The Tightwad Gazette is full of money saving tips and information that are still relevant today, though the book was published over ten years ago. The letters and articles it contains are easy to read and interesting. Granted, some of the information is a little outdated (such as some of the online and technology information, etc.) but most of the contents can still be used. (And most of the older information is still interesting to read in light of what we're used to today.)
The book provides generic recipe outlines that you can use to make a variety of foods from that bare-bones recipe (like "1 cup main ingredient, 1 cup second ingredient" etc, with some suggestions for what those ingredients might be), which allows you to use what you have on hand instead of needing to buy specific items.
There are suggestions for gardening, Christmas gifts, remodeling fixer-upper houses, and many subjects in between. There is quite a bit about children, as others have mentioned; however I felt there was a nice mix of other infmrmation as well so it wasn't overwhelming for people without children.
My only complaint about the edition I have (which is a 1998 Villard paperback edition) would be the reference page numbers located in the articles. The actual pages of the combined "Complete" book are 1-959; the pages in the individual books are Book 1 1-297, Book 2 300-576, and Book 3 579-834 ("The Last Issues" and the index make up the remaining pages). However, when an individual book references something in itself it starts with page 1. So (for example) if you're in Book 2, it will say something like "see page 32" which is actually page 332. It's a little worse in Book 3 since it doesn't end with such an even number; there it will say "see page 32" and it becomes more like page 611. It's not a huge problem and the numbers on the index page are correct, it just takes a little figuring out to see exactly where a referenced article is located. (It may just be the edition I have, but it's something to keep an eye out for if you're looking for an article but can't seem to locate it.)
Other than that one flaw, which is minor in my eyes, this book is excellent and I would highly recommend it for anyone looking for creative ways to reuse materials (a variety of objects from milk jugs and juice lids to plastic rings off soda packs, etc) or for anyone looking for ways to save money.
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brunix
un livre culte pour l'économie domestique.
Reviewed in France on January 12, 2021
Wizzbang
this shouldn't put you off buying as there is more than enough good advice here
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 30, 2015Tanya Jenkins
Was delivered promptly & well packaged.
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