{"id":498334,"date":"2026-02-23T06:52:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T06:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/498334\/"},"modified":"2026-02-23T06:52:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T06:52:10","slug":"23-popular-frugal-tips-that-waste-time-and-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/498334\/","title":{"rendered":"23 Popular Frugal Tips That Waste Time And Money"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;When it IS something I would buy, it hardly ever takes it below what store brand costs anyway. And store brand stuff never gets coupons. Sales, yes. Coupons, no. You can&#8217;t combine anything, nothing stacks, and it never ends up being more savings than like $10. Maybe this is regional, but it&#8217;s just something I&#8217;ve noticed. It&#8217;s become more worth my time to just go to the store and see what&#8217;s marked down.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u2014<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/Frugal\/comments\/1r82wdg\/comment\/o6200ke\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Mystical-Turtles<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;When it IS something I would buy, it hardly ever takes it below what store brand costs anyway.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":498335,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[64,63,10331,99,5623,186,21822,1625,184,185],"class_list":{"0":"post-498334","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-personal-finance","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-bestofinternet-reddit","11":"tag-business","12":"tag-evergreen","13":"tag-finance","14":"tag-flipped","15":"tag-lifestyle","16":"tag-personal-finance","17":"tag-personalfinance"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=498334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498334\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/498335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=498334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=498334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=498334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}