Grocery Store Deals and Coupon Match Ups Roundup: Harris Teeter, Marsh, Superfresh, Butera + More

You can now find grocery deals and coupon match ups for over 100 stores across the country right here on Common Sense with Money. I have partnered with a great selection of bloggers who do a great job at covering their local stores and you can now use my new grocery pages to find these deals faster. These deals are updated daily, so make sure to stop by often to check them out. I will also be providing you with roundups throughout the day to let you know what new deals have been made available.

You can check out all deals that have been updated by clicking on the links below:

You can also click on the Grocery Stores Icon at the top of the homepage. A multi-column menu will drop down with a list of all the stores covered

And here are some of the ones that have been updated in the last 24 hours.

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Grocery Store Deals and Coupon Match Ups Roundup: Giant Eagle, HEB, Dominick’s, Shaws + More

You can now find grocery deals and coupon match ups for over 100 stores across the country right here on Common Sense with Money. I have partnered with a great selection of bloggers who do a great job at covering their local stores and you can now use my new grocery pages to find these deals faster. These deals are updated daily, so make sure to stop by often to check them out. I will also be providing you with roundups throughout the day to let you know what new deals have been made available.

You can check out all deals that have been updated by clicking on the links below:

You can also click on the Grocery Stores Icon at the top of the homepage. A multi-column menu will drop down with a list of all the stores covered

And here are some of the ones that have been updated in the last 24 hours.

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Grocery Store Deals and Coupon Match Ups Roundup: Bi – Lo, MARTIN’S, Safeway, King Soopers + More

You can now find grocery deals and coupon match ups for over 100 stores across the country right here on Common Sense with Money. I have partnered with a great selection of bloggers who do a great job at covering their local stores and you can now use my new grocery pages to find these deals faster. These deals are updated daily, so make sure to stop by often to check them out. I will also be providing you with roundups throughout the day to let you know what new deals have been made available.

You can check out all deals that have been updated by clicking on the links below:

You can also click on the Grocery Stores Icon at the top of the homepage. A multi-column menu will drop down with a list of all the stores covered

And here are some of the ones that have been updated in the last 24 hours.

View the original article here

Round-Up of Organic & Natural Deals – October 12

Welcome back to Common Sense with Money! Don't forget to get your free copy of the ebook Extreme Couponing 101 and Learn the Secrets of Savings Thousands by Using Coupons. Thank you for visiting!

Check out the latest organic and natural coupons and deals.

Earth Fare: 50% off Baked Sale (Single Muffins, Brownies, & Cookies). Register or log into your “Welcome Home” account to print.  Coupon valid until Sunday October 16, 2011.

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The Simple Dollar Weekly Roundup: Christmas Thoughts Edition

This week, I went through the archives of several of my favorite personal productivity and personal finance blogs and found some of my favorite articles they had written about the Christmas season. I hope you enjoy them as much as I do.

A Non-Consumer Christmas: Simple Gifts for Kids and Grown-Ups Our biggest challenge, honestly, is limiting who we give gifts to. We have deeply enjoyed giving our homemade gifts to neighbors, people who provide services for us, and countless others this year. (@ get rich slowly)

What to do with holiday cards? Recycle! I’m going to save a pile of this year’s cards for use in 2011. (@ unclutterer)

Happiness is…a Beautiful Scent: Fireplace, Baby Powder, Christmas Tree. This absolutely hits a home run in terms of expressing why I love real trees at Christmas instead of artificial ones. It’s the aroma. (@ happiness project)

Holiday Safety Tips for Home and Away I really advocate for people asking their police department for a “vacation watch.” (@ frugal dad)

5 Ways To Deal With Holiday Stress & Battle The Christmas Blues My biggest problem is a mild case of seasonal affective disorder that I seem to get each winter no matter what I do to try to prevent it. (@ the digerati life)

What Christmas Is NOT About The reason I write about Christmas so much is because it’s the best opportunity I have during the year to reconnect with a lot of people in my life and show them that they’re appreciated. There are many, many friends and family members whose schedules make it difficult for us to meet up, but almost all of us have time off at Christmas for each other. (@ man vs. debt)

The Case Against Buying Christmas Presents Absolutely. Make some instead. (@ zen habits)

35 Gifts Your Children Will Never Forget Even better, these are gifts you can give your children all throughout the year. (@ becoming minimalist)

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The Simple Dollar Weekly Roundup: Novel Update Edition

On November 2, I wrote about 10,000 words of my novel I’m writing this month. I was about to upload it, except we had some internet issues, so I decided to upload it the next morning.

