In 2012 I learned how to make glasses shopping cheap and also not painful (synonyms, basically).

Having money is scary. Not having money is scary. Thinking about money is scary. Spending money, the scariest.

I came to this conclusion early on: two cheap people should never be in a relationship together. When two cheap people get together, they're never able to embrace the joys of capitalism, and their lives are the more boring for it.