Someone recently asked me if I truly thought I save more using coupons and shopping at grocery stores than I could buying generics at a super store like Wal-Mart. The answer: Absolutely! “BUT HOW,” you ask.
Cast Your Ballot: Best of Knoxville 2009 Voting Now Open
Each year the Metro Pulse tosses their inhibitions to the wind and turn their Best of Knoxville voting ballots over to us crazy Knoxvillians. This year, ballots must be submitted by midnight, April 2, so that they can print their 2009 edition of the who/what/where that makes Knoxville great. If …
Knowing When to Use Your Coupons
So you have started clipping coupons. Great! Gathering all the coupons you can find is the first step in developing a successful Coupon Strategy. Now you have to know WHEN to use them. Most folks start buying products just because they have coupons for them. This strategy will usually not …
Couponing is a Lifestyle
Coupon Katie is a money saving addict. We invited her to Knoxify so that she could show you how to save money in Knoxville. It is mostly a lifestyle about planning. Planning meals, planning shopping trips, planning how to use your money. It is a lifestyle void of brand loyalty. …
New Neighborhood: Fairmont and Emoriland
It’s been almost a month since we introduced our latest neighborhood guide. This time we’re headed to North Knoxville spotlighting Fairmont and Emoriland. This neighborhood gets its name from the two Boulevards that make up the community: Fairmont and Emoriland. © 2009 Robert Stockdale Photography, All Rights Reserved.
Car Enthusiasts Meet Downtown Every Friday
Head towards the University of Tennessee campus on a Friday night and you might see cars like the one pictured above rolling up next to you. According to their Facebook group, UTDM hosts “a weekly car meet devoted to bringing together and representing East Tennessee’s finest cars and car enthusiasts.” …
New Neighborhood: Island Home
Just south of the river, across the Gay Street bridge and down Sevier Avenue lies a hidden gem called Island Home. Founded in the early 1900s this Knoxville neighborhood got its name from a prominent local business man named Perez Dickinson. Read why the newest addition to our Knoxville Neighborhood …
20 Images of the 1982 World’s Fair and Some White-collar Crime
The 1982 World’s Fair gave us more to talk about than just cultural exchange, painting robots, and Petro’s. One day after the fair ended the largest Knoxville-based white-collar crime investigation in history hit the fan, throwing fair-leader Jake Butcher behind bars for banking fraud. For six months Knoxville basked in …
5 Knox Countians Call Soft Drink’s Pop
Jane Weisman, a Clinical Consultant for DentalWorks, sent us this interesting fact: Did you know that, out of 203 Knox County people surveyed, only 5 of them would refer to a soft drink as “pop”? Well, it’s true. The majority of respondents (168) would refer to a soft drink as …
How to live in Knoxville
Update (12/18/08): After receiving a number of valid comments that I’m looking unfavorably on certain parts of Knoxville, I’ve decided to write a follow-up entry to this one with my current view of living in Knoxville. The current entry was originally published on my personal site in June 2008 before …