Word: scrimping
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...Disneyland in Anaheim, Calif., this July and decided instead to rent a cabin on a lake just two hours from her home in San Rafael. "Prices are going up on everything, and we have a mortgage and a family to support," says the working mom, who expects to scrimp even more by packing her family of four into her 1994 Honda Civic instead of taking her roomier--but gas-slurping...
...relationship as Super Size Me was on his waistline. They set off jauntily, she getting a job busing tables, he doing manual labor. One ant-infested apartment and many rice-and-beans dinners later, they're fighting over everything from bus money to splurging on a dollar movie. They scrimp, but a couple of minor illnesses wipe out their savings. "It's a life-size game of Chutes and Ladders," says Spurlock. "Somebody gets sick, and Daddy's going down, down, down...
Budget cuts have forced Harvard University Dining Services (HUDS) to scrimp and save—including on cereals, which just this semester have been switched to generic brands...
...sure, there are plenty of mothers who scrimp and save and find a way to stay home (at least for a few years). But there are plenty more who decide that the cost is just too high, and the choice of whether to stay home is no choice...
...expect from Paul O'Neill. But expecting congressional Democrats and Republicans to scrimp and save every year in order to send Americans an annual surplus dividend for which they'd share the credit? That's a very long shot indeed...