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The Complete Tightwad Gazette: Promoting Thrift as a Viable Alternative Lifestyle

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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 side 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 grow to be old blue jeans into potholders and quilts¸ Ten painless How one can 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¸ How one can dry up dry-cleaning costs¸ Inexpensive gifts¸ Creative fundraisers for kids¸ Slashing your electric bill¸ Frugal fix-its¸ Cutting the price of college¸ Moving for less¸ Saving on groceries¸ Gift-wrapping for tightwads¸ Furniture-fusion fundamentals¸ Cheap breakfast cereals¸ Avoiding credit card debt¸ The usage of 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 . . .
Though tightwad seems like a derogatory term, creator Amy Dacyczyn wants to assure you that it’s okay to be a penny-pincher. This self-styled “Frugal Zealot” wrote and published The Tightwad Gazette for over six years to spread the frugal gospel. Each issue contained tips from her personal experience and from her many readers. The wealth of information contained in a lot of these issues has been compiled into one volume for the first time. You can find literally thousands of ideas for saving money, from the simple or practical to the difficult or unusual. On the simple, practical side, Dacyczyn advises would-be tightwads to keep track of price trends at several stores in a “price book” and to buy in bulk when prices are low. Other, stranger offerings include tips for turning margarine-tub lids into playing-card holders, old credit cards into guitar picks, and six-pack rings into a hammock or volleyball net. More helpful are inexpensive recipes for making homemade versions of pricey, well-known products and ingenious How one can fix broken or damaged items. The book’s disorganization encourages browsing, but the detailed index will point you to the exact page for specific items. Dacyczyn’s occasional “thriftier than thou” tone is balanced by the friendly fortify for frugality that infuses every page. She even reminds her readers that it’s okay to “sweat the small stuff”–because this small stuff is the essence of frugality. –C.B. Delaney

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