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- Bride test: thrift. H381
- Bride test: thrifty cutting of cheese. Three girls tested. First eats rind and all, second cuts away good cheese, third cuts away just enough. H381.2
- Bride test: thrifty peeling of apple. H381.2.1
- Bride test: thrifty scraping of bread tray. H381.2.2
- One traveler to another: That field (uncut) is already harvested. (Belongs to spendthrift who has already spent the money.) H586.4
- What are the most accursed things? A thriftless wife, a baldheaded daughter, a sour-faced daughter-in-law, a crooked axle, and a field which lies across the village road. H659.18.1
- Test of friendship: the power of money. Spendthrift loses his friends in poverty. H1558.7
- "If you wish to hang yourself, do so by the stone which I point out": counsel proved wise by experience. Father has left money which will fall out when the spendthrift son goes to hang himself in despair. "The Heir of Linne." J21.15
- Ant and lazy cricket (grasshopper). Lazy bird is put to shame by thrift of industrious bird. In winter he is in distress. J711.1
- More than one swallow to make a summer. Spendthrift youth seeing swallow concludes that summer has come and sells his clothes. There is frost the next day and he is cold. J731.1
- King buys spendthrift's bed. It must have been an extraordinary bed to permit a man with so many debts to sleep on it. J1081.1
- Too late for the same advice. Impoverished spendthrift sarcastically to thrifty person: "Stop spending so freely!" "It's too late to give you the same advice." J1363
- Spendthrift hero. L114.2
- Spendthrift knight. Divides his last penny. He is later helped by the grateful person. Q42.1
- Unthriftiness punished. Q323
- The spendthrift wife. T275
- Thrift. W216
- Thrifty merchant tells son that even a snake laid by will be useful. W216.1