The Complete Tightwad Gazette

Name: The Complete Tightwad Gazette
ISBN: 9780375752254

Promoting Thrift As a Viable Alternative Lifestyle

Amy Dacyczyn

Random House Publishing Group · Print & ebook · December 15, 1998

At last—the long-awaited complete compendium of tightwad tips for fabulous frugal living!

Budgeting Buyer's Guides DIY Projects personal

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Who it’s for: Practical money-saving ideas arrive with humor, from household fixes to groceries, gifts, and debt.
Themes: Frugal living, Creative reuse and repairs, Avoiding debt
Genres: Budgeting, Buyer's Guides, DIY Projects

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About this book

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 for anyone looking to save money or get out of debt, 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 . .

Thrift, With Ingenuity

Practical money-saving ideas arrive with humor, from household fixes to groceries, gifts, and debt.

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Clever ways to stretch money across everyday life
A broad mix of frugal fixes, projects, and recipes

Expect

Hundreds of tips, with humor and practical detail
A collection suited to browsing for ideas

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Budgeting	70%
Buyer's Guides	36%
DIY Projects	30%

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Budgeting
Managing Your Money
Buyer's Guides

Authors: Amy Dacyczyn
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Published: December 15, 1998
Format: Print & ebook
Theme: Frugal living · Creative reuse and repairs · Avoiding debt
Reading lane: Budgeting