FitFool

things a weekend can teach you:

• Some men's pants have tiny little pockets inside the bottom of the regular pockets to hold loose change. How common is that? And why would it have taken over 3 decades for that to come to my attention? And why not put it in women's pants too?
  
• A tablespoon has 3 teaspoons in it -- not 6. This likely explains the failure of some recipes past.
  
• Yuppie stands for Young Urban Professional. I had never heard that before.
  
• It's possible to clean up a credit report. Disputed something on an old credit card and got that late payment taken off my record! ( Rest behind an LJ-cut since you might not care about credit reports )

I love deals. My sister turned me onto a deal hunting site and now I mostly just occasionally skim www.slickdeals.net and www.fatwallet.com though I used to be much more active. In 2005, I recovered $2211 (basically I paid $518 for stuff worth $2316). (and really my final cost could be considered even lower since I often turned around and sold those items on ebay or craigslist for a profit.)

( Read more to find out how you can get $100 or a free ipod or both )

The Entertainment Book has lots of coupons good at restaurants, retail stores, and some online sites. While I have never bought the book (I think it costs $20-25 for the paper copy), I have heard its praises sung many a time on Slickdeals.net, a deal-hunting forum I visit. Today someone posted instructions on getting it for free online. You have to give an email address to sign up for a free account that's good for 1 year. Then you can enter a zip code and look for participating places near you. Selection is best in metropolitan areas. Lots of "buy 1 meal, get 2nd one free" or "20% off meal" coupons.

You can read the instructions in the first post of this thread:
http://forums.slickdeals.net/showthread.php?t=169545