Quotes About Thriftiness

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

She believed in getting as much use as possible from everything, and thought that as long as machinery, or anything else, could be cajoled into operation, it should be kept; to do otherwise, she thought, was wasteful.

Some people call themselves fiscal conservatives; my wife says I'm just cheap.

I'm that woman who would reuse all the plastic bottles that come home, wear the same clothes time and again, because why not?

I learned how to live on five and sometimes ten dollars a week.

Good was above all kind; it was to be gentle. It was to waste nothing. It was to paint, to read, to study, to listen.

Everything in my house was either free or under 40 bucks, and people come to my house and can't believe that I picked up everything on the street or in a thrift shop.

I'm not cheap, I'm thrifty.

Whatever you have, spend less.

A penny saved is a penny earned.

In Maine, there is a deeply ingrained sense that you can always get a little more use out of something.

I cut coupons, love specials and believe in buying toilet paper and toothpaste in bulk. It's just who I am.

I find by my own experience, a few implements, a knife, an axe, a spade, a wheelbarrow, etc., and for the studious, lamplight, stationery, and access to a few books, rank next to necessaries, and can all be obtained at a trifling cost.

I did not have any money, so when I came to New York, I just dressed myself with whatever I could find and the Army-Navy store.

I have a company, and I've got to think about that. I'm trying to do my best there, and that's a much harder task. We recycle as much as possible, and we conserve. But I've always been one to save everything - I even walk up stairs on the very inside or the very outside to not wear out the tread.

There is something exciting about saving up for a special treat. Bring back the piggy bank!

You've got to be frugal. If you want to make one peso and you spent two, you'll never make it. You must be very stupid if you don't know what you should save on.

son of the steward." As the nicknames make clear, we don't like to spend a lot of money. But we don't economize just for the sake of skimping.

Although I was paid a salary in Ann Arbor, my wife and children and I drank powdered milk at six cents a quart instead of the stuff that came in bottles. I was a tightwad.

People rate themselves more favorably on amorphous traits like sensitivity and idealism (at the 73rd percentile, on average) than on relatively straightforward traits like thriftiness and being well-read (48th percentile).

You know you get a tube of toothpaste... such a bloody con. You squeeze and squeeze and nothing more comes out? Well, take a pair of scissors and cut it about an inch and a half from the bottom and it's absolutely packed with stuff! I do that, then cut off the top bit, so I can stick that back on and it doesn't dry out!

I do not live off canned soup.

Pull in your belt, spend less, and reduce debt.

Old habits die hard. I don't like spending money willy-nilly.