Who needs a high-maintenance houseplant? If you’re going through the trouble of decorating your home with some greenery, it makes sense to buy something that’ll last—even if your home is as dark as a basement, your ability to remember to water is nearly nonexistent, and your thumbs aren’t remotely green.
Is a combination of hard work, intelligence, and talent a guarantee of success? Or has the American Dream become just a dream?
Websites that lure consumers with the promise of free credit reports are merely trying to get you to sign up and pay for monthly subscriptions to credit-monitoring services.
Nobody wants to get the flu. But workers who are concerned that they could be laid off at any moment, or who don’t even get sick pay, really don’t want to get the flu.
Landlords, desperate to hang onto tenants, are offering primo incentives to get renters to re-up their leases.
On the surface, the price war between Wal-Mart, Amazon, Target, and Sears centers on books from bestselling authors being sold for under $10. But the war isn’t really about books at all.
A dog costs its owners roughly $1,350 per year, on average. Experts say that maintaining your pet’s health and being good about preventive vet visits are key steps to keeping expenses under control.
“Don’t do people favors without asking them.”
In light of the economic downturn, consumers have been scaling back—on food that’s actually good for them. Sales of potato chips and other quick-payoff snacks are way up, and even though people are cooking at home rather than dining out to save money, what they’re preparing in the kitchen is more likely than ever to involve a microwave oven.
When Wal-Mart, Amazon, Target, and Sears jumped into a price war for bestselling authors’ new books, they probably didn’t think their best customers would be independent bookstores.
The coupon-crazed deal-posting website Buxr rounded up a whole mess of the best sites for swapping your stuff, free of charge.
The Cheapskate Blog, as you may have noticed, has morphed into the It’s Your Money blog.
