"I cannot fully account for my sister's cheapness. I mean, she takes it to olympic sport levels." "My parents had emigrated from china, and they were never really, really poor, but they were really, really frugal" 'i would much rather be spending this time doing thing that would make me enough money so that i don't have to coupon' "'It is a fine line between tran actional utility and extreme frugality that becomes counterproductive'"