Shopping
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Should You Sign Up for Store-Branded Credit Cards?
Store-branded credit cards come with tempting offers like reward points and exclusive access to coupons and sales events. With the high-spending holiday season closing in, shoppers no doubt are looking for any opportunity to keep money in their pockets while…
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Does Walmart’s Savings Catcher Deliver?
The premise behind Walmart’s new Savings Catcher seems straightforward enough: Use the app to scan your receipt from an in-store purchase, or go online and enter the TC number at the bottom, and Walmart will automatically check the prices you…
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50 Cheap Health & Beauty Tips to Try
Whether getting ready in the morning takes you two hours a day or a no-fuss routine gets you out the door in 15 minutes, we all have some sort of beauty regimen. Wouldn’t it be nice if we could face…
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10 Tips and Tricks for Saving at Kohl’s
With school starting and the seasons changing, now is the time to start turning over your closet and getting the house ready for fall. This needn’t be a costly endeavor, especially if you patronize the regular frugal haunts. The following…
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Is Shopping at Costco Worth the Membership Fee?
Nowadays there are an endless number of ways to shop at a discount — coupons, e-commerce, clearance racks, bargain stores, and membership clubs, just to name a few. Costco is one of the most popular warehouse clubs nationwide, but how does…
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Doctors and Chefs Buy Generic; Should You?
Could knowing when to buy generic save American consumers billions of dollars a year? That’s the estimate of a recent study by economists at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and Tilburg University in the Netherlands. The researchers…
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How to Save on a Replacement Battery — and Avoid Counterfeits
From phones to watches, laptops to adult toys, finding a replacement specialty battery can be an expensive hassle. Vibrations, beeps, constant email forwarding and game playing quickly drain the life…
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Are Walmart’s Back-to-School Sales Worth an Early Shopping Trip?
August is back-to-school month for students across the country, but is it really time to shop for lunchboxes and laptops already? Walmart is catering to college students with sales starting…
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How Long Before an LED Light Bulb Pays for Itself?
As of Jan. 1, 2014, standard 40- and 60-watt incandescent bulbs began their slow fade into obsolescence for both manufacture and sale. In their stead, consumers are turning to LED…
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Where to Buy Razor Blades for Less
Shaving is a vital part of a man’s life. Whether beards are in vogue or out, every man owns at least one manual or electric shaver for those days when…
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Save With Price Code Secrets for 16 Retailers
Retailer Discounted Clearance Comments and Other Markings American Eagle .99 or .00 A separate price sticker attached; last digits don’t matter. Watch out because prices ending in .95 are actually…
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Why Walmart? The Store Consumers Hate to Love
Consumers complain on blogs, on shopper forums, in conversation, and even on the company website that Walmart is disorganized and crowded, sells low-quality products and bad produce, attracts questionable clientele,…
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4 Best Picnic Baskets Under $65
A picnic is a seemingly effortless summer activity, one that should be easy to throw together at minimal cost. We were shocked to find some picnic baskets, even those empty…
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Save an Easy $100 by Unplugging These Devices
Just because the TV is turned off doesn’t mean it isn’t consuming energy. Millions and millions of watts of “phantom energy” are used every day by unsuspecting electric customers. When…
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Best Cheap Replacements for Ousted 60-Watt Light Bulbs
For those who haven’t heard, the classic incandescent light bulb — a staple for more than a century — has officially been phased out. It fails to meet new efficiency…
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Why Now Is the Time to Sign Up for Amazon Prime
Amazon is upping the cost of a yearly Prime membership to $99 from $79, a 25 percent increase, and raising the Amazon Prime price for students to $49 from $39.…
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How to Dress Like a Hipster on the Cheap
The hipster image arose when the latest generation of cool kids cultivated a style outside the mainstream. Now that style has, ironically, gone mainstream. Trappings that used to be alternative…
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Best Cheap Diet Plans
The weight-loss industry is big business in the U.S. Among the millions of people searching for a fast and easy way to drop extra pounds, many are also intent on…
