thrifty

"We do not know the meaning of surrender... If necessary, we will carry out massive savings. We will be even more thrifty later on."

From Barron's ● Oct. 21, 2026

Even as vacationers become more thrifty, inflation is still contributing to bigger trip budgets this year.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 12, 2026

By tipoff, the market corrected a bit, and a standing room only ticket could be found for a thrifty $5,000—still enough cash to enjoy Hawaii.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 9, 2026

In keeping with this thrifty living, most of his exercise is done using free outdoor gyms, with his online followers holding him to account for that, too.

From BBC ● May 17, 2026

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

Maquiladoras brought jobs to Mexico and thriftier price points for cost-conscious consumers.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 13, 2025

“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

On the contrary, these thriftier settlers meant to keep whatever they had once grasped.

From The Winning of the West, Volume 3 The Founding of the Trans-Alleghany Commonwealths, 1784-1790 by Theodore Roosevelt

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

One of the thriftiest best bearing nut tree plantings I know of is on very sharp, hilly clay ground in Rockport, but the owner fertilizes these trees annually and gives splendid cultivation.

From Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Twenty-Fifth Annual Meeting Battle Creek, Michigan, September 10 and 11, 1934 by Northern Nut Growers Association