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Mouse Print*-- Does Your Fabric Softener Give You the Loads Promised?

Detergent and fabric softener manufacturers like to play games with the number of loads that each bottle is supposed to supply. One consumer got fed up with the exaggerated number of loads promised and is suing the makers of Snuggle. That is our Mouse Print* story this week.

How to Buy a Week in Paradise for $1!

The Wall Street Journal says this too-good-to-be-true offer has a big catch. What is being resold is a timeshare that the owner no longer wants. They may have paid ten or twenty thousand dollars for it, but the annual maintenance fees have become a burden and perhaps the property has fallen into disrepair or is no longer desirable.

There Is Still a Way to Get a 3% Home Mortgage

We now live in a world of 7-percent mortgages. But is it possible to still get one at only 3-percent? The answer is a qualified yes according to the Wall Street Journal. Here's how.

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Which Banana Storage Method Works Best?

An intrepid reporter set out to see how she could make a bunch of bananas stay fresh longer. She tried in and out of the fridge, putting them in a bag, hanging them up, wrapping the stem in plastic or foil, etc. See which method garnered the top score. MrConsumer's method which only works in the winter is to put a bunch in a sealed glass jar in a room where the temperature is 50 to 55 degrees. They last more than a week without getting speckles.

Consumer Education

No Joke, Look Who's Warning About Shrinkflation

On Super Bowl Sunday, instead of doing a traditional interview with the media, the President (yes, the real one, not an AI clone) did a little bit of consumer education warning viewers about ever-shrinking snack foods (all of which were drawn from Mouse Print*). He called on manufacturers to voluntarily stop the practice, and that grocery stores should lower prices.

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