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Lifesta “is a marketplace for people to buy and sell deals from "daily deal" sites such as Groupon, Living Social, BuyWithMe and 300+ others. Missed a deal? Find it here. Need to sell a deal? List it here.”

Pick Your Own will help you locate a pick your own farm near you. They provide local listings of pick your own farms in the United States and other countries. They also offer crop calendars for each local area so you know what is available to pick throughout the year. If you need help deciding what to do with your pickings there are illustrated directions to show you how to make over 150 recipes with step-by-step directions to can, freeze, dry or preserve the harvest.

Use radiotuna to locate a radio station online playing your favorite genre of music.

This small business owner writes about how she learned to love bartering.

UbuWeb “is a completely independent resource dedicated to all strains of the avant-garde, ethnopoetics, and outsider arts.” This site is a huge, amazing resource that will be treasured by those who enjoy the unusual and underground arts.

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This post lists the power of peroxide.

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Cost Helper “is a growing online community which provides objective information on more than 1,000 products and services, and lists what people are actually paying nationwide.”

Idealist “connects people, organizations, and resources to help build a world where all people can live free and dignified lives. Our work is guided by the common desire of our members and supporters to find practical solutions to social and environmental problems, in a spirit of generosity and mutual respect.” So what does that mean to you? Click to find out!

Clinical Trials “is a comprehensive resource for trusted information about medical research studies, also called clinical trials. Whether you’re interested in participating in a clinical trial or want to become a clinical trial investigator, find out how you can help advance health.”

This article addresses some of the financial mistakes newlyweds make.

Writer's Free Reference “was first published in August 1992 with 12 links to other websites providing free information for writers. Over the years, it has grown to over 200 links to a wide variety of information, not only for writers, but also for students, teachers, businessmen and women, researchers, and anyone looking for any type of data.”

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This post explores how the older you get the better the deals.

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Deal Radar provides “a free, fast and convenient way to stay on top of great savings opportunities and experiences available in your city. Each day we follow, index and categorize local deals to create a simple, time-saving way to find great savings in your city.” Subscribe, follow or visit the site to find your own local deals.

Local Dirt “is your place to find and buy fresh, local food directly from the family farm.” Click the link to find out how it works.

Hotel Spy claims they can find the best deals on cheap hotels.

This article lists nine ways for parents to help their job hunting kids.

Recall Warnings doesn’t list just auto recalls, they include everything from toys to clothing and operating equipment to musical instruments.

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This post gives advice on how to clean it before you replace it.

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June is Great Outdoors Month, National Camping Month and National Rivers Month. You know what that means…get outdoors and camp by a river!

There is something about signs and symbols that are intriguing to all of us at some level. Check out Symbols for “more than 1,600 articles about 2,500 Western signs, arranged into 54 groups according to their graphic characteristics.”

Yipit “aggregates and recommends the best daily deals in your city. We collect all the great daily deals from 528 services including Groupon, LivingSocial, Buy With Me, Tippr, Yelp and many more. We recommend the best of the daily deals to our users based on the preferences they have expressed to us.”

In his last Cheapskate column Neal Templin says goodbye to all that penny-pinching.

Thrifty Times offers all kinds of articles about how to save money, budgeting tips, finding free stuff, coupons and even inexpensive recipes. Worth a peek!

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This post explores what to do when coupons aren’t enough.

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Uncyclopedia is a parody of Wikipedia that publishes user content that contributes to their “giant mass of misinformation and utter lies.” Visit the site and find out what it takes to become an “Uncyclopedian.”

TravelBlogs “brings you travel advice and stories from those who’ve been there and done that. We’ve brought together the internet’s finest travel bloggers and asked them to share their unique insight into all things travel.” Worth a peek for some interesting interviews with travel bloggers and plenty of travel content.

If you would like to search some U.S. online newspaper sites NewsVoyager is a good starting place.

This article proposes five myths about why women earn less than men.

Chowhound is known for its “voracious devotion to hyperdeliciousness!” This is a great site where “food-lovers worldwide gather here to swap expert tips about restaurants, foods, stores, and bars, as well as cooking, wine, beer, cookware, and more.” As they say, “Dig in ... and be prepared to get very, very hungry!”

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This post lists nine ways to find cheap or free performances.

My wife and I are leaving town to visit family during this long holiday weekend and I won’t be posting on Monday. Make it a great weekend, and don’t forget to honor our fallen heroes.

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If you keep backyard chickens, or would like to find locally produced eggs, check out Eggzy. The site helps you to “manage your flock, share pictures, eggs and stats with your friends and family, or, if you're a foodie, find local eggs — the freshest most delicious local eggs.”

