https://www.livescience.com/16681-tightwads-spendthrifts-spending-human-behavior.html
Life's Extremes: Tightwads vs. Spendthrifts | Live Science
Oct 23, 2011 - Does money burn a hole in your pocket? Research is revealing why some people called tightwads can't part with cash while spendthrifts do so even if they don't...
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https://news.ucsb.edu/2025/021978/grasses-are-spendthrifts-forests-are-budgeters-nuanced-account-plant-water-use
Grasses are spendthrifts, forests are budgeters, in a nuanced account of plant water use | The...
Researchers developed a metric for detecting how plants budget water based on soil moisture data, which can inform our own water management, agricultural...