THE TIGHTWAD GAZETTE

Promoting Thrift as a Viable Lifestyle Alternative

by AMY DACYCZYN

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New softcover book, first published in 1999. 960 pages.

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 0 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 electricity 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 . . .
  
      

About the author

Amy Dacyczyn published a newsletter called The Tightwad Gazette from June 1990 until December 1996. Amy is now retired from her writing career. The Dacyczyns and their six children live happily and frugally in Maine, USA.

Amy and her husband Jim started in 1982 with a net worth of zero and an average income of US,000 from Jim's Navy salary. They managed to start a family and buy a New England farmhouse. By 1989, they had four children, savings of ,000, and made significant purchases (vehicles, appliances, etc) totaling ,000.

"Certainly the recycling of aluminum foil did not greatly contribute to our dream. Rather it was the attention to all the thousands of ways we spent our money that made a tremendous difference. Our success was very much a gradual learning process. We made many big mistakes."

A self-confessed compulsive tightwad, she began a zine to share her methods of frugality. Within two years of starting her newsletter in 1990, subscriptions climbed to 100,000. 3 volumes of compiled newsletters were published as The Tightwad Gazette I, II and III. The Complete Tightwad Gazette is a compilation of all Amy's newsletters, including The Last Issues, which had not previously been published in TG I, II or III.

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The Complete Tightwad Gazette - Amy Dacyczyn