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Have you considered yourself lucky if you get $5.00 off your grocery bill with coupons? I have to confess, that has mostly been my story. I always wondered how anyone could get substantial savings with 50 cents here and a dollar there. It often seemed like the store brand was cheaper than the [...]
Christmas time during a tight economy means you have to get creative to keep your family engaged. You can do it if you try.
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Plan Ahead and Shop Around
Running from store to store to compare prices makes no sense. You will use up more gas and time than you will save. With the internet at your fingertips, there’s no need and comparison shopping is easier than ever before.
Last December I was in the market for a [...]
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Last Friday (9/4/09) the Associated Press headline read, “Recovery difficult as jobless rate hits 9.7 pct”. When you realize that people working part-time because they can’t find a full time job or people who have stopped trying to look for work aren’t even included in those figures, it’s clear that many of us are [...]
I am totally intrigued by PlasticJungle.com It’s such a good idea that I’m surprised it took so long to come up with it. I have had gift cards sit around until I wondered if they had any value left. Sometimes they were given to me for a store that I rarely shop at [...]
Here’s a thought:
So many people were given gift cards and never used them that companies began charging handling fees after the first year. They wanted to get the cards off their books and figured a year is plenty of time for you to redeem your gift.
How many gift cards do you have gathering dust? [...]
If you sit outside your local grocery store and watch the people walking in and out, it doesn’t take long to realize that something is seriously wrong with our diet. We have more people trying diet pills and subscribing to fad diets than ever before and we haven’t lost weight. Such shows as [...]
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These days there are so many places to get coupons on the internet, you can literally print out dollars of savings on your computer. As with most things in this world, if there’s a way to benefit from it, crooks will try. Save yourself from embarrassment at the checkout with these simple rules.
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Did you get a Blu-Ray for Christmas? If so, you need Blu-Ray disks to play in it. Now is the time to get ready for summer because Amazon is running a huge sale.
Blu-ray and DVD Buy 2, Get 1 Free sale that allows you to mix and match Blu-ray with DVD. This sale [...]
