Quotes About Frugality

The key to a minimalist budget is looking for sacrifices within your current expenses to save money.

You have to be ready for hard work and frugal spending to get the idea off the ground.

they were demons about cost. They enjoyed finding a bargain and were proud of getting good quality at a low price. They took great satisfaction in not paying extra for fancy packaging or marketing gimmicks. They were committed to keeping the weekly shopping bill as low as possible.

The Queen prides herself on being parsimonious, so nothing is ever allowed to be wasted in the Royal Household. Newspapers are shredded and used as bedding in the stables; uneaten food is recycled as compost by the gardeners; and Household uniforms are retained for generations. One former footman, named Nigel, said that

For God's sake, be economical with your lamps and candles! not a gallon you burn, but at least one drop of man's blood was spilled for it.

Growing up as the youngest daughter to immigrant parents, it was instilled in me from an early age to not be wasteful and to be respectful of money and possessions.

Struggling with my finances, nudging toward 50, I sometimes daydream about being happily married to a matching frugaholic husband in a matching Christmas-red tracksuit with matching walkie-talkies as we troll Ralphs, excitedly comparing triple coupons.

People want economy, and they'll pay any price to get it.

Industry and frugality, as the means of procuring wealth . . . thereby [secures] virtue, it being more difficult for a man in want to act always honestly. . . .

I'm not wanting and I don't live in a hovel, but if you keep your costs low, you can do what you want to do creatively.

I don't really spend money like crazy. I buy what I need and what I really want, and if I'm buying expensive things I do think about the purchase many times before I buy it.

Hundreds would never have known want if they had not first known waste.

Why pay a dollar for a bookmark? Why not use the dollar for a bookmark?

I wear cheap shoes. I don't even wear socks.

The best solution is very much the least expensive and most creative.

You can solve problems, but the solutions don't always have to be elaborate or expensive.

Spend one and save one; you remember the wise man's rule

five per cent who were succeeding had formed the habit of systematic saving of money

Papa, their grandfather, was taking them so they didn't have to leave a car and "pay through the nose." He liked to be frugal with his money. Grant thought of someone paying a parking bill through their nose, and snickered. Papa was always saying things that Grant didn't understand yet.

She watered her pepper plants with the water she used to rinse out her unmentionables....

Now I get a very nice salary as a member of Congress, but when I'm in Washington, I sleep in my office.

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

I always prided myself on the fact that I could live out of milk crates forever. It was kind of my way of detaching from materialism.

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.