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Last week, Heather from Wanting What You Have posted a video interview with Amy Dacyczyn, author of The Complete Tightwad Gazette. If you’re unfamiliar with the book, it’s a compilation of newsletters by the same that Amy sent out over six years in the 1990s, detailing her family’s money-saving habits. It’s considered by in the frugal community to be a must-read. I’ve never read it, but I may one day after watching the interview.

The interview appears to be from the 1990s, but the things Amy says are as true today as they were then. I especially like when she says, “We always do think frugality in bad times and I just wish people would do it in the good times, because if we would do it in the good times, the bad times wouldn’t be bad. We’d be able to ride it out.” That’s the basis of why I like saving money: it’s not that I can’t afford to spend now, but that I may not be able to spend later and I want to insure us against that. Overall, I was surprised by how down-to-earth the author seems, given how many reviews I’ve read calling The Tightwad Gazette over-the-top. (I was also glad to learn, with almost complete certainty, how to pronounce her last name. )

Here’s the interview.

P.S. The link to The Tightwad Gazette in this post is an affiliate link. I’ll be compensated if you buy something from Amazon while you’re there.

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