The organisation, which has been providing help for people wishing to live on a budget for decades, is experiencing an upswing in popularity.
Debt-hit Britons are turning to an unexpected source in order to relieve their budget worries: the Women's Institute (WI).
The century-old charity has been giving sound advice on limiting waste and cutting down on spending to generations of women, and has now been attracting many youngsters in the current financial downturn, with the credit crunch, soaring inflation and rising mortgage rates putting the squeeze on many.
According to the WI, younger people have been submitting unusually high numbers of applications, in order to learn how to knit, darn clothes and cook more cheaply - and thereby avoid becoming locked in to a debt spiral.
Victorian thrift bible Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management is also enjoying a 13 percent spike in sales, the Times reports.
No-nonsense advice on cutting costs from the WI includes using boiling salted water as a weedkiller, never buying fabric softener (an unnecessary luxury in many members' opinion), diluting washing-up liquid in order to make it last longer and using lemons for cleaning products.
Pre-planning shopping trips in order to avoid superfluous purchases and putting unused kettle water into a thermos, so that it can be used for washing up later, also come highly recommended by the charity.
Speaking to the newspaper, WI course director Sue Bridger said: "As well as being useful, domestic science can help to save money. But now we have two generations of children who have not been taught even the basics. We are losing vital life skills."
