Frank Black Quotes

Even clingfilm - if it's gone over a salad bowl, take it off, use it again. I wash out carrier bags; I save brown paper from parcels. I save string; I save ribbons. I separate all my bits and pieces.

One kid's old, used-up equipment is another kid's brand-new, awesome, awesome equipment.

I was brought up to reuse things.

I grew up in a family where our mother made our clothing. We didn't have a lot of money, so we learned how to scrimp, and we learned how to invent and to create. And those are learned skills.

Like my father, I would never as a child throw anything away, keeping old toys, electric motors and bits of broken machines under my bed in what I called my Box of Useful Things.

Simon Cowell is tight. That's why he's so successful - he's able to keep his money to himself.

I like to see how I can do it for less money.

I tend to be pretty conservative in the way I spend money.

Inexpensive is good.

My parents were hardworking. They made every penny stretch as far as possible. That was probably the major reason everything they gave me was always two or three sizes too large.

You never throw away your work clothes. There is always something to do in the house.

I can remember when pants were pants. You wore them for twenty years, then you cut them down for pan scrubs. Or quilts.

I'm a pack rat. There's only a couple pairs of tights I've worn throughout my career that I don't have. I save everything.

I really love secondhand clothes. It's fun to turn them into something new.

I love thrifting.

I admit I'm a miser! The most generous thing I've done is get married!

I wouldn't deliberately go and buy something that one would categorise as an extravagant thing.

I've always been quite conscious of it, though I don't know why. I would never overspend, and I have to know exactly what I've got so that I avoid going into overdraft. I watch my pennies, and I'm quite thrifty.

I grew up in Plaza East public housing in the Western Addition, five of us living on $900 per month. 'Recycling' meant drinking out of old mayonnaise jars.

I don't really shop too much. I shop a few times a year.

I'm a cheap date.

Yeah, I came over to Cambridge with 500 quid in my pocket and I had to borrow a waistcoat off another Australian player. I couldn't afford to buy one.

My mother is the kind of woman you don't want to be in line behind at the supermarket. She has coupons for coupons.

Frugality includes all the other virtues.

I never weep over lost money, for I figure I'd rather go to the poorhouse once than go there every day.