I would be surprised if any of these originated with MMM.
Wouldn't surprise me at all if MMM was referenced for this piece. MSN just tends to
plagiarize reference material from other sources primarily and seldom quotes who they were. I didn't see in the piece where they found these tips. As I clicked through the tips I noticed that they started to jive up with MMM pretty closely. Sure they could have and probably did reference other sites with a frugality theme.