Pennies, Nickels, Dimes, Quarters, whatever - Yard Sales in the spring, buying generic at the store instead of a brand name, you name it - in other words, Penny Pinching... and yeah I bought my $300 used Harbor Freight lathe (with no-name 4-jaw chuck in the deal) after I had already been saving up for 4 months with the original goal of buying a small bandsaw, but then the lathe popped up on Facebook.... and I have been saving up for the past 3 years in every way I can to get a better lathe (a Jet 1640) and I'm maybe halfway there - Helps that I put the savings into a high yield savings account so it compounds a bit faster, but with any sort of luck (Which for me is exceedingly hard to come by) I may be able to afford that new lathe sometime this fall or spring of 2025 .... So yeah , seriously I rather dislike when some y'all rich folk (What us poor penny pinchers would call "Rich" anyway) go disparaging someone for trying to save a buck or two.