#ThriftyThursday

Today's #ThriftyThursday topic is a mix of ways to spend less thanks to the life experience of the older people in our nation/world. AARP published an article that gathered ideas from its members on how to save and get the most out of the pennies you have. Retired people are especially astute at this topic since they have no income coming in any longer. They know how to get the most bang for their buck.

Here's the top 50 ideas that AARP filtered out of the thousands of ideas they got in.

Today's #ThriftyThursday Quote:

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Call it a Day

The literal use of this phrase hails from 1838 when the phrase originally was "call it half a day" to mean leaving work early. (source) The modern use of the phrase is to indicate ending something due to false sense of accomplishment.

More bang for your buck

This phrase was used a lot in 1953 but an earlier citation puts it at 1940 in a Metals and Plastics Publications advertisement. Read about it here . The phrase means you get more for your money.

Butter someone up

There are two probable origins for this idiom and I think both are equally plausible. The first one is that when you spread butter on bread you are buttering it up like one would do when trying to flatter someone. The second is in ancient India there was a practice of throwing balls of butter at statues to ask for favor, i.e. buttering them up. ( source ) When we use the phrase today we generally mean that extreme flattery is used to gain information or favor. It's not always necessarily a compliment.

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