I am a Costco member. I use promo codes online and insist on relentless comparison shopping. I purchase clothes out of season to save cash. To put it kindly, I am careful with money. More directly, I am cheap. But there’s one cost-cutting measure I thought I’d never try: couponing. The idea of attacking a newspaper with scissors made me shudder. I was sure all those bits of paper would just get lost and expire at the bottom of my purse. The whole process seemed so tedious and definitely not worth the effort for 25 cents off laundry detergent.
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October is National Breast Cancer Awareness month. Many people worldwide help fund research for a cure towards breast cancer. Even though times may be financially tough right now, you too can show your support. No donation is too small. Here are 10 ways to show you care:1. Wear something (or everything!) pink!2. Use a pink [...]
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To drink sour milk is human; to eat yogurt is divine. The Hindu god Krishna likes yogurt. So do the sensual French. In some translations of the Song of Songs, the “land of milk and honey” is a haven chockablock with cultured dairy. Today, though, yogurt is less holy than wholesale, and even a devotee must sometimes suffer through the ugly specter of yogurt ennui. The hallmarks of this condition are, so to speak, plain: You buy the yogurt. You put the yogurt in the refrigerator. Eventually, you move the yogurt, untouched, to the trash. This is basically the yogurt version of a long-married couple checking into a lovers’ bed-and-breakfast and then dozing off, right after dinner, underneath the Wall Street Journal. The urge to spoon comes with an expiration date.
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