Posted in Deals, Eating, Green Living, Saving, Shopping, food, money, thrift, tagged Saving, milk, organic, coupons, Deals on June 19, 2008 | 3 Comments »
This showed up yesterday on The “Cent”sible Sawyer - coupons for organic goods. I would save it for Friday, but some of these things can expire quickly, so I’d advise jumping right on it.
Some of the services only send you coupons once, so bear that in mind, as well.
I had my own money-saving moment this [...]
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Posted in Children, Deals, Saving, Shopping, money, tagged Deals, savings, bank, ipod, shuffle, amex, american express cash, upromise, college on June 11, 2008 | 1 Comment »
We haven’t had a deal of the week in a long time! But there are a few deals out there too good to pass up.
It’s spring clearance season. If you need winter items (stock up for next year!) check out these great bargain sites: Land’s End, LL Bean, Campmor and Sierra Trading Post. You can [...]
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Posted in Eating, Home, Saving, Shopping, money, tagged economy, ethanol, food costs, prices, weak dollar, wheat on June 4, 2008 | 6 Comments »
Yesterday, we experienced the cold, hard truth about food costs.
Last year, on June 30, 2007, I purchased a 25-pound sack of flour at Costco. Just all-purpose flour. Nothing fancy. It cost $4.79, or $0.19 per pound.
Yesterday (June 3, 2008), I purchased the exact same product. It cost $8.49, or $0.34 per pound.
That’s a 79 percent [...]
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Posted in Eating, Environment, Green Living, Shopping, food, money, tagged food, fruit, healthy, milk, nutrition, organic, studies, vegetables on June 3, 2008 | 7 Comments »
Last week I came across this blog looking at whether organic food is healthier than conventionally grown foods. I missed the story on NPR, but it sounds like organic fruits and veggies just might be more nutritious than “regular.”
(Regular, of course, is a relatively modern invention — “conventional” foods WERE organic for, oh, thousands of [...]
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Posted in Deals, Home, Saving, Shopping, money, tagged cookware, Deals, kitchenaid, pans, pots on June 2, 2008 | No Comments »
Just saw this (via Slickdeals.net) - if you are in the market for a whole set of cookware, check it out! We do not have this cookware, although we have some KitchenAid utensils and an omelet pan that are excellent.
You can purchase a 12-piece hard-anodized cookware set or a 12-piece hard base cookware set (I [...]
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Posted in Environment, Green Living, Home, Saving, Shopping, carbon, energy, food, local, money, paper, recycling, thrift, utilities, waste, water, tagged waste, recycling, reuse, gas, 90% reduction, 90 percent reduction, riot for austerity, reduce, electricity, garbage, water, food on May 29, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Organic Needle reminded me to do an update on our performance during the Riot for Austerity, which I started 10 months ago. This is the 90 percent challenge that I’ve mentioned on this blog — with the goal of cutting consumption by 90 percent from U.S. average consumption.
Here’s the update on what I did and [...]
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The other day I went to our local grocery store and saw this:
I’m still kind of new to my camera phone, so it’s a hideous shot (and I wasn’t shopping at a totally deserted store … just managed to get no one in my shot!).
But the orange sign is a handwritten sign that says “Did [...]
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Posted in Children, Fun, Green Living, Shopping, thrift, waste, tagged bags, Children, ducks, Green Living, green project, kids, play, recycling, reuse, Shopping on May 21, 2008 | 8 Comments »
“This bag does not come from my store,” the “shopkeeper” said. “I use all bags that I’ve gotten from other places. I’m doing the ‘green project’ this year.”
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Sorry everyone … this was supposed to automatically publish on Friday, but I was out of town and I see that it didn’t! Catching up today …
Food prices are going up, and Liz Pulliam Weston wrote about how to save – including not buying (pricier) brown eggs based on the (false) premise that they are [...]
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Posted in DIY, Deals, Environment, Green Living, Home, Saving, Shopping, money, recycling, thrift, waste, tagged beans, dimmer switch, money, paying more, recession, recycling, Saving, spending on April 25, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Here are three four great articles I stumbled across this week.
This blog post examines the reasons we pay more than we have to, from many perspectives. It’s no crime to pay more — but it is a wise idea to make that decision consciously, rather than falling into constant overspending.
This article isn’t a compendium of [...]
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