Frugal Café Blog Zone

Vicki McClure Davidson | October 24, 2011

  I’m all set for Halloween. A colleague gave me a fabulously feathered Mardi Gras mask as a little gift from his recent trip to New Orleans, and I’ll either resurrect my black high school graduation gown (the nearly always perfect, last-minute Halloween garb) or a long-sleeved, slinky black sorceress dress I made eons ago [...]

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Vicki McClure Davidson | June 18, 2010

Another popular, processed canned food (too expensive and low in nutrition for what you’re paying, so maybe this is a good thing) is being recalled. The Campbell’s Soup company has just issued a recall for SpaghettiOs with meatballs as there are concerns that the meatballs in the product are not fully cooked, presenting a health [...]

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Vicki McClure Davidson | June 17, 2010

This is the worst economic recession that America has suffered in more than three decades. As a result, more and more hard-working people who have never experienced unemployment, underemployment, or income slashing are in need of debt counseling. Whether it is some simple belt tightening on eliminating frivolous purchases and being more frugal during these [...]

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