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Posted Oct 10 2007, 10:59 PM by Karen Datko

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Filed under: spending, savings, Wise Bread, groceries, interest rates, frugal, food prices

Gary Foreman started The Dollar Stretcher in 1996 when the company he worked for started laying people off. Twenty months later, he too lost his job but his groundbreaking Web site dedicated to frugality was already well off the ground. In an interview at Wise Bread, Foreman shares his favorite tips to save money (use a grocery price book), make money (let compound interest work for you), as well as the times his efforts at extreme frugality didn't work out the way he'd planned.

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