penny-pinching

Adjective

• giving or spending with reluctance
  • our cheeseparing administration
    
  • very close (or near) with his money
    
  • a penny-pinching miserly old man
    

Noun

• extreme care in spending money; reluctance to spend money unnecessarily

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  cheeseparing , close , near , skinny , parsimony , parsimoniousness , thrift