The word of the day* for February 11, 2007 is “frugal” — adjective : characterized by or reflecting economy in the use of resources.
I saved the plastic bags from both last week and today’s Sunday paper. The weekday papers come in slightly narrower bags, which get used for tying the lilac bush and the coneflowers to trellises during the growing season. The Sunday bags, however, are wide enough to pull onto my legs as boot liners. The boots leak; they always did. Still the boots are warm if I have that plastic barrier between the leak and me.
Tim always used to complain that I would work too hard to get the last bit of butter out of the container. Lloyd complained that there was no sense in taking a quarter cup of laundry soap when we moved to a new place. All I can say is that Grandma was the daughter of German immigrants, and she brought up eight children during the Depression. The little thrifts got passed down to her grandchildren unevenly. I’ll splurge on books, but will wear pantyhose until they are more run than knit.
The quote† for today is from Vice President THOMAS JEFFERSON, letter to Elbridge Gerry, January 26, 1799.—The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, ed. Paul L. Ford, vol. 7, p. 327 (1896):
I am for a government rigorously frugal & simple, applying all the possible savings of the public revenue to the discharge of the national debt; and not for a multiplication of officers & salaries merely to make partisans, & for increasing, by every device, the public debt, on the principle of it’s being a public blessing.
;^) Jan
* The definition is from either Merriam-Webster Online, 10th Edition or The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition and is used by permission.
† The quote is from either Bartleby: Great Books on Line or The Quotation Pages and is used by permission.
P.S.: Comments and word requests are welcome.
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