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Anyone remember the huge OP (Ocean Pacific) brand craze of the mid-1980’s? When I was kid, OP was the brand to have. Especially the curduroy shorts that were so short you had to be careful not to expose yourself when sitting down Indian style. I remember they were on the expensive side and my parents refused to buy […]

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I got pelted by both Sisterly Savings and Antishay Ventenne on this cool ‘Your Life in 6 Words’ meme. This is a tricky one, it took me a while to think of mine. With that said, here goes nothing:
“Keep Your Head Down and Focus.”
I proudly present the times in my life when this advice has kept me sane, kept me […]

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I am looking for some feedback on store coupon policies. A couple weeks ago my wife bought some summer clothes for our 3 kids at our local Old Navy store. She found some nice deals and ended up spend a little under $50. A couple days later we got an Old Navy coupon in the mail […]

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For the first time in a couple months I participated in the Carnival of Personal Finance this week. It is hosted at The Happy Rock and my post 5 Ways To Survive on One Income was chosen as an Editor’s Top Picks. Cool, thanks! Thanks ‘The Happy Rock’ for the effort, I really liked how you categorized […]

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First of all, thank you to everybody who entered! I had some really fun, educational, and interesting entries. So here is what I did. I took all the entries, put them in a hat, shook the heck out of it, held it up high and my wife drew a winner. Pretty high tech, huh?
Drumroll Please……………….
Without further-ado, the […]

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I got hit upside the head by a rotten tomato from my blogging buddy LJ at Mommy Gets PAID on a new meme that has been floating around called The Budget Busters Challenge. This one looks like a lot of fun! Works like this, I list the 5 things that can keep me from staying on […]

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For those of you coming by today from my 1st ‘Kyle’s Coupons’ guest feature at Being Frugal, welcome! Feel free to to kick off your shoes (or Crocs) and stay for awhile. Thanks again Lynnae for the opportunity! If you are looking for online coupons, here is a list of all the stores featured on Rather-Be-Shopping.com. Also, here […]

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Welcome to the 121st edition of the Festival of Frugality - Tax Day Edition. I hope you were able to get yours filed on time and moved on with your life! Over 80 entries (gulp, swallow hard) to this edition, very impressive stuff by some excellent writers. So without further-ado, here are my editor’s picks, followed by a whole […]

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I stumbled across an article from the Daily Mail UK titled, ‘Families throw away around one third of all the food they buy (including 4.4 million apples every day)‘. How about them apples? WOW! According to the article, that comes out to 6.7 million tons of food that goes in the trash every year in the UK! […]

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The majority of my site users (around 60%) and blog commenter’s are from women. But I often get emails from men who like my online coupons and love the conveniences of shopping online. I just got one the other day that read like this:
Stumbled across your coupon site a couple months ago and I must say […]

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