I remember a boss who was extremely frugal:
- note pads were made by saving all extra printed specification pages (usually ditto'ed - another one of those you've got to be a certain age to remember the process) and sending them over to the blueprinter to be cut into quarters and made into pads with the paint-on plastic glue along one side;
- since the office hadn't purchased a fax machine, but clients would ask for faxes instead of waiting for something to come in the mail, we had to ask for permission to send a page or two over to the same blueprinter to send them out;
- when Post-It notes came out, their usefulness was immediately apparent; they were more useful if torn into narrow strips so that the little pad of them would last longer.
Despite those quirks, he was a great guy to work for (and later, with, as I was given permission to buy into the firm). He was never frugal about carefully explaining how to do things better.
And, related to the how aged one is department: About 4 years ago one of my college roommates passed away after an cerebral aneurism when jogging at lunch - age 59. Another roommate said "We're all in the fourth quarter of life now".