I woke up the next morning, read some of what I had written, and hated all of it. So I started from scratch, re-drafting my plot outline and my character descriptions before starting over. My first upload of this revised novel finally happened last night at my Posterous site for the novel.

Whew.

Deal or No Deal? Comparing Dollar Stores to Walmart & Others This post just goes to show that no store has the lowest prices on everything and no matter how much you shop around, some other place will have a lower price on the item you’re looking at. (@ len penzo)

The Graduated Tithe – A Good Alternative to Tithing? I think there’s a nugget of a good idea here, in that people with large incomes may be able to tithe a larger percentage than people with lower incomes, but the idea as presented goes a little far, I think. (@ provident plan)

Never Work Again This is all about the perception of work when it comes to teaching children about it. The challenge I have is that if I don’t make clear at least some of the things I need to do, my children will just assume that I am always free to play with them. Why fix dinner when I can play Hey, That’s My Fish? Why do any writing when I can go to the park? (@ man vs. debt)

Budgeting for Mistakes I usually handle this by having an “overrun” in each month’s budget. I basically add on about 20% on top of what I estimate I’ll spend in a given month, to account for mistakes and unexpected events. (@ get rich slowly)

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The Simple Dollar Weekly Roundup: Printing Photos Edition

I’ve been experimenting with photo printing at home (related to an upcoming post). I’ve lost quite a bit of money simply mis-printing photos and trying new things.

My conclusion? If you’re printing a wide variety of stuff, you’re probably better off using a service. A one-off photo is fine. A bunch of photos? Find a service.

Cheap Things You Never Use Are No Bargain Excellent article. I have a follow-up post that I want to write, but it needs to percolate for a little while. (@ get rich slowly)

11 Reasons to Ditch Your Television When I see statistics like “the average American watches five hours of television a day,” I shudder. Yes, I know that averages aren’t perfect statistics, but even if you have one person watching two hours and one person watching eight hours, that’s still every day. (@ man vs. debt)

A Simple Formula for Financial Independence This is an interesting way to look at your expenses. It puts those little expenses in the light of what they’re costing you in terms of financial independence. (@ frugal dad)

Why Marriage Makes It So Hard to Control Remodeling Costs. (Well, Kinda Sorta.) This really boils down to the whole “supersizing” effect. If we’re already buying something, why not throw in more cash and make it a bit “better”? (@ len penzo)

The Path Between Fear and Overconfidence While this article uses investing as the backbone, this is really true of any fear people want to overcome in life. (@ dividend monk)

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The Simple Dollar Weekly Roundup: Doctor Who Edition

The only television programming I have watched in the last three weeks is Doctor Who. I’m not sure what exactly that says about me.

Anyway, here are a few articles of interest, starting with a few freelance pieces by me that have appeared at OPENForum.com.

Askers, Guessers, and the Art of Negotiation This is a further discussion of an issue I’ve talked about on The Simple Dollar before. People negotiate with each other in very different ways, and being aware of those differences can make all the difference. (@ open forum)

Does Your Community Know You? One of my favorite small businesses is going out of business! Why? They made one simple mistake – but it was a pretty big one. (@ open forum)

The Hard Choices Sometimes, we’re stuck in a corner and can’t find an easy way out of it. Which of several bad choices do we make? (@ open forum)

A Minimalist’s Guide to eBay: The Least You Need to Know to Get Started Good information here. I have sold quite a few things on eBay over the years, mostly liquidating things I no longer wanted. (@ zen habits)

Do you know your ABC’s? How to Control Negative Self-Talk It is very hard to overcome beating yourself up internally. I still struggle with it all the time. (@ pick the brain)

The “lost decade” you should really be afraid of Shocker: it’s the past decade, because real wages have actually dropped 5% since the end of the Clinton years. (@ pop economics)

Inflation and Your Mortgage With interest rates as low as they are, it’s conceivable that inflation could actually exceed the interest rate of your mortgage in future years. That creates some weird projections for real dollars spent on your mortgage over the next decade or two. (@ all financial matters)

Improved Probabilistic Inference as a General Learning Mechanism with Action Video Games A new paper in Current Biology backs up something I’ve believed to be true for years – video games help with improving one’s decision-making and information processing abilities. Yes, they make you smarter. (@ cell via the 99 percent)

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