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WHAT'S THE STORY WITH REHASHING MONEY-SAVING ADVICE?

WE THINK we have it tough in these crunchy times but at least we’re not living on giblet soup, making cheese out of milk so sour you could stand a spoon in it or extending the life of our undergarments by artfully stitching new gussets into place when old ones fray. Not yet, at any rate, but it is early days in this era of economic woe.