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Date Created:
September 3, 2009
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Savings Challenge

Have the gift of thrift? Share your stories about haggling down prices, finding great deals, and creative ways you have cut down on your spending.

Through Dec. 31, "Ultimate Cheapskate" Jeff Yeager will be chiming in your discussions and awarding weekly prizes based on the creativity of your savvy shopping and saving and your success with Jeff's "Weekly Challenge." Each week during the Savings Challenge, Jeff may issue a weekly challenge about how to spend smarter. Post your comments, photos, videos here to the group. Jeff will contact you via your Message Center if you're a winner! Don't forget you can also track your daily savings using our online tool. Have fun!

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Saving money on Paper towels
By: pchancel on November 13, 2009 | Posts: 3 | Latest Post By: sheroliver on November 22, 2009
Savings at your public library
By: reading201 on November 13, 2009 | Posts: 6 | Latest Post By: sheroliver on November 22, 2009
Big savings
By: durkinr on November 21, 2009 | Posts: 1 | Latest Post By: Al56 on November 21, 2009
On Black Friday, per Hallmark's, Maxine..
By: withspirit on November 20, 2009 | Posts: 2 | Latest Post By: dawgandcatlover on November 21, 2009
6 ways to save
By: doghead on November 17, 2009 | Posts: 5 | Latest Post By: cydunne on November 21, 2009
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Just when my poooor wife thought I couldn't get any cheaper..

 

True story: Last weekend we traveled to Columbus, Ohio on family matters, and we stayed at a modestly priced hotel, the name of which I will withhold to protect all involved. It turned out that the hotel had an indoor swimming pool, and, of course, I hadn’t packed a swimsuit. (My wife: “Jeff, how many times did I tell you to pack your swim trunks?!” I discovered years ago in our marriage that that’s the type of question you don’t answer.)

At any rate, the young lady at the reception desk helpfully mentioned that there was a department store nearby where I could buy a swimsuit.  She could no doubt see me grimace at the thought. 
 
Then, as if I was channeling my Inner Miser: “You don’t by any chance have one in my size in your lost and found, do you?” I asked, half jokingly (well, maybe 10% jokingly).   My wife gasped.
 
“Well, actually,” the receptionist said, “we’re just getting ready to throw out a bunch of lost and find items that have been here for over a year. Let me check.” She returned with a neatly fold pair of swim trunks in my size, just one shade of burgundy lighter than my wife’s face. “Keep them when you’re through with them,” the receptionist said with a smile. 
 
“Do you have anything else back there in my size?” I asked, as my wife interrupted the conversation to request that our reservation for a king sized bed be changed to two doubles.  
 
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