thrifty

Fairly early in his lengthy investment career, in the mid-1960s, this thrifty son of Yorkshire, England, grew besotted with speculative small-cap stocks.

From Barron's ● Dec. 31, 2025

“Gen Z, equipped with a thrifty and entrepreneurial mindset, excels in tech-driven platforms, but millennials and Gen X outperform on discipline, diversification, steady retirement contributions and risk management,” Terrell said.

From MarketWatch ● Dec. 2, 2025

That thrifty spirit I cultivated when I was in my 20s is back—but why couldn’t I hold on to it when my income was at its peak?

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2025

It’s thrifty, smart, and impossibly good — a dish that proves you don’t need much more than salt, acid, and time to make something sing.

From Salon ● Jun. 23, 2025

On small things I was thrifty enough; no expenditures on “carousing,” flashy clothes, or any of the other indulgences that are often smugly believed to undermine the budgets of the poor.

From "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich

While affluent Americans are getting thriftier on essentials, they are still spending on extras like wellness and travel.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 18, 2026

But new survey data show that baby boomers — America’s richest generation and one often perceived as being thriftier those that followed — are more wasteful in certain spending categories than younger people.

From MarketWatch ● Feb. 27, 2026

“Price hikes are accelerating particularly in food items, and household sentiment may turn more thriftier in coming months,” said Takumi Tsunoda, senior economist at Shinkin Central Bank Research Institute.

From Reuters ● Oct. 7, 2022

But SUVs grew from about 27% of U.S. car sales in 2010 to 48% in 2018, which muted the trend to thriftier driving.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 8, 2022

Of course, these have their beauty—not undiscerned by the labourer—but they are not grown for that end, and the thriftier the man, the less time to the consideration of beauty will he give.

From Change in the Village by Sturt, George

United already was one of the thriftiest spenders in MLS, and the latest belt-tightening left Olsen squeezing all he could out of a depleted roster.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 16, 2020

Goleta's customers are among the thriftiest with 55 gallons a day, compared the state average of 70 gallons, McInnes said.

From US News ● Aug. 19, 2016

Overnight I became the thriftiest person you’ve ever met—bar those people who split their toilet paper in half.

From Forbes ● Sep. 10, 2014

At just over two hours, with intermission, it’s certainly the thriftiest “Threepenny Opera” I’ve yet seen.

From New York Times ● Apr. 8, 2014

It was, however, composed in a great measure of some of the thriftiest farmers in one of the richest upland sections of the United States.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 27, June, 1873 by Various