shoestring budget
Bare-bones financial plan
A shoestring budget is a very small amount of money to work with, barely enough to accomplish what's needed.
The image suggests something held together by the flimsiest means: They made the film on a shoestring budget.
Often shortened to just on a shoestring: We traveled Europe on a shoestring.
- tightFirmly stretched or fitting
- frugalSparing with resources
- scrappyAggressively spirited despite odds
- bootstrapStart without external resources
- penny-pinchingExtreme reluctance to spend
counting pennies · bare-bones · bare minimum · no frills · lean · meager · thrifty · DIY · makeshift · resourceful · making do · stretching · scrounging · scraping by · cutting corners · ramen · secondhand · bargain
- thrift sayingspenny saved, penny wise, pinch pennies, penny pincher, live within means
- budget limitsspending cap, spending caps, spending limits, spending freeze, borrowing limit
- indie cultureindie film, indie rock, indie games, indie music, indie press
- indie filmindie films, indie film, independent, independent film, microbudget
- bootstrappingself-funded, self-funding, sweat equity, startup funding, solopreneur
- povertypoverty line, poor, poverty rate, impoverished, generational poverty
shoestring budgetblank check
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deep pockets · big budget · money to burn · government funding
shoestring budgetspare no expense
Spend without limit
splurging · conspicuous consumption · opulence · luxury spending
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