Consumer Advice
The best sunscreen is the cheapest
A March 2013 study from Consumer Reports has ranked sunscreens and found that you don’t have to pay big bucks to protect your skin from harsh UV rays.Here’s what so funny: The highest rated sunscreen turned out to be the cheapest one per ounce they tested!NO-AD with Aloe and Vitamin ...
How to send expired coupons to the Military
Did you know that you can send your expired coupons to the Military? Military personnel and their families around the world shop at on-base stores called Commissaries, and can use coupons up to six month past their expiration date. This means that you don't have to throw out all of your expired ...
This week in deals: 30% off all baby and toddler at Old Navy
Hope you had a wonderful Mother's Day! I thought I was going to get waited on hand and foot, but boy was I wrong. In the morning, my husband had to go into work because one of the cooks was sick (no breakfast in bed :-(). And then, I was ...
Medicare drug tab $2.55B for older and disabled Ohioans
Elderly and disabled Ohioans were charged nearly $2.6 billion in drug costs in 2010, most of it spent on prescriptions for medications to treat hypertension, high blood pressure and high cholesterol, according to a report Monday from the independent investigative news organization ProPublica. Ohio pharmacies filled nearly 3 million prescriptions ...
Rampant cell phone thefts prompt legislation, anger
A pizza delivery driver was attacked in south Dayton by a group of teenagers who stole his iPhone. A jogger in north Dayton was robbed of his cell phone and a small amount of cash at gunpoint. Thieves broke into a Verizon Wireless store in Kettering and stole mobile phones ...
Hospital charges vary widely for same procedures
New government data showing the amounts U.S. hospitals’ charge Medicare for certain procedures confirm what consumer groups have suspected for years: hospitals, even in the same or nearby communities, can charge wildly different amounts for the same procedures. In Ohio, for example, the average charge to implant a permanent pacemaker ...
This week in deals: 60% off at Easy Canvas Prints, plus more Mother's Day offers
Mother's Day is only 4 days away! If you haven't gotten your token of appreciation for mom which can be a variety of things, it's time to get moving. While Mother's Day shopping can be stressful because mom's got everything, it can also be a lot fun to see what ...
Ohio’s aging workforce continues to grow
Ohio’s graying manufacturing workforce threatens to saddle some employers with labor shortages and hefty costs associated with training and replacing retiring employees. About one in four manufacturing workers in Ohio is 55 and older, which is up from more than one in seven workers a decade ago, according to a ...
High-deductible health plans to impact Ohioans
A growing number of Ohio employers are giving their workers just a single choice for their health insurance or encouraging them in other ways to sign up for high-deductible health plans that generally carry a higher out-of-pocket costs than traditional employer-sponsored health plans.About 663,000 Ohioans were covered by high-deductible plans ...
Computers, laptops are a deal
Computer sales just had the biggest drop in history of the PC ever. Sales have fallen off a cliff. Nobody wants one anymore because of the tablet revolution.Tablets are great. I travel with both a tablet and a MacBook Air. Yet the MacBook gets 95 percent of my eyeball time. ...
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