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Aug 06 2008, 01:35 PM
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Karen Datko
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Which store offers the best deals: the grocery store, the discount store or the dollar store? Our partner blogger Donna Freedman today explored a similar question, and advised readers that the best prices for foods and sundries often can be found at drugstores and other alternatives to the standard grocery store. And now we've found a Web site that emphasizes her point. The Crazy Dollar Shopper compares prices of various products at three types of stores.
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Jul 25 2008, 07:30 PM
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Karen Datko
We remember powdered milk from our college days, and we don't do it fondly. It was thin in consistency and unappealing in taste. We've never bought it again, despite the cost savings. We're going to give this versatile product another try, thanks to Canadian blogger "Mr. Cheap" at Quest for Four Pillars and "The Great Powdered Milk Experiment." Besides, other bloggers put the cost of instant milk in the $2- to $3-a-gallon range.
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Jul 17 2008, 03:17 PM
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Karen Datko
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"Fox" at Squawkfox has taken up a cause we can strongly embrace: "It's time to sack plastic bags."
Shouldn't we all, with the price of oil -- yes, they're made with oil -- and environmental worries, be moving to reusable shopping bags and bins? Plastic shopping bags are a blight, and they never -- for all practical purposes -- go away. "With few exceptions, plastic bags will take thousands of years to break down," Fox says. "The bag my first pair of shoes came in a couple decades ago is out there, somewhere."
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Jul 15 2008, 02:37 PM
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Karen Datko
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Chief Family Officer Cathy is well on her way to becoming a coupon superstar, and in the process has encountered two annoying things that come with the territory -- counterfeit coupons, and cashiers who don't honor legitimate coupons and dis those who use them. Store managers, take note: Employees had better become coupon savvy as more and more shoppers turn to coupons to offset the higher cost of food.
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Jun 26 2008, 10:51 AM
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Karen Datko
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"LivingAlmostLarge" at the blog with the same name read an article about how manufacturers of food and sundry items are shrinking the size of their products and charging the same price. She found the proof in her own cupboards. She wrote that "curiosity got the better of me and I started to pull through my cabinets. And Bounty did decrease the roll size. I can say that because I have some from last summer." Bounty isn't the only product that's smaller now.
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Jun 08 2008, 10:22 PM
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Karen Datko
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This post comes from J.D. Roth at partner blog Get Rich Slowly. Consumers underestimate the power of comparison shopping, says a five-year-old report from the Consumer Literacy Consortium. "Consumers often do not realize that, for most products, a wide range of prices are available and, therefore, consumers often pay too much for the items they buy." (The study) results show that most consumers need a far lower price savings to persuade them to comparison shop than can actually be obtained from shopping around. These findings are particularly significant, since the available consumer behavior research indicates that, on the average, only about 50% of people shop around. An important reason as to why consumers do not shop around is the perception that it is not worth the effort. They rationalize that the savings potential will not be greater than the desired 10% savings needed to motivate action.
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May 07 2008, 02:04 PM
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Karen Datko
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Little is wasted in the home of reader "smartlane," and much money is saved. Why? Because she controls portions of everything from snacks to condiments to shampoo. She writes: I plan meals ahead, leave out snacks in portioned amounts for the kids, and fix plates for everyone to balance portions, and discourage overeating. I leave ketchup, parmesan cheese, salt, and pepper off table, and butter rolls and potatoes ahead of serving. I put out small bowls of condiments for individual family members. I also put measuring cups in cereal containers to discourage half-eaten bowls from being thrown out. (Smaller bowls have helped here too).
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Apr 29 2008, 04:55 PM
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Karen Datko
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Jeremy at Generation X Finance isn't a fan of how the news media cover the economy -- "sensationalistic" and "comedic" are two adjectives he employs -- but he uses a recent story about higher food prices to make a point. CNNMoney.com reported that more people are preparing their own meals, starting gardens, eating leftovers and stocking up when staples go on sale. "Stop the presses!" Jeremy exclaims. "Because of higher grocery bills, people are resorting to such ghastly tasks as cooking at home, growing some of their own food, and using leftovers! Oh, the humanity. "Economic times are just so hard that people have to do things that any prudent person would be doing anyway," he writes.
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Apr 29 2008, 12:47 PM
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Karen Datko
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To some, 60 minutes may be a TV show, but to Kris at Cheap Healthy Good, it's the time she takes each week to implement her personal system for saving major money on groceries. With the rising price of food, this is something we all need to read about. Before you try her system, she advocates three steps. First: Junk any food on hand "that A) you can't identify, B) is in an advanced state of decay or mummification, and/or C) is old enough to be carbon-dated."
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Apr 28 2008, 07:50 PM
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Karen Datko
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Has saving money replaced America's devotion to shop till you drop? Silicon Valley Blogger at The Digerati Life has found lots of evidence that frugality is catching on across the nation. A chart of what's in and what's out -- posted at SFGate, the Web site of the San Francisco Chronicle -- says it best. Under "in" are such things as cooking at home and fixing the old car, as well as "library" and "tap water." The corresponding items under "out" are eating out, new car, bookstore and bottled water.
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