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"It can be really really hard when you're having to scrimp and save and spend so much time thinking and organising and figuring out where the food is going to come from," she says.

His parents scrimped and saved to pay for his tuition at Alliance, a boarding school run by British missionaries.

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

Bureaucrats who were not furloughed alleged they were forced to scrimp by limiting the use of air conditioning, lifts and even printers.

You might want to scrimp and save, but this isn’t the time for that.