Posted June 24, 2009 - 09:12 by Paul Michael
Personal Finance, General Tips, Shopping, Lifestyle, Budgeting
How are you doing with your money? Do you have everything under control, or are you spending a little more than you should? Well, if you'd like to blow even more of your money, this list will help you empty your bank account in half the time you usually do. Enjoy.
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Posted August 21, 2008 - 12:00 by Paul Michael
Frugal Living, Green Living, Consumer Affairs
In this day and age of the internet, free Google 411 and a host of other paperless directory services, what use do the big, fat phone directories serve? I don’t know about you, but when I get those large plastic bags filled with 3lb phone books, I usually put them straight in the recycling bin. We never use them. Now a website similar to the National No-Call registry is asking you to sign up and stop receiving these archaic books.
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Posted July 11, 2008 - 03:07 by Linsey Knerl
Personal Finance, Consumer Affairs
Just when I thought credit card companies couldn’t get any more wasteful, I received the mother of all credit card offers in the mail. Excited by what I thought was something worthwhile in a rather thick envelope, I got duped. And the contents weren’t even worth reusing…..
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Posted January 25, 2008 - 00:12 by Nora Dunn
Green Living, Consumer Affairs
Let's start an easy revolution. One in which you, me, and everybody else who frequents coffee shops can eliminate 23lbs of waste per year and save 18% of what goes into landfills. That adds up.
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Posted January 18, 2008 - 22:34 by Linsey Knerl
Frugal Living, Food and Drink, Art and Leisure, Green Living
In China alone, an estimated 45 billion pairs of disposable chopsticks are used and thrown away every year. This equals the wood from 25 million fully grown trees every year! If you’re not sure you’re going to use that chopstick again, give it a wash, and put it to use with these handy tips!
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Posted May 13, 2007 - 23:34 by Andrea Dickson
Frugal Living, Food and Drink
Think baby carrots are a convenient, cheap snack food? Well, you're right. But there's something a bit deceptive about baby carrots - for one, they're not babies. For another, they don't taste like carrots.
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As I fall deeper and deeper into veggie-eating, plastic-eschewing hippiedom, I thought I'd share some of my ideas for reducing, reusing, or recycling. There's nothing here you haven't heard before, but that doesn't mean it isn't valuable information!
Here are things that I've started keeping in my car to keep me from overspending or wasting.
Pack a lunch that packs a punch
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I hail from The Apple Capital of the World, so I know a thing or two about apples. For instance, eating three apples a day helps you lose weight.
That is, if you can manage to eat three apples a day. As somone who really loves apples, I can attest that apple fatigue is REALLY easy to come by.
Continue reading "When Good Food Goes Bad Part VI: Apples"
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Why buy groceries, when you can get your weekly shop for free? Many people do it, but there is a catch. Instead of going in to your supermarket through the front door, you have to go to a different department. The dumpster.
It's estimated that the US alone throws away roughly $100 billion in food every year. And most of it is perfectly edible. It's a crying shame, and it's the reason Freeganism is becoming more and more popular in the US and western Europe.
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How far would you go to save the world?
Upon reading the New York Times article about the Beaven-Conlin household in Manhattan, I started to get a little queasy. The article delves a bit into the lives of a couple and their young daughter, yuppies who live affluent lives in New York City. They've taken the idea behind The Compact, and then taken it a LOT farther. They are trying to live for one year with absolute minimal impact on the environment.
Continue reading "Life Without Toiletpaper - Bum Deal?"
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