Saving Money with the Tightwad Twins: More Than 1,000 Practical Tips for Women on a Budget
While other books give advice about money markets and outwitting the stock market, Saving Money with the Tightwad Twins gives advice to the struggling woman on a really, really tight budget. She is the forgotten woman of "little time and no dime." She may be single, married, a career woman or a stay-at-home mom, but whoever she is, she is looking for easy ways to organize her life and save money.\ In this no-nonsense book by identical twin sisters Ann Fox Chodakowski and Susan Fox Wood, the...
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Fun and practical tips to help women save money, make money and turn trash into cash.
This book is dedicated to "the forgotten woman." Not everyone knows her. Only the women who have been in her shoes will recognize her. Most men do not. Please observe the illustration of her on page vii. It is self-explanatory. But for those of you who do not know her, then, we offer this description:\ \ She is the mother who nearly froze to death sitting on metal gym seats at the football games every Friday night instead of watching from her car so that when her children asked, "Did you see me?" she could say, "Of course!"\ She is the mother who sat up nights with a sick toddler in her arms, wiping up throw-up of hot dogs and cherry Kool-Aid and went to work the next day.\ She is the mother who has a full-time job at home or at work or both and awakens early each day, all the while knowing her job will never end and will probably be much the same as yesterday.\ She is the mother who can nurse a baby, sew on a button and monitor homework all at the same time.\ She is the mother who tries to help with the budget, alone or together with a mate, but still comes up short every month.\ She is the mother who gets her hair and nails done at the local beauty school and feels like a queen when she does.\ She is the mother who reads the same bedtime story twice a night for over a year and who teaches her children their alphabet and how to tie their shoelaces before they start school so they won’t be behind the other children.\ She is the mother who watches the news reports about the stock market but is really worrying about the washing machine repair bill due tomorrow and how much she has left from the budget to buy groceries.\ She is the mother who laughs when the magazines do a story on inexpensive clothing for only $125 per dress, remembering how she broke out in a cold sweat the day she bought a dress to go to a wedding for $32.95.\ She is the mother who passes by the name-brand clothes and groceries, knowing she can whip up something just as good or better without paying for a name.\ She is the mother who may have lost her own mother but carries on bravely,\ just as her mother would expect her to do.\ She is the mother who has had to maneuver bills like the Indy 500.\ She is the mother who always has time for her family but never enough time for herself.\ The Tightwad Twins salute her and dedicate this book to her.\ \ \ ¬2003. All rights reserved. Reprinted from Saving Money with the Tightwad Twins by Ann & Susan Fox. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the written permission of the publisher. Publisher: Health\ Communications, Inc., 3201 SW 15th Street, Deerfield Beach, FL 33442.
IntroductionxiPart 1On the Home Front: A Trash Talkin' Primer for Making Your Humble Abode a Castle Fit for a Tightwad QueenCleaning on a Tightwad Budget3In the Kitchen11Home and Car Maintenance57Organizing the Tightwad Way65Pets (Your "Furry and Finny" Family Members) and Outdoor Pests79Part 2Fun and Games: Sprucing Up and Getting Creative with Tightwad StyleBeauty, Clothing, Health and Travel85Homemade Crafts and Gifts93Furniture and Decorating99Entertaining Tightwad Style111Holiday Fun117Kid Stuff121Part 3Turning Trash into Cash: Million-Dollar Tips That Will Change Your Financial Life ForeverMoney Talks143New Best Buys for the Tightwad Shopper177Part 4The Silver Lining: Testimonials from Our Fans Say These Tips Really Work!The Silver Lining181About the Twins189
