Jeff Smith was the Julia Child of my generation. When his television show, 'The Frugal Gourmet,' made its debut on PBS in the 1980s, it conveyed such genuine enthusiasm for cooking that I was moved for the first time to slap down cold cash for a collection of recipes.
I'm a practitioner of elegant frugality. I don't feel comfortable telling other people what to do, so I just try and lead by example.
I hold it the duty of the executive to insist upon frugality in the expenditure, and a sparing economy is itself a great national source.
I'm very frugal, so I don't like to shop because I'm afraid everything is going away.
I'm lucky because my dad taught me to be frugal and save. And that's important because I want to know that I don't have to take an acting job for two or three years if I don't want to and that I'll still be able to make my house and car payments and buy food for my dogs.
I drive a tiny Toyota iQ. I'm quite frugal and often cut my own hair.
I'm still a very frugal person. But everything that does get spent is a reinvestment into my own music.
And a musician has to learn to be frugal and to carefully manage financial affairs.
Frugality was my side hustle. I was really good at it.
It's the intelligent thing to be frugal.
