The Complete Tightwad Gazette-- my mother got this book (used) when it was only a couple of years old, and I have it too now, when more than a generation has passed since its publishing. I am starting this thread to compare notes with people to chuckle about how much things have changed since our childhood, and chuckle more about how living well--
thriftily--has stayed the same!

“If we are honest, we can still love what we are, we can find all the good there is to find, and we may find ways to enhance that good, and to find a new kind of living world which is appropriate for our time.” ― Christopher Alexander