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January Deals

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January deals
New Year, new start. Hopefully your December was not too overindulgent. 

Here at More Style Than Cash my New Years resolution is to live life with the most style, flare and beauty as I can on the tiniest amount of cash.  

With Christmas over the one thing that is on sale everywhere is....Christmas stuff. 

Yes a lot of it is still there because it was over priced to start with, or ugly or useless, but there are a few good items that make sense to buy.

December Deals

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Clementines in basket
The merry month of December, when retailers pull out all the stops to get you into their stores. 

This is the month when one days difference can reduce an item from $100 to $10. 

No retailer wants their store shelves to be full of Christmas themed merchandise on the 26th of December so the deals start happening fast and furious as Christmas approaches. 

The problem is that there is a limited amount of the "good stuff" and what is often left for sale is the shoddy and cheap.

November Deals

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November deals
The beginning of November generally means that Halloween candy is now on sale. 

The quality of the chocolate that is used in this candy is not the finest but if it is on a deep discount then think of buying it to melt down and use in cookies, deserts or molds to make other candies. 

Chocolate usually sells for about $4 a pound or .88 cents for 100 gr. for a acceptable quality, if the regular price is cheaper than this then the taste might not be very good. Solid chocolate can be stored for a year with no harm to it ( see my article Storing Chocolate) but I only suggest this to people that truly have the will power not to eat it through out the year. 

October Deals

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Pumpkins for saleThe wild flowers are still blooming and can be picked and dried before Thanksgiving for table decorations. 

Drying flowers is ridiculously easy. Pick the flowers in the morning but when there is no dew on them. Remover the lower leaves and bundle them up loosely securing the stems with twine or elastic bands and hang them upside down in a cool dark place. 

That's it. They are dry when the leaves are crunchy like dried cereal which is usually 7 to 10 days. Hanging them straight upside down will make them dry in straight lines and hanging them on a bit of an angle will make them dry on a curve which will give more interesting lines to you flower arrangement). 


Ten Money Saving Things To Buy That Will Pay For Themselves

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things to buy to save money light bulbWe budget and we save and we still spend, spend, spend. No matter how smart and frugal you are there are items that you have to put money out for day after day, year after year.

You can tighten the rein on a lot of items you buy. Saving money is easier when you know what you should be buying in the first place that is money saving in the long run.

While sometimes you might be putting out a bit more money in the beginning your saving will be showing within a year.

So here is a list of ten things to buy to save money.
Knockoff curseThere is a joy to owning something that is made of quality. A Chanel bag, Gucci purse, Louboutin shoes. They shout to the world that you have money and style. But if you have to pinch pennies then the sad truth is that these items probably are out of your reach. 

Savvy counterfeiters know that people crave these expensive brands and over the years have flooded the market with knockoffs at affordable prices.

Fashion houses hate knockoff for many reasons, they are cheaply made, they ruin the brand and they take money away from the real thing.

While many fashion forward women will buy knockoffs with the justification that it really doesn't hurt anyone, new research is showing the person that gets hurt the most might be themselves. Owning a knockoff might be making you into a liar and a cheat.
Stocking your bathroom with luxuryYou bathroom is one of the most important rooms in the house. It is also a money pit because you constantly need to restock it.

While saving money is one of your first concerns sometimes it makes sense to spend a little more to use quality items that last longer.

When should you save and when should you splurge when stocking your bathroom?

Here is my money saving ideas of how to stock up the basics for your bathroom.
buying second handIn the last 50 years commercials have done a great job in convincing us that new is better than used.

The mind set is  that if it was owned by anyone else then there must be something wrong with it.

You need to buy all shiny and new.

We have all been in homes that have been filled with old second hand stuff and thought that there is no way we would live like that. But there are people that only buy second hand and have gorgeous homes.

How do you have a happy medium? What can you live on second hand and when should you buy new?

Are You a Saver, Stockpiler or Hoarder?

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saving stockpiling hoardingStuff, stuff, stuff. We all have it. Some of us more than others. Buy how do you know if you have so much stuff that it might be a problem?

We can all justify why we have so much stuff and often we will argue that what we are doing is financially savvy. You need to buy things to save money, right?

But are you in denial? We have all probably seen the television shows about hoarders and figure if our lives are not that bad we don't really have to worry. But as an antique dealer part of my trade was buying from estates and making appraisals and some of the homes were eye popping in what I saw.

There is a difference between a person that saves, stockpiles and hoards but it can be a slippery slope and you need to know if you are in danger of becoming out of control.

September Deals

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 Apples in a basketFor many fall is a fresh start as the weather changes and a new school year begins.

Most of the best summer deals are out of the stores now but not the thrift shops. 

They are still loaded with the loot that was left over from garage sales. There are good quality new items in the thrift stores so spend some time looking.

Clothing wise there are summer shoes and sandals on clearance but a lot of the merchandise is geared to the very short back to school season that retailers try to get rid of by the middle or end of September so they can start working on festive seasons of Thanksgiving and Christmas. 



A Real Outlet Sale - Cambridge Towel Tent Sale

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Towel SaleI love outlet sales and on my continuous hunt to save money I am constantly disappointed in what most outlet sales now consist of.

With the development of outlet malls the real outlet sales have almost all but vanished. Businesses now often run a second cheaper line that they sell at outlet mall trying to fool the consumer. There truly is no real money saving.

But the real outlet sale has not totally disappeared! I delighted to share that Cambridge Towel still has it's once a year tent sale where the bargains are genuine.
Frugal or foolish saving money money saving
Are you saving money with your great thrifty ideas or are you making a lot of mistakes.

You think that you are money savvy and have the best ideas to save you wads of money. Are you really being frugal or are you being foolish by wasting your time, energy and money on ideas that don't really work? What money saving ideas are really mistakes?

 We can spot these money wasters in others but we can't always spot them in ourselves. 

Being frugal for many people is a lifestyle that they thoroughly enjoy. To squeeze the most out of every dollar a pleasure. But you really need to make sure that you truly are being frugal and not foolish with your money. Saving money and money saving can have a lot of pitfalls for some.

How to Get Your Canadian Passport Faster

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How to get a Canadian passport quicklyCanada is a country of 33 million people and we all seem to love to travel.  Almost 60 percent of us own passports.

A Canadian passport allows you, as a Canadian citizen, to exit and enter Canada  to and from other countries. Issued by Passport Canada they are valid for 5 years (unless it is a child under 3, they are valid for 3 years).

Since travel rules have changed so much in the last 10 years they are the easiest document to own to prove citizenship and can be one of the documents required if you are traveling into the US.

Passport Canada is trying to make it easy to get a passport and are trying to make the long lines at the Passport office disappear. 

Great August Deals- What to Buy on Sale

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cherries for august dealsSeasonal fruits and berries are filling up grocery stores and fruit stands.

This is a great time to buy your favorite berries and freeze them to be used latter in some great birthday, Thanksgiving or Christmas desserts.

The best way to freeze berries is to separate them on a pan and freeze, when they are frozen place them in a zip lock freezer bag and put back in the freezer. If you try to just place them in a freezer bag to freeze them they tend to lump together.


Travel The World For Free (Almost)

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Double Decker buses in London 2
Who hasn't heard of someone that always seems to be traveling and living life full of foreign adventures.

How do they do it?

You might think that you just couldn't live this life style because you don't have the cash needed but many adventurers are doing it on a shoe string and are having the time of their lives.

Surprisingly it can be very cheap to travel the world, you just need to know what the secret is.
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