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51 Unusual Money-Saving Tips from Readers

Posted September 21, 2009 - 07:00 by Paul Michael

Frugal Living

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As a writer for Wise Bread, I get a fair number of emails that actually offer advice, rather that asking for it. Most of the time that advice is sound. Usually, I will either already know about it, or feature it in an upcoming article. But occasionally I get stuff that makes me scratch my head. This is one list you do not want to miss.

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Blergh! Could you eat these strange canned foods?

Posted January 30, 2008 - 10:22 by Paul Michael

Food and Drink, Consumer Affairs

Relief

I was raised on canned food. We never had much money, so my folks bought food in cans because it lasted forever, it was cheap and, if dented or without a label, really really cheap. Most times we'd open up a can like it was a present..."I wonder what's for dinner tonight?" I always ate it. Probably because most of the time, it was spaghetti hoops or green beans or something else just as inocuous. But what if the following items has been inside?

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Get your PC to give you coffee, bacon or even an orgasm.

Posted 2 years ago by Paul Michael

Filed Under: Life Hacks, DIY

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As a frugal shopper, I like to make my products work hard. If I can get something to double as an equally handy item (for instance, a belt buckle that opens beer bottles, a portable TV that's also a flashlight) then I'm happy.

So, I'm sat researching articles for Wisebread and I look down at my computer, ashamed. It has only ever been a computer. Surely, I thought, some bright sparks out there have figured out ways to make the PC into something so much more. Well, they have. Boy, they have. They're called casemods, and I found so many different functions for the humble PC that I was blown away. Until...until...

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