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TOPIC: VANILLA ICE FANS ONLY
http://groups.google.com/group/misc.consumers.frugal-living/browse_thread/thread/13b83054ee375dfc?hl=en
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== 1 of 1 ==
Date: Tues, Jun 24 2008 7:50 pm
From: markritter151@gmail.com

The "Cool as Ice Blu-Ray" petition has been featured in seven major
news outlets already, including CNN and USA Today. There are already
342 votes to get Vanilla Ice's awesome move "Cool as Ice" released in
high-definition Blu-Ray disc. Add your name (or someone you know) to
the petition today!

http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/coolasicebluray

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TOPIC: Marktforscher Marktforscherin jobangebote norddeutschland Mechatroniker
Mechatronikerin stellen deutschland stellenangebot vertrieb Facility Manager
Facility Managerin jobangebote im ausland karriere deutschland
http://groups.google.com/group/misc.consumers.frugal-living/browse_thread/thread/38d2026860348b22?hl=en
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== 1 of 1 ==
Date: Wed, Jun 25 2008 2:36 am
From: lilb81116@googlemail.com

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TOPIC: Please Vote for AMIN!!
http://groups.google.com/group/misc.consumers.frugal-living/browse_thread/thread/1d69f63af30b8911?hl=en
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== 1 of 4 ==
Date: Wed, Jun 25 2008 3:29 am
From: clams_casino

vote4amin wrote:

>Dear frens,
>
>

sorry, but no spammer is a fren of mine.

>Need your help to spend a minute of your time to vote for my little
>boy
>
>

If I vote more than once, can I get additional virus? Or is there only
one downloadable virus?

>
>
>

== 2 of 4 ==
Date: Wed, Jun 25 2008 4:19 am
From: Dan Birchall

OMG. What is the word "Cute" doing in this contest? There are some
positively _frightening_ looking people on that page! And most of the
kids look traumatized or otherwise profoundly unhappy.

--
"Infirm indeed are my bones, and the hair of my head doth glisten with
grey: but never am I unblest."

== 3 of 4 ==
Date: Wed, Jun 25 2008 5:20 am
From: clams_casino

Dan Birchall wrote:

>OMG. What is the word "Cute" doing in this contest? There are some
>positively _frightening_ looking people on that page! And most of the
>kids look traumatized or otherwise profoundly unhappy.
>
>
>
Considering this spam was posted via Maylasia:, before you link with
spam such as this - "An analysis by Google found that 10% of all web
pages are equipped to secretly download spyware and other malicious code
on user's computers. These downloads can steal login and password
information, install unwanted bookmarks and toolbars, and even damage
operating systems."

== 4 of 4 ==
Date: Wed, Jun 25 2008 7:59 am
From: Al Bundy

On Jun 24, 10:00 pm, vote4amin <vote4a...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear frens,
>
> Need your help to spend a minute of your time to vote for my little
> boy in Cutefam 2008 contest. Please click --->>>http://www.thelilcaliph.com/CuteFam2008/voteWithCodes.htmlto vote.
> The rule is only one vote per ip per day. So, you can only vote once
> a
> day until 28th June. Appreciate if you can forward this link to your
> frens and family. Thanks a lot in advanced for your help.

I checked. Nobody in your entire family pictured there is cute.
We'll have the UN send some Plumpinut instead, epap if you prefer.

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TOPIC: how have you fought against shrinking cereal?
http://groups.google.com/group/misc.consumers.frugal-living/browse_thread/thread/97e6d127104a33a1?hl=en
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== 1 of 12 ==
Date: Wed, Jun 25 2008 4:52 am
From: "OhioGuy"

I just heard that the average size of a box of cereal is shrinking by 2.3
ounces. Outrageous! Most cereals I see now are very processed, and
horribly expensive - often $3 or more per pound when you do the math. I can
often get decent cuts of meat for about that.

I'm tired of feeling gouged for cereals, and am wondering how you folks
have fought back against the high prices.

For years, I've considered buying grain bulk (several of my uncles are
farmers) and trying to process it into something we can eat for breakfast
(like hot wheat, or whatever), but I've never tried it, and am afraid my
kids might not eat it.

