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. 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: 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. 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.

SOUND TECHNICIAN: Bethany Lotulelei.At last-the long-awaited complete compendium of tightwad tips for fabulous frugal living! Or send us an email at CREDITS: Theme music by Timothy Miller. FOLLOW SWEET AS LOVE HERE: on Instagram or in the Sweet As Love Facebook Group. MEET BETHANY HERE: on her blog, on Instagramor Facebook. MEET AMY HERE: on her blog, on Instagram, or Facebook. links: The Tightwad Gazette book Thriftbooks Also learn what I found out about what author Amy Dacyczyn is doing these days, and what one thing has changed dramatically since she retired from writing books, and what has contributed to her saving the most money these days. Also learn how to keep a 'price book' and how to hack your own finances to save money every month. Listen as Bethie and I discuss how deeply influential the Gazettes (there were three published in all) were, and what some of our favorite tips were.

After all, we weren't poor-we were thrifty! That's a huge difference.

Even better, the book put forth thrift as an attractive, viable alternative lifestyle. The tips I learned from The Tightwad Gazette helped make a big difference in how much paycheck was left at the end of each month. With hubby in college for years and a growing family, we lived paycheck to paycheck. From Amy: I ran across a paperback copy of the first The Tightwad Gazette book by Amy Dacyczyn in my early years of motherhood, and latched onto it like a drowning woman grabs onto a life buoy.

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