1. How I hate your mean, scrimping, grabbing, greedy guts.

2. All those years of scrimping may have been needless.

3. Scrimping on safety measures can be a false economy.

4. I've been scrimping and saving all year to pay for our holiday.

5. Ann, reared by moderately wealthy parents, found that “always scrimping and saving” was a real adjustment.

6. That is the constant perversity of Austerity; scrimping a bit now to cost more later