Favorite money saving saying, adage, poem, or story!

[PRICEPLUS]

I have always been fond of the following:

Use it up! Wear it out! Make due! Do without!

[bee]

How about "Buying what you "Want" often results in "Needing" what you can't buy"

When I first started on my road to frugality I saw this saying on the internet somewhere , can't remember where now , but I wrote this down on a piece of paper and kept it in my purse for the longest time. Whenever I went out and about if there was something that I wanted it would always be in my subconcious and I would think....do I really need this? Is there something at home which I might be able to use instead and save the extra $ or if I buy this and the kids might get sick and "Need" medicine etc.....


Amazing what a few choice words can do

Heather

[jmjj215]

A penny saved is a penny earned.

I think that comes from Richest Man in Babylon

[mjrube94]

"A fool and his money are soon parted"

[Snoopy2645]

Mine is people who dont have anything feel the need to show off like they do, the ones who really have something dont care what others think of them

[cheapbastard]

All good money saving sayings. I have one...

<b>"When opportunity knocks, don't be caught outside looking for a 4 leaf clover"</b>

I can't remember the exact quote, but it is close to this.

[jmjj215]

Dave Ramsey: The best get rich scheme I've ever heard of? Work.

[DivaJen]

Originally Posted by PRICEPLUS

I have always been fond of the following:

Use it up! Wear it out! Make due! Do without!

I like this one, too.

[jmjj215]

"Interest never sleeps nor sickens nor dies it never goes to the hospital; it works on Sundays and holidays; it never takes a vacation. ... Once in debt, interest is your companion every minute of the day and night; you cannot shun it or slip away from it; you cannot dismiss it; it yields neither to entreaties, demands, or orders; and whenever you get in its way or cross its course or fail to meet its demands, it crushes you."

- J. Reuben Clark Jr.

[jmjj215]

"Never spend your money before you have it."
- Thomas Jefferson

[jmjj215]

"Annual income 20 pounds, annual expenditure 19.6...Result happiness. Annual income 20 pounds, annual expenditure 20.06...Result misery."
- Charles Dickens

[mom-from-missouri]

Spend it like you don't have it, then you will have it to spend it.
In otherwords, save it till you need it.

[cheapbastard]

"I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have." Thomas Jefferson

[jmjj215]

"But, ah, think what you do when you run in debt: you give another power over your liberty."
- Benjamin Franklin"

[cheapbastard]

"The safe way to double your money is to fold it over once and put it in your pocket." Frank Hubbard

[cheapbastard]

"Money and women. They're two of the strongest things in the world. The things you do for a woman you wouldn't do for anything else. Same with money." Satchel Paige

[PRICEPLUS]

"A fool and his money are soon parted!"

Advice I did not take heed of when I was younger!