scrimping

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Related: ‘I worked very hard’: I’m 71 and have $6 million after scrimping and saving.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 8, 2026

"It's literally scrimping and scraping to be able to manage to get one lesson a week," she says.

From BBC • May 24, 2025

With housing prices falling and stocks prices limping along, even middle-class families are scrimping rather than spending.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 3, 2024

I have been scrimping, juggling credit card balances, and certainly not contributing to my own pension because I had no idea that money was there.

From Slate • Aug. 26, 2023

And he went on scrimping and saving and buying shares so as to have as large a stake in the silver future as possible.

From A Maid of the Silver Sea by Oxenham, John