Sarx

Catch this:
Frugal Cooking: DIY Microwave Popcorn
Frugal Banking: BOFA let me take a $10 bill out of an ATM the other day. I’ve not seen a $10 option in an ATM since the early 1980s.

I’m overjoyed to see there is a DVD coming out! This woman – and her generation – are a treasure!

HE BBC Reports on Russia’s plans for rearmament:
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has said Moscow will begin a comprehensive military rearmament from 2011.
“The primary task is to increase the combat readiness of our forces, first of all our strategic nuclear forces,” he told top military officers.
This is the other shoe I’ve been waiting for. [...]

INALLY Figured out what I’ve been mulling over in my head about the whole bail-out thing since Bush started it last year: STOP THE F!@# GIVING AWAY MONEY TO COMPANIES.
Reagan and Bush and Bush proved that voodoo economics do not work. Repeat: do not work.
Let the bastards fail. Fall. close. shut [...]

HE PAPERS Will tell you: we’ve lost 3,600,000 jobs over the last 13 months. We’ve surpassed the job losses of the worst of the recessions of the last 20 years. Where else are we going? I’m going to bet the direction is down for the foreseeable future.
Why? Same thing that got [...]

OST OF Elise’s Recipes for Cooking on a budget are things I grew up with – especially the Hamburger and Macaroni! Be sure and check out her budget shopping tips.
Here’s a few tips of my own:
Reduce, reuse, recycle.
Which is, of course, the modern take off on this one:
Use it up, wear it out. Make [...]

HERE Are a couple of other videos of her, as well. Potatoes in everything! Props to The Jew and the Carrot.

AISE YOUR hands if you remember or know how to bake bread: not fancy, organic, stuff either, but solid, I-want-a-sandwich kind of bread.
Raise your hands if you remember or know how to make a chocolate cake for your family with next-to-nothing in the kitchen.
Raise your hands if you remember or know how to use potatoes [...]