scrimp and save
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However, I don’t want my son to think that I will take care of everything and that he doesn’t have to work hard and scrimp and save.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 6, 2026
She meets and marries fellow student Jen Chao-Pe, and together they move into a dilapidated walk-up in Washington Heights, where Agnes learns to scrimp and save and paint her own walls.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 2025
"It can be really really hard when you're having to scrimp and save and spend so much time thinking and organising and figuring out where the food is going to come from," she says.
From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2025
You might want to scrimp and save, but this isn’t the time for that.
From Salon ● Dec. 29, 2024
She had left her mother at home to scrimp and save, and by hook or by crook she had contrived to get a number of quite good things to wear.
From The Shuttle by Burnett, Frances Hodgson
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