Brian has not scrimped on the quality of this unboxing.
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The families who scrimped and saved to get them there.
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Government also scrimped on investments that create good-paying jobs, like education.
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Early on, they scrimped and saved to send us to private school.
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"They represent the millions who have worked hard and scrimped, and sacrificed and retooled," Mr. Obama said.
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I scrimped and saved to buy it so I wanted to know every single thing about it.
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Patricius, a man of modest means, scrimped and networked for a year to collect the needed funds.
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"We scrimped and saved and started it," said Ms. Kluge, who has returned to Manhattan with Mr. Moses.
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Citizens drank Coca-Cola, cherished walks on Sundays, scrimped to buy a motorcycle and went to the movies.
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Several said their pensions were financially supporting unemployed adult members of their family and that they scrimped on food.
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You may have scrimped and saved for your kid's college costs this fall, but you could still be thousands of dollars short.
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My parents scrimped and saved and even begged family members in Korea to borrow money so that I could continue my college education.
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Among those for whom the price of pills shot up, 40 percent spent less on dining and entertainment, and 32 scrimped on groceries.
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They scrimped to give us a shot at a better life, to put us through school, or they lined up to fight wars.
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We were two years into our debt-free journey at that point, and we had scrimped and saved, cutting costs as much as possible.
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They transformed their bedrooms into laboratories, turned coat hangers into scientific equipment, and in the case of Kenner, saved and scrimped for their own patents.
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About a year and a half ago, the 2800-year-old from Toronto had scrimped and saved enough to come up with a $5,000 emergency fund.
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Groups that felt discriminated against formed their financial service providers and failed scrimped or thrived in proportion to their ability to fill an underserved market niche.
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I scrimped, saved, and applied to jobs starting in December of my senior year, and I got hired into an entry-level position three months before graduation.
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In 2015 Congress scrimped together enough cash to keep the highway trust fund, which provides most of the federal funding for transport, in the black until 2020.
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If you as a car owner remove the badges, no one will ever know if you sprung for the higher-end version or scrimped with the base model.
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The Brennans scrimped so John and his brother and sister could be taught by Franciscan nuns, who made heaven and hell as tangible as two neighborhood subway lines.
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He had "actor" in his passport; he had scrimped and starved as a jobbing actor in London, wearing dark glasses and learning his lines in public (ever the poseur).
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My heart goes out to the legions of Beyhive fans who scrimped and saved for those $400 passes (that was just general admission) and roundtrip airfare to Palm Springs.
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And with prices falling 14 percent per year for the past 15 years, according to Albemarle, smaller scale players have scrimped on safety, says Lewis Larsen, CEO of Lattice Energy, a consultancy.
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Although the major selling point of the place is its somewhat unique décor, plus a flight simulator in the cockpit area that is set to open soon, Li hasn't scrimped on the kitchen.
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That millions of Americans, in one fell swoop, would be relieved of the punishing burdens that many have scrimped and saved for decades to pay off did not sit well with Ms. Warren's critics.
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In the end, I wasn't able to get everything on my shopping list, but I was able to get enough to last me through the week if I scrimped and cut a few corners.
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Eight years ago, at age 20, I was a college intern at the State Department in Washington, DC. Through a series of odd jobs, babysitting, and scholarships, I scrimped together enough to afford the unpaid gig.
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This year's U.S. delegation to Rio includes 555 athletes across 27 different sports, and that means there are 203 families across the country who have scrimped, saved, and sacrificed for years to make these dreams happen.
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In her lawsuit, Richards alleged Sheen was not providing all of the financial support he had promised toward the care of their children, but on Dr. Oz Sheen said he had never scrimped on child support payments.
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His parents scrimped and saved, and with the help of financial aid and scholarships, Huang went on to graduate from Johns Hopkins University with a degree in economics before obtaining a law degree at Fordham Law School.
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"I haven't seen 20,000 pounds since I scrimped and saved to purchase my property," said William Martin, a medical student in Sheffield who was told each apartment had to pay that sum to fix his building's cladding.
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And yes, there were the believers: I met one developer who'd flown from Singapore to retrieve his goggles and attend the event, and another who said he'd scrimped and saved before managing to buy the device, which left him broke.
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When wealthy parents do talk about money, they tend to put forth conventional ideas about merit: They or their ancestors worked hard for what they have, scrimped and saved to keep and increase it, and gave some of it away.
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Both have scrimped enough to buy property in their home town of Fuyang in the largely agricultural province of Anhui in eastern China, where home prices are about a fifth of the cost of Wenzhou, which is in the neighboring province of Zhejiang.
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But I can't help feel that I and many of my aged friends who have scrimped to save part of our modest incomes — taking inexpensive vacations, eating "early-bird specials" at restaurants, and, generally, pinching our pennies — are being penalized for our prudence.
