• Blu Ray is feeling the blues. Not enough folks are buying. The problem isn't the players, but the $30 a pop for the discs. Who wants to invest, again, in your movie collection at that price?

• And speaking of tech goodies, HD TV sets should get progressively cheaper as we roll towards the holidays and probably beyond. Oversupply, bad economy and consumer confusion are the reasons.

• If you having some difficulty either getting to sleep or staying asleep, try this. Put a pair of light, cotton socks on. I know it sounds a little weird, but it works for the Frugal Yankee.

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• Americans consume 700 million pounds of peanut butter a year and someone who doesn't have a life figured out that 3.5 million pounds of the tasty stuff sticks at the bottom of peanut butter jars. Such a waste!

• The most efficient form of mechanical, powered mass human transportation is trains, followed by cars followed by airplanes. The survey we read did not talk about mopeds or even segways. READ MORE....