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Take back St. Valentine’s Day from Hallmark and Hershey’s.

Posted February 14, 2008 - 10:11 by Paul Michael

Frugal Living, Consumer Affairs

Broken Heart

Today is St. Valentine’s Day. Delivery vans filled with flowers are passing each other on the highways; the supermarket aisles filled with pink and red cards are chock full of men and women, frantically buying that last-minute love note. And I have to wonder…why do we bother?

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Edible Flowers Make Cheap Food Beautiful Again

Posted 2 years ago by Linsey Knerl

Filed Under: Food and Drink


Those of you with gardens are probably entering a new season of produce. Squash plants are getting icky, but they are still producing more zucchini and summer varieties than you can handle. If you are looking for a bit of variety in your day, why not give the flowers a try!

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The best things in life are (more or less) free

Posted 2 years ago by Andrea Dickson

Filed Under: Lifestyle

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Now, at the risk of sounding like a great big softy, I have to share a moment that I experienced recently that reminded me of the real value of money and the place I want it to have in my life.

Over the weekend, I was driving around Queen Anne hill in Seattle, trying to find a place that I plan on volunteering at in the near future. Seattle is a nice city, but it is mostly made up of dead-end one-way streets and a couple major highways, patrolled largely by small women with small cell phones in large SUVs who seem unaware that anyone else could possibly occupy part of the road as well.

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Snail Free Gardening

Posted 2 years ago by Andrea Dickson

Filed Under: Green Living

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Green gardening should be cheap. Organic gardening was the way of the world before chemical companies found ways to create compounds that could destroy pests quickly and effectively. The thing that makes organic gardening less-favored than, say, using pesticides, is that it's not as efficient. You have to put more effort into organic gardening.

But it's worth it. It's cheap, it's fun, and you can protect your water supply. Remember, whatever we spray on our lawns and gardens ends up in our drinking water.

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Couplehood: Avoiding the Valentine Clichés

Posted 2 years ago by Andrea Dickson

Filed Under: Life Hacks

Valentine’s Day is nearly upon us, and you know what that means: lots of people are going to buy lots of dumb crap. But you are above and beyond that, because you read Wise Bread. I’m not saying that Wise Bread readers are smarter than everyone else, but I’m definitely implying it.

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Flower Power - A Guide to Frugal Valentine's Flowers

Posted January 26, 2007 - 13:46 by Andrea Dickson

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Flowers can be a huge expense on Valentine's Day - here's how to avoid spending a wad of cash on something that will be dead in a week anyway.

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