![]() ![]() ![]() She says that in that first year afterwards, her kids were lucky to be able to pick the color frosting on their birthday cakes, instead of having a full celebration which they typically did (for $25 or less). But her newsletter subscriber base didn’t just mushroom - it exploded after that Parade magazine interview, and stretched them all really thin. ![]() Their tremendous success (appearing on Parade magazine soon after finding out she was pregnant with twins, about a year or so after she started The Tightwad Gazette newsletter) enabled her and her husband to fully retire after 6&1/2 years of doing that. Somebody came across my blog asking that, and although I don’t know the full answer (only the Frugal Zealot herself knows that), I do know what she said in her final book - The Complete Tightwad Gazette, which included all three of the other books, as well as the final editions of the newsletter and her farewell column.īasically, in addition to feeling like she had covered most topics (in one book, she likened it to learning multiplication tables - once you know the basics, you can apply those principles to other problems), she was feeling drained. ![]()
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