Quotes About Thriftiness

Practicality was baked into their bones. They wasted nothing, especially not time.

Pincushions. I'm a long time threatening to buy one. Sticking them all over the place. Needles in window curtains.

I design a lot of things that I wear onstage, but I'm always looking for unique stuff. I like creative things, so anything I can find at a secondhand costume shop to a Helmut Lang store, it doesn't matter - just unique stuff.

Pennies saved one and two at a time

having grown up with the mantra of, 'if you're cold, put another jumper on until your arms can no longer touch your sides',

She lived with the doctor on Via Po, in a gloomy, dark apartment, barely warmed in winter by just a small Franklin stove, and she no longer threw out anything, because everything might eventually come in handy: not even the cheese rinds or the foil on chocolates, with which she made silver balls to be sent to missions to "free a little black boy.

I like to see how I can do it for less money.

This was extraordinary, as Mrs. Fountain was so cheap she washed out her old tinfoil to roll in a ball and use again

A penny saved is better than a penny earned.

The easiest way to make ends meet is to get off your own.

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