I am looking to describe someone who is good at keeping track of hir resource use and goods usage behaviour. This can be either for monetary currencies, but also for food, material or other commodities.
Ideas that I had so far are the following, but I am not fully satisfied:
- Resourcefulness (too cognitive)
- Thriftiness (too mean)
- Frugality (too practical)
- Proneness to Saving (too inaccurate)
- Parsimony (too greedy)
EDIT:
After getting the first suggestions, it seems worthwhile to add that the term will be used with a mainstream audience, and therefore should not be too complicated or too nuanced. (And I am aware that this is quite ironic, looking at the extent of nuance that I am aiming for…)
Best Answer
You can say that they husband their recources: "Use (resources) economically" (Oxford).
Unfortunately, it's a bit archaic, so you don't get the full range of words to go with it. You can say that they display good husbandry (Oxford), but saying they're a "good husband" doesn't work, for obvious reasons.