Quotes About Frugality

Reduce your monthly expenses so you can add more to your mortgage payment.

My mum, she loves a bargain hunt. You can't buy her anything expensive. I remember I bought her a diamond bracelet for her birthday. I was being a nice son! She told me to take it back.

Tinned food can be cheaper than buying fresh stuff. Things like tinned carrots, tinned potatoes, mushy peas make a good base for a soup.

I lived on oatmeal soup and apples. Nourishing enough.

I hold it the duty of the executive to insist upon frugality in the expenditure, and a sparing economy is itself a great national source.

The thrifty and prudent are on the way to riches, for while they spend wisely they save carefully, and gradually enlarge their spheres as their growing means allow.

The record shows that, for society, the richer we become, the harder it gets to live within our means. Abundance is harder for us to handle than scarcity.

the richer we become, the harder it gets to live within our means. Abundance is harder for us to handle than scarcity.

Once you have been poor a long time you gain a certain respect for money.

Oh, I wish I were a miser; being a miser must be so occupying.

I like Costco. They got me to be an executive member, so I'm, like, a business class member. Somehow, I'm going to end up saving money or something. The thing is, I don't moderate very well, so I buy things that are supposed to be for a family or last for a week, but they never do.

I can only spend $140 a month in here. I'm saving, like, $10,000 a day.

My mother made all of our clothes, my friends' mothers made all of their clothes. This was the Depression.

Simplify, simplify. Instead of three meals a day, if it be necessary eat but one; instead of a hundred dishes, five; and reduce other things in proportion.

Who recalls when folks got along without something if it cost too much?

La impresión espartana que transmitía correspondería a su naturaleza o a su bolsillo.

I avoid the carwash when I think it might rain anytime in the near future, which means I drive around the majority of the time in a pollen and bird poop covered car. This presents a stand off between Neat Freakshow and Practical Pennypincher, and Neat Freak usually triumphs. And then it rains.

At the age of 20 I bought a used Fiat 127. This was the only one I could afford!

Be thrifty, but not covetous.

By no means run in debt: take thine own measure.Who cannot live on twenty pound a year,Cannot on forty.

When I was a young boy, before I was cut, I traveled with a troupe of mummers through the Free Cities. They taught me that each man has a role to play, in life as well as mummery. So it is at court. The King's Justice must be fearsome, the master of coin must be frugal, the Lord Commander of the Kingsguard must be valiant … and the master of whisperers must be sly and obsequious and without scruple. A courageous informer would be as useless as a cowardly knight.

Tucker the mouse said I learned the value of ecomonicness - which means savings

Cheap? If he was at the Last Supper, he would have asked for separate checks!

Living in the past has one thing in its favour - it's cheaper.