The Complete Tightwad Gazette
by cecile
Maybe you have been obsessing about saving money like I have and now need to calm down a bit (the sky is not falling I keep telling myself even though the Dow appears to be heading to hell in a handcart). Then I remembered one of my favorite books--The Complete Tightwad Gazette by Amy Dacyczyn, a.k.a. The Frugal Zealot. A compilation of a publication that ran for years and years, Tightwad could use an internet update but it still has thousands of ideas to save money using good old Yankee ingenuity. The ideas were gathered over the years by Amy Dacyczyn and her subscribers with lots of ways to save money on food, cooking, gardening, clothing, furniture and even Halloween costumes. It is funny and wise. Check out the inexpensive dog biscuit recipe on page 246—I’ve been making them for years with a cookie cutter shaped like a dog bone made from an old tuna can and I’ve never met a dog yet that didn’t love them. What good ideas do you have to save money?
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