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Simply Thrifty

April 3rd, 2007

About that Exercise Bike…

I have to be fair. Here I’ve been extolling the virtues of Freecycle and sometimes the goods aren’t all they’re cracked up to be. Case in point: remember the other day when I was thrilled to be picking up an exercise bike from a Freecycler? Well, guess what? The bike was a clunker. It […]

By Deborah Ng -- 5 comments

March 30th, 2007

Local Discounts: It Never Hurts to Ask

Something interesting happened today after I dropped my preschooler at the ice cream parlor for his class trip. A woman walked up to the counter and asked the manager if he had any discounts this week. “Sure,” he said and handed her a fist full of coupons “That was easy” I remarked as we […]

By Deborah Ng -- 1 comment