Because I was economizing, I'd eaten mainly peas and rice for several days and the thought of conch salad and grilled chicken, potato salad and roasted corn was invitation enough for me to walk the three miles to the Crystal Beach View hotel, a dilapidated "resort" near the airport.
Since I have neither, I am economizing by doubling up in a $440 per night room with my friend Karen Boxx, a professor at University of Washington School of Law.
(Chiapas, Female) "I was used to not having breakfast because I started work at 6 am and with the rush I did not eat breakfast, and then I didn't go out to not spend, I was economizing.
All Coolidge could think about was economizing.
But Rivera is economizing better than ever.
As Mr. Bradley suggested, Landmarc is economizing in other areas.
Yet there are many indications that, like Noble and Skip Small, lots of travelers are economizing.
But in many cases, buyers are economizing on furnishing those apartments, Mr. Li said.
"We were economizing in Afghanistan," said the former official, who requested anonymity because he was not authorized to comment publicly.
Americans are economizing on trips to Europe by opting for hotel rates guaranteed in dollars, buying all-inclusive packages or cruises or shortening their trips.
Since losing his construction job, Mr. Gonzalez, 43, has been economizing, disconnecting the family's Internet and long-distance telephone service, and barely using his truck and the Jeep, strewn with leaves in the driveway.
