Author: Amy Dacyczyn
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780739404393
Category : Consumer education
Languages : en
Pages : 959
Book Description
Shows how to save money by recycling, shopping for bargains, and finding less-expensive alternatives to store-bought foods and products.
The Tightwad Gazette II
Author:
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
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...
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
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...
Possum Living: How to Live Well without a Job and With (Almost) No Money
Author: Dolly Freed
Publisher: Tin House Books
ISBN: 1947793217
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 163
Book Description
“A back-to-the-land classic” (Garden & Gun) that will “inspire you to embrace a simpler life” (O, The Oprah Magazine). In the late seventies, at the age of eighteen and with a seventh-grade education, Dolly Freed wrote Possum Living about the five years she and her father lived off the land on a half-acre lot outside of Philadelphia. At the time of its publication in 1978, Possum Living became an instant classic, known for its plucky narration and no-nonsense practical advice on how to quit the rat race and live frugally. In her delightful, straightforward, and irreverent style, Freed guides readers on how to buy and maintain a home, raise and grow their own food, cope with the law, stay healthy, save money, and more, all in the name of self-reliant, independent living. Forty years later, Possum Living remains an essential guide to going off the grid. This updated edition includes an introduction by Novella Carpenter, and new wisdom from Freed on aging, used cars, emergency funds, and how to get back in touch with yourself. Possum Living, says Freed, is about how to cook; to go fishing; to be with family, friends, and neighbors; to forage for wild berries; to enjoy a hobby; to relax; or, even better, to do nothing at all. Some of the best living, she reminds us, happens in possum time.
Publisher: Tin House Books
ISBN: 1947793217
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 163
Book Description
“A back-to-the-land classic” (Garden & Gun) that will “inspire you to embrace a simpler life” (O, The Oprah Magazine). In the late seventies, at the age of eighteen and with a seventh-grade education, Dolly Freed wrote Possum Living about the five years she and her father lived off the land on a half-acre lot outside of Philadelphia. At the time of its publication in 1978, Possum Living became an instant classic, known for its plucky narration and no-nonsense practical advice on how to quit the rat race and live frugally. In her delightful, straightforward, and irreverent style, Freed guides readers on how to buy and maintain a home, raise and grow their own food, cope with the law, stay healthy, save money, and more, all in the name of self-reliant, independent living. Forty years later, Possum Living remains an essential guide to going off the grid. This updated edition includes an introduction by Novella Carpenter, and new wisdom from Freed on aging, used cars, emergency funds, and how to get back in touch with yourself. Possum Living, says Freed, is about how to cook; to go fishing; to be with family, friends, and neighbors; to forage for wild berries; to enjoy a hobby; to relax; or, even better, to do nothing at all. Some of the best living, she reminds us, happens in possum time.
Living Well On Practically Nothing
Author: Edward H. Romney
Publisher: Paladin Press
ISBN: 9781581602821
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Living Well on Practically Nothing: Revised and Updated Edition is for people who need to live on a lot less money. If you have been fired, demoted, retired, divorced, widowed, bankrupted or swindled - or you just want to quit your job and remain financially self-reliant - this book is for you. In it are hundreds of tips, secrets and necessary skills for living well on little money. Chapters include: Save Up to $37,000 a Year and Live on $12,000 a Year; Low-Cost Computers for Fun, Profit, and Education; Some Ways to Live on No Money at All; A Day of Cheap Living; A New Career or Business for You; Fix Things and Make Them Last; and Protect Your Investments and Make Them Grow. From cover to cover, this book is stocked with proven methods for saving money on shelter, food, clothing, transportation, entertainment, health care and more. The author left the "system" in 1969 and has worked for himself ever since. Let him show you how you, too, can live happily, comfortably and with complete financial freedom.
