The Complete Tightwad Gazette: Promoting Thrift as a Viable Alternative Lifestyle by Amy Dacyczyn
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- Pub. Date: December 1998
- 976pp
- Sales Rank: 37,489
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Product Details
- Pub. Date: December 1998
- Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
- Format: Paperback, 976pp
- Sales Rank: 37,489
- ISBN-13: 9780375752254
- ISBN: 0375752250
- Edition Number: 1
Synopsis
At last--the long-awaited complete compendium of tightwad tips for fabulous frugal living!
In a newsletter published from May 1990 to December 1996 as well as in three enormously successful books, Amy Dacyczyn established herself as the expert of economy. Now The Complete Tightwad Gazette brings together all of her best ideas and thriftiest thinking into one volume, along with new articles never published before in book format. Dacyczyn describes this collection as "the book I wish I'd had when I began my adult life." Packed with humor, creativity, and insight, The Complete Tightwad Gazette includes hundreds of tips and topics, such as:
Travel for tightwads¸ How to transform old blue jeans into potholders and quilts¸ Ten painless ways to save $100 this year¸ Picture-framing for pennies¸ A comparison of painting versus re-siding your house¸ Halloween costumes from scrounged materials¸ Thrifty window treatments¸ Ways to dry up dry-cleaning costs¸ Inexpensive gifts¸ Creative fundraisers for kids¸ Slashing your electric bill¸ Frugal fix-its¸ Cutting the cost of college¸ Moving for less¸ Saving on groceries¸ Gift-wrapping for tightwads¸ Furniture-fusion fundamentals¸ Cheap breakfast cereals¸ Avoiding credit card debt¸ Using items you were about to throw away (milk jugs, plastic meat trays, and more!)¸ Recipes galore, from penny-pinching pizza to toaster pastries¸ And much much more . . .
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August 30, 2009: I absolutely love this book. It's one of those books that does NOT go in the bookshelf because you read it every day. Even if you don't do some of the items mentioned, it still puts you in a frugal mindset. What I love about this book is it gives you specific examples. When you read magazine articles and see things on talk shows on how to be frugal they give you very basic advice that you already know. Well the author goes into specific detail and I believe touches every area of your life with some basic frugalness. Don't hesitate to get this book. If you follow even a few of the things mentioned in it, you would pay yourself back for the cost of the book with the money you have been saving.
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March 29, 2007: This book was a life saver to me (and still is) Some of the material is dated but what I have gained the most is 'inspiration' to live 'more with less'. Amy's writing is very entertaining and her life experience shows that it can be done. I had borrowed all 3 collections from the library but found I was taking so many notes it was worth the small investment. Includes the final newsletters not previously available.
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