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Below is the link to full story about a mom who shares her frugal family feeding tips. They are pretty good tips to follow if you need to save money feeding your family, like we all do.

Here are some highlights from the article:

1. Cook more meals at home. Cooking a simple meal isn’t that hard — you’ll eat healthier and spend way less cash.
2. Use the ads to your advantage. Careful stocking up on sale items and loss-leaders will really cut your grocery bill. Incorporate as many sale items into your weekly menu as possible.
3. Take time to plan. It only takes a few minutes to plan a week’s worth of dinner meals. Having a simple menu planned will minimize visits to the drive-thru lane, reduce trips to the grocery store, and save you a ton of time and money.
4. Avoid impulse buys. If you’re not using a shopping list you’re likely to pick up more items on impulse. Research sh

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Football fans who watch their entertainment budgets know about money-saving tricks for their favorite sport. They’ll wait for a favorite out-of-state team to play a nearby team to keep travel costs down, check out the options at all-you-can-eat seats, attend pre-season games at the National Football League level, and look for food and beverage specials at the sports bars.

And for those who just enjoy the game, regardless of the age level, it’s certainly cheaper to get tickets to the youth and high school games than to the college and pro ball games.

But the expenses that are really easy to go crazy on involve the fan attire and accessories.

Consider this tip from a frugal playbook: A football fan can be part of a frugal team and still be decked out for the occasion. Here are five frugal fashion and school spirit tips for football fans on a budget:

1. Beg for team shirts and sweatshirts. And I don’t think you will have to “beg” very hard. Let famil Read full post…

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Last week the author Malcolm Gladwell poured cold water on the idea that revolution could be instigated by social media platforms such as Facebook and Twitter.

He centres his argument around the American civil rights movement, claiming that the strong bonds forged offline were required to spark action in the streets, where millions ultimately gathered in the 60s to protest against segregation and oppression. Social media, by contrast, forges only “weak ties”, says Gladwell. Not the kind of bonds required to make a difference where it really counts.

I think he’s completely missing the point. Martin Luther King’s status updates and tweets would have helped to spread awareness quickly, encouraging activism, had Facebook and Twitter been available in his day. You can bet your life he’d have used them to spread word. 

A connected world cannot be a bad thing for change, in whatever form it takes.

Revolution requires information, communication & networking, people, passion and action. The differ

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A trip to the local garden centre for backyard furniture could be a confusing expertise – what do I want ? what the best model for me ? What is going to go well with my way of living ? after which Do I would like, wooden, metallic, wicker or what ? Here we try to cowl the basics of what is available and some pointers that will help you choose.

Metallic can actually set the tone

Metallic Garden furnishings will if something look nice with just about any style of garden.. One other classical piece of metallic backyard furnishings is the one ornate iron bench, which may really set off a Victorian model garden. The options vary from fashionable light-weight aluminium to the more conventional iron and it ought to be doable to obtain the right piece of metal backyard furnishings on your garden. High Tip:

Frequently verify metal furnishings for rust. It’s sensible whether it is kept exterior to maneuver it into the storage when the climate gets colder for protection.

Teak – the previous favourite

Since teak is the most durable of all hardwoods, most customers desire backyard furniture constituted of teak wood. You p

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Newspapers? Dying? Television? Might as well die too. New media? That’s where future empires will be built.

At least that’s what some have been claiming since blogging and ‘new media‘ became a mainstream phenomenon. And to be sure, new media’s future does look bright. But is it as bright as many had predicted? Perhaps not.

The latest evidence of that: TechCrunch’s sale to AOL for a reported $25m to $60m. Most reports pin the price at or closer to the lower number, and while I’m sure TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington is quite happy with the outcome, the price is relatively low.

According to Inc. Magazine, TechCruch is generating $10m in revenue annually. At the low end, AOL’s reported acquisition price doesn’t seem to represent the type of multiple one might expect for a company that’s about to take over the media world. Back in 2007, arguments were made that TechCrunch could be worth a lot more than AOL has reportedly paid, and Arrington himself seemed to have plans for an empire worth well into the nine-figure range:

Already, he’s laying the groundwork for a whole stable of clued-in, hard-driving news blogs: MusicCrunch, SoftwareCrunch, TelecomCrunch.

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