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

Only Betty knew the scrimping and the saving Jack, at Oxford, and Tom, at Winchester, now entailed on the part of those who lived at Old Place.

From What Timmy Did by Lowndes, Marie Belloc