Usually, if a man is careful with his money - he's "tight". But a woman is "careful".
I'm a firm believer (it's in the site for evidence!!) that the best people for frugality are women.
When I wrote the page about 2 years ago, I was going to go into all sorts of frugal savings etc.
Then I watched a documentary where Michael Portillo spent two weeks living with a family who were not exactly well off.
It came over, and does in many other examples I could source, that the most frugal person of all is....
THE MUM - because she has to be :