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On food, and generic items in general:
I've always felt that it's important to know what to buy non name brand, and what to spend the extra couple bucks on. I never go cheap on toilet paper -- it's just not worth it to me! But you should always buy generic medicine if you can. It's exactly the same ingredients (at least, the same active ingredients), and about half as expensive.
If you make your own lunches (and you should -- my lunch costs me maybe two bucks, compares with five if you buy it at work), buy meats and cheeses at the deli. I often pay half of what I would pay buying the prepackaged stuff. The same goes for bacon; I love bacon, and buy buying it at the butcher counter, I spend about half of what I would spend on the name brand stuff.
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"Die Deutschen meinen, daß die Kraft sich in Härte und Grausamkeit offenbaren müsse, sie unterwerfen sich dann gerne und mit Bewunderung:[...]. Daß es Kraft giebt in der Milde und Stille, das glauben sie nicht leicht."
"The Germans believe that power must reveal itself in hardness and cruelty and then submit themselves gladly and with admiration[...]. They do not believe readily that there is power in meekness and calm."
-- Friedrich Nietzsche
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