The game is orchestrated so that the buyer feels a sense of urgency and purchases a house whether it’s worth the asking price or not.
Desperate economic situations sometimes call for desperate, over-the-top, borderline-crazy measures. Rather than see his home taken in foreclosure proceedings, one Ohio man bulldozed the property before the bank could seize it. Rather than bite the bullet and somehow figure out a way to get her torn rotator cuff treated by a doctor, one unemployed Michigan [...]
The Great Recession has made consumers reconsider purchases that were once made without much thought. Perhaps, the new thinking goes, you don’t need a new wardrobe every season or a new refrigerator every two years. Perhaps you should only make these sorts of purchases when they are truly necessary. But, speaking of necessities, don’t you [...]
Follow this Buxr link to print out a coupon for a buy one, get one free deal on your choice of seven different White Castle Saver Sack meals. The coupon is valid through September 4.
“Fashion is made to become unfashionable.” — Coco Chanel “Women dress alike all over the world: they dress to be annoying to other women.” — Elsa Schiaparelli “A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic.” — George Bernard Shaw
On Tuesday, August 5, from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m., any customer who wears orange is entitled to a free burger at Whataburger. The promotion celebrates the sixtieth anniversary of the chain, which has 700 locations in the U.S. (most in the South), and which proudly displays a bright orange logo.
Bored, without a job, facing the mini-crisis of turning 30, and inspired after watching “Julie & Julia,” Marisa Lynch decided to take on a new project last summer: For 365 days in a row, she would mend, cut, dye, stitch, and otherwise transform secondhand clothing into a new dress daily, and she would do so [...]
Not paying off your debts can mean trouble. Bizarrely enough, paying off some of an old debt can mean even more trouble.
As the economy tanks, library use surges. Makes sense, right? The library is a magnet for the unemployed: Last year, 30 million peopled used the library to help in the quest for a job. Many unemployed have no Internet access at home, and so the library is the only place they can search online for [...]
A Summer Sale from Levi’s offers jeans and other articles of clothing at up to 50% off, starting at $14.99. The retailer is also saying that free standard shipping is available for “today only”—though when you look at the fine print, it says that free shipping is available for purchases made by August 5.
