Here are the 20 best tips culled
from your entries in this month's Frugal $ense contest.
Click on any of the links to read a tip and rate it.
You may rate as many tips as you'd like, but please
only once per tip. See
rules.
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The tip with the highest average at the end of the
month earns the tipster $100!
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Kathy Peterson, of Delaware,
Ohio, won $100 for her cost-cutting tip, which was rated No.
1 by Bankrate readers last month. For more information on this
tip and its author, read our interview
with the Frugal $ense contest winner.
Winning tip:
Get HDTV for
almost free "After buying a fantastic new large screen
LCD HDTV last year, we decided to try to cut costs when gas started
pinching us this year. I suggested canceling cable, but my husband
was reluctant to cut out the cable bill because he said that it
would be a waste to have the big fancy TV on an analog signal. However,
after some research, I discovered that my TV was equipped with an
OTA tuner allowing it to receive digital signals over the air (If
you do not have an OTA tuner installed on the TV, you can buy one
separately). After some research, we bought a digital antenna for
about $75 (looks a bit fancier than the old rabbit ears) and hooked
it up to see how it did. Well, we have since canceled cable because
the OTA HD signals are even crisper than those we received from
the cable company." Kathy Peterson, of Delaware, Ohio