StorkBrokers is an online marketplace that allows you to sell your no longer needed baby & kid items, or to buy used items you are looking for. You can also put in a request if you don’t find what you are looking for and they will notify you when someone lists it.

If you are interested in art museums, theater, classical music, opera, jazz, dance, and film make sure to visit Arts America for more than a thousand recommendations across more than eighty cities. They also list over 100 national and regional summer events and news about what's happening in the arts from more than 100 newspapers, magazines, blogs and RSS feeds.

This video shows how to make the most of daily deal sites.

Ready can help to prepare for the unexpected, such as making an emergency supply kit and developing a family communications plan in case of a natural or man-made emergency.

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This post examines how you can make money selling vinyl records.

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Visit Healthy Recipe for lots of recipes that are gluten or sugar free, high fiber, or are low in calories, carbs, cholesterol or fat.

If you are looking for part time work consider Groove Job, which focuses on part time jobs, teen and student jobs, weekend jobs, summer jobs and internships for students. Just type in your zip code to find what’s available.

Use 8coupons to find deals from “your neighborhood restaurants, bars, salons, and stores so that you can easily find the best deals near you. We have everything from exclusive mobile coupons that come directly from the restaurants, bars, salons, and stores themselves, to deals that are shared by you.” Search for specific deals or just type in your zip code.

Is Walmart really returning to its Buy American roots?

Black and WTF is an addictive photoblog of strange black and white photos.       

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This post ponders whether or not you can save money by hunting.

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May is National Barbecue Month. Before heading outside and firing up the grill check out some of these barbecue facts, as well as a variety of barbecue recipes.

Homestar Runner is a fun little site to visit if you are looking for replicas of old school video games or short cartoons.  

If you are looking for a part time job check out 10 til 2, a staffing firm “specializing in placing college-educated professionals into long-term, part-time positions.”

This article says there are two reasons why for the first time in 20 years the number of homes in the United States with television sets has dropped.

For English language news sites and magazines from around the world, sorted by country and region, check out World Newspapers.

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This post lists many reasons why you need WD-40.

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Mevio is a free entertainment site with over forty shows in production, ranging from technology to comedy and general entertainment. Their top networks include technology, music, women's and men's content.

 The Eating Well mission is “to provide the inspiration and information people need to make healthy eating a way of life.” To that end they offer recipes and menus, food news, diet, nutrition and health information as well as several free newsletters.  

If you or someone you know are anticipating moving make sure to check out Movers Edge, which offers moving advice, packing tips, how to find professional movers, a weekly newsletter and the Ultimate Moving Checklist.

This article examines the top five signs that you’re wealthy.

Intelligent Travel “showcases the essence of place, what's unique and original, and what locals cherish most about where they live. And we highlight places, practices, and people that are on the front lines of sustainable travel—travel that preserves places’ essential uniqueness for future generations.” In other words this is not your typical travel site.

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This post gives some good tips on how to make and save money with scrap lumber.

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Big Think calls their site a knowledge forum, offering to “help you move above and beyond random information, toward real knowledge, offering big ideas from fields outside your own that you can apply toward the questions and challenges in your own life.” If that sounds a little vague just click on the link. 

dealnews scours “over 2,000 online retailers and tens of thousands of deals to deliver the best 200+ deals each and every day — the kinds of deals you'd normally only see on Black Friday. We verify that each deal is valid, the lowest total price we could find, and from a reputable retailer. Then and only then do we post it for you. We take getting a bargain seriously, and then share what we find with you.”

HealthGuru offers health videos for people under 35 years of age, on topics including diet and fitness, mental and emotional health, sexual health, pregnancy, baby health and childcare, beauty and grooming, drugs and alcohol, and more. They explain that “individuals under 35 years old are used to an immersive, rich media experience on the web, not the text-centric offerings commonly found on other health sites. Health Guru was created with cutting edge media - like the largest health video library on the web and interactive applications - so we can offer the experience our audience expects.”

This article attempts to figure out which are the worst roads in the U.S.

When I was a kid you had to buy the book. Today, of course, Guinness World Records is online as well. The only bad thing I can see about making the book is as the oldest living person in the world. That usually means that, despite having managed to live for so many years, you now only have a few weeks left.

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This post asks how do you save money on eyewear and contacts. Make sure to read the comments, too.

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Visit Flixter to watch movie trailers, read reviews, find show times, network with other fans, take quizzes and polls and even watch movies and TV shows. Sign up for free and customize the site with your preferences.

Book Ase is a free service that allows you to compare prices of any textbook among major online bookstores worldwide. They claim you can buy books at 30% - 95% off the market list price. You can also use the site to find the best price for books you have to sell.

