Quotes About Frugality

I love the idea of not being able to afford something and just making your own version or buying a cheap knock-off instead.

My dad was pretty old school. I've had a job since I can remember, and it's not like he was like, 'Hey, what kind of car do you want?' My first car was a '91 Ford Crown Victoria that was $1,000. And I had to buy every car after that. I had to do it all.

I grew up with a single mom, two brothers, and a sister, and after school, we would play outside then go home for dinner and play videogames together. It's something I enjoy doing, and it's also cheap entertainment compared to a movie or paying for cable. You pay $50 one time for a game, and you can play it as many times as you want.

Most of my music videos were made for under $200.

I like to save money. I've never been able to understand why people can't see the value in even saving '£10' a month. It all adds up! In one year that's £120! People are too concerned with the bigger numbers, when really, they ought to just focus on the little numbers. The bigger numbers will then take care of themselves.

Man, Duke and I work our fannies off. We don't eat expensive dinners out. We don't go to the mvies or buy our clothes anywhere but Kmart--our biggest treat is taking the kids to Walmart on Friday nights, having a fast food hamburger and doing the grocery shopping.

Started to go to the gym," she said. "You know, to work off some of the baby fat. Only I couldn't find my membership card and a new one was ten bucks. And since a doughnut and coffee was only three bucks, guess who saved seven bucks this morning?

Two million bucks would buy you a lot of ramen.

I mean, stars and stones. Two million bucks would buy you a lot of ramen.

he is the kind of man who breakes biscuits in two and saves the other half for later

I started out with nothing & still have most of it left.

Hat which cost little is less valued.

A miser is a person who is reluctant to spend and saves for those who will bury him.

My husband is so cheap. On Christmas Eve, he fires one shot and tells the kids Santa committed suicide.

You have a drawer full of dull butter knives and an old pair of kitchen shears. You are hardly armed to the teeth.

She lived with the doctor on Via Po, in a gloomy, dark apartment, barely warmed in winter by just a small Franklin stove, and she no longer threw out anything, because everything might eventually come in handy: not even the cheese rinds or the foil on chocolates, with which she made silver balls to be sent to missions to "free a little black boy.

We not-much-of-anything types don't worry about the cost of leaving a light on unnecessarily.

My father made about $25 a week. We always lived just on the edge.

There were times when we couldn't even go to the movies, when I was a kid, because there wasn't enough money.

Ikea people do not drive flashy cars or stay at luxury hotels.

As economist Thomas Sowell has noted, middleman minorities typically arrive in their host countries with education, skills, or a set of propitious attitudes about work, such as business frugality and the willingness to take risks. Some slave away in lowly menial jobs to raise capital, then swiftly become merchants, retailers, labor contractors, and money-lenders. Their descendants usually thrive in the professions, such as medicine, law, engineering, or finance.

A penny saved is still just a fucking penny.

I got a job as soon as I could - 11 or 12. I started babysitting and then I got a part-time job at a pharmacy in England. I just remember loving the feeling of going out and buying my own clothes! I'd go bargain-hunting and get secondhand vintage stuff.

One of my first big paychecks, I used it to buy a Rolex. I bought a used 1968 vintage Rolex. I was too cheap to buy a new one.