A Washington Post piece bathed her in golden She hopes to go to graduate school in sociology , she 's scrimping because she doesn 't want to burden her parents financially , she is so much a hostage to the media that she couldn 't attend her own mom 's wedding , and--the icing on the cake--she has taken up knitting .
She didn 't want to put the financial burden on her parents so she took to scrimping and extreme saving .