When the iPhone was introduced in 2007, it sold for $399. A couple months later, you could buy one for half that. Some iPhone models later dropped to $99, and now AT&T is selling the iPhone 3GS for the enticing price of $49. Sounds like an amazing deal.
This week’s tip roundup includes things you must do (find a checking account that doesn’t charge fees), products that come with less “product” than they used to (like Häagen-Dazs), and coupons you probably don’t use but should.
“For my father, and the generation or two that grew up with him, there’s nothing new about the ‘new’ normal. In fact, it’s old hat.”
All merchandise sold at the Hickory Farms website, including gift baskets, sausages and cheese, fruit, candy, hams and turkeys, is currently marked down by 75% off the original price you would have paid a couple weeks ago.
Why are people so uncomfortable giving the most useful, most practical, and arguably most fun gift of all?
It may soon be time to rethink the automatic usage of a debit card, which unlike a credit card is tied to actual money held in a bank account, and which has been the preferred plastic of consumers eager to avoid annual fees and debt quickly piled up by swiping its cousin, the classic credit [...]
Print out this coupon to get $5 off purchases of $25 and up at Dollar General this Saturday, January 8, only.
You probably bought a cool new flat-screen TV within the last couple of years. But aren’t you ready for a new-new one now?
In a new pilot program, the biggest bank in the U.S. says it wants to provide customers with more checking account options—and more transparency regarding the fees that come along with each option. “We are trying to provide you choices on how you compensate us,” explained on BofA executive. What’s transparent about that statement is [...]
It’s the specifics in this post—some shelters limit the ages and genders allowed, the importance of having IDs, school records, and social security cards for all members of your family—that make the tips especially helpful, and that really pack a wallop as you read them.
During a Virgin America sale, flights cost as little as $59 each way on routes such as San Francisco to San Diego or Seattle, $79 (Los Angeles-Seattle), $119 (Boston-San Francisco, Washington, D.C.-Los Angeles), and $129 (New York-San Francisco, Toronto-Los Angeles). Tickets must be purchased by January 10, a two-week advance purchase is required, and travel [...]
