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Free Help If You’re Unemployed

Cash Cuddler has run many posts in the past, telling visitors about free services and merchandise available to the unemployed. Read more…

Saving Money On Dental Services

In a bad economy, dental services are often cut first to save money. After all, it’s a lot easier to put off a dental cleaning than not pay the electric bill, or go to the doctor when you need an antibiotic. Read more…

UPDATED: Saving Money On Artificial Sweeteners

Cash Cuddler would prefer to take the high road and recommend that you use all-natural ingredients in your food. But as an unabashed artificial sweetener junkie, this would be hypocritical, so I will tell you how to save money on the fake stuff. Read more…

Saving Money On Soft Drinks

One of Cash Cuddler’s favorite ways to save money is to not buy soda. This saves not only on the cost of the drink, but also the tax and the deposit charge. The stuff is also not good for you. Read more…

Free Snuff Lid From Copenhagen Snuff

I completed the Fresh Cope offer and got my lid. The lid has been mailed to a CashCuddler.Com reader, but thanks for your emails and interest.

The offer is still live as of press time. The trick seems to be waiting long enough for delivery. There’s obviously been a lot of interest.

Click here for a free Copenhagen snuff lid.

Saving Money On Medicine

Most people are reactive when they see the expiration date on medicine is close or has passed. Their response is to toss out the product. This is oftentimes a mistake. Read more…

Saving Money On Electricity

Did you know that appliances such as televisions and air conditioners that use an automatic remote control sap electricity even while turned off? Read more…

Saving Money On Laundry

Everybody knows it’s cheaper doing laundry at home than at a laundromat, at least in the long run. There are things you can do to make the cost of home laundering even cheaper.

Use half as much detergent.

The instructions on the laundry box encourage you to use far more than you actually need to get the clothes clean, in order to encourage consumers to use up the product faster and replace it. Using less detergent is also less polluting to water systems (that soapy laundry water has to be dumped someplace).

Laundry line

Wash in cold water.

Your clothes will be just as clean. This also saves energy.

Hang your clothes out on a laundry line.

They’ll smell better. You will save at least 50¢ in electricity on each wash you do. That’s how much it costs on average to operate a drier to dry one load of clothes.

Wear shirts more than once.

Only in America do people wear things once and toss them in the laundry. Your ancestors wore clothes a few times before laundering (with a washboard), and it didn’t kill them. As long as they look and smell OK, it’s perfectly all right to wear again. Ditto the towels in the bathroom. Hang them up and they’ll dry for another day’s use.