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Is Brunch the New Dinner?
In terms of value, a fancy $100 dinner at a restaurant just can’t compete with a good $30 brunch.
$1 for $20 Worth of Food? Some Crazy Deals Still Available from LivingSocial
Group-buying site LivingSocial made news for introducing a $10,000 coupon, and now the company is getting attention by going in the opposite pricing direction: Today, LivingSocial members have been dining in restaurants all over Washington, D.C., and they’ve been getting as much as $20 worth of food for just $1.
14 Random Freebies and Deals in Honor of Tax Day
What do ice cream, HBO, online dating, massages, seafood, personal training, and French fries have to do with filing your taxes? Who cares! What’s important is that they’re all offered with discounts or totally for free sometime between Friday and the final day to file taxes this year, Monday, April 18.
Wine Flash Sales: How to Buy Deeply Discounted Bottles of Vino
With flash deals, shoppers can scoop up severely discounted merchandise by acting quickly. How quickly? Generally, deals are good only on the day they’re posted, and sometimes they can sell out in hours, or even mere minutes. Over the last few years, wine makers and sellers have gotten hooked on flash deals as a means to unload vintages …
The Joy and Wisdom of Eating Food Past the Expiration Date
OK, maybe “joy” is overstating things a bit. Still, USDA-funded researchers say that U.S. households throw away 14% of their food purchases, and that estimate seems conservative: Another study claims that roughly 25% of food ($100 billion annually) is bought, then never eaten and thrown out by American consumers. Much of this food is …
Why Consumers Can’t Pass Up MyCoke Promos, McDonald’s Monopoly Games, and Lotteries
For marketers, these and other low-stakes games of chance are goldmines: Consumers buy in time and again even though the odds of winning anything meaningful are horrendous.
It’s a Deal: Free Ice Cream from Ben & Jerry’s on Tuesday
Tuesday, April 12, is Free Cone Day at Ben & Jerry’s, when participating shops are giving free ice cream cones to all customers between noon and 8 p.m.
Bottled Water for Half Price—With No Bottle
Here comes a new kind of vending operation that promises to be the “ATM machine of water.” Using a BYO reusable bottle policy, the machines dispense purified water without the plastic bottle, and at a fraction of the price consumers now pay at a typical vending machine.
The Gift-Card-Only Budget Saved $206 in One Month
In an earlier Q&A, Ashley Grimaldo, a stay-at-home mom from Texas, told us all about her experiment paying her family’s expenses exclusively using gift cards. The cards, she says, helped her maintain a budget, and since she bought them at online marketplaces for less than face value, they also saved her money. How much? At the end of one …
Is Food Cheap or Expensive? Could It Be Both?
Food in the U.S. is cheap to buy at the market, though costs have been rising sharply. Oh, and if you think about all of the costs related to keeping the price of food low, food isn’t really cheap to begin with.
204 Money Tips: Ways to Find Jobs, Get Free Shipping, Avoid Debt and Impulse Purchases, and More
Also: tips for cutting back on what you pay for everything from groceries to toys to your first home.