In this month's installment of Selling It:
A not-so moving offer | Tea or juice? | Decimated savings | Instructions restless anorexics would love | Oily attraction | See more Selling It items
Affordable housing
Spotted in Yuma, Ariz., the reader who mailed this in wonders whether this is a cheap snowbird rental with matching guest house.
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Juicy mistake
The company says its product really does have orange juice, but the reader who sent in this misprinted label would have had to go online to know.
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Such a deal!
Almost a whole penny of savings is offered on this Post Shredded Wheat cereal coupon.
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Take as directed?
We haven’t checked on how the reader who sent in this prescription is doing.
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The oily bird gets the worm
This bird feeder’s instructions for attaching its suction cups to your window include step No. 4: “Using the facial oil from the side of your nose, rub finger on suction cup surface.” So don’t powder your nose first.
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