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Oct 06 2008, 03:59 PM
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Karen Datko
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Money Blog: Smart Spending Blog - MSN Money
The $25 Challenge is over in Illinois, and we're sure the participants are thrilled about that. They agreed to spend no more than $25 on food for a week -- that's about $3.50 a day -- and blog about what they learned during the experience. It was a real eye-opener for most. When you have so little money for food, you realize that "there is food all around you, all the time, but you can't eat it," wrote Frank Finnegan, who was planning yet another dinner of ham and beans. He added, "Forget nutrition. When shopping, the only thing that matters is price."
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Sep 26 2008, 01:58 PM
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Karen Datko
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Money Blog: Smart Spending Blog - MSN Money
If you're eating at home more often to save money, you know that nothing can throw a wrench in your food budget like having to buy bottles of spice. How on earth can a tiny bottle of crushed this or dried that cost so darn much? Daniel Koontz of Casual Kitchen tackles that question in Part One of his Spice Series. Part Two is the one we really liked. He explains how to save substantial money when you need more cayenne pepper, paprika and the like. First, we'll start with a tip that flies in the face of what you've likely been told: "Don't worry about 'spice fade.'"
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Aug 25 2008, 05:43 PM
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Karen Datko
Money Blog: Smart Spending Blog - MSN Money
Here's more bad news for grocery shoppers: Some supermarket chains are cutting back on their double-coupon offers. Think that doesn't matter? Aryn at Sound Money Matters recently spent $10 more than she had intended during a recent shopping trip because of new restrictions on double-coupon redemption. Not only that, but "I've noticed that the coupon circulars have shrunk, and the coupons themselves have become less generous," she writes.
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Aug 25 2008, 11:05 AM
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Karen Datko
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Money Blog: Smart Spending Blog - MSN Money
If the "on sale" sign says you saved 50% on the new shirt you bought at the mall, did you really get a great deal? Not necessarily, says Kevin at The Red Stapler Chronicles, in a post called "'Sale' can sometimes be just another 4-letter word." Kevin's day job is manager in the retail world.
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Aug 06 2008, 06:00 PM
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Karen Datko
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Money Blog: Smart Spending Blog - MSN Money
How do we know there's such a thing as too much frugality in the kitchen? Because Marge Simpson once said to her daughter: "Lisa, I made you some homemade Pepsi for the dance; it's a little thick but the price is right." That's from the excellent post "Cutting calories and saving d'oh: 25 lessons 'The Simpsons' taught me about cheap, healthy eating" at Cheap Healthy Good. The author, Kris, is the most entertaining food-and-frugality blogger out there, but we think she's outdone herself with this one.
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Aug 06 2008, 01:35 PM
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Karen Datko
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Money Blog: Smart Spending Blog - MSN Money
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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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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Jul 25 2008, 07:30 PM
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Karen Datko
Money Blog: Smart Spending Blog - MSN Money
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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Money Blog: Smart Spending Blog - MSN Money
"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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Money Blog: Smart Spending Blog - MSN Money
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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