Publisher: Paladin Press
ISBN: 9781581602821
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Living Well on Practically Nothing: Revised and Updated Edition is for people who need to live on a lot less money. If you have been fired, demoted, retired, divorced, widowed, bankrupted or swindled - or you just want to quit your job and remain financially self-reliant - this book is for you. In it are hundreds of tips, secrets and necessary skills for living well on little money. Chapters include: Save Up to $37,000 a Year and Live on $12,000 a Year; Low-Cost Computers for Fun, Profit, and Education; Some Ways to Live on No Money at All; A Day of Cheap Living; A New Career or Business for You; Fix Things and Make Them Last; and Protect Your Investments and Make Them Grow. From cover to cover, this book is stocked with proven methods for saving money on shelter, food, clothing, transportation, entertainment, health care and more. The author left the "system" in 1969 and has worked for himself ever since. Let him show you how you, too, can live happily, comfortably and with complete financial freedom.
The Simple Life
Author: Larry Roth
Publisher: Berkley Trade
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
An ever-growing segment of society is saying no to the conspicuous consumption and wastefulness that is destroying our planet, our pocketbooks, and our peace of mind. This lively collection of essays explains this grassroots movement--and shows how we too can avoid the vicious cycle of debt and stress that lies at the end of advertising's lure.The bestselling author of The Tightwad Gazette tells how she made her dreams come true without mortgaging her future. The woman known as the Gentle Survivalist shares her philosophy of living simply in the chaotic modem world. The self-proclaimed Cheapest Man in America explains how his humble inner-city upbringing shaped his worldview. Vicki Robin remembers Joe Dominguez, the visionary coauthor of Your Money or Your Life, an excerpt of which is also included in this book.With hundreds of tips, and a special resource section, this important guide shows how anyone can take back control--and rediscover the joys of the simple life.v
Publisher: Berkley Trade
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
An ever-growing segment of society is saying no to the conspicuous consumption and wastefulness that is destroying our planet, our pocketbooks, and our peace of mind. This lively collection of essays explains this grassroots movement--and shows how we too can avoid the vicious cycle of debt and stress that lies at the end of advertising's lure.The bestselling author of The Tightwad Gazette tells how she made her dreams come true without mortgaging her future. The woman known as the Gentle Survivalist shares her philosophy of living simply in the chaotic modem world. The self-proclaimed Cheapest Man in America explains how his humble inner-city upbringing shaped his worldview. Vicki Robin remembers Joe Dominguez, the visionary coauthor of Your Money or Your Life, an excerpt of which is also included in this book.With hundreds of tips, and a special resource section, this important guide shows how anyone can take back control--and rediscover the joys of the simple life.v
101 Home Office Success Secrets
Author: Lisa Kanarek
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781564144553
Category : Home-based businesses
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Publisher Fact Sheet Now updated in a new second edition, 101 Home Office Success Secrets shares the strategies of 30 home office specialists & gives readers an inside look at improving their businesses, marketing, increasing their bottom line, & more.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781564144553
Category : Home-based businesses
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Publisher Fact Sheet Now updated in a new second edition, 101 Home Office Success Secrets shares the strategies of 30 home office specialists & gives readers an inside look at improving their businesses, marketing, increasing their bottom line, & more.
Depression Era Frugality
Author: Deborah Harold
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
We live in uncertain economic times. The United States is facing the most significant unemployment rate since the Great Depression. What can we learn from those who lived through those troubling times? The depression-era frugality tips, tricks, and life-hacks are lessons that we in modern times can utilize. In my book, Depression Era Frugality, I will show you how our grandparents and great-grandparents made it successfully through the Great Depression. You will learn how to become frugal in every aspect of life so that you can live life to the fullest. The era might have been called the Great Depression, but that does not mean those who lived through it were necessarily depressed. They made the most of every single resource, wasting nothing, and were the ultimate pioneers in waste management before the green movement was cool. We can learn so much from what those who lived through the Great Depression did. They managed to keep their families fed, clothed, and entertained, all while living on just a penny or two a day. How did they do it? How can we do this same thing today? Living a frugal lifestyle and learning from our grandparents during the Great Depression is a great idea for those who are living paycheck to paycheck. However, it can also be a great thing for those who simply want