Salad makes a great cheap and healthy meal – especially when you grow your own ingredients. Whip up a different salad dressing each time, and you'll never tire of eating it.

Here are several dressing recipes to try (I'm partial to the Buttermilk Dill, minus the garlic powder):

• 20 Salad Dressing Recipes

Do you have a special dressing that you like to make? Please share the recipe.

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Lynn from Colorado

Your Favorite Source for Bargains:

Yard sales

Your Best Bargain of All Time:

A vintage pair of jeans from the 50's in great condition that I purchased for 5O cents and resold for $5OO.

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Repairing your broken belongings is a great way to save money – especially if you do the repair work yourself. Why not grab a tool box and put your fix-it skills to the test?

• How to Repair Anything

What have you repaired recently? Share your "I-Fixed-It" story.

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The recession has caused a lot of people to give up vacations, trips to the movies and meals out. If you're sorely missing your bit of fun, sweepstakes could be a way to bring it back.

Set aside some time each day to enter contests (30 minutes should do it), and you may just score some fun money, movie tickets or even that much-needed vacation.

Sandra Grauschopf, our Guide to Contest & Sweepstakes, has the advice that you need to get started:

• Saving Money with Sweepstakes

Related Reading:

• Get Paid to Take Surveys
• Become a Mystery Shopper
• More Ways to Earn Extra Money