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Dacyczyn no longer needs to be a tightwad herself, having earning a fortune with last year's best-selling Tightwad Gazette. Here are more moneysaving tips.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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The Tightwad Gazette II

The Perfect -- and Cheap -- Home Chili Recipe! New Uses for Old Blue Jeans!

Make a Quilt for Ninety-five Cents!

In 1993, Amy Dacyczyn's first book featured advice from the pages of her two-year-old newsletter The Tightwad Gazette. Over 250,000 copies were sold, inspiring millions of people to profit through thrift. Now, The Tightwad Gazette II serves up all-new help and hints from the newsletter's third and fourth years, yielding still more savings for millions of converts to tightwaddery.

Save More Money! Save More Time! Save More Resources!

Some of the Exciting, Money-Saving Topics Include:

A Reader's Guide to The Tightwad Gazette
-- Penny Pinching Pizza
-- Car Maintenance Tips
-- Calculate Your Cost Per Muffin
-- How to Make a Solar Box Cooker
-- Store-Brand Common Sense
-- Think Small to Save Big
-- Where to Get Insurance Information
-- Breakfast Breakthrough
-- Picture-Framing for Less
-- Gas Versus Electric
-- Reupholstery Savings
-- Army Surplus Bargains
-- The Tightwad A to Z
-- Saving Space to Save Money
-- How to Stop Flushing Money Down the Toilet
-- Frugality and the Economy
-- Whoopie Pies
-- How to Fix Up a House
-- Should We Use Used Shoes?
-- Where to Get Something for Nothing
-- What to Do with Old Blue Jeans
-- Warehouse Clubs and Savings
-- Cheap Holiday Accommodations
-- The Femme Frugal
-- Shared-Housing Programs
-- How to Work Out How Much You're Saving
-- Mail-Order Eye Care
-- Budgeting and Keeping Records
-- Dumpster Diving
-- How to Shop Thriftily
-- Money-Saving Recipes
-- Homemade Goo
-- Coupon or Not Coupon?
-- Splitting Pills to Cut Costs
-- Stained-Glass Cookies
-- The Tightwad Christmas
-- Candles and Decorations
-- Practical Gift-Giving
-- Synthetic Motor Oil
-- Bartering and Exchange
-- Detergents Determined
-- CDs Versus LPs
-- Long-Distance Phone Call Charges
-- Moving for Less --

Just Look Inside For Much, Much More...

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2.0 out of 5 stars Maybe it was a good book back then..., Jun 6 2004

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This review is from: The Tightwad Gazette #2: Promoting Thrift as a Viable Alternative Lifestyle (Paperback)

but this book was not as all what I expected. Maybe when the book came out it helped people save money, but in these days a lot of the things seem downright cheap. When I say cheap I don't mean save money cheap, I mean way cheap! Regardless of how frugal I was, I would never make my child use a jump roap made out of grocery bags or pick through a dumpster for unlabled canned goods. The section about bringing up baby didn't have much frugal advice to offer either except buy clothes second hand and don't buy your baby toys, pacifiers, swings, or any of that stuff because Ms. Dacyczyn's child never used them when she bought them so therefor your child shouldn't need them either! While I did get some good laughs out of how cheap and lame some of these ideas were, 2 stars for the book.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Why I Recommend This Book for Families, Oct 31 2000

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Heidi K. Rodeback (American Fork, Utah USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Tightwad Gazette #2: Promoting Thrift as a Viable Alternative Lifestyle (Paperback)

I read this book aloud to my family in the car during a summer vacation. They loved it--my husband and kids alike. As I read, I came to realize that this book has enormous value beyond the kooky money-saving tips it is famous for. Please, in evaluating the Tightwad Gazette, consider these additional points most reviewers seem to have missed:

1. The book fosters critical thinking skills. So very many of Ms. Dacyczyn's articles present both the pros and cons of the issue, and her recommendations are based on sound and extensive research sprinkled with a healthy dose of skepticism. After being exposed to her thinking style, my kids will think twice before being sucked in by advertising.

2. The book fosters creative thinking skills. There is no better life skill than to be able to stretch your one remaining dollar to meet your five outstanding needs. At some time in their lives, your kids are going to need this skill.

3. The book will show you how to make informed decisions. Ms. Dacyczyn's basic strategy is to calculate, by whatever means available, the true cost of any given expense. And while you may really need to save a penny by making your own tomato soup, you're just as free to conclude that, at a penny a pop, it's well worth your hard-earned money to buy the canned soup. Knowledge is power, and by applying Ms. Dacyczyn's strategies, you'll be fully informed, forewarned and forearmed.

I highly recommend this book to parents. (However, I beg to report that my own research has shown that if Desitin does not, in fact, speed the healing of diaper rash, it certainly relieves the pain!)

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5.0 out of 5 stars An excellent investment, Jun 7 2000

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This review is from: The Tightwad Gazette #2: Promoting Thrift as a Viable Alternative Lifestyle (Paperback)

I thoroughly enjoyed this book. I would buy it for the same reason I would buy a dictionary: I keep referring back to it so much that if I had to go to the library I would use extra money for gasoline. If I had to go to the web for the same information, I would end up raising my electricity bill. It's more than the recipes and resources. It's more than the tips and techniques. The reason I love this book is because it's a source of encouragement. I don't feel powerless anymore over my money. I feel like I can choose what is important to me and what I should be spending money on. Not the other way around. That's really all tightwaddery is about and that is the whole point of this book.

If you really want to understand the philosophy side of tightwaddery, I recommend you search for the first volume of the Tightwad Gazette (which is out of print) or go ahead and buy the Complete Tightwad Gazette. It's a very good investment.

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5.0 out of 5 stars This book is worth every cent spent!
This book has so much information available, that the price definently is justified even for the tightest tightwad! Read more

Published on Aug 22 1998

5.0 out of 5 stars I needed to cut back and save money it works!!
I never knew how much money we were wasting on take out, processed foods and plactics that were being wasted in our home. Read more

Published on July 24 1998 by HECTOOSHORT@MSN.COM