Cheap.

Cheap suit. Cheap date. Cheap shot.
It's a dirty word, an epithet laden with negative meanings. It is also the
story of Lauren Weber's life. As a child, she resented her father for keeping
the heat at 50 degrees through the frigid New England winters and rarely using
his car's turn signals-to keep them from burning out. But as an adult, when she
found herself walking 30 blocks to save $2 on subway fare, she realized she had
turned into him.