Major appliances save a lot of effort. Even the hobbled energy-efficient ones are still better than nothing. It’s frustrating when things stop working, though. I know that we take our appliances for granted, and fixing appliances that aren’t working usually becomes a top priority very quickly. Water heaters, refrigerators, and freezers are way at the … Read more
With grocery prices expected to go up due to the unseasonable drought, you can expect to pay more for food. I’ll help you cut your grocery bill by sharing my top twelve ways to save on groceries. No extreme couponing necessary! Buy generic brands. Store brands tend to be less pricy and are sometimes manufactured … Read more
New dishwashers and clothes washers are stylized and sleek, with electronic sensors, LEDs, and digital displays. They’re quiet. (“Is it on?” advertises one of the upper-end dishwashers.) The newer paired washers and dryers really are nicely designed and even talk to one another. One might even say they’re pleasant to look at. (Tea and crumpets … Read more
Have you ever considered what friends are worth? It’s futile to put a price tag on friendship itself, though it’s fairly easy to argue that someone without any friends is bankrupt in some way. It takes time to cultivate friendships; this process can’t be accelerated by throwing money at the problem. Having a lot of … Read more
We don’t watch a whole lot of TV — and we only have basic cable anyway — so I’m not a regular watcher of Extreme Cheapskates on TLC. The first time I had heard of the show was through a video on MSN.com. This particular one-minute clip features four extreme cheapskate tactics: Cutting open toothpaste … Read more
Our clothes dryer had been not doing its job for the past few months. It would take a couple of cycles to get the clothes passably dry. It wasn’t like this when we first bought the dryer. We checked the parts we could see first. We were regularly cleaning out the lint trap. The heat … Read more
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