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Entries from August 17th, 2009

Welcome to the Working Week

August 17th, 2009 1 Comment

Image by Getty Images via Daylife I’ve got a fun temporary full-time gig helping to launch a corporate web site, so blogging, which I try to save for evenings, has gotten squeezed lately. (Nights I’m trying to finish the other freelance projects due this month.) Financially, I feel like a space alien. It’s been nearly [...]

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Frugal Fail: Generic Foods Haiku

August 6th, 2009 No Comments

generic grape nuts lack a certain flavoring they used dust, I think generic cheese of the cottage type lacks body but brims with water off-label fruit cups glow eerily neon bright is this papaya?

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Cash For … Nevermind

August 3rd, 2009 2 Comments

Image by Getty Images via Daylife When word that the cash for clunkers rebate program had started, I emailed my husband: “What if we took the $4,500 rebate on the truck and sold the Passat?” We’d like to get a hybrid. This would take us down to one car, but with HourCar coming to our [...]

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