Like Mrs. Obama, Kate Middleton's made it a part of her Royal mission to stay away from a Designer Duchess reputation, and, until now, the tabloids have supported her, regularly lauding her frugal fashion picks.
Apart from a passion for horses, she retains the frugal ways she picked up as a child.
If I had one trick that I used over and over again as the Frugal Traveler, it was picking the unusual or less-traveled destination.
nytimes.com/travel FRUGAL TRAVELER Seth Kugel picks five free or inexpensive New York City attractions not listed in major guidebooks but well worth a visit, including the Labyrinth for Contemplation, above.
Though he wasn't paying, the frugal Maqdisi ended up picking the cheapest phone he could find, an old Nokia brick, which the vendor assured him would be able to connect to the internet.
For one thing, while other discount merchants have picked up newly frugal customers, Kmart has been largely left in the cold.
Frugal people make frugal businesspeople.
Frugal and boring... but supposedly smart.
Hungry, cold and furious at her compatriots for their apparently devout conviction that frugal cooking had to mean tasteless cooking, David picked up her pen and began to describe the simple, sun-drenched meals she had eaten around the Mediterranean.
When, as so often happens, one wife starts to get a bit threadbare, or negative, you simply pick another with a bit more joie de vivre – though frugal – to a maximum of four.
