Best Money Tips: Oktoberfest Recipes

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Welcome to Wise Bread's Best Money Tips roundup! Today, we're bringing Oktoberfest into your kitchen with recipes featuring — you guessed it! — beer. Plus: 20 cheap and yummy meals, creepy Halloween crafts, and tips to prep for a winter power outage.

Top 5 Articles

How to Bring Oktoberfest Into Your Kitchen — Beer brittle and beer donuts. Beer soup, beer chicken, beer stew (OK, it's Belgian stew). Need I say more? MintLife

20 Favorite Dirt Cheap Meals — These meals are delicious and cheap, and most are pretty easy to make, too. With 20 meal ideas on the list, you're bound to find something new to try! The Simple Dollar

Halloween Crafts — It's not too late to work on crafty Halloween decorations. Try your hand at Halloween flowers, eggs, and slime, and a creeptastic spider prop. Instructables

How to Prepare for a Power Loss — Keep warm with an alternative heat source, like a small kerosene heater — or heated bricks. The Greenest Dollar

Three Ways To Find Items To Sell On eBay — Volunteer to help a friend or relative clear out their junk, and if you find something promising, ask if you can take it off their hands. (The odds are in your favor.) Eliminate the Muda!

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The Rent is Too Damn High - So Save Money by DIYing! — You can offset your high rent by saving on your utilities with these inexpensive DIY fixes. DIY Life

Which Debt Should You Pay Off First? — Tackle the one with the highest interest rate first and focus any extra cash on paying off that debt. Lauren & Elissa via Currency

Foreclosure Crisis – A Three Part Series Told in Text and Video — Read (and watch) to learn about the foreclosure crisis. It's a fascinating (ongoing) story! Money Talk News

Your To Do List For Open Enrollment — Get set, ready, and go review your open enrollment options to make sure your 2011 insurance plans and benefits will work for you. The Sun's Financial Diary

High interest savings accounts are best found online — Learn how to find the best savings account rates, plus five things to look for on your search. Money Blue Book