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The Tightwad Gazette: Promoting Thrift as a Viable Alternative Lifestyle
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 332.024
EAN: 9780679743880
ISBN: 067974388X
Label: Villard
Manufacturer: Villard
Number Of Pages: 307
Publication Date: December 29, 1992
Publisher: Villard
Release Date: December 29, 1992
Studio: Villard
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Editorial Review:
Having discovered that frugality is good for the bank account and the environment, Amy Dacyczyn started a newsletter for skinflints in 1989. Within a year, 50,000 cheapskates had subscribed to The Tightwad Gazette. Now Amy has collected all her wisdom into a book, and it's as good a deal as you'll find in these inflationary times. Line drawings.
Customer Reviews
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Rating:  - Guide to being very frugal
This book is for all of us who get pleasure from saving money. It is for people who get more of a thrill out of walking out of a grocery store having saved $30 on their food bill than they do when the spend $100 on a new pair of expensive shoes. If you prefer the smell of retiring early from a job you dislike to new car smell, you have found your book. While this book is a little extreme with homemade Halloween costumes for kids and going through piles of your neighbors curb side throw outs to repair ... Read More
Rating:  - Potluck Wedding Invitation!
I am a serious tightwadder and I appreciate many of the tightwad tips but if I ever receive a wedding invitation asking me to bring a potluck dish AND to specify what I am bringing in lieu of a gift, the invitation is going right into the recycling bin. Amy compares budget catered meals as inferior to to elaborate potluck meals. I disagree completely. A very simple, inexpensive catered meal with well-chosen items will be superior to a potluck any day. She makes no mention of afternoon cake and punch ... Read More
Rating:  - Sorely Needs Updated
Most of my praise or criticism can be found in other reviews posted here. However, there's one point I did not see mentioned. The book is old and sorely needs a revised edition.
While the principles are timeless and many ideas and recipes are current, a book written on penny-pinching pre the advent of the Internet is lacking in a lot of ways.
Missing is use of email, consumer websites and online resources, online banking, various technological advances as well as current price ... Read More
Rating: - TIGHTWADS! set the record straight ...
As a long time subscriber to the Tightwad Gazette, I can see many reviewers have a distorted picture of Amy and Family from only reading the book.
First, it's not surprising someone got "bored" with it after reading 3/4 of it, it was meant to be read one issue at a time - a whole book results in Overdose.
Amy's husband was a 20-year Navy career enlisted man. They knew they would have a not-too-large lifetime pension and lots of half-grown children when he retired. So they PLANNED ... Read More
Rating: - The best!
If you have all 3 of the Tightwad Gazette books then you don't need any other books on frugality. These books are great. They would make a great wedding gift.
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