Archive for the "Budget" category


Word From the Web - Kids Eat Free!

Penny saving doesn’t get much better than FREE and this tasty site is set up to let you find out where you can feed hungry little rug-rats for free or at least at significant discounts. In tough times when every penny is by necessity a prisoner, sites like this make eating out with your children [...]

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Lessons in Life from The Biggest Loser

I may be The Biggest Loser’s biggest fan. I get so involved in the lives of these strangers that every season I find it hard to decide who I want to win. In Season 5 it seemed that Mark had not only shed all that excess weight but all the stuffy padding that he had [...]

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Word from the Web - How to Buy a Used Car

Given that the economy has gone to hell in a hand basket, I doubt many people are seriously considering buying a new car this year. There are great deals out there on used cars but it is easy to be sold a lemon. If you haven’t actually been in the market for a second hand [...]

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Use it up, wear it out, make it do, or do without

I have no idea if that was Hetty Green’s mantra but if not, it should have been.
She was the richest woman in American history according to a list compiled by the American Heritage Magazine in 1998 and yet despite having more money than your average nation, Mrs Green was known to be more than [...]

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Make Stock to Save Pennies

Continuing with the food waste theme, how can you save money on food when you have a family to feed?
At the extremes documented in the Food Wastage report the answer would be to stop throwing good food in unopened packages in the trash but not everyone is so totally careless. What if you are already [...]

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Word From The Web - No Budget Advertising

Whether you are trying to get a bricks and mortar fledgling company off the ground or create some buzz for a new website you need to get noticed. Big budget enterprises can throw a lot of money at advertising and marketing which makes it harder for mom and pop start-ups to get noticed.
In his Creative [...]

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