thrifty
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Google searches for “No Buy January” have hit a five-year high as Gen-Zers and millennials sign up for the thrifty challenge.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 24, 2026
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
Here are some other thrifty gifting tips from experts:
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 19, 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
This seems like a prudent and thrifty decision at the moment, but it turns out to be a major mistake.
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
Sun Lee, who owns a women's clothing boutique Aria in Toronto, noticed fewer and thriftier customers entering the store since the pandemic.
From Reuters ● Mar. 22, 2023
For many people today, the older containers are reminders of thriftier, more resourceful times.
From New York Times ● Sep. 27, 2021
No, they were stored for a much thriftier reason.
From Cheerful—By Request by Edna Ferber
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
The typical savings rate of the thriftiest cohort — aged 65 to 69 — topped out at 7.5 percent in 2005.
From New York Times ● Jun. 16, 2015
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
It is a small city, but the thriftiest and most business-like to be found in Spain when its size is considered.
From Due West or Round the World in Ten Months by Maturin Murray Ballou
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"A Modest Proposal" by Jonathan Swift
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