to get ahead and be prepared should another depression come. Although many people aren't ready to make the change to a frugal lifestyle. Hopefully, reading this guide will help you determine to make changes and start preparing for what is to come. At the height of the Great Depression, nearly a quarter of the US workforce was unemployed. Even those who were still employed had a reduction in hours and/or a cut in their wages. Even professionals such as doctors and lawyers see drops of up to 40% in their income. The majority of the population was facing financial instability, if not complete ruin. As a result, many started living by the motto: "Use it up, wear it out, make do or do without." Many families discovered new ways to live a frugal life. They started gardens, patched clothes, and found cheaper forms of entertainment. If that scenario sounds familiar, we are living through equally uncertain economic times. We can deal with this by doing what our grandparents did to not only survive, but to thrive! In this book, you will learn: Depression-era Life Hacks for Food How to Save Money on Pantry Goods, Meat, Dairy, and more How to Grow a Garden Cooking Tips including Meal Planning, Recipes, and Keeping a Pantry Depression-era Life Hacks for Clothing Depression-era Life Hacks for Cleaning Depression-era Life Hacks for Organization and Storage Depression-era Household Management Life Hacks Depression-era Healthcare and Beauty Hacks Depression-era Healthcare Hacks Depression-era Beauty Hacks Depression-era Lifehacks for Having Fun Depression-era Hacks for Finding Things for Cheap or Free Depression-era Tips for Making Money Without a Job Depression-era Budgeting Ideas How to Develop a Successful Budget How People Coped During the Great Depression How People Can Cope Today The Difference Between Frugal and Cheap The Benefits of a Frugal Lifestyle Spending Errors to Avoid Ways to Boost Your Mood without Medication You will learn all this and so much more in my book. This book also makes a great gift. Be sure to click "Buy Now" to add this title to your collection.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
We live in uncertain economic times. The United States is facing the most significant unemployment rate since the Great Depression. What can we learn from those who lived through those troubling times? The depression-era frugality tips, tricks, and life-hacks are lessons that we in modern times can utilize. In my book, Depression Era Frugality, I will show you how our grandparents and great-grandparents made it successfully through the Great Depression. You will learn how to become frugal in every aspect of life so that you can live life to the fullest. The era might have been called the Great Depression, but that does not mean those who lived through it were necessarily depressed. They made the most of every single resource, wasting nothing, and were the ultimate pioneers in waste management before the green movement was cool. We can learn so much from what those who lived through the Great Depression did. They managed to keep their families fed, clothed, and entertained, all while living on just a penny or two a day. How did they do it? How can we do this same thing today? Living a frugal lifestyle and learning from our grandparents during the Great Depression is a great idea for those who are living paycheck to paycheck. However, it can also be a great thing for those who simply want to get ahead and be prepared should another depression come. Although many people aren't ready to make the change to a frugal lifestyle. Hopefully, reading this guide will help you determine to make changes and start preparing for what is to come. At the height of the Great Depression, nearly a quarter of the US workforce was unemployed. Even those who were still employed had a reduction in hours and/or a cut in their wages. Even professionals such as doctors and lawyers see drops of up to 40% in their income. The majority of the population was facing financial instability, if not complete ruin. As a result, many started living by the motto: "Use it up, wear it out, make do or do without." Many families discovered new ways to live a frugal life. They started gardens, patched clothes, and found cheaper forms of entertainment. If that scenario sounds familiar, we are living through equally uncertain economic times. We can deal with this by doing what our grandparents did to not only survive, but to thrive! In this book, you will learn: Depression-era Life Hacks for Food How to Save Money on Pantry Goods, Meat, Dairy, and more How to Grow a Garden Cooking Tips including Meal Planning, Recipes, and Keeping a Pantry Depression-era Life Hacks for Clothing Depression-era Life Hacks for Cleaning Depression-era Life Hacks for Organization and Storage Depression-era Household Management Life Hacks Depression-era Healthcare and Beauty Hacks Depression-era Healthcare Hacks Depression-era Beauty Hacks Depression-era Lifehacks for Having Fun Depression-era Hacks for Finding Things for Cheap or Free Depression-era Tips for Making Money Without a Job Depression-era Budgeting Ideas How to Develop a Successful Budget How People Coped During the Great Depression How People Can Cope Today The Difference Between Frugal and Cheap The Benefits of a Frugal Lifestyle Spending Errors to Avoid Ways to Boost Your Mood without Medication You will learn all this and so much more in my book. This book also makes a great gift. Be sure to click "Buy Now" to add this title to your collection.