wants of tomorrow.

Even clingfilm - if it's gone over a salad bowl, take it off, use it again. I wash out carrier bags; I save brown paper from parcels. I save string; I save ribbons. I separate all my bits and pieces.

I'm very cheap. My friends hate me.

For the first year I lived in New York, I never ate out. I literally just ate lentils and brown rice at home. Sometimes I'd treat myself to this half chicken from Chinatown that cost $3.50.

When you think of couponing, you picture a mom cutting coupons out of the back of the newspaper.

The way to wealth depends on just two words, industry and frugality.

Teach economy. That is one of the first and highest virtues. It begins with saving money.

If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher's stone.

or cheaper.

Usa lo que ya tengas a mano o lo que puedas conseguir por poco dinero. Y ponte en marcha. El equipo no es lo relevante. Lo relevante es sacarle el máximo partido a lo que tengas. Tu arte está en tus dedos.

I don't like to waste anything. Any food left over from the night before is always eaten the next day.

I'm cheap, and so I don't like wasting.

Once you're a saver, you're always a saver. At the end of the day, it's more money in your pocket.

True economy consists in always making the income exceed the out-go. Wear the old clothes a little longer if necessary; dispense with the new pair of gloves; mend the old dress: live on plainer food if need be; so that, under all circumstances, unless some unforeseen accident occurs, there will be a margin in favor of the income.

Anything that helps consumers get more for their money is fine by us.

It was a time of repurposing. "Use it up, wear it out, make it do or do without," was the motto of the time.

Frugality without creativity is deprivation.

The motto of science is not just Pauca but rather Plurima ex paucissimis - the most out of the least.

It is thrifty to prepare today for wants of tomorrow.