Mrs. Binnie says we throw out more with a spoon than the men can be bringing in with a shovel... Binnie-like. Our men like the good living. And what if we don't be having too much money, Patsy dear? Sure and we do have lashings of things no money could be buying. There'll be enough squeezed out for Cuddles when the time comes. The Good Man Above will be seeing to that. L.m. Montgomery
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Mrs. Binnie says we throw out more with a spoon than the men can be bringing in with a shovel...Binnie-like. Our men like the good living. And what if we don't be having too much money, Patsy dear? Sure and we do have lashings of things no money could be buying.

There'll be enough squeezed out for Cuddles when the time comes. The Good Man Above will be seeing to that. This quote is a bit of a humor joke, which has been around since the early 1900's.

It takes a complete joke for this quote to have any meaning, but it does have a point to it as well. The item being talked about actually being thrown out is most likely a spoon, not money. It is just food that cannot be saved and is not used anymore.

In this particular situation, Mrs. Binnie is talking about throwing away the food that her family is just about to eat because they have no money to buy groceries for the week ahead of them, perhaps because they are broke from paying their bills and/or because they failed to save some savings and need some food and grocery money for their meals.

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