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Black Friday is nearly upon us. It’s the one day in the year where you can find outrageous deals on cell phones, clothing, furniture, and just about anything else you’d ever want to buy. The prospect of the busiest shopping day of the year is intimidating if not outright terrifying, and most are content to [...]
I’m not someone who has a lot of credit cards, thank goodness. I’m also not someone who always gets a store’s rewards cards or discount cards. I do have some, though, and I have to say that, for the most part, they’re fairly worthless. The only card I have that’s of any real benefit to [...]
After talking to a friend of mine who lives in Australia and just visited the United States, it occurred to me that tipping is something that many people just don’t seem to get right. People in other countries are always confused by the fact that we have tipping at all, but I’ve often found myself [...]
The price of everything seems to be going up these days. Actually, using the term “seems” is kind of a misnomer because everything that really is going up. The problems of course our many. Gas prices have gone up. There have been problems with produce and weather, so those prices have gone up. And the [...]
I happen to love my grocery store, so I go often, with or without my wife. One of those things we discuss often enough is how to tell whether you’re getting the best deal out of your purchase or not. If you have your favorite products, I’m someone who believes that it doesn’t matter how [...]
Despite my original plan to be a regular guest blogger on Mitch’s blog here, I’m sorry to say that this is my first post. While I don’t have a lengthy post for you guys today, I did want to share a really good resource that I came across on MSN today. Some of you may [...]
On CNN Money today, there was a news story saying that over 1,400 stores could close in 2009 after dismal sales figures in November and December, now being considered the worst retail season on record. For its part, the story does not say that chains will necessarily close as much as some stores from some [...]