Frugal

How to get 17 meals out of one chicken.

If you have unclaimed money in a dormant account, you are in famous company.

Valentine’s Day — that sweet, romantic and fun holiday — is almost here.  Give the gift of food and give heartfelt treats for your special one, and save money to boot!
The following recipes are listed by preparation time, longest to shortest.   Please do not immediately roll out the dough just after you’ve mixed it.  Your tastebuds [...]

Quick note here.  Visit the home page at http://gnivas.com/ and you will see a much richer experience with a lot more jumping off points and links.  These are some of our favorite frugal sites.  As part of our 2010 reworking of the site, we want to make it easier for you to navigate and find what [...]

Here’s how to make your own Balloon Boy costume for less than two dollars.  Instructions do not reveal a big secret.  Get a silver mylar balloon, make a gondola out of aluminum foil (dimensions included), tape the gondola to the balloon.  Unlike the balloon that got away, this one has two tethers.   Trick to making [...]

This is a piece of a bigger post carried at http://gnivas.com/verizon-mifi-sale-price-drop-3g-novatel-personal-wifi-cloud/
Over Memorial Day Verizon added one year and month-t-month contract offers for its new MiFi 2200 Intelligent Mobile Hotspot.  Cost of the MiFi 2200 hotspot $399.99 on the monthly or day-to day plan.  This $399.99 price point is a big uptick from the $270 reported [...]

Got this new offer today from 4inkjets.com.  Use this link for coupon code JAK375H and get 10% off everything (excluding OEM ink) and free shipping on orders over $50.  Good through July 31, 2009.  Updated the 20 Ways to Save Time and Money on Printer Ink and Toner story with the new discount. 

Money Saving Chocolate Covered Strawberries Recipe
In a previous post about low cost chocolate covered strawberries, Chocolate Angie asked if someone with little kitchen experience could make chocolate covered strawberries.  Not only are these easy to make at home, this illustrated chocolate covered strawberries recipe shows how to make tuxedo chocolate covered strawberries with black and white chocolate.  [...]

While updating the day old bread store nationwide directory, found out what just about everyone who has ever been in a Jimmy John’s sandwich shop already knows — Jimmy John’s sells loaves of bread more than four hours old as day old bread.  Price varies around the country, but around 50 cents a loaf is [...]

 
 
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Here’s how to get the Mars free candy bar coupon in two steps: 
1.  Use web address https://secure.realchocolate.com  This address gets you past the first landing (holding pattern) page of www.realchocolate.com and brings you straight to the “please enter your birth date” page.  Enter [...]

 
 
Mars has revised its plans to give away almost 7 million free chocolate candy bars, 5.5 million through coupons mailed out after you register at their special promotional site.  Mars is also doubling its weekly free chocolate giveaway this Friday, May 15 from 250,000 to 500,000 full value coupons for full-size M&Ms, Milky Way, Snickers, 3 Musketeers, Twix, [...]

Big thanks to www.heyitsfree.net for this info.  Free scoop of Bee-Built flavor ice cream at Haagen-Dazs shops today 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.  Find store locations with the  Haagen-Dazs store locator.  Yes, you have to go to a Haagen-Dazs store–this is not a giveaway at any grocery store that stocks Haagen-Dazs.  Also, per the company’s announcement, “Please call [...]

This is a deal that will probably be gone tomorrow, but had to write about it.  Writing a longer post on how I’m finding salvage priced food at regular grocery stores, but this deal can’t wait.  Large chocolate covered strawberries at Randall’s, four for 99 cents. 
Went into local Randall’s here in Austin this afternoon (Safeway [...]

Searchaweb.com is new malware unleashed May 4 infecting Google, Internet Explorer, Yahoo, and probably other search engines and browsers.  It is invasive, persistent, bad, from Russia without love, and showing up everywhere.
–beginning of update—
MAY 8 UPDATE–In addition to the short term workaround fix described below, a long term solution to the searchaweb malware is download a free copy of [...]

After posting a story about cheap ink, here’s a new code from inkgrabber.com for a “Buy 5+ Inkjet Cartridges and get 12% off (excludes OEM)” good through May 31.  The code is in the original post of Cheap Ink.  We are highlighting it again in case you have an order of more than $75.  The [...]

We wrote this  Cheap Ink Story once we realized

Ink comparison shopping sites usually end at the list price and do not include the shipping cost or any discount coupon codes
Up front ink advertised prices usually do not include the shipping cost or any notice about a minimum order to get free shipping
Ink is not cheap

We [...]