Amy Dacyczyn's Daughters

[kinetic]

It was a sad day for me when Amy D. retreated into the shadows, never to spread her brand of mustachianism again.  I thought these interviews with her daughters are fascinating:

http://thefrugalshrink.blogspot.com/2013/05/dacyczyn-daughters-interviews.html
http://thefrugalshrink.blogspot.com/2013/05/dacyczyn-interviews-jamie-part-1.html
http://thefrugalshrink.blogspot.com/2013/05/dacyczyn-interviews-jamie-part-2.html
http://thefrugalshrink.blogspot.com/2013/05/dacyczyn-interviews-rebecca.html
http://thefrugalshrink.blogspot.com/2013/05/dacyczyn-interviews-laura.html

[CatamaranSailor]

This is fantastic! The Tightwad Gazette was my gateway drug into living differently. I still have all three volumes downstairs right now!

[oneday]

Thanks for sharing!  Delightful to get another perspective on the Tightwad Gazette years.

[Cellista]

Amy's philosophy of reducing consumption and focusing on what really matters in life was a big inspiration to me. 

It is wonderful to learn that her daughters have carried on the same values and wisdom.

[kinetic]

i'm glad you guys are enjoying the interviews.  back in the late 90s when i was in grad school, my little family lived on $1700 a month and we managed to buy a house on that (in a region with low cost of living).  her recipes, her tips and just her frame of mind helped me to stretch everything back then.

[pbkmaine]

I love her too, and have her book in a place of honor on the bookshelf over my desk, but I think she should have sprung for jeans that were long enough for her tall daughters.

[KMMK]

The pants/jeans thing was exactly my life. Partly frugality, partly because my mother didn't like jeans so I wasn't allowed to wear them until I was old enough to buy my own. And this was the era when Everyone wore jeans. Oh, the horrible thrift store and weird short cotton pants.

[debbie does duncan]

The pants/jeans thing was exactly my life. Partly frugality, partly because my mother didn't like jeans so I wasn't allowed to wear them until I was old enough to buy my own. And this was the era when Everyone wore jeans. Oh, the horrible thrift store and weird short cotton pants.

OMG........this was me!!!!!
Parents believed jeans were work clothes not school clothes !
Boy I feel your pain and I am15 yrs older.

[sonjak]

Thank you for sharing this!  Really enjoyed it and definitely would have missed it otherwise.

[Basenji]

Thank you for this. I'm a big fan of Amy's. Nice to read those interviews with her daughters. But now I feel very old.

[Warlord1986]

Those interviews speak to me on a spiritual level.

Seriously, my father could go toe to toe with MMM. My clothes came from the Navy Exchange when I was a kid. Back in the day, the NEX didn't have good quality or selection, so all my clothes were very ugly and ill-fitting. I went a little crazy over clothes when I became a teenager and started earning my own money. I eventually calmed down, but I understand what the girls were talking around in regards to clothes.