Collecting My Thoughts

I never intended to be a writer, but have been doing it since I was a child. In college I "majored" in other things, although noth...

  Many political conservatives or alternate voices in medicine, history and science are going to YouTube, pod-casts, alternative media to b...

"All told, consumers saved $3.6 billion by using coupons [out of $310 billion], which makes it difficult to understand why only 59 perc...

ABC News last night was pushing coupons as a way for Americans to save money in “these difficult times.” The usual coupon queen interviews--...

I found the article--it was in the September 2, 1981, Upper Arlington News --about 28 years ago. Here's the points I made. I did the re...

I mentioned I found a 1993 letter I'd written to "The Lutheran" about 15 Health Care values and principles. I also found a 198...

You just can't win with a coupon. I received a plastic, looks-like-a-credit-card coupon from Staples for $10. (Paper coupons are the si...

Really bad advice for saving on food The Extension Office at the University of Illinois has a special web page on financial advice , which i...

13 ways to burn calories if you're a coupon queen Today's Cranky Consumer in the Wall St. Journal reviews "best sites for coup...

Cooking from scratch saves money And still does. More about coupons, sweepstakes, refunding, over-lays, price increases. Everything except ...

Put those scissors down, babe! Clipping coupons will not put money in your gas tank. But that's what I heard on a TV feature last night...

Remembering why I hate coupons Generally, I refuse to play games with my food--coupons, sweepstakes, loyalty cards, filling out forms on th...

Monday Memories: My 10 minutes of fame Recently I wrote about the Hillbilly Housewife and her food budget. In September 1982 I was front...