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10 Things How To shopping TV

How Extreme Couponing Works, and how to save money at the grocery store with it

Pick Another Checkout Lane, Honey: Save Big Money & Make the Grocery Aisle your Catwalk!
Pick Another Checkout Lane, Honey: Save Big Money & Make the Grocery Aisle your Catwalk!

If you’re like Web Watch, you watch a lot of television.  And one of the more recent interesting series we’ve caught is TLC’s EXTREME COUPONING.

You know the show – it features shopping trips by couponing fanatics who are able to save 90% or more on their supermarket bill by careful planning and using coupons.

TLC’s cameras follow these proud hoarders around the store as they fill their shopping carts with hundreds of dollars worth of merchandise that they’ll pay just cents on the dollar for – and then show us their “mini-marts” of storage at home, where they have enough cereal, bathroom supplies, and diapers to last for months or years without returning to the store ever again.

While Web Watch admires some of these coupon folks for using their shopping knowledge to supply charities or care packages for overseas troops, it’s those featured on the show that end up buying products that they’ll never use that really concerns us.  One show featured a woman who had almost a year’s worth of diapers in her storage area – she’s not married, pregnant, or has any children of her own. She did this so she’ll be ready when that time comes.

Just what every baby needs to wear – disposable diapers that are five years older than they are.

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10 Things Movies shopping Websites

Want your own personal Hangover? Zach Galifianakis costs $75,000; Ken Jeong $30k

Zach Galifianakis - Hangover poster
Zach Galifianakis, Hangover poster

A lot of people have visited Web Watch looking for information on HOW TO HIRE THE DAN BAND, as seen in the first HANGOVER film.

But that was so two years ago.

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10 Things food shopping

10 Things NOT to do while eating at a restaurant

Waiter Rant: Thanks for the Tip--Confessions of a Cynical Waiter
Waiter Rant: Thanks for the Tip–Confessions of a Cynical Waiter

Eating out is fun for us, the customer.

We get some (usually) good food, brought to us by (usually) attentive waitstaff.

Sometimes, everything lives up to our expectations; sometimes it doesn’t.  That’s the risk we take when we decide to put our food preparation into someone else’s hands rather than doing it ourselves.

But there is a flip-side to everything.  Which is why Web Watch readers should pay attention to these TOP TEN THINGS YOU SHOULDN’T DO WHILE DINING OUT, as compiled by Jessica, a former food-service employee and inspired by stories she’s read on WAITER RANT, a blog of restaurant horror stories.

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Disney shopping

Q: What does Mickey Mouse smell like? A: mint, chocolate, and the sea

Jitterbug Perfume
Jitterbug Perfume

Have you ever wanted to smell like Walt Disney World or Disneyland?

Have you ever wanted to smell like a true magical fantasy?

Well, now’s your chance as The Disney Stores have decided to launch an exclusive perfume and fragrance line that captures the scentual essence of what “Disney” means.

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Gadgets How To shopping Websites

How far would you go to avoid panty lines or tan lines? Would you do this?

Wedgie Tales and Panty Lines
Wedgie Tales and Panty Lines

Are you one of those women who go out of their way to avoid any semblance of panty line or tan line?

Just like you, Web Watch knows plenty of women who fear having panty lines so much that they are the first ones to admit that they invented going commando.  These women get angry at the thought of having to “be proper” and wear any sort of underwear that makes its presence known on the outside of their slacks or dresses.

Web Watch hears your screams.  We’re here to help.

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Book shopping Travel

Take the 100 Thing Challenge #100TC

The 100 Thing Challenge: How I Got Rid of Almost Everything, Remade My Life, and Regained My Soul
The 100 Thing Challenge:
How I Got Rid of Almost Everything, Remade My Life, and Regained My Soul

How much “stuff” do you have?

George Carlin used to joke about needing a “place for your stuff”.  Look around – it’s just a bunch of stuff lying around your house, isn’t it? 

Stuff you don’t need.

Stuff you can’t even remember why it’s there in the first place.

Stuff you have to decide to leave behind if a flood comes.  Stuff you have to recover if you were ever burgled.  Stuff you might need to list in a divorce proceeding. Stuff you’ll have to go through once your parents pass away years from now.

Have you ever thought that maybe you have too much stuff?

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Gadgets How To Internet shopping

How to maximize your gadget shopping dollar

Intel Core i7 Processor i7-2600K 3.4GHz 8MB LGA1155 CPU BX80623I72600K
Core i7 Processor i7-2600K 3.4GHz 8MB CPU

Have you purchased a computer lately?

Once you get past the initial “MAC vs Windows” discussion, the choices typically come down to price variations.  Web Watch has always said — and it’s been holding true for the past 20 years or so — that the “ideal” computer that any computer nerd would want will cost about $2,000.

You’d be surprised that the $2k number holds up, even in today’s retail environment where a decent home computer can be had for around $500.  Note that we said that this was a computer ideal for a computer nerd, not just any machine that would get somebody through the next two years of English class at the local university.

And that’s because that $2000 computer is one that is going to last for a number of years because it has all the bells and whistles for today, and will likely not need to be upgraded anytime soon.

But Web Watch understands that not everyone has $2k in their back pocket. Which brings up that more important question:  if you had limited funds with which to buy or outfit a computer, WHAT SHOULD THE MONEY BE SPENT ON?

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10 Things shopping

5 things that big breasted women want you to know

I Love Boobies bracelets
I Love Boobies bracelets

Big-breasted women want you to know that there is more to them than just their big breasts.

Like, that their face — it’s up HERE.  Look up.

See?  Yeah, we thought so.  You can’t even tell what color her eyes are, can you?