Three people show how it’s done: A 25-year-old former construction manager who now collects unemployment while starting up a website; a 44-year-old woman who earns a total of $20,000 a year from two part-time jobs; and a 60-year-old part-time administrative assistant.
Everybody likes getting good value for their money, but how and where you try to get bang for your buck may have a lot to do with which public restroom door you’d enter: Ladies or Gents? If men are from Mars and women are from Venus, then apparently, there’s a lot of hardcore negotiating happening [...]
Last summer, the average price for a case of soda was $6.12 in grocery stores. Beverage manufacturers preferred it that way, before soda price wars broke out, with Wal-Mart charging $4 or $5 for a case of Coca-Cola, Pepsi, and other top brands, and grocery store competitors matching prices.
Cheap date ideas, tactics for negotiating with your landlord, ways your phone isn’t as dumb as you think, reasons life would be better if it was more like Monopoly, days of the year when people hand you stuff for free, and more.
During Eddie Bauer’s biannual Ultimate Sale, clothing, shoes, accessories, bags, and gear are on sale at discounts of up to 50%.
Last summer, while credit card companies were jacking up rates and adding fees in anticipation of new regulations that’d make it more difficult to part customers with their money, one of the most nonsensical charges to surface was the “inactivity” fee. In other words, a fee for not using your card — for not buying [...]
We’ve all heard about buyer’s remorse. But how about leaser’s remorse? Some consumers who hope to get out of their car leases—or who want to take over someone else’s lease on the cheap—are turning to lease trading websites, notably LeaseTrader.com, which handled 60,000 lease transactions in 2009 and is on pace to handle 70,000 this [...]
When Bank of America eliminated announced it was eliminating debit card overdraft fees, many observers were puzzled. Why would BoA give up such a big money-making scheme entirely, rather than simply tweak it to fall into line with new regulations regarding overdraft protection and fees, like most other banks are doing? And, more importantly, what [...]
One New York City resident recently relocated from Flushing, Queens, to a one-bedroom apartment on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, and while that may represent a “moving on up” change, he moved his stuff—dishes, stand-alone closet, linens, window A/C unit, a 40-lb. bag of rice, and more—on the subway. And yes, he had to transfer from [...]
On Saturday, June 19, all T-Mobile phones are free, so long as you sign up or add a new line to a family plan with a two-year agreement.
