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• 02.26.08
  Frugal Frustrations Frugality | (1)

  This past weekend has provided some serious blogging material - we saw a foreclosure, filed our taxes, and we ran into some serious frugal frustrations. Our frugal frustrations all began earlier in the week when my wife failed to take full advantage of a certain CVS deal involving free hair care products. She didn't know that you could use coupons for buy one get one free (BOGO) items so the freeness that she had read about alluded her. She had also had a small mental error in taking advantage of the sweet Vons catalina (*snicker*) currently ...

  Tagged: budget busters, coupons, lessons learned, saving tips
  
• 01.22.08
  The Magic of a Bloomin’ Onion Frugality | (0)

  These flowery, fried onions have more magic to them than the slight burning sensation they leave at the back of my throat - getting one will almost certainly mean something you ordered will be free (hopefully its something sweet with a ridiculously dangerous name)(video). Now that may sound crazy to everyone who has ordered a Bloomin' Onion or one of the many copycat creations and had to actually pay for it and pay for your desert - or even go without desert altogether (gasp!). Rest assured, this has randomly happened to me twice so it must mean ...

  Tagged: cheap eats, saving tips
  
• 01.08.08
  My First CVS Experience Frugality | (3)

  Inspired by the likes of My Good Cents and Money Saving Mom my wife and I headed out for a trip to CVS, which apparently stands for "Crazy Values and Sales." I think it once meant "Consumer Value Stores", or at least that is what my dishes tell me (don't believe me, ask them yourself!) ... or was it Wikipedia, I forget. With us we took $150 worth of CVS gift cards we acquired from 6 one time prescriptions purchased for a trip to Ethiopia, coupons cut by my wife as I enjoyed the NFL playoffs, ...

  Tagged: coupons, Free Stuff, frugal failures, saving tips
  

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