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Posted
Aug 19 2008, 04:36 PM
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Ryan MacClanathan
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Money Blog: Smart Spending Blog - MSN Money
Student loans, fast food, credit card debt, the "freshmen 15," all-night binge drinking/study sessions -- plenty of financial and dietary perils
await today's incoming college freshmen.
For many young adults the first years of college are a time
to make mistakes and, hopefully, learn from those mistakes. Unfortunately, some
of those errors in judgment can take years to fix. Plenty of adults in their
30s and 40s are struggling to beat down debt accrued in their wilder days. And, of course,
there's the old adage: A moment on the lips, a lifetime on the hips.
Fortunately, Kris at Cheap Healthy Good has sound,
nonjudgmental advice for young student on how to eat
healthy and live frugally, both of which go hand in hand.
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Posted
Aug 18 2008, 06:12 PM
by
Ryan MacClanathan
Money Blog: Smart Spending Blog - MSN Money
An astute reader of The Consumerist
noticed that Arm & Hammer baking soda has
seemingly lost its strength.
New boxes now advise users to replace the box in their refrigerator
once a month. Older containers say to replace every three months.
"It looks like marketing got a hold of the packaging, and
suddenly baking soda only works for one month instead of three!" the reader
wrote. "Arm & Hammer say that they are 'America's #1 trusted baking soda
brand,' but I'm not really feeling the trust anymore."
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Posted
Aug 04 2008, 12:29 PM
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Karen Datko
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Money Blog: Smart Spending Blog - MSN Money
We know how the family "Chica" visited recently can get out of debt. They could become the subject of an entertaining reality TV show. (Even the repo man could play himself.) But, then again, maybe not. The way they live is reality to a lot of people. Does this sound familiar? They have a three-bedroom house with five TVs that are left on all the time, even when no one is home, plus premium cable with DVR. The list goes on: two car notes and a paid-off motorcycle, two kids in private school who get every consumer good they ever wish for -- and the parents complain that they don't have enough money to pay their bills.
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Posted
Jun 25 2008, 10:09 AM
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Donna Freedman
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Money Blog: Smart Spending Blog - MSN Money
Feeling pain at the supermarket checkout? Don't expect relief anytime soon. According to an Associated Press article, the Midwestern floods that destroyed soybean and corn crops will send the price of beef, pork, poultry, eggs, cheese and milk higher this fall.
Anybody want to join me while I shop for flour and beans and a small freezer?
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Posted
Apr 23 2008, 09:08 AM
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Donna Freedman
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Money Blog: Smart Spending Blog - MSN Money
I had to laugh when I read a recent Seattle Times article, "The crunch of rising food prices." There's nothing funny about its subject: Americans are paying a lot more for groceries. It was the newspaper's choice of real-life examples that caused my sardonic chuckle.
One was a woman who spends a total of $700 a month at three different supermarkets to feed her family, which includes two small children. Presumably she's a stay-at-home mom; her husband is a technical analyst for an engineering firm. The article noted that she's "disappointed that she can't afford to buy organic milk and produce as often anymore."
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Posted
Jan 09 2008, 09:22 AM
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Donna Freedman
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Money Blog: Smart Spending Blog - MSN Money
Americans spend almost half their food dollars on meals and snacks away from home, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Economic Research Division. Sociologists have many theories about why this is so: single parents, two-career couples, after-school activities, the demise of cooking in America. My own theory? When you get home at 6:45 p.m. with a cranky toddler, the last thing you want to do is start peeling potatoes.
Be proactive, the frugal types say. Buy a slow cooker, or prepare and freeze meals on weekends. You might even do these things, at least some of the time. But sometimes you don't. Sometimes life throws a monkey wrench (or a flat tire, or a sick kid) into your plans. And yeah, sometimes you forget to plug in the slow cooker on your way out the door.
Stephanie, a mom of four who writes the Stop the Ride! personal-finance blog, has an ultra-simple solution.
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