Job Doggy is designed to help teens and students throughout their job search, from beginning to end. Just type in your zip code to find out what is available. Register for free with the site for additional benefits. 

This article ponders small purchases and when a cup of coffee is so much more than a cup of coffee.

Check out Spark Recipes for delicious, healthy recipes submitted by their 8 million members. They also have a resident chef that whips up original dishes and menu makeovers, and a recipe calculator gives you the calories, fat, and nutrition info for it all.

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This article offers ideas on how to make money from vacant houses.

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Consider Best Buy Drugs by Consumer Reports as a reliable source for drug news and updates, reports by drug category, drug advice, safety alerts and free guidance for consumers on prescription medicines. They also offer a free email newsletter.

Is the internet really the great healer of age old relationship problems? Can it replace just sitting down and talking things out? Tokii seems to think so, billing itself as “the world’s first relationship management platform.”   

City Farmer is all about teaching city dwellers how to grow food at home in their back yards or in community gardens. They offer advice on how to grow vegetables, kitchen herbs and fruit in town.

Here is a video about 5 items that rarely lose value.

April is Financial Literacy Month. Visit the site and improve your financial wellness by using some of the free tools they offer, such as webinars, worksheets, eBooks, and their 30 Steps program.

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This article asks if the new frugality will last.

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Full Fitness is a free fitness site that offers workout routines, exercises you can perform with weight machines, free-weights, or alone. You also might find a few tasty recipes!

Pogo offers free online games, including “puzzle games, word games, card games, and board games. Unlike other free online games sites, we offer a variety of classic Hasbro board games like RISK, Yahtzee, Scrabble, and Monopoly. We also have popular games like Chess, Spider Solitaire, Cribbage, and Bejeweled.” You can also enter to win prizes.

Voice America claims to have 2.5 million listeners and features Web-based talk radio programming and more than 200 hosts talking about topics from sports and finance to health, hobbies, pop culture and business. If you haven’t listened yet give them a try.

Most of us don’t think much about aging until it starts to become noticeable in our personal lives. When it’s about others, oh well; but when the shadow of mortality hangs over us, we start to pay attention. Stanford University is using a computer enhanced shock technique to help people pay more attention to their retirement needs.

I have featured a few sites exclusively for the ladies in the past, but this week it’s your turn men. In an ever more androgynous and morally neutral environment that has produced so many wimps or thugs as pop culture or sports idols, The Art of Manliness stands out like a saving beacon in the night. Their goal of “Reviving the lost art of manliness” will sound strangest to those most in need of help!    

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This post ponders why a weekly menu matters and offers some delicious recipes.

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WalkJogRun is a site you can use to “plan running routes by drawing them out on a map. It includes a distance/speed calculator and calorie burn estimator. Click on the map to set a starting point. Then keep clicking from point to point to draw a route. Click on any of the markers for your route and see how far this point is from the start and what the estimated time would be for a given speed.”

Crowdbeacon is “a location-based service focused on providing relevant, localized communication and information to users based on what they need and where they are.”

Miniclip is an online games site where “you can play a large range of free online games including action games, sports games, puzzle games, games for girls, games for kids, flash games and many more. Miniclip game players can compile games statistics such as high scores, rankings on their own player pages and can receive awards for playing games.”

This article lists 5 weird ways to pay for college.

The song Candy Everybody Wants by the band 10,000 Maniacs came on the radio the other day and even though I had heard the song many times I had never really listened to the lyrics. An internet search took me to Song Meanings, which offers song lyrics and comments about what they mean.

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This post asks if it is tougher to save money or make more.

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iFreebies is a new site that brings you links to sweepstakes, samples and all kinds of freebies. While there are many of these kinds of websites I really like the clean and simple layout of this one. And…who doesn’t like freebies? Take a minute to pay them a visit.

Slickdeals is “a free, user-driven deal sharing site with a mission to provide consumers an avenue to collaborate and share information in order to make the best shopping decisions.” Not sure what exactly that means? Go check it out.

When I first came across the site TED I was a little worried it would be either overtly political or just plain kooky. I didn’t need to worry about a thing. The site offers video of interesting, sometimes fascinating talks given at the annual TED conference about Technology, Entertainment and Design, among other subjects.

Here is a useful article about the 10 things hotels won’t tell you.

Use the free Lemon Check if you are considering buying a used car to find out if “it has consistent and significant performance issues even after reasonable attempts have been made to repair identified mechanical problems.”

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This article offers several tips on how to find free firewood.

