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The following is a guest post from Amy Young
Have you ever gone into a store knowing exactly what you wanted, and then you suddenly get to the checkout counter with way more than you thought you needed? This happens to consumers all the time because stores use specific techniques to get you to pick up [...]
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Call it what you will: retail therapy, a “high” felt after making a purchase, a droplet of normalcy into the bucket of hard times, but people tend to buy things when they’re feeling uneasy.
Am I about to chastise you? Lecture about the ridiculousness of human nature and how you have to conquer your need for [...]
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I learned a little something a while ago from a little old lady savvy senior citizen who didn’t even speak English. I was in the produce section, picking up some vegetables, and saw a lady with a shopping basket nearly full of bagged carrots. (Maybe she was a rabbit lady – like a cat lady [...]
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Food is great and is a necessity to keep you healthy but also can take quite the dent into your bank account. Over the last three years I have learned a few tips to help keep food spending to a minimum.
The first and most important way to save is by using your meal plan if [...]
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Lately I’ve been thinking (Imagine that – me thinking! But anyway….)
I’ve discovered that one of the most important traits for becoming frugal and saving money is not always math. Sometimes it’s powers of observation. Several times in the past weeks I’ve been on a mission to take advantage of a sale, coupon, or some such [...]
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With the Memorial Day weekend coming up, and my new profoundly skeptical yet compelling interest in coupons, I went to several coupon sites to collect coupons for hot dogs. I found several for two brand names I recognized, Oscar Mayer and Bar-S, both brands that my local stores carried. I searched further and even got [...]
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