Smart Shopping

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We ran blind taste tests on twenty pantry staples with the neighbors. The store brand won most of them. Not all.

Appliance prices follow a calendar. Buy in the wrong month and you pay full price for the same machine.

$Warehouse Club Math: Is the Membership Paying for Itself?$

A year of receipts from the club and the regular supermarket, side by side. The membership wins, but only on about thirty items.

Manufacturer refurbished, seller refurbished and open box are three different things. Only one of them comes with a real warranty.

Solid wood is worth driving for. Particleboard is not worth carrying down the stairs.

Prices online move daily. A few free tools show the history, so you know whether the sale is a sale.

Children outgrow clothes faster than they wear them out. That is the whole opportunity.