Money
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Need to Upgrade Your Car Seat? Target’s Trade-in Program Offers a Cheaper Alternative
There are a lot of hot takes when it comes to parenting, but as painful purchases go, parents everywhere are likely to agree that car seats deliver one of the biggest blows to their wallets. The going rate for an…
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15 Things You Really Don’t Need to Buy During a Recession
Frugal consumers know there are plenty of items they can avoid buying to keep their bank accounts as fat as possible, no matter the state of the economy. But with recession looming as a cure for inflation, experts say there…
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Need Plans This Saturday? National Parks Are Free to Commemorate Earth Day
If you’ve been aching to become one with Mother Nature, your moment is arriving. This Saturday, April 22, is not only Earth Day, but the first Day of National Park Week — ahh, serendipity. To celebrate, the National Park Service is…
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TurboTax Has Spent Millions Lobbying Against a Free Tax Filing System and We Are OVER IT
When tax time rolls around, people everywhere gather their receipts and paycheck stubs and forms and … wait, is this really everywhere? In countries like Denmark, Spain, Sweden, and the United Kingdom people don’t have to hassle with taxes — the…
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‘Zuck, You Owe Me Money!’ How Facebook Users Can Apply for a Share of a $725M Settlement
If you’re the kind of person that starts your day by rolling out of bed, grabbing your phone, and seeing Facebook notifications, then Meta, Facebook’s parent company, owes you money. Even if you’re a sporadic Facebook user, you’re entitled to…
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Apple’s High-Yield Savings Account Offers a Whopping 4.15%. But Is It Worth the Hassle?
By now you’ve probably heard that Apple has partnered with Goldman Sachs to offer a high-yield savings account with an enticing 4.15% annual interest rate. For perspective, that’s more than 10 times the national average (0.39%) and still higher than…
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Ditch Fast Fashion: 9 Clothing Brands That Are Guaranteed to Last, According to Redditors
Before fast fashion took over the world with cheap, environmentally destructive clothes, you could wear the same T-shirt for years before it started falling apart. But now everyone shops at…
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Is Temu a Scam or a Bargain Hunter’s Dream?
If there’s one thing that global capitalism does well, it’s churning out tons and tons of useless junk. Temu (pronounced TEE-moo) is emblematic of that excess. The e-commerce website —…
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Learn From My Mistakes and Don’t Pay for These Items at Disney World
Disney World — it’s a love it or hate it experience. As a first timer taking my kids, I really didn’t know what to expect. Thankfully, I was pleasantly surprised.…
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‘Leave Pity City:’ Watch This Rich CEO Lecture Employees in Disgusting Zoom Rant
No corporate gut punch knocks the wind out of employees the way raise robbing does. Like Clark Griswold receiving a subscription to the Jelly of the Month club in place…
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Welcome to Frugal YouTube: These Influencers Will Guide You to the Cheap Side
If you’re a visual learner who’s tired of inauthentic or stuffy personal finance guides, then you should consider expanding your search to YouTube. Much of the advice there is genuine,…
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17 Smart Ways to Get Through a Recession
As the U.S. economy heads toward a possible recession, it’s always a good idea to have a game plan for surviving such a downturn whether that means developing a side…
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Yet Another Reason To Stop Using Checks: Check Washing Scams Are on the Rise
It’s an old criminal hack, but it’s back with a vengeance: check washing. It’s part of a larger trend in efforts to steal your money if you use checks. The…
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Is the Apple Card Worth It? Here’s Everything You Need To Know
It’s surprising that it took until 2019 for Apple to release its own rewards credit card, but they did it nonetheless. With its instantaneous signup process, the card has become…
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Broke as a Joke: 10 Funniest Tweets About Having No Money That We Saw This Week
Money can be stressful, but nothing quite matches the all-encompassing anxiety you get when there’s no money to be had. “More money, more problems” was clearly coined by a wealthy…
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Check Your Receipts: Customers Outraged, Claiming Walmart is Overcharging
Have you ever gone to Walmart or Target, strictly shopped the sales, and sworn your total amount due couldn’t possibly be as much as the cashier said it was? Well, you…
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TikTok’s Envelope Savings Challenge Is Infuriatingly Dumb
The “money-saving” envelope challenge is a trend that’s been swirling around on TikTok for the last two years, and although it presents itself as an easy way to save a…
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‘I’m Closing Down This Store’: Dollar General Worker Reaches Breaking Point as the Only Employee Who Showed Up for Work
Like that pair of pants you wore in high school that you’ve been refusing to get rid of because you know they’ll fit you again someday, the U.S. labor market…
