Archive for the ‘Frugal Living’ Category
Tuesday, April 29th, 2008
Retailers are lining up with carrots to help you put your economic stimulus check to good use. For large gift card purchases at stores like Kroger, Sears, KMart, and others, the retailers will kick in extra value on the gift card: up to 10% above what you pay for.
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Posted in Frugal Living, Personal Finance, Shopping | 12 Comments »
Tuesday, April 29th, 2008
Our Lions Club had a community yard sale a couple of weeks ago. There used to be a bigger selection of things to choose from but we don't have the same space available to us that we once did, so there aren't quite as many bigger items.We still get ...
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Thursday, April 24th, 2008
One of my daily break-time reads is Coding Horror. Jeff Atwood is almost to 100k subscribers on that blog; it's quite popular.Today Jeff's post rags on WordPress, the blogging engine that powers this blog as well as all the others my wife and I have. It's free to ...
Posted in Frugal Living | 8 Comments »
Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008
(Fair warning: rant ahead! Check out some really cute puppies or join MyPoints if rants aren't your thing.)I think I knew that Earth Day was coming up but the real reminder came when I checked Google today. They changed their logo's primary colors to a happy, huggy lush ...
Posted in Frugal Living, Three Green Rs | 8 Comments »