== 2 of 12 ==
Date: Wed, Jun 25 2008 4:15 am
From: Dan Birchall

none@none.net (OhioGuy) wrote:
> I just heard that the average size of a box of cereal is shrinking by 2.3
> ounces. Outrageous! Most cereals I see now are very processed, and
> horribly expensive - often $3 or more per pound when you do the math. I can
> often get decent cuts of meat for about that.
>
> I'm tired of feeling gouged for cereals, and am wondering how you folks
> have fought back against the high prices.
>
> For years, I've considered buying grain bulk (several of my uncles are
> farmers) and trying to process it into something we can eat for breakfast
> (like hot wheat, or whatever), but I've never tried it, and am afraid my
> kids might not eat it.

I knew I had blogged about this sort of thing a couple years ago...
http://danbirchall.multiply.com/journal/item/324

They're screwing around not only with the price and the size of the box,
but also with the size of the serving. :)

--
"Infirm indeed are my bones, and the hair of my head doth glisten with
grey: but never am I unblest."

== 3 of 12 ==
Date: Wed, Jun 25 2008 4:30 am
From: Siskuwihane

On Jun 25, 7:52 am, "OhioGuy" <n...@none.net> wrote:
> I just heard that the average size of a box of cereal is shrinking by 2.3
> ounces. Outrageous! Most cereals I see now are very processed, and
> horribly expensive - often $3 or more per pound when you do the math. I can
> often get decent cuts of meat for about that.

The average price per pound for Malt-O-Meal Frosted Mini-Spooners is
$1.63.
M-O-M Golden Puffs, $1.78 per pound.

>
> I'm tired of feeling gouged for cereals, and am wondering how you folks
> have fought back against the high prices.

By eating a slice of whole wheat toast and 2 teaspoons of
peanutbutter.

>
> For years, I've considered buying grain bulk (several of my uncles are
> farmers) and trying to process it into something we can eat for breakfast
> (like hot wheat, or whatever), but I've never tried it, and am afraid my
> kids might not eat it.

Your kids will eat it if they get hungry enough.

== 4 of 12 ==
Date: Wed, Jun 25 2008 4:34 am
From: Siskuwihane

On Jun 25, 7:30 am, Siskuwihane <Siskuwiha...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Jun 25, 7:52 am, "OhioGuy" <n...@none.net> wrote:
>
> > I just heard that the average size of a box of cereal is shrinking by 2.3
> > ounces. Outrageous! Most cereals I see now are very processed, and
> > horribly expensive - often $3 or more per pound when you do the math. I can
> > often get decent cuts of meat for about that.
>
> The average price per pound for Malt-O-Meal Frosted Mini-Spooners is
> $1.63.
> M-O-M Golden Puffs, $1.78 per pound.
>
>
>
> > I'm tired of feeling gouged for cereals, and am wondering how you folks
> > have fought back against the high prices.
>
> By eating a slice of whole wheat toast and 2 teaspoons of
> peanutbutter.

Actually it's two tablespoons.

== 5 of 12 ==
Date: Wed, Jun 25 2008 5:52 am
From: hchickpea@hotmail.com

On Wed, 25 Jun 2008 06:15:24 -0500, Dan Birchall
<nobody@imaginary-host.danbirchall.com> wrote:

>none@none.net (OhioGuy) wrote:
>> I just heard that the average size of a box of cereal is shrinking by 2.3
>> ounces. Outrageous! Most cereals I see now are very processed, and
>> horribly expensive - often $3 or more per pound when you do the math. I can
>> often get decent cuts of meat for about that.
>>
>> I'm tired of feeling gouged for cereals, and am wondering how you folks
>> have fought back against the high prices.
>>
>> For years, I've considered buying grain bulk (several of my uncles are
>> farmers) and trying to process it into something we can eat for breakfast
>> (like hot wheat, or whatever), but I've never tried it, and am afraid my
>> kids might not eat it.
>
>I knew I had blogged about this sort of thing a couple years ago...
>http://danbirchall.multiply.com/journal/item/324
>
>They're screwing around not only with the price and the size of the box,
>but also with the size of the serving. :)

Cereal has always been outragously expensive for what it is.
Save-a-lot has some dollar boxes of corn flakes and raisin bran.
Can't tell the difference between them and the higher priced stuff.

Harry, still trying to figure out how to fight shrinking cereal.
Sharpened spoon? Tiny racks to stretch the individual flakes?

== 6 of 12 ==
Date: Wed, Jun 25 2008 4:51 am
From: Samantha Hill - remove TRASH to reply

OhioGuy wrote:
>
> I'm tired of feeling gouged for cereals, and am wondering how you folks
> have fought back against the high prices.

I quit eating them a long time ago, because they have been overpriced
for absolutely ages.

