scrimping

verb

1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present)present participle and gerund of scrimp

noun

1. An amount saved little by little.

   “The savings and scrimpings from the cold nights of all his years were ripe to be squandered.”

   “In her efforts to transform me into the debutante I would never become, my mother spent her scrimpings on private piano, violin, and voice lessons.”