Quotes About Thrift

Limited resources force you to make do with what you've got. There's no room for waste. And that forces you to be creative.

the only cheap life was a dull life.

I switch off lights like a maniac. I drive at reasonable speeds so that I don't waste petrol.

I was raised by my Depression-era grandma who taught me to use what you've got: Waste not, want not!

We cannot afford idleness, waste or inefficiency.

Abstaining is favorable both to the head and the pocket.

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

I've always been kind of deep into thrifting and secondhand clothing.

He lived on frankness and economy.

Thrift, thrift, Horatio! the funeral bak'd meatsDid coldly furnish forth the marriage tables.Would I had met my dearest foe in heavenEre I had ever seen that day.

No matter where you go, management is always a bunch of cheap bastards.

She picked out a pleasing mismatch of dishes from various thrift stores. "They speak the same language," Maddy said, about the dishes. "But they're not all saying the same thing.

Nobody listened. Nobody took any notice of Mrs Wilkins. She was the kind of person who is not noticed at parties. Her clothes, infested by thrift, made her practically invisible, her face was non-arresting, her conversation was reluctant, she was shy. And if one's clothes and face and conversation are all negligible, though Mrs Wilkins – who recognised her disabilities – what, at parties, is there left of one?

Be generous but not extravagant, be frugal but not miserly.

We spend our way to the poorhouse. We buy giant TVs and iPads. Our children wear nice clothes thanks to high-interest credit cards and payday loans. We purchase homes we don't need, refinance them for more spending money, and declare bankruptcy, often leaving them full of garbage in our wake. Thrift is inimical to our being.

I'm a sucker for a sale. I don't understand why anyone wants to pay full price for anything because everything goes on sale. I love sale websites. In fact - this is almost kind of embarrassing - I'm coming from an Isabel Marant sample sale.

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

She accused me of wearing pants from the salvation army." "Rose, your pants ARE from the salvation army." "That's SO not the point!

Why settle for the 'get by' when in the long run the good costs less?

if you take care of the pennies, the pounds will take care of themselves.

We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.

When I'd first brought it home from the thrift store, I'd planned to keep it in the closet I shared with Summer, But Jordis asked me to hang it in full view of the room because she liked the glitter.

It;s called a flea market, because they sell old things that might have fleas living in them.

Tightwaddery without creativity is deprivation. When there is a lack of resourcefulness, inventiveness, and innovation, thrift means doing without. When creativity combines with thrift you may be doing it without money, but you are not doing without.