The Frugal Family Guide; Be like my mom and dad: buy stuff you can afford.

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  • Author(s): By:Steve Tuttle
  • Source:
    Newsweek, March 16, 2009 BusinessBUSINESS U.S. Edition, p. 43 3pp
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    • Abstract:
      Last summer I was at my parents' cabin in rural Virginia and I noticed a dead mouse in a rusty old trap. I tossed it in the trash. Later that day I told my dad about the mouse, and he asked, "Where's the trap?" I told him it looked as though it were falling apart, and I'd thrown it out with the mouse still attached...