counting pennies
Watching every cent
Counting pennies means being extremely careful with money, often to an excessive or miserly degree.
Someone counting pennies scrutinizes every small expense: We're counting pennies until payday.
The phrase can describe temporary financial caution or characterize habitual stinginess.
A person who counts pennies may be frugal by necessity or temperament.
- frugalSparing with resources
- thriftyPrudent with resources
- coinsMetal money units
- piggybankChild's savings container
- savingsAccumulated money kept
nest egg · budgeting · pinching · scraping · making ends meet · living paycheck to paycheck · copper · jar · hoarding · miserly · stingy · broke · tight · change · nickels · dimes · rolling · scrimping
- greedgreed, avarice, covetousness, cupidity, materialism
- povertypoverty line, poor, poverty rate, impoverished, generational poverty
- money troublesdebt relief, bad debt, bankruptcy filing, paycheck to paycheck, struggling
- stinginessstinginess, miserliness, miserly, stingy, tightfistedness
counting penniessplurging
Spending freely, excessively
living large · shopping sprees · impulse buying · retail therapy · treating yourself
counting penniesfinancial freedom
money to burn · rolling in it · generosity · open-handedness · munificence
counting penniesrolling in dough
Extremely rich, informal
high roller · big spender · spendthrift · profligate · generous to a fault
count, counting, counts, counted, counter, counters, countable, uncountable, recount