Some noticeable trends have emerged this holiday season, including never-ending Black Friday sales, an increase in self-gifting, and a decrease in credit card usage. Another trend popping up left and right among retailers and restaurants is the gift card bonus, a seemingly fantastic deal in which you might pay, say, $50 and get $60 worth …
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Signs You’ve Taken Frugality Too Far
For instance: Stealing light bulbs from a hotel, and stealthily swapping in dead bulbs you brought from home.
Skip Restaurants for a Month, Save Over $500
A blogger and his wife recently took on a seemingly straightforward challenge: No eating out for a month. The experiment may sound simple, but that doesn’t mean it’s easy. No lunches out at work, or even sandwiches from a deli. No fast food. No pizza deliveries. No food or drink from vending machines. Basically everything you consume …
432 Money Tips, Including 243 Tips on How to Make More of It
Also, this week’s roundup includes tips to save on baby products, weddings, e-books, groceries, and everyday household expenses, along with Jedi mind tricks played by retailers (store clerk to you: “These are the shoes you’re looking for”), and signs indicating that frugality has turned to the dark side, transforming honorable thrift …
223 Tips: Snag Freebies, Save Money, Salvage Food About to Spoil, Get Your Adult Kid Out of the House, and More
This week’s links cover topics ranging from school fundraisers that aren’t worth your time (and don’t raise much money), to resources for finding the best Black Friday deals, to effective, low-effort, low-cost ways to clean the bathroom.
150 Tips: How to Repurpose Paper Towel Rolls, Where You Can Get Free Land, Why Candy Is Good for You, and More
Here’s the weekly roundup of eye-opening, headache-erasing, money-saving tips—some wacky, some creative, and some that might even prove to be helpful and practical.
Tips! 124 Money-Saving Bits of Advice from Cheapskate Vegetarians, Scrooge McDuck, the Horribly Hung Over, and More
Today’s list starts with three symptoms that indicate you probably have BSD—Bargain Shopping Disease, which you really don’t want to have.
Good Service? You Tip Well. Bad Service? You Still Tip Well
Huh? Apparently, restaurant customers tip for all sorts of reasons, and the main reason we’re supposed to tip—good service—actually has little to do with how much we’ll leave on the table.
111 Frugal Tips for Smarter Buying and Serious Saving
This week’s link roundup covers fees no prudent consumer should ever pay, supermarkets that can save you big-time on grocery bills, reasons why you might want to splurge on a latte from time to time (OK, this isn’t just about saving money), and a no-excuses look at the real reasons you’re broke.
Yelp Encroaching on Groupon’s Turf?
Yelp, which has gathered a following through its postings of reviews and ratings of restaurants and other local businesses from everyday consumers, has begun testing a new feature similar to what Groupon does in that special coupons are available for purchase for a single day.
10 Consumer Questions, Including: Are Cheapskates Hot?
Also, is it wrong to take advantage of freebies? And: How much should you be saving for college? (If you’re dropping off your kid at school next week, this is an issue you probably should have addressed earlier.)
Five Questions. Also: Five Answers
Including: What’s the downside of going cash only? And: Should a restaurant tip be based on the amount before or after taxes?
