Quotes About Thrift

I am something of an aficionado of thrift stores. In my youth, I regularly searched their shelves for old books.

Waste not want not. I am not being wasted. Why do I want?

Old is unwanted. You don't find Thais going to the thrift store. They want new clothes. They want the newest cell phone.

My mother is the kind of woman you don't want to be in line behind at the supermarket. She has coupons for coupons.

Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy.

Economy does not lie in sparing money, but in spending it wisely.

Being frugal is the cornerstone of wealth-building

He's wasted gallons of paint thinner striking his faithful Zippo, its charred wick, virility giving way to thrift, rationed down to a little stub, the blue flame sparking about the edges in the dark, the many kinds of dark, just to see what's happening with her face. Each new flame, a new face.

Joe had always considered individual words as finite unites of currency, and he believed in savings. He never wanted to waste or unnecessarily expends words. To Joe, words meant things. They should be spent wisely.

Joe had always considered individual words as finite units of currency, and he believed in savings.

Industry, thrift and self-control are not sought because they create wealth, but because they create character.

The people cannot look to legislation generally for success. Industry, thrift, character, are not conferred by act or resolve. Government cannot relieve from toil. It can provide no substitute for the rewards of service. It can, of course, care for the defective and recognize distinguished merit. The normal must care for themselves. Self-government means self-support.

These days, you've gotta milk a dollar out of every dime.

The love of economy is the root of all virtue.

Keep thy shop, and thy shop will keep thee. Light gains make heavy purses.

Mere parsimony is not economy . . . expense, and great expense, may be an essential part of true economy.

He who will not economize will have to agonize.

I am in a constant cycle of selling my clothes at Wasteland and buying from Goodwill. Once or twice a year, I go through my closet and donate everything to Goodwill. It feels like I am recycling my fashion.

Where there is no waste, there is no want.

A dangerous thrift it is to amass Only a treasury of regrets. He who holds them too close to his heart Suffers justly, and nothing forgets.

This explains why I've been making Recession Tea- letting a teabag steep for half the time it should so I can use it again for a second cup later.

I really love secondhand clothes. It's fun to turn them into something new.

I quite like the element of charity shops not being sorted out.

to make money you must first survive