Thrifty and Frugal Quotes of the day

Sep 3rd - "Money is neither my god nor my devil. It is a form of energy that tends to make us more of who we already are, whether it's greedy or loving." ~Dan Millman

Sep 1st "If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability." ~Henry Ford

Aug 30th - In the old days a man who saved money was a miser; nowadays he's a wonder. ~Author Unknown

Aug 28th - "I am having an out of money experience." ~Author Unknown

Aug 27th - "Money will buy you a pretty good dog, but it won't buy the wag of his tail." ~ Henry Wheeler Shaw

Aug 17th - "Life shouldn't be printed on dollar bills." ~ Clifford Odets

Aug 14th - "Waste your money and you're only out of money, but waste your time and you've lost a part of your life." ~Michael Leboeuf

Aug 13th - "I feel good about taking things to Goodwill and actually, I do like shopping at Goodwill. It's so cheap that it feels like a library where I am just checking things out for awhile until I decide to take them back." ~ April Foiles


Aug 12th - "The real measure of your wealth is how much you'd be worth if you lost all your money." ~Author Unknown

Aug 10th -"It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach." ~ Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Aug 9th - "You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. Don't make money your goal. Instead, pursue the things you love doing, and then do them so well that people can't take their eyes off you.” ~ Maya Angelou

Aug 6th - You say, 'If I had a little more, I should be very satisfied.' You make a mistake. If you are not content with what you have, you would not be satisfied if it were doubled. ~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Aug 5th - "Money never made a man happy, nor will it. The more a man has, the more he wants. Instead of filling a vacuum, it creates one" ~ Benjamin Franklin

Aug 4th - "Money only buys a small measure of happiness, and then only for those who have the wisdom to use it properly." ~ Steven Scott

Aug 3rd - "If hard work were such a wonderful thing, surely the rich would have kept it all to themselves." ~ Lane Kirkland

July 29th - "No matter how hard you hug your money, it never hugs back." ~ Quoted in P.S. I Love You, compiled by H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

July 28th - "It's easy to make a buck. It's a lot tougher to make a difference." ~ Tom Brokaw

July 27th - "Rule No.1: Never lose money. Rule No.2: Never forget rule No.1." ~ Warren Buffett

July 26th - "If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some." ~Benjamin Franklin"

July 21st - "Money is spent and forgotten, unforgettable memories linger on" ~ Justine Kerfoot

July 7th - "Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver."
~ Ayn Rand

July 6th - "If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars." ~ J. Paul Getty

July 3rd - "There are people who have money and people who are rich." ~ Coco Chanel

July 2nd - "Before you speak, listen. Before you write, think. Before you spend, earn. Before you invest, investigate. Before you criticize, wait. Before you pray, forgive. Before you quit, try. Before you retire, save. Before you die, give." ~ WIlliam A Ward

July 1st - "The only reason a great many American families don't own an elephant is that they have never been offered an elephant for a dollar down and easy weekly payments." ~ Mad Magazine

June 30th - "The little money I have - that is my wealth, but the things I have for which I would not take money, that is my treasure." ~Robert Brault,

June 29th - "Money is good for nothing unless you know the value of it by experience."~ P.T. Barnum

June 28th - "It's not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only handle the money. It's the customer who pays the wages." ~ Henry Ford

June 25th - "Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time.” ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

June 24th - "Do not spend your money until you have it" ~ Thomas Jefferson

June 23rd - "There’s no reason to be the richest man in the cemetery. You can’t do any business from there." ~ Colonel Harlan Sanders

June 22nd - "Why is there so much month left at the end of the money?" ~ John Barrymore

June 21st - "He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money." ~ Benjamin Franklin

June 20th - "Ever notice how it’s a penny for your thoughts, yet you put in your two cents? Someone is making a penny on the deal!" ~ Stephen Wright

June 19th - "The only thing money gives you is the freedom of not worrying about money." ~ Johnny Carson

June 18th - "Every morning I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I’m not there, I go to work." ~ Robert Orben

June 17th - "Contentment makes poor men rich; discontentment makes rich men poor." ~ Benjamin Franklin

June 16th - "Ever wonder about those people who spend $2 apiece on those little bottles of Evian water? Try spelling Evian backward." ~ George Carlin

June 15th - "If you want to feel rich, just count all the things you have that money can’t buy." ~ Author Unknown

June 14th - "The art is not in making money, but in keeping it." - Proverb

June 13th - "The best things in life are never rationed. Friendship, loyalty, love, do not require coupons.” ~Author Unknown

June 12th - "He who does not economize will have to agonize" ~ Confusius

June 11th - "He who buys what he does not need steals from himself." ~ Author Unknown

June 10th - "Being frugal does not mean being cheap! It means being economical and avoiding waste." ~ Catherine Pulsifer

June 9th - "A penny saved is a penny earned" ~ Benjamin Franklin

June 8th - "This would a much better world if more married couples were as deeply in love as they are in debt.” ~Earl Wilson

June 7th - "There are plenty of ways to get ahead. The first is so basic I'm almost embarrassed to say it: spend less than you earn." ~Paul Clitheroe

June 6th - “Too many people spend money they haven’t earned, to buy things they don’t want, to impress people they don’t like. ~ Will Rogers

June 5th - The best way for a person to have happy thoughts is to count his blessings and not his cash.” ~ Author Unknown

June 4th - "The amount of money you have has got nothing to do with what you earn.. people earning a million dollars a year can have no money and.. People earning $35,000 a year can be quite well off. It's not what you earn, it's what you spend." ~Paul Clitheroe

June 3rd - "The safe way to double your money is to fold it over once and put it in your pocket" ~ Frank Hubbard

June 2nd - "It is thrifty to prepare today for the wants of tomorrow." ~Aesop

June 1st - "We can tell our values by looking at our checkbook stubs" ~ Gloria Steinem

May 31st - "Beware of little expenses; a small leak will sink a great ship" ~Benjamin Franklin

May 30th - "Let manufacturer coupons be your form of payment" ~ The Krazy Coupon Lady

May 28th - "Watch your pennies and the dollars will take care of themselves" ~ Sam Stolis (my dad)

May 27th - "Using coupons is not about changing the way you eat, it is about changing the way you buy the food that you like" ~ Coupon Mom