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August 19th, 2008 at 07:48 pm

I sold a book on 1/2.com for $2.00 plus shipping. Not much, but better than nothing. Someone also requested a book from me at paperback swap . com, so I need to get that in the mail as well.

Cancelled my newspaper subscription. I love the paper, but I can read it online just as easily. The only thing I'll really miss are the coupons, but it turns out that it would be cheaper to buy the Sunday copy than have it delivered everyday, (if I can't bum coupons off my friends, that is!).

I also changed a service on my cell phone that I was receiving and used, but I didn't love it enough to keep the $15/month charge.

I'm really trying to weed through my expenses and shave them down wherever I can. Next call: insurance company to raise auto deductible to $1000. Slow and steady wins the race...

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6 Responses to “Daily musings”

  1. njdebbie Says:
    August 19th, 2008 at 08:40 pm 1219178403
    1219178403

    Your local library may have a coupon exchange program or a coupon bin for the taking.

  2. Amber Says:
    August 19th, 2008 at 09:24 pm 1219181073
    1219181073

    Way to go on cutting back. I only buy the Sunday paper as well but on Mondays because it's .75 cents vs $1.25 on Sundays

  3. retire@50 Says:
    August 20th, 2008 at 12:02 am 1219190576
    1219190576

    Our paper has a deal where they only deliver the Sunday paper and it's quite a bit cheaper than buying it each Sunday. You might check if your paper has something similar.

  4. Cindy Says:
    August 20th, 2008 at 12:38 am 1219192718
    1219192718

    I got rid of my paper too and realized for coupons I was better off "buying" coupons on ebay or from another website that I use that sells coupons. I search for coupons on things I buy on a regular basis and buy them in bulk. For example I recently bought 10 $1.00 off coupons for a frozen product I buy. I checked around my area to see who had the best price, bought 10 of them and used all of my $1.00 off coupons. Saved $10 and now I'm stocked up for the month. Don't know if I'm allowed to say this, but if you click on my name you should be able to see my blog where I post about this as well as other cheap ideas. Keep up the good work!

  5. cptacek Says:
    August 20th, 2008 at 04:16 am 1219205761
    1219205761

    Have you tried turning down the hot water heater and turning it up when you need it? It really helps with the gas (or electric) bill. My gas water heater only takes about 10 minutes to really heat up, and during the summer, it doesn't lose that much heat anyway so I can just keep it on the vacation setting for pretty much everything.

  6. frugaltexan75 Says:
    August 21st, 2008 at 01:47 am 1219283236
    1219283236

    Try taylortownpreview.com for coupons. The site lists what coupons will be in the coming weekend's paper, and you can "buy" whichever individual coupons you want. Gilda (the person who does it) sends the coupons pretty quickly.

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