Starting today, Friday, November 5, and continuing on every Friday in November, Burger King is pouring a free 12 oz. cup of Seattle’s Best Coffee for each customer who arrives during regular breakfast hours. One cup per customer per visit, no purchase necessary.
Go ahead and install a laminate floor. But complicated electrical work, pest extermination, and tree removal? It’s probably best to suck it up, hire a pro, and not do any damage to your home, or to the people living in it.
Major banks are offering cash incentives—$100, $200, even up to $300—to entice would-be customers into opening new accounts. But just as the banks giveth, they’re also more apt to take away in the form of new and rising fees. Oh, and when you look closely at the fine print for many of these cash reward [...]
Now through December 24, when you place an order of $50 or more at L.L. Bean, you’ll receive a $10 gift card in the mail a week or so later. The retailer is also offering free standard shipping on all orders—no minimum purchase required—that are placed by December 20.
No matter how neatly manicured, vibrantly green, and classically attractive your lawn is, you’re probably not going to eat the grass. But who said gardens had to relegated to the backyard anyway? In lieu of a Wimbledon-like lawn, your front yard could yield a rich mix of figs, peppers, blackberries, radishes, and even basil plants [...]
“You think in a different way when you don’t have any money. The joy of poverty is that you use your imagination to come up with stuff. Let’s make a slingshot out of a wishbone. Or use a sandwich bag for a condom.”
Now through November 24, when you buy any pair of boots, high heels, sandals, slippers, or sneakers at Payless Shoes, you can buy a second pair at equal or lesser value for half off.
“The common attitude is ‘when in doubt, throw it out.’ But I try to give the food the benefit of the doubt.”
How much will you be spending this holiday season? Probably less than you did last year (about $25 less), but, if last year’s any indication—when the average shopper dropped $112 more than he’d anticipated—still more than you intend to spend, whether you draw up an official budget or not. Whatever you buy, it’ll probably be [...]
Speaking with an actual live customer service agent costs a company somewhere between $3 and $9. But an automated phone system? That costs the company 5¢ to 7¢.
