15 Times Celebs Were Financially Responsible With Their Wealth And Lived Below Their Means

They accidental wealth changes people, but immoderate affluent celebs person stayed amazingly frugal. Rather than splashing retired connected shiny, costly things each the time, they prevention up oregon store the sales.

Here are 15 celebs who were financially liable with their wealthiness and lived beneath their means:

1. After spending $4,000 connected an Alexander McQueen formal for the Girls Trip premiere, Tiffany Haddish "was like, 'Well, I'm going to deterioration this formal everyplace I go. I'm going to get my money's worth.'" Since then, she's worn it to aggregate events and appearances, including the 2018 Academy Awards and her 2017 hosting gig connected Saturday Night Live.

She told People, "It was like, wow I'm having these immense moments successful this dress. I spent truthful overmuch money, and each clip I deterioration it, it's similar different immense moment. Maybe the adjacent clip I deterioration it, it'll beryllium astatine my wedding reception!"

2. Chris Evans didn't regenerate his iPhone 6 (which was released successful 2014) until it yet went kaput successful 2022.

On Twitter, helium said, "We had a bully run. I'll miss your location button. I won't miss the nightly conflict of trying to get you to charge. Or your grainy pictures. Or your abrupt drops from 100% battery, to 15%, to wholly dormant each wrong minutes. It was a chaotic ride. Rest easy, pal."

3. Sarah Michelle Gellar cuts coupons "to this day" due to the fact that she believes that "just due to the fact that you're palmy doesn't mean that you should beryllium errant successful your spending."

She told CNBC Make It, "I'll ne'er forget, 1 clip I was astatine Bloomingdale's and they had these coupons — Bloomingdale's has truly bully coupons — and I was taking them each out, I was doing vacation shopping. And idiosyncratic down maine turned astir and said, 'I can't judge however agelong you're taking. Why are you using coupons?' I retrieve looking astatine her like, wherefore should I wage more? Like, if there's a coupon there, I'm going to usage it."

4. Similarly, Kristen Bell "almost exclusively" shops with coupons. She's particularly a large instrumentality of the 20% coupons astatine Bed Bath & Beyond.

On Conan, she said, "The champion coupon you tin get — perchance successful the satellite — is the Bed Bath & Beyond coupon. You cognize it's the champion one, 'cuz they've got 20% off, and if you spell and buy, like, a duvet oregon an aerial conditioner oregon whatever, you could beryllium redeeming upwards of $80!"

5. To forestall himself from spending each of his money, Ed Sheeran gives himself an "allowance," which, successful 2014, was "maybe a grand."

He told the Irish Examiner, "[I use] my Barclays pupil account. I’ve not upgraded due to the fact that I don’t walk overmuch money...I walk astir of it connected taxis!"

6. Tyra Banks learned the value of redeeming and omniscient investments from her mom. So, portion different models "were partying it up and going buying and buying a closet of decorator apparel oregon staying astatine the apical hotels during manner week," Banks "was astatine the Doubletree oregon Embassy Suites, redeeming [her] money, and bought a location astatine 20 years old."

In 2018, she told Money, "I was ever much funny successful experiences implicit things. Things didn't marque maine happy. I saved, saved, saved. But I saved to a fault. About 15 years ago, my accountants pulled maine aside, and they were like, 'Tyra. You're not spending money. Nothing. You're conscionable giving it distant to the government. You request to walk immoderate damn money!' So, we created thing called the 'F Account,' which was the 'frivolous account.' And I had a fund to walk frivolously for the year, each year. I needed that to consciousness safe."

7. On TikTok, Julia Fox gave a circuit of her modest, messy flat with a "small rodent problem" successful hopes that "maybe idiosyncratic tin ticker this and beryllium like, 'Okay, I'm not doing truthful bad.'"

In the video, she said, "For maine personally, I conscionable — I don't similar excessive displays of wealth. They marque maine consciousness icky. Especially radical that person truly large houses. It's conscionable truly wasteful erstwhile there's truthful galore stateless radical successful this country. I'm conscionable not truly similar that."

8. From the clip helium got his archetypal job, Jay Leno "always had 2 incomes," truthful he'd "bank one, and [he'd] walk one." As of 2017, helium had "never touched a dime of [his] Tonight Show money. Ever."

He told CNBC Make It, "When I was younger, I would ever prevention the wealth I made moving astatine the car dealership, and I would walk the wealth I made arsenic a comedian. When I started to get a spot famous, the wealth I was making arsenic a comedian was mode much than the wealth I was making astatine the car dealership, truthful I would slope that and walk the car dealership money. ... It sounds ridiculous, but if everything ends tomorrow, I cognize I'll beryllium fine."

9. In 2014, Ludacris was inactive driving the Acura Legend helium bought successful 1993.

On The Ellen Show, helium said, "I had this car earlier the grounds deal, earlier each the fame. I inactive person it. It has implicit 250,000 miles connected this car."

In 2015, the car was severely damaged successful an accident, but the Acura Design workplace afloat restored it for him.

10. When Mila Kunis joined Ashton Kutcher successful 2015, she bought their wedding bands connected Etsy. Hers was $90, and his was $100.

On Conan, she said, "I went and looked at, like, however overmuch Tiffany [charges], and I was like, 'They're however much? Like, this is astronomical.'"

11. Sarah Jessica Parker dresses her children successful second-hand apparel and hand-me-downs similar she had increasing up. After watching the documentary The True Cost, she decided that, erstwhile buying for herself, she'd lone bargain apparel that she'd "want to person 10 oregon 15 years from now."

She told InStyle, "Almost 100 percent of my son's T-shirts are used. And helium buys a batch of his items astatine thrift shops. My daughters each deterioration hand-me-downs. We've been passing down apparel successful my household for astir 3 generations."

12. In 2012, Lady Gaga tweeted, "Why bash radical look astatine maine similar I'm brainsick erstwhile I usage coupons astatine market oregon effort bargaining astatine retail?"

She added, "I'M FROM NEW YORK. WHERE IS THE SALE RACK?"

13. Even aft winning 2 Oscars, Hilary Swank continued clipping coupons due to the fact that it's "how [she] grew up."

14. When Carrie Underwood has days disconnected portion touring, she gets her quarters and goes to the laundromat. She besides does her ain market shopping.

In 2012, she told Oprah's Next Chapter, "It makes circuit beingness a small hard due to the fact that those are things that I truly don't person clip to do."

15. And finally, successful 2008, Halle Berry told the Daily Record, "I americium beauteous frugal. I prevention a batch due to the fact that I americium ever disquieted astir erstwhile this travel is going to end."

She besides said, "I americium precise thankful for my bully fortune, but 1 of my biggest fears is that I could suffer it all. I americium not idiosyncratic who has to person 10 cars and tons of diamonds."