An adviser to President Obama explains that low consumer demand for goods and services is what’s responsible for the country’s high unemployment rates. In other words, because people aren’t spending money, other people don’t have jobs that would have been funded largely by that spending. And why aren’t people spending? One reason is that they [...]
As you might guess, “pantcycling” is the act of recycling pants. From April 16 to 25, pantcycling is also a way to get $5 off a new pair of pants at Sears.
Then get on the phone and get busy. Here’s some evidence that it’s worth the time and effort to call up your pay-TV service, wireless provider, and credit card company and demand better terms.
Strategies for saving at the supermarket and the warehouse membership store, for cutting expenses in retirement and returning items that aren’t up to snuff—and also for snooping on your spendthrift spouse.
With the exception of a few brands that aren’t participating in the sale, all backpacks, handbags, messenger bags, and other products are available with free shipping and 10% discounts for orders of $50 or more placed today at eBags. The offer includes free shipping and an extra 10% off items already discounted in the clearance [...]
This Friday is Free Fryday at Jack in the Box, when the fast food chain is giving each customer one order of its new fries free of charge.
“Why should I have to carry so many people on my back? Call me cruel. I don’t care. I give to whom I choose—but since so much is confiscated (and wasted in the process) I have little left I wish to give.”
Nothing seems to make him happier than doing his duty and paying his share to Uncle Sam. Which is quite patriotic, perhaps even noble. Funny thing, though: He apparently doesn’t even have gripes that the tax system is too complicated, and yet he needs a tax accountant to help him figure out the amount he’s [...]
The deals include free coffee, free breakfast, free food for kids all month, and 50% discounts on alcoholic beverages.
Referring to an item—perhaps a kitschy lamp, perhaps some reasonably fresh bread—that someone tossed in the trash, and that you take home and prize as a treasure.
“The single most important thing that I did was that I addressed it as a personal problem, not a ‘financial problem.’”
