Saturday, October 31, 2015

Money Crashers: Should I Buy Refurbished Electronics?

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About four years ago , we decided that my ten-year-old PowerMac could no longer be maintained. The Internet had changed too much, and no amo...
Friday, October 30, 2015

Money Crashers: Bottled Water vs. Tap Water

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I've never understood bottled water. I'm old enough to remember when no one drank it except yuppies, and nowadays it seems like no o...
Sunday, October 25, 2015

Salad of the Month: Grits Gratin with Arugula and Garlic

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Once again, I'm fudging the definition of "salad" slightly to use a hot dish as my Salad of the Month. But this time, I have ...
Friday, October 23, 2015

Money Crashers: 11 Things You Can Get for Free

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My latest Money Crashers article is about something everybody loves: free stuff. There are lots of articles out there about "freebies,...
Thursday, October 22, 2015

Money Crashers: Advantages & Disadvantages of Credit Cards

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My latest post on Money Crashers was more or less inspired by an argument I got into last summer—rather foolishly, I suppose—with one of the...
Saturday, October 17, 2015

The best way to store home-grown basil

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The weather report is warning of an early freeze tonight, so Brian and I just hastened out to the garden to harvest all our tender crops. Tw...
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Friday, October 9, 2015

Money Crashers: Landscaping With Native Plants

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As you all know, one of my pet peeves is the grass lawn. To me, it seems like I consider the very antithesis of ecofrugality: a plant that p...