The newsletters were filled with her frugality tips - practical tips that you could use in your everyday life. Read a great article she wrote about how she cured her love for spending: They Call Me the Frugal Zealot. Today we’ll take a look at this classic, and what it has to offer.Īmy Dacyczyn (pronounced “decision”) became famous for her frugality through her newsletter, the Tightwad Gazette, Promoting Thrift as a Viable Alternative Lifestyle, which was published from 1990-1996. If you’re looking for tips for living frugal, it doesn’t get any more authoritative than this.Īfter my favorite book on frugal finances, Your Money or Your Life (read review), I’d say The Complete Tightwad Gazette is the second book any frugal person should read. And one of the inspirations for that frugality was the Tightwad Gazette, a frugality newsletter that was later compiled into The Complete Tightwad Gazette, by Amy Dacyczyn. When I wrote the Cheapskate Guide, I was writing about the frugality I’ve been striving toward for most of my adult life.
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