Posted on September 13, 2009 by melissact
Yep, seems official now: Clipping coupons is on the rise again. And I don’t think that’s a bad thing.
It is said that you can cut your grocery bill by over half, just by redeeming discount coupons. That reason alone should be enough to get anyone to open-up that weekly specials bag that’s delivered to our [...]
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Posted on August 27, 2009 by melissact
I don’t get it.
You leave the city, for vaster and greener spaces and a greater quality of life. Whether you accept it or not, when you live in the burbs, you live near malls, plazas and shopping centres. When you lived in the city, large surface stores were a rarity. Even a novelty as you’d [...]
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Posted on August 4, 2009 by melissact
It’s amazing how the more you have, the more you want and the less you have, the more you realize you don’t need that much. I know everyone says it in some form or another but for me it took something like this recession to make me see that I have more than enough to [...]
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