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I started bygoingto a thrift store right down the street from me, i bought my first item, a top, that I purchased for $5 and then sold it for $20. – Olivia Ray	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
On Fridays I would rush from my clinical rotations at thehospital to get to a half-off sale at my local thrift store, where I would buy 30+ items a week. – Olivia Ray	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
There is this paradox of thrift — even with stimulus cash coming in, it looks like a good bet that consumers will want to keep more of a savings cushion and companies are unwilling to plow a lot of money into long-term capital investment. – Liz Ann Sonders	Found on CNN 3 years ago
It is the duty of those serving the people in public place closely to limit public expenditures to the actual needs of the government economically administered, because this bounds the right of the government to extract tribute from the earnings of labor or the property of the citizen, and because public extravagance begets extravagance among the people. We should never be ashamed of the simplicity and prudential economies which are best suited to the operation of a republican form of government and most compatible with the mission of the American people. Those who are selected for a limited time to manage public affairs are still of the people, and may do much by their example to encourage, consistently with the dignity of their official functions, that plain way of life which among their fellow-citizens aids integrity and promotes thrift and prosperity. – Grover Cleveland	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Waste is worse than loss. The time is coming when every person who lays claim to ability will keep the question of waste before him constantly. The scope of thrift is limitless. – Thomas Edison	added by anonymous 10 years ago
We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand. – Jennie Jerome Churchill	added by anonymous 14 years ago

I started bygoingto a thrift store right down the street from me, i bought my first item, a top, that I purchased for $5 and then sold it for $20.

– Olivia Ray

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

On Fridays I would rush from my clinical rotations at thehospital to get to a half-off sale at my local thrift store, where I would buy 30+ items a week.

– Olivia Ray

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

There is this paradox of thrift — even with stimulus cash coming in, it looks like a good bet that consumers will want to keep more of a savings cushion and companies are unwilling to plow a lot of money into long-term capital investment.

– Liz Ann Sonders

Found on CNN
3 years ago

It is the duty of those serving the people in public place closely to limit public expenditures to the actual needs of the government economically administered, because this bounds the right of the government to extract tribute from the earnings of labor or the property of the citizen, and because public extravagance begets extravagance among the people. We should never be ashamed of the simplicity and prudential economies which are best suited to the operation of a republican form of government and most compatible with the mission of the American people. Those who are selected for a limited time to manage public affairs are still of the people, and may do much by their example to encourage, consistently with the dignity of their official functions, that plain way of life which among their fellow-citizens aids integrity and promotes thrift and prosperity.

– Grover Cleveland

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Waste is worse than loss. The time is coming when every person who lays claim to ability will keep the question of waste before him constantly. The scope of thrift is limitless.

– Thomas Edison

added by anonymous
10 years ago

We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.

– Jennie Jerome Churchill

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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