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	<title>Monroe on a Budget</title>
	
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	<description>A frugal living blog for Monroe, Mich., hosted by Paula Wethington</description>
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		<title>Monroe MI grocery fliers Feb. 25</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Feb 2012 15:37:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paula Wethington</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Sales and deals]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[My sales and deals are for the Monroe, Mich., area: Trending topics: Easter candy is on the shelves, but don&#8217;t buy that stuff early if you think it will be eaten before the appointed time. The following ads are from my home-delivery edition of The Monroe Evening News: Busch&#8217;s Fresh Food Market (sale starts Monday) [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Consumer survey: incomes still down, but hopes up</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Feb 2012 21:02:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paula Wethington</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Financial crisis / recession]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[In the News]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The long-running Thomson Reuters/University of Michigan Surveys of Consumers noticed during its February 2012 survey that consumers are getting their hopes up on job growth. Despite that glimmer of optimism, the press release accompanying the survey results also includes this statement: Personal finances remained dismal.  More households reported recent income declines than increases, for the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Video seminar Feb. 29 on how unemployment relates to health inequities</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Feb 2012 20:30:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paula Wethington</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Medical bills and related topics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Unemployment]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This post is for my readers in and near Monroe, Mich.: The Monroe County Health Department is hosting Wednesday Brown Bag Series that started this week and will meet from noon to 1 p.m. Wednesdays until March 14 at its facility, 2353 S. Custer Rd., Monroe, Mich. The program each week is a 30-minute video, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>History of money program March 5 in Bedford</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Feb 2012 18:54:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paula Wethington</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Back in time]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Just for fun]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Some of my duties for The Monroe Evening News include typing up club reports. And this is one my budget blog readers will like! The Historical Society of Bedford will meet at 7 p.m. Monday March 5 at Bedford Branch Library, 8575 Jackman Rd., Temperance, Mich. Harold Borden will give a presentation called &#8220;What is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stacy Johnson’s best tips on gas prices</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Feb 2012 18:30:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paula Wethington</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cars and transportation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gas prices]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[In the News]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m so glad I recently found Money Talks News on the web. I&#8217;ve enjoyed Stacy Johnson&#8217;s TV spots for a long time. And his &#8220;been there, done that, have the T-shirt&#8221; experience in personal finance reporting shines in pieces such as The Single Best Tip to Beat High Gas Prices, which he posted today in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Michigan residents spend 8.4 of income on gas</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Feb 2012 16:09:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paula Wethington</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cars and transportation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gas prices]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Gas prices have been getting headlines all over the country, and the chatter will likely continue to heat up if the predictions are correct. My co-worker Charles Slat is watching the Monroe gas prices for The Monroe Evening News and reports he noticed 20-cent jump in the price ranges on Thursday. One of the charts [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sarah’s Deals discusses stretching the food assistance budgets</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Feb 2012 13:51:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paula Wethington</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Assistance programs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Michigan Bridge Card]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[WIC]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.blogsmonroe.com/budget/?p=28875</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Sarah&#8217;s Deals in west Michigan has started a discussion that she&#8217;s calling Making the Most. It&#8217;s aimed at helping families figure out how to stretch those public assistance dollars as far as possible. The piece she posted Thursday is Making the Most of Public Assistance: WIC and Bridge Card. It&#8217;s a good review or a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Yes, TLC is casting for Extreme Cheapskates</title>
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		<comments>http://www.blogsmonroe.com/budget/2012/02/yes-tlc-is-casting-for-extreme-cheapskates/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Feb 2012 17:41:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paula Wethington</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Extreme Cheapskates]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Frugal living]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[YouTube video]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Are you interested in penny pinching beyond coupons? TLC is casting for a series called Extreme Cheapskates. I&#8217;m not, um, &#8220;outrageous and creative&#8221; enough, based on the sample video clip.]]></description>
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		<title>Did you forget how winter weather can affect your pocketbook?</title>
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		<comments>http://www.blogsmonroe.com/budget/2012/02/did-you-forget-how-winter-weather-can-affect-your-pocketbook/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Feb 2012 11:49:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paula Wethington</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Disaster preparedness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Encore]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Radio show]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Winter weather]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.blogsmonroe.com/budget/?p=28866</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A piece about the out-of-pocket expenses relating to winter weather turned out to be quite popular when I wrote it about a year ago. In addition to the original posting here on Monroe on a Budget, it became a print column for The Monroe Evening News during a particularly nasty weather week. Given the pending [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How can he or she afford THAT?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Feb 2012 22:36:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paula Wethington</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Assistance programs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Budgeting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Frugal ethics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Frugal living]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hand-me-downs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rants]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.blogsmonroe.com/budget/?p=28857</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By Paula Wethington / Monroe on a Budget Have you ever looked at, or heard about, something that another person bought, recently acquired, or did, and you wonder &#8230; How can he or she afford THAT? Maybe the &#8220;that&#8221; is the acquisition of a smartphone. Maybe it&#8217;s a vacation you couldn&#8217;t afford. Maybe it&#8217;s sending [...]]]></description>
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