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| Thursday, November 19, 2009 |
| Making Sense New England |
 I was flipping channels tonight and caught the show Making Sense New England on PBS. The half hour show had a segment featuring Amy Dacyczyn, the famous founder of the Tightwad Gazette and lifelong frugal zealot. The interview showed Amy's house in Leeds, Maine and took a tour of her sewing room.
It was kind of amazing to realize that she started the newsletter in 1991 and by 1996 had retired from interviews and finished with the books. Those books are still selling and presumably she is still enjoying an income stream from those five years of work.
If you are curious to see Amy's house and listen to her take on the current interest in all things frugal, check out the interview below:
 Labels: Frugal Females |
| posted by Boston Gal @ 8:15 PM *
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thanks for posting this! It was fun to see her again...
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I've said it before and I'll say it again ... YOU HAVE THE BEST LINKS!!! I was so excited to see Amy's house after reading so much about it in her book. My copy of The Complete Tightwad Gazette is dog eared ... I especially enjoy reading her success stories.
Thanks Again, Jane Dough.
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Seeing this made my day. I'm a huge Amy fan - her book changed a lot for me. It was so nice to see her and her lovely home. What an inspiration. Thanks BG!!
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Ah, what a nice Friday surprise - a dose of tightwad gospel!
I want to preface my next comment with my utter love of Amy and all that she accomplished with the gazette.
But seeing her big beautiful home I had to wonder - what the heck she and her husband are going to do with that big barn of a place now that they are emptynesters? Can frugal Amy really see heating/maintaining such a structure for the next 30+ years?
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Too bad people don't like giving you credit for finding and posting these links for the rest of us...
http://forums.about.com/n/pfx/forum.aspx?nav=messages&webtag=ab-frugalliving&tid=50952
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Anybody have a copy of the book they no longer want? If so email me Im interested. jehynes@fleming.ca.on a frugal student ;)
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Ah, that was so interesting! I'd never seen a video of her before.
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thanks for posting this! It was fun to see her again...