frugal

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Despite the success of her show, "I'm still really frugal, which is funny," she says - citing how rather than simply buy a new box she once called the manufacturer to complain that "every zipper was broken in a box of Ziploc bags I was using."

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  1. adjective Practicing or marked by economy, as in the expenditure of money or the use of material resources. See Synonyms at sparing.
  2. adjective Costing little; inexpensive: a frugal lunch.

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thrifty ·  industrious ·  temperate ·  abstemious ·  prudent ·  economical ·  virtuous ·  hard-working ·  modest ·  chaste ·  studious ·  meager
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  1. Latin frūgālis, virtuous, thrifty, from frūx, frūg-, fruit, virtue.

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  1. from Old French frugal, F. frugal = Spanish Portuguese frugal = Italian frugale, from Latin frugalis, economical, frugal, also pertaining to fruits, from frux (frug-), usually in plural fruges, the fruits of the earth, produce of the fields; used in dative singular frugi (literally ‘for fruit’ or ‘for food’) as adjective, useful, fit, frugal; from the same source as fructus, fruit: see fruit
 

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