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Share your favorite money-saving tip with other
Winkler-Eventreaders and you could win $100!
Each month our editors will choose finalists from
among the most useful ideas, and present them to you -- the readers
-- to choose the best. Your votes determine the winner. At the end
of each month, we will award $100 for the highest-ranking tip. We
also interview the winners and publish stories on their frugal ways.
This
month's top 20 tips
Check out this month's top 20 tips. Each month, we post 20 more. Be sure to check back often to see if your
idea made it to the final cut.
Last
month's winner:
"When packing kids lunches, it is much cheaper to purchase
a large box or bag of a snack item and package it yourself into
snack-size zipper bags than buying the prepackaged snack size
packs. This is true for any snack from Goldfish crackers to potato
chips. It only take a couple minutes, you'll spend less money,
and end up with many more homemade snack packs. This holds true
for canned fruit as well, rather than buying pre-packed fruit
cups, you can make your own using small reusable plastic ware.
(Example, at wholesale club large box of Goldfish is $7, at Wal-Mart
a pack of 100 snack bags is $1.20. I can make 40 plus snack packs,
as opposed to paying $5 for box of 10 pre-packaged bags. For mandarin
oranges, a pack of pre-packed fruit cups is $3 for a 4pk, however
you can purchase cans of mandarin oranges at a discount store
for 50 cents each, and can make two homemade cups per can, so
you can make 12 for the same price as buying 4 pre-packaged)."
--Bonnie Piniero, Weymouth, Massachusetts
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