But if you can't spare a few weekend hours, and you trust the carwash staffers, there is no shame in paying someone to clay your car.
But proximity to the posh highlands resort didn't spare Wambugu and her nine brothers and sisters from going a day or two at a time without eating.
Four years later Henry VII didn't spare any costs when his queen, Elizabeth of York, was escorted up the river by a company of barges adorned with red, flame-breathing dragons.
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The flu epidemic didn't spare Hollywood as actor Tommy Lee Jones reportedly missed out of picking up his statue for outstanding male actor in a supporting role for "Lincoln" because he was sick.
If a bank can't spare anybody to work the doorway, says Marchese, "I tell branch managers to put a bell over the door and just have everybody on the teller line look up and say hello, " the way chefs do in small sushi restaurants.
He doesn't spare his former coworkers from criticism, though: he warns that the split between the Windows 8-style UI and the traditional desktop is potentially confusing, notes the absence of useful Android and iOS features like touch-friendly app folders, and doesn't find the conventional Windows interface very practical with fingers alone.
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Blue Cross doesn't have spare equipment on-site, however, and Ackermann acknowledges that obtaining new equipment from suppliers may take a while.
"There aren't many spare houses in Ceredigion at the moment and this department has been under enormous pressure in coping with the workload, " said Ann Rees, assistant director of housing.
The trouble is, if he's wrong - if the spare capacity isn't there - then this policy risks making the situation worse, by pushing up inflation over the medium term, and weakening confidence in the government's commitment to cut public borrowing and re-balance the economy.
For now, Fortune Brands has plenty of spare capacity and isn't envisioning new plants.
We are a registered charity and like a lot of other charities we have been finding a decline in donations because people just haven't got the spare money.
That's far more important than trying to discover one's passion in the abstract, especially when there hasn't been a spare minute to think about any of this for years.
If you don't have a spare machine lying around to serve duty as a file server, you can either get a cheapo bare bones PC to fill the role, or invest in an external storage solution.
"It's bringing people together - some of whom are prepared to trade down so that they don't have the spare room but some of whom are in desperate need and you're not even hearing the voice of those people in this debate, " he said.
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Except then, you'd want more horsepower, and the Si hasn't got any to spare.
And, secondly, many take umbrage at being told what they can and can't do in their "spare" time.
When I was on the campaign trail, hardly a day went by when members of an audience didn't tell anecdotes about the lack of spare parts and training that were relayed to them by friends and relatives in the armed services.
So, for example, if there's spare capacity inside the private sector, I don't think that people think it's inconsistent with the National Health Service to say the health service itself will purchase that spare capacity.
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By now you will have seen the paradox of this attempt to strengthen banks: the governments of these over-indebted countries don't have a lot - if any - spare cash to inject into their banks.
Now ok, the water won't come from Welsh reservoirs - rather from boreholes beneath Birmingham - but, so the argument goes, without the Welsh water, they wouldn't have 30 million litres a day to spare for Anglian.
Since I don't have a lot of cash or time to spare, I have not been able to keep it up very well.
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But as the Competition Commission noted there is little spare capacity at London's airports, so airlines don't have any real choice.
The group often spent spare time playing Guitar Hero or watching Disney movies, although the student wasn't certain Mr. Holmes always attended.
This rule has been enforced even where parents simply don't want to send their children to those schools that happen to have spare places.
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But even if Saudi Arabia can draw on its spare capacity to make up for losses in Iran and elsewhere, the markets won't necessarily be reassured.
Last week's ruling reasoned that e-hails instead could spare seniors from walking far to get cabs and might lessen discrimination because drivers wouldn't be able to see their fares when accepting them.
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