10 Useless Purchases You Need to Stop Making
You might as well flush your money down the loo if you spend it on these things.
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Money is tight enough these days that we don’t need to spend it on products or features that deliver no value to the consumer.
Here is a handful of such things to watch for. Are you wasting money on any of these purchases?
1. Brand-name pharmaceuticals
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What exactly are you paying extra for when buying a brand-name drug instead of the generic version? Advertising, it would seem.
Generics are typically copies of brand-name medicines whose patents have expired. Generics approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration have the same quality, strength, purity and stability as their brand-name equivalents, according to the federal agency.