I'm thinking of a word and I can't quite figure out what it is.

You mean frugal?

I also like prudent and parsimonious—depending on if you want positive or negative connotation, respectively.

Sorry, I had to get rid of google toolbar because it was killing my computer. I lost my spellcheck. I meant to say frugal, but I’m looking for a word that fits “____________ is a virtue”

Frugality? Prudence?

sorry, but you already used some of the more obvious synonyms in your description, so I doubt I’m really helping much.

Scrupulous!

Maybe, but it just doesn’t feel right. I know I heard it all the time as a child, maybe our society has changed so much that prudence just doesn’t sound a virtuious as I remember it.

Conscientious?

Resourceful?

Chary? had to hit the thesaurus for that one.

Economical? Sparing?

I’ve heard the term frugality is a virtue. But you said it isn’t frugal, right? Spendthriftness or spendthrifty, perhaps?

Here are Ben Franklin’s 13 virtues, maybe you are thinking of Temperance or Industry?

Some thoughts before i found that link:
patience is a virtue…
necessity is the mother of invention

i know it doesn’t exactly mean frugal, but “patience is a virtue” does have that ring to it

Industrious.

Innovative

Thriftiness?

@AC Spendthrift is someone who wastes money.

uh yeah, either frugal, prudent or thrifty.

Was it beer?

Marina- Duh. As usual, you are right. I swear, sometimes I don’t think before I write. I should have said thrifty instead.

So, it wasn’t beer?

Maybe it depends. What kind of beer?

Conservation

a term bastardized by American politics and the MSM

it probably wasn’t beer.

I only remember being told, “patience is a virtue,” but that’s not near being thrifty at all!

Another vote for “resourceful.”

Self-reliance?

Mister Burnsness?

eeeeeexcellent.

what’s another word for Thesaurus?

synonym dictionary

That’s two words, which is not frugal or thrifty or parsimonious.

Didn’t the Thesaurus become extinct 65 million years ago?

Providence?

That’s one mobbed up city.

AC, you just made me snort! It was most undignified ; )

I think it must have been prudence. If it were beer it would be home brew. Do you think prudence (if that’s the word that has lost it’s appeal in this generation) will again become a virtue in the hard times this country is facing?

dear Prudence, won’t you come out to play?

See? It used to be such a virtue that people actually named their children by it! We have been so consumption driven it almost seems like a funny notion. .

< < has no idea what @Judi is talking about.

< < now, off to round up his kids Greed, Corruption, and that little tyke Conspicuous Spending Jr. for another day of leveraging personal credit to buy things to keep up with the Joneses. Daddy needs a new boat.

Judi, let’s start a revival for Prudence. All it takes is one Flutherer to begin the revolution!

I told my husband yesterday that it’s time to stop spending. unfortunately, I am waiting for the fed ex guy to drop off my new computer and priner as we speak.

Are those children? Or euphemisms? :)