One way of looking at Belgium's divide is as a counterpart to the EU's split between a Germanic, frugal north and a subsidy-dependent Latin south.
My father was always very frugal (a trait I inherited, for better or for worse).
This movement is certainly not for everyone, but being extremely frugal for a short time period (and investing the difference) can work for people who are young and adventurous.
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For example: Why should a working 62-year-old frugal German bail out a government pensioned 51-year retired hairdresser in Greece?
After adopting a frugal lifestyle, the Kubackis say they now really appreciate life's little luxuries.
For comparison, Britain spends a frugal 7% and America an extravagant 13%.
Born in 1887 near Manchester, he was a frugal, humble, humorous man, who was lonely in spirit rather than always solitary in fact.
Feeling good as a result of making a frugal shopping decision is important, whether the shopping trip resulted in actual savings is not as important.
Coming out of Sweden we come from a frugal farming community.
Many of them are so old they have to be carried out to the lunch room, where they are served a frugal meal of rice, lentils and vegetables.
If one of your New Year's resolutions is to be a bit more frugal with your tech purchases, perhaps we can help you get a jump start on said goal a day early.
Our time, our talents and even our frugal hacks can make a difference in the world.
Mr Clegg's glamorous Spanish wife Miriam chose a suitably frugal High Street dress and jacket for the occasion.
Choosing instead to live a not frugal lifestyle he ended up owing more than he could ever conceivably pay.
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Those planned increases will run up against a still frugal shopper.
What we advise firms is to let a 1, 000 flowers bloom, encourage small frugal innovations, but only scale up a select few.
His key finding is that big companies must create a culture of frugal experimentation.
Short-term goals: These ought to be a series of frugal experiments that generate learning the start-up can use to adjust what it does on the way to its long-term goal.
In Nancy Balfour's day, American Survey (now renamed United States) was run on almost military lines, with strict discipline, frugal use of resources and a firm determination to maintain its independence from the rest of the paper.
Still one thing more, fellow citizens, a wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned.
If Issue 2 gets beaten, statesmen elsewhere favoring frugal budgets will likely cower before a ferocious union backlash.
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It seems that, these days, the key to being frugal is either having little or a lot of money.
Can a person be both frugal and materialistic at the same time?
The only other World Series participant that was more frugal relative to their competitors for a given season in recent memory was the 2008 Tampa Bay Rays.
Mr Govindarajan, of the Tuck Business School at Dartmouth College, has advised General Electric on frugal innovation and co-written a path-breaking article on the subject with GE's boss, Jeff Immelt.
Graying, frugal money managers like me are at a great disadvantage this market cycle.
In this round-up, we'll run down a list of the freshest frugal buys, hand-picked with the help of the folks at Slickdeals.
Arbind Singh of Nidan, who spoke at the Frugal Innovation Forum and was recognized as a Skoll Entrepreneur in 2012, will bring some of our discussions to the event.
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