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General Thoughts and Fun Topics

What Is Bad Before Is Now Good

I saw on the news today on how apparently people are saying we got it all wrong as cholesterol is now a good thing as opposed to a bad thing. Therefore, this would result in creating different guidelines as to the types of things we should be eating for example. This just kind of shows

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Financial Management

Pricey Food That Makes You Think About Money

In the midst of looking at all the upcoming Black Friday sales I saw this one at Costco for something called a “Turducken” as you can see here: Based on this, the regular price is supposed to be $129.99 and it will be $30 off on Black Friday. Even with the savings, I can’t help

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General Thoughts and Fun Topics

Happy Thanksgiving In Canada

Happy Thanksgiving to all the Canadian visitors out there. I am fully expecting every supermarket here tomorrow to have things like cranberry related items on deep discounts. I was actually thinking of visiting various grocery places tomorrow too as research for that grocery spending test. Either way, have a great holiday everyone.

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General Thoughts and Fun Topics

Preparing Financially To Go To A Fair

I will be spending some time at a local fair tomorrow and of course that means being in an area where food and beverages are marked up like crazy. For example, a bottle of water costing over $3. Therefore, it’s not too bad of an idea to actually prepare some stuff ahead of time if

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Financial Management

Paying High Prices Dining Out To Be Polite

The other day I was meeting up with a person to do some catching up as it has been years. For the most part we simply went to grab a bite to eat and chatted all day which resulted in going to places like cafes too. The funny thing was for an unrelated shopping item

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General Thoughts and Fun Topics

Buying Items Passed The Expiry Date

While in the supermarket today I noticed that there were a ton of sauces on sale for as little as 44 cents. These would normally cost about $1+ or so according to the label. The catch here was that the best before date for these items were all labelled as March 2013. That means these

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