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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 Tightwad Twins, women will learn how to reduce or eliminate bills and manage and organize their homes. This "common cents"knowledge will revolutionize the way women look at money; for instance nearly everything can be recycled:
- Make a coffee table from an old window, door or board. Add bricks or flowerpots for legs.
- Cut a slit in the shape of an X in an empty prescription bottle for a traveling toothbrush holder.
- Use soda-pop can tabs for picture hangers. Glue to the back of picture frame with just the top of the clip showing so as to nail easily to the wall.
- A candle placed in a cheese or vegetable grater looks fabulous at night. Tie the top with a red ribbon to make it even more festive.
The tighwad twins also timesaving forms, quick-and-easy recipes for no-fuss, cheap meals, and lists of organizations that give away freebies. In no time at all, readers will reap the benefits of thriftiness and find time to enjoy their newfound financial freedom.
"These twins really know their stuff!" - Maury Povich
"The twins are masters at saving money." - The National Enquirer
"These twins do a great job: humorous, but insightful on ways to save money and reuse everything!" -Crook and Chase |
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.
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Ann FoxAnn Fox is a retired schoolteacher, a mother and grandmother, and is a survivor in the real world of budgets and bills. She holds a master's degree in education and lives in Brandon, Florida. She thinks she is definitely the smarter twin. The twins are the authors of Living on a Shoestring, Moms Saving Money and 101 Ways to Save Money. They have appeared on The Maury Povich Show, Crook and Chase, CNN Talkback Live, The 700 Club, and Leeza, among many others. The twins write seasonally for magazines such as Boardroom Magazine and Moneysworth Magazine. Their tips have appeared often in the National Enquirer as well as Family Circle Magazine. [ More]
Susan FoxSusan Fox holds an associate degree in childhood education and has won many awards for her office organization skills. She is a mother and grandmother, and lives in the twins' hometown of Paducah, Kentucky. She will go to her grave proclaiming that she is the smarter twin. The twins are the authors of Living on a Shoestring, Moms Saving Money and 101 Ways to Save Money. They have appeared on The Maury Povich Show, Crook and Chase, CNN Talkback Live, The 700 Club, and Leeza, among many others. The twins write seasonally for magazines such as Boardroom Magazine and Moneysworth Magazine. Their tips have appeared often in the National Enquirer as well as Family Circle Magazine. [ More]
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ISBN-10: 0757301053
ISBN-13: 9780757301056
HCI-Item: 1053
Book Format: Paperback
Page Count: 150
Publication Date: 8/15/2003
Category: Reference/Household/Business
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