On Monday, February 21, the non-profit secondhand store chain Savers is selling all used clothing, shoes, accessories, and bed and bath items at 50% off.
The iPad Debate: Is It Remotely Useful or Just a Total Time Suck?
“A salad spinner would have been a better investment, and I don’t even eat that much salad.”
Should Budget Cuts hit Nascar?
(Photo: Brian Blanco/REUTERS)
It had to come to this eventually. The budget war has morphed into a cultural war. Rep. Betty McCollum (D-MN) wants the Army to stop spending millions of defense dollars on NASCAR sponsorships. The army shells out $7 million to rent space on the Sprint Cup car driven by Ryan Newman. McCollum says that in …
9 Quirky Signs of the Times
A still-struggling, still-uncertain economy has increased the chances that you can’t help dreaming about the recession, your workspace is shrinking, your roommate could be a millionaire (on paper anyway), and you’re so sick of neighborhood potholes you’re considering filling them in yourself.
Who Are the ‘Thieves’ in the Modern-Day Economy?
“You know many of them: phone companies, cable operators and cellular companies are the obvious ones.”
It’s a Deal: 60% Off from Wisconsin Cheeseman
Everything currently in stock at Wisconsin Cheeseman—a specialty gift retailer that sells chocolates, nuts, fruits, jams, sausages, gift baskets, and of course, lots and lots of cheese—is marked down by 60% for orders placed by February 20.
The Power of Freebies: Why Companies Pay to Give Free Samples to Supermarket Customers
Grocery stores like free sample giveaways because they get shoppers excited, feeling like they’re getting in on something exclusive and special. Shoppers like free samples for the reasons just mentioned, and also because, well, they don’t cost anything. As for the companies actually giving away the samples? They really like how free …
Video-Equipped Shopping Carts: The New Way to Keep Kids Quiet While Grocery Shopping
Food shopping with kids is a challenge: Not only are they prone to complain of boredom and sometimes walk away when you’re not looking, little ones are also apt to beg for sugary expensive treats strategically placed on shelves right at their eye level. The standard advice for parents hoping to supermarket shop in peace—and with the …
Report: Wireless Bill Taxes Are Double Retail Sales Taxes
Federal, state, and local taxes and fees now account for 16.3% of the average wireless customer’s bill. In four states, wireless taxes are north of 20%. And what’s the most taxed state of all? That dubious achievement goes to Nebraska, where wireless users are taxed to the tune of 23.7%.
Madoff’s Banks Claim: Does that raise the Heat on JP Morgan?
Madoff says his Ponzi scheme was known by others (Photo: U.S. Marshals/REUTERS)
Nearly two years ago, just months after the Madoff scam was revealed, TIME.com wrote a story questioning whether JP Morgan Chase was hiding evidence that it knew of the Bernie Madoff Ponzi scheme. Now it appears, Bernie Madoff is making the same …
Wanna Buy a House with No Money Down? Not Gonna Happen
If you want to buy a house anytime soon, you better start saving—immediately, and in large quantities. Toward the end of 2010, the median down payment on homes bought with conventional mortgages was 22% in a sampling of major U.S. cities, up from as low as 4% in the fourth quarter of 2006.