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Cost cutting is nothing new. But the recent economic downturn has made the homely virtue of thrift that much more compelling. The jobless rate still has been hovering above 5 percent, and many families are wallowing in a swamp of credit-card debt--about $8,400 each. All that's enough to make most breadwinners anxious to build up cash reserves and to welcome into their lives a new financial discipline.
In this report, we offer you more than the usual austerity measures. These ideas would be smart to act on no matter where the economy goes. They come from the experts at CONSUMER REPORTS and its testing laboratories, from Appliances to Electronics, to Foods, Home ...