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Frugality is the quality of being frugal, sparing, thrifty, prudent, or economical in the consumption of resources such as food, time or money, and avoiding waste, lavishness or extravagance. [ 2 ] In behavioral science , frugality has been defined as the tendency to acquire goods and services in a restrained manner, and resourceful use of ...
A frugal person values their time, so they won’t spend all day driving to different gas stations or clipping coupons to save a small amount of cash. Instead, they might find ways to drive less ...
ShutterstockBeing frugal means being resourceful with your cash. By Stefanie O'Connell In response to my recent post about splitting expenses with friends, one commenter wrote that there is a fine ...
The words cheap and frugal are sometimes used as synonyms, but there can be different connotations. In general, being cheap is often seen as a negative, while being frugal indicates you're being ...
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Frugal innovation or frugal engineering is the process of reducing the complexity and cost of a good and its production. Usually this refers to removing nonessential features from a durable good , such as a car or telephone, in order to sell it in developing countries .
Asceticism [a] is a lifestyle characterized by abstinence from worldly pleasures, often for the purpose of pursuing spiritual goals. [3] Ascetics may withdraw from the world for their practices or continue to be part of their society, but typically adopt a frugal lifestyle, characterised by the renunciation of material possessions and physical pleasures, and also spend time fasting while ...
In number theory, a frugal number is a natural number in a given number base that has more digits than the number of digits in its prime factorization in the given number base (including exponents). [1] For example, in base 10, 125 = 5 3, 128 = 2 7, 243 = 3 5, and 256 = 2 8 are frugal numbers (sequence A046759 in the OEIS).