Sentences with phrase «meager savings»

Its meager savings account was depleted after withdrawals from it for three straight years just to pay the bills.

As they found when they looked at their finances and compared it with the cost of living abroad, you can take what you may think as meager savings and make them go much further in destinations like Hua Hin, Thailand, Cuenca, Ecuador, and Playa del Carmen, Mexico.

Perhaps this isn't surprising given the high cost of living, relatively low wages, and the meager savings that most of us manage to set aside.

If you have to save that $ 105 a year, don't make any bad decisions with those ETFs that turn a meager savings into major losses.

Many college students complain that the university years are a time of deprivation, when students survive on meager savings, ramen noodles, and thrift store finds.

Jama decides to spend her life's meager savings on a search for his never - seen father...

At night he and his wife (Kristen Wiig) watch TV pitchman (Neil Patrick Harris) talk about the latest craze, called downsizing: Shrink yourself down to a few inches, and move to a planned community — called Leisure Land — of tiny people and tiny houses where meager savings can stretch almost infinitely and make you effectively rich.

I am married to a medical student and myself attending school so I have to know I'm not wasting my meager savings.

The tech devotee had invested his meager savings in Apple, Intel, and other booming names during the 1990s while in graduate school at Stanford and sold his shares in 1999, just before the tech bubble burst.

These who may have few funds put aside gradually become penniless as rising prices and taxes absorb meager savings.

With his meager savings, he was able to afford a plane ticket to Greenland, where he spent time volunteering.

Not exact matches

Installers say such changes will be meager compared to the thousands of dollars in savings over the life of a system.

I spent my meager personal savings on a one - way ticket to Chile.

Low rates have meant meager interest for cash savings — nationally the average savings account paid just 0.60 % interest in August, 2017.

EE savings bonds are paying a meager.10 %, however if you hold EE bonds for 20 years you are guaranteed to double you investment and you will earn 3 % if held for 20 years.

Interest rates have been so low for so long that fixed income investments such as CDs and savings deposits lost money since the meager interest earned didn't offset inflation all of those years.

Where else can someone with as little as $ 50 invest in a virtually risk - free, inflation - protected, giftable, fee - free savings product with returns that often exceed the meager interest on savings accounts?

I came to Thailand with a meager amount of savings.

paid out about $ 10,000 so far and am rapidly depleting my savings, these are meager..»

Or it may be a case where an elderly couple of adult children are still renting a long held apartment with meager assets, no savings and living check to check.

Contrast this meager return with what the beneficiary would have earned had the same amount been deposited over the decades in a 6 % savings account, or in mutual funds paying a long - term average of 12 %!

A 2004 study of 25,000 Quebec homes shows a meager 3.6 % energy savings with a programmable thermostat.