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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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Frugal Fail: DIY Disasters

May 18th, 2009 No Comments

Laugh-out-loud funny examples from frugal’s dark side in today’s New York Times, including: A poor Minneapolis woman whose attempted DIY toilet fix cost her a ceiling, a car bumper, and some garage shelves and gardening supplies; Another woman who bleached her hair so badly that it broke off; and Several wicked cases of food poisoning.

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Frugal Fail: Museum Docents Don’t Read and Don’t Have Kids

May 1st, 2009 3 Comments

We have a file here called “stuff to do” — a list to which to turn when it is rainy and the kids and I are desperate to get out of the house. So the other day I thought I’d try the Hennepin History Museum, which says it has a gallery of keepsakes from childhood [...]

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