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17.0 END NOTES
(Documentation
for some of our estimated savings.)
Annual discounted expenses.
Saving
$5,000 is like getting a raise of $10,000 at work.
==See
pages 13-34, The Only Investment Guide You'll Ever Need, Andrew Tobias, Harcourt
Brace, $12.
Store brands, house and in-house brands, private labels and generics.
=="...40
percent of national brands produce identical products under private labels for
supermarkets." March 1, 1992 article in the Orange County Register, David
Lynch.
==Average
store-brand food savings range from 18% - 33% depending on the store. Figure is derived
from pg. 124 of Phil Lempert's Supermarket Shopping and Value Guide, Phil Lempert,
Contemporary Books, $9.95.
Discounts on electricity and utilities.
==From
figures in: Cut Your Bills in Half, The Editors of Rodale Press, Rodale Press,
$24.95.
Drive your automobile one more year.
==Rough
estimate based on figures from: Car Talk, Tom & Ray Magliozzi, Dell,
$10.
==Estimate
also based on extensive spreadsheet of car costs in the SAVVY-DISCOUNTS.com
e-mail Newsletter Automobile Issue (Vol.1 #4).
Buy private label clothes, dresses, suits, shirts, pants.
==Page
102, Cheap Tricks, Andy Dappen, Brier Books, $13.95.
Get a refund from stores and merchants.
==Numbers
derived from: Cheap Tricks, Andy Dappen, Brier Books, $13.95.
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