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VIDEO Perhaps the easiest products to get a great deal on are Tide Pods. Why? Because they are frequently on sale and because they frequently have high value coupons available which are often online which you can print out. In this demonstration, I show how I combined a sale with a coupon that I printed out. I made this purchase on Friday evening but the next morning I repeated the same process again the next day to get a second bag of Tide Pods at the same price which came to about 75% off the original retail price.

There were 10,570 injuries related to the consumption of laundry packs in 2017.Tide Pods have been making a lot of headlines lately—but not for their stain-cleaning power. Instead, the product has gained notoriety for the so-called “Tide Pod Challenge,” a disturbing phenomenon in which people film themselves eating the laundry detergent-filled packets. Needless to say, consuming the pods is not recommended, and eating them can cause a variety of health problems. Some companies, including several bakeries, have had fun with the strange fad, making donuts that resemble the colorful detergent pods. But not everyone thinks a lighthearted approach to the...

LOGAN, Utah (WABC) -- A dangerous social media stunt took a serious turn in Utah. A college student was hospitalized after ingesting a Tide Pod. Utah State University says it happened Saturday afternoon in a dorm. There is no word on the student's condition, but she was conscious after medics put her in an ambulance.

According to Rick Newman of US News and World Report, America’s consumer confidence continues to rise, and their out of pocket spending has been solid. Yet credit card spending has not risen, and incomes have not risen either. So what’s going on? Newman explains: “The answer may lie in the large ‘underground’ economy that doesn’t show up in official statistics.” In others words, Americans, tired of taxation, may be engaging in an enormous black market. Newman quotes Bernard Baumohl of the Economic Outlook Group stating, “We suspect the destructive nature of the last downturn and the prolonged weak recovery pushed...

While having clean clothes is obviously both hygienic and neighborly, how they get that way may be more open to imagination and experimentation than you may have considered. And consider you should, because as it turns out, the companies supplying the soaps you use to make your attire springtime fresh may be doing little more than taking you to the cleaners.