Sentences with phrase «of tightwads»

Probably not a new one — I'm too much of a tightwad to blow $ 57,000 on something this small.

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Jonathan Kozol is celebrated in educator - land for his tear - jerking accounts of how poor kids get cheated by the tightwad public schools and the miserable, selfish, capitalist society of the United States.
Why are we even looking at this guy.He was out injured lots of last season.He only played just over half Hulls matches.Sorry but this guy is just a waste of the small amount of cash the tightwads have left.
Resnais is also given a nice showcase via a lengthy, vintage Q&A session from 1961, where the camera stays on the director, and Resnais answers queries regarding his disuse of the possessive credit («A Film By»), views on the Auteur theory, his rather humbling self - classification as a working editor, and his reply on the ever popular question by cinema tightwads, «Is Cinema dead?»
Two of my most recent purchases were $ 12.99, so even a tightwad like me is coming around.
BUY IT NOW Tightwads on the Loose tells the story of Wendy and Garth, lured to sea by the promise of adventure.
If you've never heard those terms before, in short it means this: a tightwad is much more particular about how and when they spend money for anything, whereas a spendthrift will buy just for gratifying the feeling of buying as the concept of sticking to a budget is not in their mindset.
A new study called Fatal (Fiscal) Attraction: Spendthrifts and Tightwads in Marriages, from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, found that people who spend less than they'd would like to tend to marry big spenders, while those who spend more than they would like to are drawn to penny - pinchers.
The couple's biggest problem was that Sam's spendthrift ways were causing Caroline — a self - confessed tightwad — a lot of stress.
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