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The Complete Tightwad  Gazette

The Complete Tightwad Gazette Paperback / softback - 1998 - 1st Edition

by Amy Dacyczyn

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Learn how to save money and resources with this compilation of three successful volumes packed with sensible advice, hints, recipes, tips, tricks, and strategies.

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Paperback / softback. New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; 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
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  • Title The Complete Tightwad Gazette
  • Author Amy Dacyczyn
  • Binding Paperback / softback
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Condition New
  • Pages 976
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Villard Books, Westminster, Maryland, U.S.A
  • Date 1998-12-15
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Illustrated, Index
  • Bookseller's Inventory # ria9780375752254_inp
  • ISBN 9780375752254 / 0375752250
  • Weight 2.65 lbs (1.20 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.2 x 7.4 x 1.8 in (23.37 x 18.80 x 4.57 cm)
  • Themes
    • Theometrics: Secular
  • Library of Congress subjects Finance, Personal - United States, Consumer education - United States
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 98039515
  • Dewey Decimal Code 640.42

From the jacket flap

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 and topics, 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 . . .
Three books in one--a $38.97 value for only $19.99!

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About the author

Amy Dacyczyn is the former editor of The Tightwad Gazette, a newsletter that ran in the 1990s and promoted a lifestyle of frugality. Her work on the newsletter is collected in several Tightwad Gazette volumes and can be found in full in The Complete Tightwad Gazette.