stretching dollars
Making money last
Stretching dollars means making money go further through careful spending, budgeting, or finding ways to get more value from limited funds.
The image is of physically extending currency to cover more ground: With three kids in college, we've had to stretch every dollar.
Common in discussions of household budgets and frugal living.
- budgetingAllocating funds systematically
- tight budgetSeverely limited funds
- frugalSparing with resources
- thriftyPrudent with resources
- cutting cornersReducing effort improperly
coupons · savings · penny-pinching · making ends meet · living paycheck to paycheck · bargain · discount · sale rack · economizing · tight · scrimp · makeshift · paycheck · grocery · store brand · generic · bulk · meal prep
- frugalityfrugality, thrift, frugal, penny-pinching, economize
- saving moneybudget, savings, discount, sale, coupon
- povertypoverty line, poor, poverty rate, impoverished, generational poverty
- money troublesdebt relief, bad debt, bankruptcy filing, paycheck to paycheck, struggling
stretching dollarssplurging
Spending freely, excessively
living large · impulse buying · splashing out · treating yourself · shopping sprees
stretching dollarssquandering
Reckless depletion of resources
profligacy · living beyond one's means · overspending · prodigality · conspicuous consumption
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