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There is also shopping and buying strategy that makes a difference. We saved quite a bit of holiday budget to wait for the expected after-holiday sales. That was part of our plan ahead of time. Since then, we have been looking through bargains worth picking up. It’s not about being overly frugal, but simply smart shopping. In fact, we bought a large LCD TV over the holiday. We also sold or gave away some stuff on Craigslist to those who can need some stuff more than we do.

As consumers, we are all trying to make do and get as much as possible for each dollar spent. Lately my family and I have been doing more research before buying anything, and have also done more online shopping and looked harder for better deals. As mentioned previously, we have not stopped spending, however.

One of the online sites we have found to be useful is:
http://www.uberi.com

They do have some interesting bargains listed that are not available even on price search engines. We were able to get more for each dollar. Hope that’s useful info for some.

Really? Because I KNOW I can tell the difference, and I know plenty of other people who can. Maybe there’s no difference for people who don’t care, but I care, and I can tell.

That being said I do agree with most people who have written here.
Bottled water is just city water with a few added minerals, but city water isn’t so pure either. As most of us do, I also buy bottled water once in a while to quench my thirst BUT I also use this same bottle a couple more times during the week. Otherwise I just drink from the company “Glugers” (you know that huge blue thing that *glugs* each time you take some water?), or my fridge filtration system (how effective this is I have no clue).

For those of you who are into REALLY clean water, there has been much research showing how our bodies are so adapted to living with a lot of bacteria that when we suddenly purify everything, sometimes the body has been known to react and become overactive. Check out Chron’s disease, also called the wealthy disease. Seriously, Google it: Chron’s disease the wealthy disease. Go ahead copy and paste it.
No one knows what causes it but researchers have suspicions that it’s a too clean envirionment that shocks the body that causes it….
Thought for the day….

Cleaning products as well. There are only a few that you could consider truly innovative.

Chilean sea bass- now available for upwards of 15 dollars a pound at the supermarket or 25 dollar in a fine restaurant is actually Patagonian toothfish..an ugly ass fish that was once, like sea robins, a throw away catch.

It was remarketed by chilean fishermen as “chilean sea bass”. As the toothfish..you couldn’t give away the fish, but as the more attractive chilean sea bass, they quickly created a market for the fish..causing it to be fished to near extinction today.