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Originally Posted by asaris
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.
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I definitely agree on the medicine. You can go to a chain drugstore and buy Aleve for pain, or you can look down the shelve a little but and find Naproxen Sodium -- the same thing -- for 2/3 the price from the drugstore's house brand. Q-tips, same thing: 1/2 to 2/3 the price for generic.
Drugstores are a great place to save money. The neighborhood chain druggist even sells generic razor blade cartridges for Gillete and Shick brand razors at half the money or less.