Recommend an Old Style Book?

competitionscafe

se999 wrote:

Can I recommend 'Save Cash & Save the Planet', it would be brilliant for someone starting off old style, it's got chapters on 'old style cleaning' , shopping, transport and even hatches, matches & dispatches!! Even for established Old Stylers I think you could find new bits, I didn' t know there was a food labelling scheme for sea fish, what the websites for police auctions were, or where to download living wills, or lots of others to give you information on how you want to live etc.

My copy of 'Save Cash and Save the Planet' arrived in the post today, just wanted to say many thanks to se999 for letting me know about this. What a fantastic book, packed with so much useful and interesting info - highly recommended.

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hornetgirl

I'm a huge fan of the Tightwad Gazette books too. I bought the first one back in 1994 and have read it so many times it's a wonder it's still in one piece.

I also love Your Money Or Your Life, by Joe Dominguez and Vicki Robin, which is extremely well written and thought provoking.

Others on the shelf include Frugal Living For Dummies by Deborah Taylor-Hough, Mr Thrifty as previously mentioned, Frugal Luxuries by Tracey McBride and How To Survive Without A Salary by Charles Long.

Can you tell I'm a sucker for these kind of books! I love to read them in the bath. Although the theme is similar in all of them, they each have individual ideas and approaches to offer. Shall also be looking out for some of the other recommendations made here too now.

Chipps

hornetgirl wrote:

Can you tell I'm a sucker for these kind of books! I love to read them in the bath.

:rotfl: Hee hee! Glad I'm not the only one ... my copy of the Complete Tightwad Gazette has wrinkled pages where is has got damp from being held over the bath. At least I haven't dropped it in yet

catznine

Chipps wrote:

Can I also recommend "Kitchen in the Hills" by Elizabeth West. She & her dh lived on a very primitive smallholding in Wales in the 1960s and she wrote a book about their adventures called "Hovel in the Hills", and this is the recipe book giving some of the recipes she used. I don't know if it is still in print or not.

Been looking for this one for years with no luck! Have the other two, Hovel in the Hills and Garden in the Hills and they are great but no luck with the last one. I borrowed it from the library once and typed out some of the recipes, one of which is on the recipe index (must make sure I've given her the credit for it) and I can put others onto the index if anyones interested. I think Hovel in the Hills has been re-printed recently so maybe the others will be soon!

apprentice_tycoon

If anyone would like photocopies of the Tightwad Gazette follow-up family letters from 1997, 1998, 1999 I'll be happy to copy and post them, just PM me.

johanne

just won a copy of "grub on a grant" on ebay for £2.07

moggins

Chipps wrote:

:rotfl: Hee hee! Glad I'm not the only one ... my copy of the Complete Tightwad Gazette has wrinkled pages where is has got damp from being held over the bath. At least I haven't dropped it in yet

Up until we redecorated the bathroom DH actually installed a mini washing line for me to hang my books from when I'd dropped them in the bath

filigree_2

I just searched for "Kitchen in the Hills" on abebooks.co.uk and amazon marketplace, you can buy a copy but it will cost at least £35! :eek: If I find a copy in a jumble sale for 50p I won't know whether to treasure it or flog it

Rebob

I bought the kim and aggie book for the tips and found it a waste of money. Sold it on ebay to lessen the waste.

nicki_2

I have just been right through this thread and tried to find the books on my libraries website but what I want to know is which one of you has all apart from "Just like Mum used to make" out on loan from EVERY library in Liverpool!!!!! It looks like I'll have to go rummaging on ebay as chairty shops around here are hopeless for cookery books (unless you want to pay £3 a copy for vegetarian ones ) :eek: