Positive character trait
Frugal
Careful and sensible in the use of money or resources.
4 ready sentences Updated Run by Adrian Nutiu
What it looks like
- Spends on what matters and skips what does not.
- Repairs, reuses and shares before buying new.
- Saves steadily, without making a show of it.
Fits when a person spends carefully and wastes little, by choice
Not when the care with money tips into meanness toward other people, where stingy is the honest word
How to say it
Replace the brackets with what the person actually did.
Fills [Name] in the reference and the report card comment, ready to copy.
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Resume line Cut [budget line or supply cost] by [amount or percent] over [period] by [renegotiating, reusing or consolidating], with no loss of [quality or service].
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Reference or recommendation [Name] is careful with money in the best way: they ran [project or department] [amount] under budget without cutting anything that mattered.
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Report card comment [Name] is frugal with class supplies and was the first to suggest reusing paper for drafts.
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In a story, shown not told Her grandmother kept every jar and every string. When the roof leaked, she paid for the repair from a tin no one knew she had.
Her frugal grandmother mended the coat twice and paid for the trip with what she saved.
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