I could put belly button lint in a bottle and sell it as a sleep aid if I put enough weasel words on the packaging.

Patent medicine has been a staple of shady marketing for centuries.

Timelies all!

Another lazy Sunday morning here.

I don't see it as often, but just a while ago, "Headon! Apply directly to the forehead!" was everywhere on cable TV ad spots.

It's... wax. That you apply to your forehead.

Well, I can see that being useful, if for some reason you need wax applied to your forehead.

The act of rubbing your forehead is probably enough to make some of the headache feel better, therefore you have a headache treatment.

I love a box I saw recently "Earth friendly smaller packaging!" They'd made the box the product came in smaller. Therefore they could claim environmental friendliness. Hubby and I call it the "Now with free air!" syndrome.

I watched that "Extreme Couponing" show yesterday, and I realized that I could probably do better on grocery prices than I have been doing, so I bought the Sunday paper to get the coupons today. I found only four coupons for things I actually use, and two of them were toilet paper. (The secret to that show is that people find a way to combine a few different coupons and savings things on the same item so that they actually get to a negative price for it, and buy a whole ton of them. The store won't actually give you cash if you do this, but you can apply those negative prices to other stuff in your order, so that you end up buying a whole ton of stuff and paying just a few dollars. Of course, you also end up with a shopping cart full of laundry detergent or toothpaste or whatever. The people on the show spend at least 15 hours a week on researching prices and organizing coupons to figure out how to do this, and they all have stockpiles of stuff in their houses.)

Hil, the Sunday circular is ok, but if you go to coupon site, generally you can print off more coupons.

My sister clips coupons (not obsessively!) on Sundays over he coffee, and send the ones she thinks I can use to me. And I spend maybe 15 minutes before a big trip to the store. Sometimes I save .50, sometimes $5 or $6 dollars...but I probably save $200/ year from my lazy-ass couponing.

Even if you only save .50 a week, that $26. That's a hard-cover!

(My rationale for coupons is measured in how many books your can buy with the saving. /geeknevercloses)

(My rationale for coupons is measured in how many books your can buy with the saving. /geeknevercloses)

I t heart this.

I checked coupons.com and got a few more things, but my printer is currently uncooperative. Coupons.com actually has a coupon for some lettuce mix, but I can't remember if I've ever seen that brand anywhere.

The coupons I see are always something like $1.50 off 5 of something that I don't want to buy 5 of. The local store brand is often just as good as the name brand and starts off cheaper.

Though I do horde the coupons for feminine products. Though I may be blissfully, finally at the stage of my life where I don't say, "Sure, buy four boxes, it's not like I won't use them eventually."