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The Tightwad Gazette #2 : Promoting Thrift as a Viable Alternative Lifestyle
The Tightwad Gazette 2 Promoting Thrift as a Viable Alternative Lifestyle
Author: Amy Dacyczyn
ISBN-13: 9780679750789
ISBN-10: 0679750789
Publication Date: 1/24/1995
Pages: 293
Rating:
  • Currently 4.2/5 Stars.
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4.2 stars, based on 83 ratings
Publisher: Villard
Book Type: Paperback
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18 Book Reviews submitted by our Members...sorted by voted most helpful

reviewed The Tightwad Gazette #2 : Promoting Thrift as a Viable Alternative Lifestyle on + 60 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 2
Fantastic book - lots of wonderful money saving ideas (some ideas are "out there" but most are great)
reviewed The Tightwad Gazette #2 : Promoting Thrift as a Viable Alternative Lifestyle on + 129 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 2
From the back of the book: "Save More Money, Save More Time, Save More Resources.". This is the second edition of this live cheaply book by Amy Dacyczyn
fandd avatar reviewed The Tightwad Gazette #2 : Promoting Thrift as a Viable Alternative Lifestyle on
Helpful Score: 2
The Tightwad Gazette books are about teaching you how to fish. As a single woman who does not have any children, there are quite a few recommendations in this book that are not applicable to me. However, because the author details the process of how she determines the cheaper solution and shows her calculations, I can apply her thought processes to my specific situation.

The essays are informative and inspiring.

The book has a couple of pages in the book on how to save money quilting. Since quilting is my favorite hobby, that was my favorite part of the book.
jubilee14 avatar reviewed The Tightwad Gazette #2 : Promoting Thrift as a Viable Alternative Lifestyle on + 9 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 2
What a hoot! This book was copyrighted a dozen years ago and some of the cost-cutting notions are still viable! I mean, how can you go wrong with "Homemade Goo, Where to Get Something for Nothing, Whoopie Pies, and What to do with Old Blue Jeans." Come on, people. You need this book. Tightwads Unite!
reviewed The Tightwad Gazette #2 : Promoting Thrift as a Viable Alternative Lifestyle on
Helpful Score: 1
Excellent resource for economical living
reviewed The Tightwad Gazette #2 : Promoting Thrift as a Viable Alternative Lifestyle on + 13 more book reviews
Book of money saving ideas and recipes.
reviewed The Tightwad Gazette #2 : Promoting Thrift as a Viable Alternative Lifestyle on + 2 more book reviews
I got this for newly-weds. I flipped through and couldn't put it down. Years ago I subscribed to Amy's monthly newsletter. This is a must gift for newly-weds.
hoopinmama avatar reviewed The Tightwad Gazette #2 : Promoting Thrift as a Viable Alternative Lifestyle on + 14 more book reviews
I liked this book, though it wasnt as great as the first one. still some neat tips and tricks.
reviewed The Tightwad Gazette #2 : Promoting Thrift as a Viable Alternative Lifestyle on
Great book. A lot of "oh so simple" ideas. This is a great book if you want to start at the basics on saving money and going green.
Tuckit01 avatar reviewed The Tightwad Gazette #2 : Promoting Thrift as a Viable Alternative Lifestyle on + 8 more book reviews
Very good, waste not want not and save money.
reviewed The Tightwad Gazette #2 : Promoting Thrift as a Viable Alternative Lifestyle on + 209 more book reviews
The Tightwad Gazette rocks! Great ideas on how to save money and have fun doing it!
reviewed The Tightwad Gazette #2 : Promoting Thrift as a Viable Alternative Lifestyle on + 32 more book reviews
This is wonderful, has so many ideas, tips, 'recipes' (not only for food) to help you be a tightwad. I have another copy that is dog-eared, and am passing this on so somebody else can be blessed by Amy. :>)
reviewed The Tightwad Gazette #2 : Promoting Thrift as a Viable Alternative Lifestyle on + 6 more book reviews
More money saving tips on kids' crafts, raising kids, travel, romance, and much, much more.
reviewed The Tightwad Gazette #2 : Promoting Thrift as a Viable Alternative Lifestyle on + 54 more book reviews
This is a second in the classic frugal book series
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From the cover:
All new money saving ideas: Bringing up baby cheap. . . super fix its, the art of creative deprivation, how to save on funerals, cheap travel tips, making your own convenience foods, tightwad crafts and hobbies, cut rate romance, cheap food for festivities, how to cut your dry cleaning costs, swapping for profit, how to move inexpensively.
reviewed The Tightwad Gazette #2 : Promoting Thrift as a Viable Alternative Lifestyle on
a series of ways to save money. I liked the book myself and learned some very interesting money saving ideas.
reviewed The Tightwad Gazette #2 : Promoting Thrift as a Viable Alternative Lifestyle on + 4 more book reviews
Awesome. Full of thrifty stuff
Sandee60 avatar reviewed The Tightwad Gazette #2 : Promoting Thrift as a Viable Alternative Lifestyle on + 33 more book reviews
This is hardbound book.