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Tuesday, June 29th, 2010If you’re like me, you hate paying retail prices for anything. There’s that annoying state tax, that annoying retail mark-up, and those annoying salespeople.
So before I go to a store, I typically do an online search for coupons. This can be hit or miss. Sometimes I find a printable coupon, sometimes not. I can always […]
Spend your tax rebate on free food
Thursday, April 10th, 2008I thought Tuesday’s news about free cheese might be an aberration.
But now McDonald’s and Dunkin’ Donuts are getting in on the free food craze. And they’re hoping to convert your excitement about free food into cash money in their pockets.
According to an article in yesterday’s Wall Street Journal, McDonald’s will be giving away […]
One man’s trash is another man’s treasure
Wednesday, April 9th, 2008True story. Back in the mid-90’s, when I worked at a financial services company, I worked with two lottery winners. No, they didn’t win by flipping coins. They did it the old fashioned way. They got lucky.
I think of these guys every time I go into a convenience store. Inevitably, there’s an overflowing barrel of […]
Free (as in beer) cheese
Tuesday, April 8th, 2008When I say “Free cheese” I am not talking about those big orange blocks of government cheese your grandmother used to get every month. Ok, maybe your grandmother didn’t get it every month, but mine did. Along with unsalted butter and a plastic barrel of oily peanut butter.
Anyway, when I say “free cheese” I mean […]
If you’re going to smoke, save money on cigarettes
Tuesday, April 8th, 2008I have alot of little vices. I like to play poker, I like to eat cheese, I play Desktop Tower Defense when I should be working… and I like to smoke cigarettes. OK, that last one is not a little vice. It’s a big vice. And it can also be very expensive to do.
At the […]
Keeping a close eye on WalMart
Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008I love the idea of keeping a price book. It’s a “list of the items you use regularly and the best prices they sell for in the stores where you [shop]”.
Like The Simple Dollar, I already carry a small notebook in my pocket, so it isn’t much of a stretch for me to draw up […]
Garbage in, garbage out
Tuesday, April 1st, 2008My family produces a lot of garbage. From the pee-soaked diapers to the packaging around the Little Petshop shit, we produce more than our fair share of garbage.
And now the town wants us to pay for it.
My town is changing the way it handles trash. In a few months we will switch over to […]