My Boyfriend Made Me Save Every Penny, Then Spent a Fortune on His Childhood Sweetheart

Harvey Gilbert hated waste. He couldn't stand people who threw money around.

So for the six years we were together, I scrimped and saved and worked hard to be the woman who knew how to make a dollar stretch.

Six years on the same phone, never once replaced.

One white dress worn for three full years.

Terrified he'd call me a spendthrift.

Even when my parents traveled all that way to visit, Harvey served them nothing but the leftovers from the fridge.

"There's still plenty of this food left. Waste not, want not."