Frugal Café Blog Zone

Vicki McClure Davidson | February 23, 2009

By Vicki McClure Davidson * Frugal Café Blog Zone Good grief. Every time I turn around, it’s someone else in government earning the Conspicuous Consumption Blockhead Award. Is anyone on the Washington state government board named “Charlie Brown”? (“You promise you’re not going to yank the football away this time, Lucy?”  “Of course, I won’t [...]

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Vicki McClure Davidson | February 23, 2009

We’ve all gotten them: offers to get rich quick, buy prescription medications (especially Viagra) for dirt-cheap prices, invitations to work from home to earn high wages, sultry offers to meet other singles, queries from obscure banks, announcements that you’ve won foreign lotteries, any number of courier parcel or income tax refund scams… the list of [...]

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