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Mouse Print*-- Total Wireless' Too-Good-to-Be-True Offer

The TV commercial made it sound like such a great deal. You pay only $25 a line for unlimited service on four lines and get four free 5G phones. Except for one problem: that's not what you get despite the clear language of the ad. That story is in Mouse Print* this week.

Look How Cheap Groceries Were in the 1960s

MrConsumer was a teenager in the 1960s and that's when he learned about supermarket prices (and kind of still thinks that that is what some of them should cost today). Here are 25 common groceries and the typical prices that were charged for them sixty years ago. For example, back then butter was 74 cents a pound, and eggs were 57 cents a dozen! Ah, the good old days.

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Best Tax Software - Paid and Free

It is that dreaded time of year again -- tax filing season. CNET reviewed both paid and free tax preparation software. Their number one choice is TurboTax, which also tends to be the most expensive. They also selected FreeTaxUSA for free federal filing. Here are other ways to prepare your taxes for free.