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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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Can’t Afford a Pet? Skip the Ant Farm: Try Fostering a Dog or Cat

June 24th, 2009 2 Comments

Did you know ants bury their dead? Last night, the last ant standing in our $12 ant farm (courtesy of my mom, so free to us — thanks mom!) joined its companions in the designated burial ground — sand mounded like drifts of snow around the little plastic barns and silos. As you can see, [...]

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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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When Frugal Goes Too Far

January 12th, 2009 3 Comments

Image by Getty Images via Daylife Overall, I’m proud of the new discipline we’re applying to our finances. But frugal can be taken too far. I realized this last week, as I nearly ran into a median driving to Target. It was a blindingly bright day, but I couldn’t wear my sunglasses, because I wasn’t [...]

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