Tightwad Tips - Bean Me Up Scotty
This post contains affiliate links that support our Little Free Library. This is not a recipe blog, so I'm not going to bury the recipe like it's the nuclear codes. Francis and I have just been talking about how we can spread money-saving tips to the younger generation that didn't come of age with the LiveJournal poor_skills community. One of my most fun thrift scores of the past couple years is The Complete Tightwad Gazette by Amy Dacyczyn , a compilation of an old-fashioned newsletter from the late 1900s. A lot of the tips are outdated, like mail order stuff, ancient computer tips, and day old bakeries, which don't seem to exist anymore. (Though we do have Too Good To Go !) What is timeless is the tightwad mentality: every saved penny adds up. You're not meant to use every tip in the book, you're meant to change your entire way of thinking. And the more your thinking changes, the more fun it is, and sometimes the funnier it is to be a tightwad. So without fur...
