She possessed a thrifty common sense; and it was she who handled the finances of the family, and met all comers when there were bills to pay.
Rest assured that your thrifty habits get you a good deal, but always read the fine print carefully.
A thrifty father of two is living completely mortgage-free after swapping his family home for a double-decker bus.
Chinese are known to be thrifty and pragmatic so if you try to persuade them to accept dryer the machine has to be energy- efficient small quiet and multi-functional.
Pinch pennies– to be very careful with money, to be thrifty : My grandfather always pinches pennies; he never spends money if he doesn't have to.
And thrifty environmentalists rejoice at the lack of chemicals in and on their bodies - not to mention the impact on their budgets.
Pinch pennies– to be very careful with money, to be thrifty : My grandfather always pinches pennies; he never spends money if he doesn't have to.
The thrifty home – a 2.
Pinch pennies – to be very careful with money, to be thrifty 8.
But the view from the streets is rather less gung ho, with restaurants as likely to be stuffed with thrifty grannies as the upwardly mobile middle-class patrons referred to by Mr Loeb.
My mother had been a very hard working, industrious and thrifty woman with strong Chinese traditional virtues.
From my point of view, a college student, as a pure consumer, should learn to be thrifty.
Being thrifty is of great help, especially when the economic status around the world is not very good and it becomes harder to earn money than before.
On a shoestring In a thrifty manner; with costs or spending down to a bare minimum Example: She lives on a shoestring she gets a tiny pension and has to budget very tightly.
" "Thrifty man!
49 On a shoestring In a thrifty manner; with costs or spending down to a bare minimum Example: She lives on a shoestring – she gets a tiny pension and has to budget very tightly.
On a shoestring In a thrifty manner; with costs or spending down to a bare minimum Example: She lives on a shoestring she gets a tiny pension and has to budget very tightly.
Thrifty A fool and his money are soon parted.