> For years, I've considered buying grain bulk (several of my uncles are
> farmers) and trying to process it into something we can eat for breakfast
> (like hot wheat, or whatever), but I've never tried it, and am afraid my
> kids might not eat it.

Think outside the box, pun intended. Quick breads are easy to make,
cheap, and work. Peanut butter sandwiches worked for my oldest when he
was young. Add fruit or yogurt to cooked grains, or make
not-terribly-sweetened rice pudding or wheat pudding (same recipe,
different grain and longer cooking time) and have that for breakfast.

== 7 of 12 ==
Date: Wed, Jun 25 2008 5:43 am
From: "h"

Don't buy it. Cereal and other grains should not be eaten by humans. Grain
is what food eats.

== 8 of 12 ==
Date: Wed, Jun 25 2008 6:50 am
From: "Evelyn C. Leeper"

Siskuwihane wrote:
> On Jun 25, 7:52 am, "OhioGuy" <n...@none.net> wrote:
>> I just heard that the average size of a box of cereal is shrinking by 2.3
>> ounces. Outrageous! Most cereals I see now are very processed, and
>> horribly expensive - often $3 or more per pound when you do the math. I can
>> often get decent cuts of meat for about that.
>
> The average price per pound for Malt-O-Meal Frosted Mini-Spooners is
> $1.63.
> M-O-M Golden Puffs, $1.78 per pound.

Malt-O-Meal (and store brands) are certainly one way to fight the cost.
When I last checked, for example, Kellogg's Raisin Bran Crunch was
$3.51/pound ($2.63/pound on sale), while Shop-Rite Raisin Bran was
$1.75/pound all the time. Malt-O-Meal cereals run about $1.33/pound
when on sale, twice that regular price.

Buying only when on sale is another, particularly if one is limited in
what one can by. (One relative has diabetes and is severely limited in
what cereals are even allowed. Combine that with what she likes and
we're down to Wheaties, Total, and corn flakes. When they go on sale
for half price, she stocks up.)

Bulk store-brand oatmeal is still cheap, I think. (When last I checked,
it was about 67 cents/pound, or a little over a nickel a serving. I
think dry cereal is about 16 servings to the pound, so even the cheapest
is more than oatmeal.) Of course, in hot weather, people are less
likely to want a hot cereal.

(Note: I last checked these prices a few months ago here in New Jersey,
so they probably have gone up. :-( )

--
Evelyn C. Leeper
A great many people think they are thinking when they are
only rearranging their prejudices. -William James

== 9 of 12 ==
Date: Wed, Jun 25 2008 7:12 am
From: larry

OhioGuy wrote:
> I just heard that the average size of a box of cereal is shrinking by 2.3
> ounces. Outrageous! Most cereals I see now are very processed, and
> horribly expensive - often $3 or more per pound when you do the math. I can
> often get decent cuts of meat for about that.
>
> I'm tired of feeling gouged for cereals, and am wondering how you folks
> have fought back against the high prices.
>
> For years, I've considered buying grain bulk (several of my uncles are
> farmers) and trying to process it into something we can eat for breakfast
> (like hot wheat, or whatever), but I've never tried it, and am afraid my
> kids might not eat it.
>

Locally, Blue Bell Ice Cream is running ads that show
shortened rulers, shoes, ice cream box that's a pint short.
Then say get what you're paying for, a full half gallon.
They added a bright red banner to their container months
ago- "still a full half gallon".

You can fight it, only buy from makers that have pint,
quart, pound, or 1/2 or 1/4 of these containers. I loyally
bought Dreyers Ice Cream since a kid. No more, since they
were one of the first to start this crap with downsized ice
cream containers. This was also about the time they were
bought out by Yum Brands, overpriced poor quality street
vendor purveyor, my opinion, ymmv.

Coffee started this, candy bars makers never made the same
size twice. Now here in hot country, we find out that
gasoline pumps are ~5% short on hot days because they don't
adjust for the liquid expansion when warm. Too expensive to
fix. Bet they would fix it if the pumps had to be
calibrated to deliver 1 gallon at 100 degrees. ;-)

- larry / dallas

== 10 of 12 ==
Date: Wed, Jun 25 2008 7:20 am
From: "Bill"

Don't buy the "box" cereal - Buy the big generic "bag" cereal, then you are
not paying for advertising and fancy packaging.

Go to stores like Walmart which have "price per ounce" shelf labels.
Say a brand name box product is $3 and the price per ounce is 60 cents. And
the same thing in generic is $6 and 15 cents price per ounce for a big bag.

