The Full Tightwad Gazette: Selling Thrift as a Viable Different Life-style

Finally—the long-awaited full compendium of tightwad suggestions for fabulous frugal dwelling!

In a e-newsletter printed from Might 1990 to December 1996 in addition to in three enormously profitable books, Amy Dacyczyn established herself because the knowledgeable of financial system. Now The Full Tightwad Gazette brings collectively all of her greatest concepts and thriftiest pondering into one quantity, together with new articles by no means printed earlier than in e-book format. Dacyczyn describes this assortment as “the e-book I want I would had once I started my grownup life.” Filled with humor, creativity, and perception, The Full Tightwad Gazette consists of lots of of suggestions for anybody trying to economize or get out of debt, equivalent to:

Journey for tightwads • Easy methods to remodel previous blue denims into potholders and quilts • Ten painless methods to save lots of $100 this yr • Image-framing for pennies • A comparability of portray versus re-siding your home • Halloween costumes from scrounged supplies • Thrifty window remedies • Methods to dry up dry-cleaning prices • Cheap items • Artistic fundraisers for teenagers • Slashing your electrical invoice • Frugal fix-its • Slicing the price of faculty • Shifting for much less • Saving on groceries • Reward-wrapping for tightwads • Furnishings-fusion fundamentals • Low-cost breakfast cereals • Avoiding bank card debt • Utilizing objects you had been about to throw away (milk jugs, plastic meat trays, and extra!) • Recipes galore, from penny-pinching pizza to toaster pastries • And far rather more . .