{"id":7765,"date":"2010-08-04T06:00:16","date_gmt":"2010-08-04T12:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs2.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/?p=7765"},"modified":"2010-07-20T13:21:14","modified_gmt":"2010-07-20T19:21:14","slug":"frugal-librarian-27-cheapskate-next-door-pt-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/frugal-librarian-27-cheapskate-next-door-pt-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Frugal Librarian #27: Cheapskate Next Door Pt. 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/frugallibrarian.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-1897\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/frugallibrarian-150x150.jpg?resize=150%2C150&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Here are a few belt-tightening culinary tips from the new book <em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/search.prairiecat.info\/?itemid=|library\/marc\/PALS-unicorn|2270902\" target=\"_blank\">The Cheapskate Next Door<\/a> <\/strong><\/em>by Jeff Yeager:<\/p>\n<p>-Order only tap water with your meal when you go out to eat.  Beverages are typically marked up 300 to 600 percent.  Ordering water only will save you about $800 a year.<\/p>\n<p>-Put box-wine into premium label bottles and no one will know the difference.  Check <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.accidentalwine.com\" target=\"_blank\">AccidentalWine.com<\/a><\/strong> for for up to a 40% discount on premium bottles with cosmetic packaging imperfections.<\/p>\n<p>-If you use a crock-pot once a week for eight hours, it will only use 30 cents of electricity a month, making cheap, tough cuts of meat fork-tender.<\/p>\n<p>-Choose to host brunch, giving everyone their own quart-size ziplock bag and a serving tray of tasteful omelet ingredients.\u00a0  Add a couple of eggs and boil all for fourteen minutes for perfect custom omelets, saving you $100 over a sit down dinner.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.couponmom.com\" target=\"_blank\">&#8211;<strong>CouponMom.com<\/strong><\/a> proposes &#8220;cutting your grocery bill in half&#8221; with downloadable coupons and a state-by-state grocery coupon database.  Owner Stephanie Nelson estimates her regular site users save $2,000 per year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here are a few belt-tightening culinary tips from the new book The Cheapskate Next Door by Jeff Yeager: -Order only tap water with your meal when you go out to eat. Beverages are typically marked up 300 to 600 percent. Ordering water only will save you about $800 a year.<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/frugal-librarian-27-cheapskate-next-door-pt-1\/\">[Read more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,1],"tags":[380,194,370,521,379],"class_list":["post-7765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-you-can-use","category-reference","tag-bargains","tag-food","tag-frugal","tag-frugal-librarian","tag-saving-money"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pd0CXx-21f","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7765"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7765\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7830,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7765\/revisions\/7830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}