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When shopping, make a list of the items you need and stick to it. Estimates of the total amount purchased by shoppers at the grocery store that are impulse buys (not what you went to the store to get) run as high as 40%. |
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If your car gets 25 miles per gallon, and each Lotto ticket purchased equals a gallon of gas in your car, it would take 730 round-trips to the moon before anyone won the jackpot.
Source: motherjones.com
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Christmas In a Down Economy
Thu Nov 12, 2009
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I've already heard from many people that they intend to drastically scale down their Christmas's this year due to the sour economy. They intend to give fewer gifts, to make more gifts, or to give gifts of time instead of physical objects. They may decorate less or make their own decorations. They intend to...
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