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25 Solid-Gold Ways to Save

Some of the best things in life can be free—or blissfully under budget. (Don't miss our updated 2010 guide for more!)
By Anne Kadet
O, The Oprah Magazine  |  From the March 2008 issue of O, The Oprah Magazine
 
Name-brand savings

Buy the smaller package

Yep, you read that right. Some supermarkets and drugstores charge more per unit for the supersize product. At my grocery store, the price for a 200-ounce bottle of Tide worked out to $3.71 a quart; the 100-ounce bottle, $3.52. Ocean Spray cranberry juice cocktail cost $2.66 a quart in the larger size, $2.29 in the smaller size.

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