Thrifty: Living the Frugal Life with Style - Softcover

Harris, Marjorie

Softcover

ISBN 10: 088784832X ISBN 13: 9780887848322

Publisher: House of Anansi Press, 2010

Synopsis

Best-selling author Marjorie Harris offers a timely and entertaining guide to living the richly frugal life. From tips on how to haggle to becoming a frugal fashionista, maintaining your home on a budget, and thrifty gardening, travel, and entertainment, Harris provides essential guidelines to living a quality life on less. Written in her trademark witty, engaging, and accessible style, Thrifty is packed with simple and savvy tips drawn from Harris' own fulfilled, thrifty experience. Bonus tips come from renowned experts such as best-selling author Margaret Atwood, chef Jamie Kennedy, actor R. H. Thomson, travel writer Sylvia Fraser, and The Globe and Mail's style columnists.

About this title

About the Author:

Marjorie Harris is a columnist for the Globe and Mail and the author of several bestselling gardening books.

Review:

It's a solid guide to the virtues of non-consumerism, yet - big relief - doesn't come across as preachy or reeking of environmental goody-goodyism. (Toronto Star 2010-02-10)

Thrifty is an entertaining read, thanks to the author's witty style and practical anecdotes. (Calgary Herald 2010-02-10)

Weaving concrete advice from her own life with stories and ideas from many of her frugal friends - including Margaret Atwood who encouraged Harris to write this book - Thrifty offers encouraging, entertaining and eclectic ways to live a frugal life with style. (rabble 2010-01-10)

Harris reminds us that the word thrifty is derived from the word thrive. If we do it right, she promises, living thriftily will make us feel good - not deprived. (Montreal Gazette 2010-03-10)

About this edition

• Publisher: House of Anansi Press
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 088784832X
• ISBN 13: 9780887848322
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 232