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“The manufacturing of most goods harms the environment in one way or another. The culprit is not the factory, but it is we who buy what it produces. Therefore we should think carefully about items we purchase.”
― The Complete Tightwad Gazette: Promoting Thrift as a Viable Alternative Lifestyle
― The Complete Tightwad Gazette: Promoting Thrift as a Viable Alternative Lifestyle
“When you're happy for yourself, it fills you. When you're happy for someone else, it pours over.”
― Garden Spells
― Garden Spells
“Tightwaddery without creativity is deprivation. When there is a lack of resourcefulness, inventiveness, and innovation, thrift means doing without. When creativity combines with thrift you may be doing it without money, but you are not doing without.”
― The Complete Tightwad Gazette: Promoting Thrift as a Viable Alternative Lifestyle
― The Complete Tightwad Gazette: Promoting Thrift as a Viable Alternative Lifestyle
“Sometimes you weren't supposed to share pain. Sometimes it was best just to deal with it alone.”
― The Sugar Queen
― The Sugar Queen
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