“Now that we’ve not been corrupted, this proves to them that we had an emotional problem all along.”ĭacyczyn, who is 39, says this with a wry chuckle that might surprise people who think she’s nuts. “When we first started to get successful, people were sure we were going to get corrupted,” she says. So don’t look for any tabloid exposes showing Amy and Jim Dacyczyn sipping Dom Perignon, tooling around in a limo - or buying a new pair of jeans. “Once you learn to do things the smart way, it’s really hard to go back and do it the stupid way,” says Dacyczyn, in Dallas on a book tour for “The Tightwad Gazette II.” “I can’t go out and sell this if I’m not doing it.” Maybe even have dinner with her husband in a restaurant? Well, all you cynics out there, all you conspicuous consumers who whine that you never have enough money, all you misguided souls who believe frugality is an unhappy necessity rather than a virtue - prepare to be disappointed. After five years of publishing a monthly newsletter, two successful books and a national reputation as the Queen of Cheap, is it time to sell out? In short, she doesn’t have to live like this.
The mother of six who brags that she spent just $100 on her twin babies in a year (except for food and doctor bills) could afford to hire Barney himself to entertain them. The self-styled “frugal zealot” who suggests saving on funeral expenses by donating your loved one’s body to science is staying at fancy hotels on her book tour. Will success spoil Amy Dacyczyn? The woman whose Tightwad Gazette taught average Americans to look for food bargains in Dumpsters now makes a six-figure income.
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