Quotes About Thrift

I used to go to Saks, I would go to Bergdorf, I would go to Barneys, I would go to thrift stores in SoHo.

This is the paradox of thrift: belt-tightening causes people to lose their jobs, because other people are not buying what they produce, so their debt burden rises rather than falls.

I like eclecticism. To feel comfortable and not overdressed. I still like thrift store shopping, and I don't like to put a lot of effort into what I'm going to wear.

I wasn't a hoarder, but I was on my way. I went to thrift stores and never didn't buy something. A lot of cat figurines, needlepoint, afghans. Grandma stuff, I suppose.

I like to thrift. I think it's the funnest thing ever. But it's a sport: You have to wake up, eat, and then it's a whole day.

I'm all about the highs and lows. I'm not a designer that thinks you need to spend a lot of money. You can get the look you want between thrift stores and stores like Ikea and Target.

We shop a lot at garage sales, thrift stores.

Be thrifty, but not covetous.

It is in the nature of Smaland to be thrifty.

If I dig something, I'll throw it on. I like random stuff you can get at thrift shops.

It's more frugal to wear ties that are given to you.

Spare no expense to make everything as economical as possible.

Spare no expense to save money on this one.

Whatever you have, spend less.

In cultivating human values, emphasis should also be placed on avoiding wastage of money, food and time.

I am for economy. After that I am for more economy. At this time and under present conditions that is my conception of serving all the people.

Sylvie only kept them, I think, because she considered accumulation to be the essence of housekeeping, and because she considered the hoarding of worthless things to be proof of a particularly scrupulous thrift.

Retro's stomping ground isn't the auction house or antique dealer but the flea market, charity shop, jumble sale and junk shop.

Industry is fortune's right hand, and frugality its left.

if people could be made to save money, the King could obtain it when necessary.

We didn't have much money growing up and charity shops were the most reasonable option, I think. But my mum's always recycled, reused, restored and repaired.

The truest happiness, he said, lay in working hard and living frugally.

Whether it's spending more time and money at thrift shops for threads (anti-consumerist threads, mind you), or combing the record store for the most unknown/least coherent band they can find, there's one thing that hipsters constantly want you to know: that they are better than you.

I clip coupons all the time. Why should you pay more for something that someone else is paying less for?