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And as always, the money scrimped from places where it didn't show was spent in areas where it did, like continuing to shoot on film, printing on sumptuous paper and twice a year shipping a huge amount of furniture to Italy to be photographed inside a rented villa or castle.
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"I think there will also be both resentment among voters who have scrimped and saved to pay off their debt and also among other people who see themselves as those who are scrimping and saving as best as you can, but aren't being given an outlet to honor these debts," said Wherry.
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I scrimped and saved up my earnings as a dishwasher at a shitty restaurant near my grandma's house to buy a ticket and train fare to their gig at B.B. King's Blues Club in New York City—then a three-hour journey from my parents' house in rural New Jersey—concocted a lie to tell my parents about where I was going, and hauled ass up there to bask in what I was certain would be a truly magical performance.
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Elsie had three more children with Jack – Keith, Maire, and Alison. She brought her four children up to appreciate everything artistic, and love the outdoors. The family often took tramping trips, and scrimped to send Maire to ballet lessons. Elsie continued to attend many cultural events with Maire into her old age.
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Yaw's father died when he was 13. His widowed mother then scrimped and saved to bring up both his younger sister and himself, and supporting them through tertiary education. Yaw served and retired as a medic with the rank of senior sergeant from the Singapore Armed Forces' ROVERS (Reservist on Voluntary Extended Reserve Service) scheme.
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On the train, Paul encounters the beautiful Helen Berkeley when they share a table in the dining car. He overhears her and her male companion talking about Switzerland. In Paris, he goes to the Cafe Russe, where he shares the money with the staff. They scrimped and saved for ten years to build up their initial stake.
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She scrimped and saved, and by the time she was in her 40s, she had enough to buy a shophouse in Club Street. Although illiterate, she made some property investments and eventually became a landlord, renting out rooms. As her wealth grew, she acquired more properties, and she began to adopt children from poor families, becoming a single mother of six daughters and twenty-five godchildren.
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When Paulie refuses to pay, he tells them they will not be permitted to display the traditional golden hat which adorns the statue of the saint. Several parishioners notice that the hat is missing, and word begins to spread that Paulie scrimped on the festival. His penny- pinching is blamed for an accident on a teacup ride that leaves several people injured. Little Paulie is left to deal with the police investigation.
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Worried that he might lose his investment if something prevented him from making the payments, Bush scrimped and saved to pay the property off in six months, when he was 19 years old. Soon after, he built a house on the property and got married. By this time he had become a teacher in the Capitol Hill School, but he lost his job immediately after he was married. He worked for a time in Hot Springs, then returned in 1884 to run for county clerk.
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He father, who fought in the revolution, died in 1856, a broken man. His mother believed strongly in education and scrimped enough to keep him, and his two brothers, in school. Aleksandar Popović tutored other students and won scholarships to complete his basic education in Pest. His older brother Stephan gained preferment with the Serbian PrinceAlexander Karađorđević who was living in Pest at the time, and thus was able to support the family, allowing Aleksandar Popović to attend the University of Budapest where he studied geology under Professor József Szabó.
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Later when he scrimped and saved to open his tea & snacks stall. The next was an electrode unit in Sitapur. In the winter of 2003, after his father was admitted at a private hospital in Gurugram, every day the medical authorities asked for an over ₹50,000 deposit to continue his treatment, leaving him down to their last penny, hungry in the night, when he searched for food he realized there were many others who were in the same situation. Vishal who had spent hungry Sleepless night while attending to his old man decided to feed hungry relatives of patients.
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Gomez has offered contradictory views on work; in one episode, he claims that, although his family was wealthy even in his childhood, he nonetheless performed odd jobs and "scrimped and saved [his] kopeks," which he considered character building. When his son Pugsley decided to find a job, however, Gomez was horrified, claiming that "No Addams has worked in 200 years!" In the 1991 animated series, Gomez deliberately tried to fail at something, anything, only to realize in the end of the episode that he is only a failure in failure. This is additionally contradicted in "New Neighbors Meet the Addams Family" Season 1 : Ep. 9 (1964).
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Daughter and author Katherine A. Powers writes, in a collection of her father's letters, that Wahl wrote on "a strict schedule" and held the family together: she "cooked every meal from scratch and sewed most of our clothes; she went to her parents for aid; she scrimped, rationed, and cobbled together the wherewithal for our survival." Though both Wahl and Powers write about post-war Ireland and "satirize domestic itinerancy" in similar ways, only Wahl's work has suffered critical neglect. Wahl continued to write until her death on May 12, 1988 and left behind a multitude of letters, three unpublished novels, and close to twenty short stories.
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