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

PRICEPLUS · #1 (**permalink**) 09-23-2005, 07:23 AM

I have always been fond of the following:

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

bee · #2 (**permalink**) 09-23-2005, 08:22 AM

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 · #3 (**permalink**) 09-23-2005, 08:25 AM

A penny saved is a penny earned.

I think that comes from Richest Man in Babylon

mjrube94 · #4 (**permalink**) 09-23-2005, 09:41 AM

"A fool and his money are soon parted"

Snoopy2645 · #5 (**permalink**) 09-23-2005, 10:40 AM

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 · #6 (**permalink**) 09-23-2005, 02:23 PM

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 · #7 (**permalink**) 09-23-2005, 02:38 PM

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

DivaJen · #8 (**permalink**) 09-23-2005, 03:04 PM

Quote:

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 · #9 (**permalink**) 09-23-2005, 05:00 PM

"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 · #10 (**permalink**) 09-23-2005, 05:01 PM

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

jmjj215 · #11 (**permalink**) 09-23-2005, 05:01 PM

"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 · #12 (**permalink**) 09-23-2005, 05:25 PM

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 · #13 (**permalink**) 09-25-2005, 03:07 PM

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

jmjj215 · #14 (**permalink**) 09-26-2005, 08:57 AM

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

cheapbastard · #15 (**permalink**) 09-26-2005, 10:45 PM

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

cheapbastard · #16 (**permalink**) 09-28-2005, 03:52 PM

"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 · #17 (**permalink**) 09-30-2005, 08:31 AM

"A fool and his money are soon parted!"

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