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hoarding pennies so hard you spend dollars chasing them down later
means the trait of being unwilling to spend, share, or give, even when you easily could.
from From "stingy," which is probably tied to "sting" — the sharp, nipping bite of a wasp or a nettle, the idea being that a miser's grip pinches and stings. The word surfaced in English a few centuries ago; the "-iness" simply turns the quality into a thing you can name. So at root, stinginess carries the image of a small, mean little sting rather than open-handed warmth.
- costly cheap
- Buying cheap often means buying twice
- brain wiring
- Spending money activates pain centers in the brain
- scrooge origin
- Dickens coined the name now meaning miser
- tipping divide
- Stinginess at restaurants quietly ends many dates
- paradox
- The wealthy often save by spending more upfront
scrooge mcduck — disney character whose miserly hoarding of wealth is his defining trait across comics and tv
john paul getty — billionaire oil magnate who was famously unwilling to spend money despite being one of the world's richest men in the 1970s
hetty green — 19th-century american businesswoman known as 'the witch of wall street' for her extreme frugality despite having a $2 billion fortune