Buy the big bag for $6.

"OhioGuy" wrote in message
> I just heard that the average size of a box of cereal is shrinking by 2.3
> ounces. Outrageous! Most cereals I see now are very processed, and
> horribly expensive - often $3 or more per pound when you do the math. I
> can often get decent cuts of meat for about that.
>
> I'm tired of feeling gouged for cereals, and am wondering how you folks
> have fought back against the high prices.
>
> For years, I've considered buying grain bulk (several of my uncles are
> farmers) and trying to process it into something we can eat for breakfast
> (like hot wheat, or whatever), but I've never tried it, and am afraid my
> kids might not eat it.
>

== 11 of 12 ==
Date: Wed, Jun 25 2008 7:42 am
From: "rtandems@yahoo.com"

On Jun 25, 6:52 am, "OhioGuy" <n...@none.net> wrote:
> I just heard that the average size of a box of cereal is shrinking by
> 2.3 ounces.

Has anyone actually verified this?

I've heard the claim that this is happening many times over the years,
yet I've been buying the same 25.5oz box of Raisan Bran since 1986.

Maybe it just doesn't effect Raisan Bran

-Brian

== 12 of 12 ==
Date: Wed, Jun 25 2008 9:58 am
From: me@privacy.net

"h" <tmclone@searchmachine.com> wrote:

>Don't buy it. Cereal and other grains should not be eaten by humans. Grain
>is what food eats.
>

So what to eat for breakfast then?

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== 1 of 1 ==
Date: Wed, Jun 25 2008 4:12 am
From: Dan Birchall

senthilind@gmail.com (Suganya) wrote:
> Easy way to learn English ***** download materials
> Change ur language and you change ur thoughts.

Ur was a city in ancient Mesopotamia. Please learn English before
attempting to flog English-learning materials.

--
"Infirm indeed are my bones, and the hair of my head doth glisten with
grey: but never am I unblest."

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TOPIC: Wooden Chairs
http://groups.google.com/group/misc.consumers.frugal-living/browse_thread/thread/e101ef490ecdc037?hl=en
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== 1 of 2 ==
Date: Wed, Jun 25 2008 4:42 am
From: AndyTao <22265737@qq.com>

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== 2 of 2 ==
Date: Wed, Jun 25 2008 8:12 am
From: turtlelover

AndyTao wrote:
<snip>

> http://www.<>.cn/

No thanks. The shipping cost from China is the deal breaker. Not very frugal.

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TOPIC: Simple ways to make yourself beautiful
http://groups.google.com/group/misc.consumers.frugal-living/browse_thread/thread/e1fe17a276816681?hl=en
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== 1 of 1 ==
Date: Wed, Jun 25 2008 8:05 am
From: "Mr.SmartyPants"

In article
<8ffbc7a8-9167-4441-a63b-da654b662409@m44g2000hsc.googlegroups.com>,
Al Bundy <MSfortune@mcpmail.com> wrote:

> On Jun 22, 3:51 pm, "Rod Speed" <rod.speed....@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Mr.SmartyPants <georgewks...@humboldt1.com> wrote
> >
> > > David <david7...@rediffmail.com> wrote
> > >> Simple ways to make yourself beautiful
> > >>http://www.beautyadvice4u.blogspot.com
> > > Just Smile
> > > works every time
> >
> > Not for those whose cigarette stained teeth look like a train wreck.
> >
> > > and pretty frugal.
> >
> > Not when little kids scream when you do that.
>
> Or, chop their head off and lose 10# of ugly fat.

hey, you, take it to the child-free NG.,
--
If Evolution is out-lawed. Only the Out-laws will evolve.

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TOPIC: Aquasana Drinking Water Filter for Less
http://groups.google.com/group/misc.consumers.frugal-living/browse_thread/thread/f7014bdb5d018ff2?hl=en
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== 1 of 2 ==
Date: Wed, Jun 25 2008 8:19 am
From: Propane Heater

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== 2 of 2 ==
Date: Wed, Jun 25 2008 9:21 am
From: clams_casino

Propane Heater wrote:

> Aquasana Drinking Water
>

Is that like having a Koke? Calgate toothpaste?

Umm - tasty water from China.

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TOPIC: Caribou Coffee Coupon
http://groups.google.com/group/misc.consumers.frugal-living/browse_thread/thread/5b77cc5f38657381?hl=en
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== 1 of 1 ==
Date: Wed, Jun 25 2008 9:43 am
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