pinching pennies
Cutting all corners
Pinching pennies is being extremely careful with money, often to the point of excessive frugality.
The image is of someone gripping each coin so tightly it hurts.
We've been pinching pennies ever since I lost my job.
Someone who does this habitually is a penny-pincher.
- economizingReducing expenditures deliberately
- living within meansSpending less than earned
- thriftinessHabit of avoiding waste
- pennywiseCheap about small sums
- expense trackingRecording what you spend
repurposing · decluttering · downsizing · money management · upcycling · scrimping · subsistence living · tightfistedness · essentialism · parsimony · couponing · bargain hunting · brown bagging · bartering · cost-cutting · survival strategies · saving · stinginess
- povertypoverty line, poor, poverty rate, impoverished, generational poverty
- stinginessstinginess, miserliness, miserly, stingy, tightfistedness
- Running Lowrunning low, in short supply, running out, dried up, at a premium
pinching penniessplurging
Spending freely, excessively
living large · retail therapy · keeping up with the Joneses · impulse buying · living beyond one's means
pinching penniesopen-handed
Inclined to give freely
profligate · spendthrift · extravagant · prodigal · lavish
pinching penniesprofligacy
Reckless, wasteful extravagance
extravagance · wastefulness · prodigality · lavishness · free spending
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