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Vampire Power Sucks offers tips on how to save money by stopping the power loss caused by electronic devices running in standby mode. They also offer a blog and an energy loss calculator so you can see for yourself how much power you are wasting and how much you could save annually by just taking a few simple steps.

If you like sandwiches you are going to want to check out the Sandwich Project, where at the time of this writing they have recipes for 3,692 sandwiches. If you aren’t sure what to make just type in the ingredients you have on hand in their sandwich search engine.

Blorge is a technology news site “covering general technology and science, Windows, Macintosh, iPhone and Touch, IPad, tablets, gaming, photography, and buying guides.”

Here is a good article about 5 things worth haggling over and why.

Visit Dead Fred to trace your roots using their searchable database of thousands of identified and mystery photos. Anyone who finds a photo of a direct ancestor that is owned by the archive will receive the photo for free.

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I wrote this post offering some tips on how to find seasonal work.

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Relay Rides is a car sharing site that allows you to borrow a car from an owner in your area or to make money renting out your car. While currently available only in San Francisco and Boston it’s an idea that might catch on elsewhere.

Sports Reference says their primary aim is “to serve and delight our customers with the easiest-to-use, fastest, and most complete sports statistics.” I think they have achieved their goal.

To help alleviate the loneliness and boredom that many nursing home residents experience you might consider volunteering for the Bridge of Hope Nursing Home Pen Pal Program. To help out you commit to writing at least two letters a month to a nursing home resident. Visit the site for more information.

The rich are fully capable of making bad financial decisions. Here is the story of how a former billionaire’s wife ended up losing her antiques, her business and mansion and acquiring $66 million in debt in a matter of months.

Visit Phoneapps.com to search for the app you want, listed by platform. While I didn’t look at every app most of the ones I did included the word “free” in the description.

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In this post I compare what products we buy used vs. new.

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If you or someone you know is looking for a job make sure to check out Internet Inc.com for some ideas, as well as their list of the top 100 job search websites and categories.

The National Association of Area Agencies on Aging states that their primary mission “is to build the capacity of its members to help older persons and persons with disabilities live with dignity and choices in their homes and communities for as long as possible.” This site offers a wealth of information surrounding the care and well being of older people.

If you love movies you’ll want to spend some time at Movieclips, where they have collected clips and made them completely searchable by actor, title, genre, occasion, action, mood, character, theme, setting, prop, and even dialogue. With each clip they include links so you can buy or rent the feature-length movie.

Here is an interesting article about a dying banker’s last instructions.

15gifts allows you to fill out a brief survey about the person or couple you want to buy a gift for and they give you 15 recommendations. You enter their age, their relationship to you, the occasion, what they like and wear, and your budget and the site picks the results. You can remove any of the suggestions and they will be replaced with another. I think it’s very useful site because picking out gifts has always been a weak spot for me.

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Make sure to check out this article on the ten best home improvement and DIY sites.

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If you are an anxious gardener awaiting spring planting, like me, you might get some relief by browsing Cyndi’s Catalog of Garden Catalogs. They bill themselves as “the home gardener's one stop to find all the mail-order gardening catalogs in the US and Canada - over 2000 of them!”

Register with iGive, shop at brand name online stores through the iGive Mall and a portion of each purchase is donated to your favorite cause, which includes over 44,367 organizations.

“Friends and family have always shown support and compassion after significant life events through the delivery of meals. mealTrain.com is a free solution that simplifies the organization of giving and receiving meals. By allowing the giving party to take into account the recipient’s preferred meal times, food preferences, and available days, the site helps ensure that the recipient gets the meals they enjoy on the days that are most helpful.”

This article lists what they call the best part-time jobs for retirees. There are some good ideas for those not yet retired as well.

Radio-Locator says it is “the most comprehensive radio station search engine on the internet. We have links to over 10,000 radio station web pages and over 2500 audio streams from radio stations in the U.S. and around the world.”

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This post is a reminder of why you should check the newspaper for good deals.

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Technologizer is both a fun and interesting site. If you like keeping up with the newest gadgets, companies and services, this is a site you have to visit. Even if you don’t keep up to date with the latest tech it’s worth a visit for articles such as “When the Muppets Worked for IBM” and “How 1940s Whiskey Ads Predicted the Future.”

I have featured gift card resale sites before, and Swapagift is another option to check out.

If you are ever interested in reading news from around the world from a local perspective give Newspapers a look.

If you are not to this point yet, you might be someday. Here is a good article from Kiplinger about managing your parents’ money.

LinkUp is a job search engine with a different slant: they only list job openings from company websites. They say they currently “have over 20,749 companies in our database that we monitor every night. Companies range in size from the largest to the smallest, and from all locations across the United States.”

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This post looks at five free programs for everyday use.

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