Do You Really Need a Smartphone?
I’ll admit it’s really cool to have a phone that you can use to play games, look at the Internet, watch movies, chat, and … […]
Category: Spending
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Use Pump Bottles for Dish-washing Liquid
Did you ever notice that it’s not easy to get just a small amount of dish-washing liquid from the bottle it’s sold in? Dish-washing liquid […]
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Re-Use Cereal Bags
Do you throw away cereal bags, a.k.a dry food inner liners, the bags inside boxes in which foods such as breakfast cereals and crackers are packaged? Those are high-quality […]
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Cut Your Hair Yourself
Russell Baker cuts his own hair (and if you think a man who cuts his own hair couldn’t look good enough to be seen in […]
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Get a VHS Player
If you have memories from before the 2000s, you might remember when “videos” meant “videotapes”, usually in VHS format. (“Betamax” was the other format, but […]
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$30 For Carrying a Box to Work
I like a snack after lunch. Snacks from the vending machines cost between $1 and $2 each. So this past weekend at Costco I bought a box of 36 […]
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Pay Attention to Expiration Dates
I was really peeved yesterday to find that there were two large containers of yogurt in my refrigerator. This table shows the state they were […]
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Use the Toilet at Work
You go to the toilet for a #2 once a day anyway, so if you’re at work … why not go while you’re there? You […]
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Is That Shampoo Bottle Empty?
More than once I’ve noticed an “empty” shampoo bottle that someone in my house (not I) threw in the trash … and upon closer examination […]
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Avoid ATM Fees
Paying a fee to use an automatic teller machine (ATM) is an outrage. If the fee were something like 25¢ that might be okay. But of […]
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Why You Need to Save Money
Because you don’t have enough money — that’s why! Okay, maybe that statement doesn’t apply to 100% of the people who might read this. But […]
