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Wine Tastings: Finding Cheap Wine That You Like

Posted July 2, 2009 - 03:26 by WC Porter

Frugal Living, Food and Drink

Wine Tasting

There is lots of advice out there on how to save money on drinking by buying this or that wine. But forget that—everyone's tastes are different and one person's "good wine" might be another's dud. The only way to find good wines you know you'll like is to taste as many as you can. For free.

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Argentine Wine Hack: Make Bad Wine Better

Posted May 27, 2009 - 10:24 by Elizabeth Sanberg

Food and Drink

Wine and Soda

While traveling in Argentina for 3 months, I visited Rosario, an off-the-tourist-path but major metropolitan city. There while enjoying a deliciously cheap lunch ($5 U.S. buys an appetizer, entree, dessert, and drink), I learned how Argentinians enjoy mediocre house wine.

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Alternatives to drunk driving

Posted 2 years ago by Greg Go

Filed Under: Life Hacks

drunk driving

Party hardy tonight, but don't drive drunk!

Not only could you die (bummer) or kill someone else (unforgivable), but it could cost you financially big time (not savvy living).

MSN Money says the fines are just a fraction of a DUI's real cost:

A driving-under-the-influence conviction is a financial wrecking ball. A typical DUI costs about $10,000 by the time you pay bail, fines, fees and insurance, even if you didn't hit anything or hurt anybody.

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To life, to life, la kayim! The joy of home-enhanced booze.

Posted 2 years ago by Andrea Dickson

Filed Under: Food and Drink

Cherry poppin' cocktails

OK, so this is too late for Christmas, but there's still time before New Year's to try this out. I was pondering the range of joy and sorrow that is the homemade gift.

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