The Thrift Book: Live Well and Spend Less – India Knight

In these recessionary times its great to see a new book focused on saving us all money. In The Thrift Book: Live Well and Spend Less, India Knight explains amongst other things how you save a fortune using olive oil as a moisturiser mixed with rosewater and lavender oil.

Feeling poor because of recession? Feeling guilty because of global warming? Feeling like you’d quite like to tighten your belt, but aren’t quite ready to embrace DIY macram handbags? No need to panic.

Put down the economy mince and buy this book instead – it’s a blueprint for living beautifully while saving money and easing your conscience that will show you: how to make wonderful dinners with very little money; how to grow things, make jams, chutneys and pickles and how to can vegetables and fruit; how to dress on a budget and still look fabulous; how to make the most of living in a community, from borrowing preserving pans to starting a toy-swapping group; how to holiday in new and imaginative ways; how to make your own fun, from crafts to making presents, from parties to affordable pampering; and how to manage your money – because, frankly, it’s about time we all got a grip.

India Knight (no slouch when it comes to extravagance) shows you how even a dedicated consumer and child of the more-is-more 1980s can mend her ways, embrace the New Thrift, and find her life – and bank balance – dramatically improved in the process.

Links and Further Reading

• India Knight’s column in the Times

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