tightwad who stopped wearing maternity clothes by 5 or 6 weeks after my daughter was born.
A lot different from the tennis
tightwads who come in for the Family Circle Cup the week after.
Such pairings make sense, in
that tightwads who want to loosen their purse - strings may indeed learn new habits from a free - spending spouse.
Not exact matches
On the July 16 the taxi picture was wheeled out again as a full - page analysis exposed Burnham as a «
tightwad»
who had over four years made 63 parliamentary expenses claims for under a pound.
Officials are unsure what expenses and activities might be targeted by the frugal Mr. Sharp,
who has brandished his image as a
tightwad ever since having...
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.
Rick and colleagues found that spouses
who had dissimilar spending patterns (i.e., one partner was a «spendthrift,» while the other partner was a «
tightwad») tended to have more conflict about finances, which in turn, predicted diminished marital well - being.