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hoarding pennies so hard you forget money was meant to be spent.
means The trait of being extremely unwilling to spend or share money, hoarding wealth even at the cost of one's own comfort.
from From "miser," which comes straight from the Latin "miser," meaning "wretched, miserable, pitiable." The Romans saw the money-hoarder not as clever but as a sad case — a person made wretched by their own grasping. English borrowed the word around the 16th century, and the "-liness" suffix (the same one in "loneliness" and "friendliness") turns the wretch into the whole quality of wretched stinginess. Fittingly, the word carries its own judgment baked in: to be a miser was, from the start, to be miserable.
- word origin
- From Latin 'miser,' meaning wretched or unhappy
- hetty green
- Wall Street tycoon refused son's care, costing his leg
- medical hoarding
- Diogenes syndrome links extreme thrift to brain changes
- the paradox
- Saving everything often wastes the one thing unsavable: time
ebenezer scrooge — dickens character who hoarded wealth obsessively before his christmas eve transformation in 1843
henry clay frick — pittsburgh industrialist who accumulated $200 million by 1919 while spending almost nothing on himself, leaving most to museums
john paul getty — oil magnate worth $6 billion in 1970s who famously installed pay phones in his mansion for guests