Congratulations! You’re a college graduate. On the one hand, it’s not going to be easy to find someone willing to pay you to go to work. On the other, at least you’re done paying—via tuition—for people to teach you and evaluate your work.
Last fall, Sally Bjornsen founded the Great American Apparel Diet, in which she and dozens of women from around the world decided to not buy clothing for an entire year. Now that she’s entering the home stretch of the fashion fast, Bjornsen has learned enough from the experiment to establish eight essential shopping rules—steps, …
Friday, May 21, is Bike to Work Day, which celebrates the end of Bike Week, all of which of course takes place during May, a.k.a. National Bike Month. It may be too late for you to ride your bike to work today, but you can change your commuting habits any day—and start saving as much as $5,000 annually in the process.
Here’s one reason that Congress seems unsure about whether to limit ATM transaction fees to 50¢, as it’s been suggested: Some Senators aren’t exactly sure what ATM cards are, or how they work. “I’ve never used an ATM, so I don’t know what the fees are,” says one Senator. “It’s true, I don’t know how to use one.”
You head to the dollar store for everything from party favors to laundry detergent. So why not wrangle up food there too? Some dollar stores are even known to have fresh produce.
Even with high unemployment numbers, a struggling real estate market, and a consensus opinion that a comprehensive economic recovery will be a slow slog, consumer spending is on the rise. Explanations anybody?
Kate Bingaman-Burt, a graphic design professor at Portland State University, spent three years chronicling and drawing at least one of her purchases every day. And the purchases tended to be everyday expenditures: a pen, a cup of coffee, headphones, a haircut. Why did she do this? And what did she learn about herself, her shopping …
When the Queen Mother died in 2002 at age 101, it was reported that she had a £4 million overdraft with the royal bankers. But the late queen wasn’t the spendthrift some made her out to be. Quite the opposite, actually.
Some utilities have introduced “smart” meters, which monitor how much electricity is being used in the community at all hours of the day—and which, because of supply and demand, use tiered pricing structures to charge more during certain “peak” hours. The new pricing also obviously charges less during non-peak hours, so by going …
Instead of forking over $35 or more each time you use your debit card and don’t have enough money in the account to cover the bill, you might only get hit with a fee of $10 or $19.
The term doesn’t necessarily apply to consumers who frequently return items they’ve purchased. Instead, the word generally refers to customers who partake in extreme and borderline criminal behavior, by returning items they never bought in the first place, or by returning stuff that they’ve used. And “returnaholics” may be ruining return …
If LeBron James and the Cleveland Cavaliers had made it to the Eastern Conference Finals, ticket prices sold on the black market would have averaged $349 for the Cavs home games. But now that it’s a match-up of the Orlando Magic and the Boston Celtics, tickets are expected to be resold for a bit under $160, on average.
