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Boy, do I wish I had read the December issue of ShopSmart magazine before I bought a pair of shoes online earlier this month.

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$42.91

Average cost of a Thanksgiving meal for 10, down about 4 percent from last year's average of $44.61, according to the American Farm Bureau, an agribusiness lobbying group. The same meal cost $28.74 in 1986, the first year the AFB started tracking the price of the holiday meal.

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The Savvy Shopper, a blog over at The Daily Press, The Sun’s sister paper in Hampton Roads, Va. is planning a 12-hour live chat Tuesday to help shoppers find the best deals this holiday season.

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As cooking appliances get faster, records continue to fall in our labs. The video (right) shows how the TurboChef 30" Double Wall Speedcook oven, using "Airspeed Technology," cranked out a nicely browned 13-pound turkey in a record 53 minutes. So if time is really of the essenceyou'll have to shell out about $8,000 for a TurboChefthis dual oven could be for you.

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Here are two freebies next week best suited for folks in downtown Baltimore and those who take the light rail from Timonium:

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The calendar indicates that heating season is  upon us, but the Home & Garden blog team doesn't need to look at a thermometer or watch the Weather Channel to know it's starting to get colder here in the New York City metro area and elsewhere around the country.

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Here’s one way to ensure that you get the products you want at Black Friday prices — without worrying that the items will be sold out if you decide to sleep in on the day after Thanksgiving.

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You might enjoy watching the many celebrity chefs who perform culinary magic (and, sometimes, mayhem) on TV, but based on the results of our tests of kitchen knives, you might be better off learning a technique or a new recipe from them than buying the kitchen knives that bear their names. Read the rest of this entry »

It seems the performance artist for tomorrow’s terra cotta warriors promotion has run into a little travel issue at the airport. Chi Chang, I’m told by DC marketing officials, was not allowed into the country and was actually turned back to Taiwan.

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The folks who test and rate washing machines for Consumer Reports have been doing a ton of laundry. Make that almost two tons over the past five months, as they measure the cleaning performance, water and energy efficiency, and other criteria of the machines in our continuously updated ratings of front-loaders and top-loaders (available to subscribers).

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