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47 Simple Ways To Waste Money

Posted June 24, 2009 - 09:12 by Paul Michael

Personal Finance, General Tips, Shopping, Lifestyle, Budgeting

Burn money

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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Opt-out of the wasteful $26 billion phone directory industry

Posted August 21, 2008 - 12:00 by Paul Michael

Frugal Living, Green Living, Consumer Affairs

yellow pages in the dumpster

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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Capital One: What’s In Your Envelope?

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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The Coffee Cup Revolution: Let's Take a Stand!

Posted January 25, 2008 - 00:12 by Nora Dunn

Green Living, Consumer Affairs

coffee cup

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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New Ideas for the Chopstick

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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Baby Carrots - The Frugal Idea That Isn't

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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Keep These Things in Your Car; Save Money

Posted 2 years ago by Andrea Dickson

Filed Under: Food and Drink

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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When Good Food Goes Bad Part VI: Apples

Posted 2 years ago by Andrea Dickson

Filed Under: Food and Drink

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.

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a 3-course meal...from garbage.

Posted 2 years ago by Paul Michael

Filed Under: Food and Drink

Dumpster

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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Life Without Toiletpaper - Bum Deal?

Posted 2 years ago by Andrea Dickson

Filed Under: Lifestyle

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.

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