waste not, want not

idiom

—used to say that if a person never wastes things he or she will always have what is needed

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Ben Duckett constructed his first innings 86 with the normal disdain for a waste not, want not philosophy. —

Tim Ellis, Forbes, 9 Sep. 2024

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