Go Ahead And Add "Frugalista" To Your Lexicon, Cause It's Here To Stay

The word "hypermiling," (Attempt to maximize gas mileage by making fuel-conserving adjustments to one's car and one's driving techniques.) may have been chosen as Oxford University Press' favorite new word of the year, but Natalie McNeal's  new word of "Frugalista" was a close second.

The New York Times thinks it would have been a better choice, writing:

"Concerned about your budget in this year's market debacle? Sharpening your pencil and tightening your belt, foraging for bargains but not altogether abandoning good food and good screens? Join the frugalistas!"

Frugalita? Non-Consumer Advocate?

Call it what you will, because it's in the dictionary and it's here to stay.

We're here, we're frugal, get used to it!

Katy Wolk-Stanley

"Use it up, wear it out, make it do or do without."