Word: frugalities
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Although the food at Grafton is not cheap, there is still a wide range of options for the frugal diner. Both lunch and dinner menus feature a range of wood-fired pizzas and sandwiches ($7.95-$9.95), as well as a superior chicken Caesar salad ($7.95), that might be wise alternatives, both gastronomically and financially, to the somewhat fussy entrees. Grafton offers solid food—and sometimes exceptional food—in substantial portions, and all literally a minute’s walk from Widener. Welcome back, Grafton. We missed...
...cent per annum has given way to the jingle of the singing commercial, And their advertisements, implying that anyone who doesn't turn in his this year's car for a next year's model with all the latest accessories and borrow the difference from them is a frugal old fogy, range from the supplicatory to the coercial...
...round-the-clock butler. The exotic outdoor pool area is so doused with pesticides that you can easily ignore the fact that you're vacationing in a malarial zone. Book early: both the Villa Uma and Villa Kama are often occupied. Meanwhile, a few dusty blocks away, a more frugal traveler could use the $1,900 to stay at the dumpy but popular Narin's Guesthouse?for three years...
...left at his house, where she did her laundry the day before. Why did she do her laundry there? "Because he has a washer-dryer," she says, like duh. Does she know the hotel has laundry service? "At $3 a sock!" she replies. "I'm Scottish and Quaker. Double frugal." After the band's post-concert meal, she tries to persuade the road manager to pack up the leftover tofu and brown rice. "Otherwise," she laments, "they're just going to throw...
JetBlue's marketing is another radical departure. The carrier aims its product at the frugal yet style-conscious consumer. "We want that 'aspirational' audience," says Gareth Edmondson-Jones, the airline's spokesman and one of many employees who came from Virgin Atlantic. "We see our customers as the same ones who can afford more but shop at Target because their stuff is hip but inexpensive." That kind of thinking drove decisions like JetBlue's choice of leather seats instead of the less expensive cloth. "It's a nicer look, a better feel," says Neeleman, in full salesman mode. "Of course...