Pinch your pennies

If you pinch your pennies, you spend as little money as possible.
One by one, a penny a day adds up.

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Phrase: Pinch your pennies

If you pinch your pennies, you try to spend as little money as possible.


This does not necessarily have to mean that you are cheap.

If we put a positive twist on it, pinching your pennies can suggest that you carefully consider each purchase before you spend your money.

These days, I mean, who doesn’t consider every purchase carefully?

Money is hard to come by, even at the best of times.

We all have to make the most out of the little that we do have every day.

It’s the opposite of being a spendthrift who spends money like water.

Many people may consider a penny pincher to be cheap, but I believe that what a person does with their money is their own business.

Whether they spend their money like water or are a spendthrift, there is no skin off my nose.


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