Archive for 'Money Saving Tips' Category
Want an instant discount? Buy other people’s gift cards.
20 September 2006I came across a site called CardAvenue, which is a sort of E-bay for old gift cards that people don’t want. This is a great idea both for people who get gift cards they don’t want and for people looking for a discount at stores they already shop at anyway. Basically, people who get the [...]
There’s a Time to Buy Everything Cheaply…
16 September 2006And this guide in SmartMoney is pretty comprehensive about it. Sometimes bargain hunting is intuitive - it’s easy to understand why you should buy summer clothes during after-summer sales. But some of these are based on industry peculiarities you wouldn’t otherwise find out about. Like cars, for example - they suggest buying on weekday mornings [...]
Saving Money on Soap When Washing Dishes
15 September 2006Here’s a quick tip to save money on those expensive liquid dishwashing soaps you need for rinsing dishes or various cleaning jobs. They often cost a couple bucks per bottle, and you can run through a lot of them if you’ve got a big family. However, what you’ll find is that most of the time [...]
Getting Bargains at Estate Sales
14 September 2006SmartMoney has an article up on how to find good deals at estate sales - for the uninitiated, they differ from a garage sale because they’re usually liquidating all the stuff in the house, even though you often see people label a garage sale as an “estate sale.” The article has some good tips on [...]
Get An Easy Discount On Amazon Using A Search Box
12 September 2006Pragmatic Finance has this great tip for Amazon users - do your searches when you’re logged into their web site on the A9 search engine, and after a few days they will give you a 1.57% discount. I found this post with a little bit more information on it - apparently you just search once [...]
Are Refurbished Printer Cartridges Worth It?
11 September 2006I was browsing through the Inchoat Random Abstractions blog and saw this post noting that many of the printer cartridges she bought online seemed to have problems - they would run out of ink or not print at the highest quality. Her call to customer service convinced her that they were handling returns on a [...]
Stuff That Goes On Sale At The End of Summer
10 September 2006We’re in the beginning of fall - it’s a new season, so it’s time to buy all that stuff you’ll need during the fall and winter, right? Not if you’re a smart shopper - if you want some bargains, you’ll be shopping for next summer. Stores are busily unloading the merchandise that they won’t be [...]
Saving Money With A Simple Phone Call
9 September 2006The Weight of Money has a post on three phone calls she made that saved her some extra cash - ranging from $3 to $40. What’s the common theme? Some company she pays bills to had an error in dealing with her, and she spent 5-10 minutes getting them corrected. If you don’t check over [...]
Get Your College Textbooks for Free
9 September 2006There’s a new company offering to do just that - they put advertisements into textbooks and then let you download them online for free. They’re called FreeLoad, and right now they’re only offering textbooks for certain business, math, and computer science classes. They’re real textbooks, but the selection is pretty limited. Your professor might assign [...]
How to Get Cheap Concert Tickets and Sports Tickets Online
7 September 2006I was browsing through this post over at Finding Freedom, which gives some advice on how to get cheap theater tickets online. One of the sites he points to, StubHub, is a scalper’s dream come true. It’s an online marketplace where you can buy and sell tickets for all kinds of special events, including theater tickets, [...]