Here’s one tip to save money and help save your eyes, too: Reduce the brightness on your computer, phone and TV screens. Our digital screens are often set to the highest levels of brightness; the brighter the screen, the more power is used, which raises energy costs and drains batteries more quickly. Simply reduce the screen brightness in the settings section of your device and try to match it to the same brightness as a sheet of white paper under lighting.

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Whether you’re looking for the best deal on organic cotton sheets or all-natural skin care products, if you regularly shop online, you might wonder why the prices don’t often change. It’s not a coincidence; it’s your browsing history. Online retailers use information from your browsing cache and search history and will designate prices based on that information. Clearing your cache and then looking again will almost always generate the absolute best prices for what you need to buy.

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Scrap gold is a valuable material that can easily be traded in for cold hard cash. But if you think pure gold can only come from broken jewelry or coins, think again: You might have some scrap gold in unexpected places. One unusual place is old dentures! They contain scrap gold and silver inside that can easily be salvaged and recycled. It’s not a lot of precious metal -- about $25 worth, typically -- but it’s still worth taking old dentures to a store to turn into cash.

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