But have you ever thought about going to a flea market and purchasing 100 books or so for $0.10-$0.25 each? One woman does so, and wrote into the Tightwad Gazette that she reaps $100-$200 credit at a used book store for just $10-$25 out of pocket. Trade Up for Free Book Credit: Half-Price Books and other used book stores give you a trade-in store credit for books, which Paul and I already take advantage of.I’d like to share ten such nuggets with you in the hopes that they will help you to save money. Nowadays, I like to open it to a random page and see what wisdom and ideas it holds. It is 927 pages, and while I started it from the beginning when I was unemployed in 2008, I only got a quarter of the way through. Her Tightwad Gazette newsletters were filled with wonderful, frugal (and sometimes…eccentric) tips and tightwad ideas from her own experience, as well as from her frugal readers. Six years and seven months later, she had well over 200,000 subscribers and a book deal. Amy Dacyczyn began a newsletter called the Tightwad Gazette back in 1990 with just 1,700 readers.
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