If you read my earlier article on frugal grocery shopping, you are now aware of online apps for grocery flyers, like Reebee and Flipp. But did you know that there are also apps that will give you cash back for grocery shopping? Granted, it’s not quite so straightforward. The apps of which I speak trade…

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Pay a visit these days to Amazon.ca, and you’ll notice straightaway that it is awash with third-party sellers: businesses other than Amazon who use Amazon’s colossal e-commerce platform to peddle their own merch. Some of these brands are known to all – vaunted household names, ubiquitous corporate marques, the retail elite – and others are…

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What You’ll Need DLNA® certified wireless router. I use and recommend the ASUS RT-AC66U Dual-Band Wireless-AC1750 Gigabit Router; DLNA certified streaming player. I use the Roku 3 and Google Chromecast; and Media player software (channel or app). I’m back. It’s been many months since my last post, and for this I apologize. I work in…

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Every frugal shopper knows that to buy an automobile is to buy a rapidly depreciating asset. Your car becomes less valuable with every kilometre you put on it, every little scratch and bump it receives, and every year it ages. Your only strategic upside is that depreciation is heaviest the moment you drive your baby…

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Underground Woman’s Review I love my Pebble. Admittedly, I am a watch fanatic. I have a wide variety of watches, ranging from the very basic black Timex to the more stylish Swatch (yes, multiples of those), through to the inherited, classy ladies’ Bulova. I also adore my smartphone. Where I was once entirely disinterested in…

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The underground man and I are slowly working our way through what I am calling a “superficial bathroom renovation.” I’m calling it superficial because although the man in my life is dying to rip out the tub, tiles and vanity and begin anew with the space, we can’t. We can’t because it is the sole…

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The latest door-to-door salesperson to visit our home was from a company called National Home Services (NHS). National Homes Services’ approach was a bit different from New Home Comfort (NHC) and Ontario Energy Group (OEG), two organizations who have repeatedly misrepresented themselves to us and others as provincial home energy inspection agents. So was this…

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It’s closing in on five years now since the Underground Man and I moved into our home. Which means the five-year term mortgage we took out at the time is coming up for renewal. This makes it time for mortgage shopping. Which, in my case, means that it’s time to reach out to my favourite…

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