“If you choose to spend a dollar today, you are actively choosing not to have four dollars, or six, or even eight later.”
If you’re in a jam, payday loans promise to be a quick-fix solution. In exchange for absurd interest rates equating to 450% and up, a borrower can get a short-term loan that’ll be paid back in the near future (once the borrower reaches “payday”). While the terms may seem outrageous enough for consumers to want [...]
Follow this link to print out a coupon or get an online discount of $10 off purchases of $50 and up at Lowe’s. The discount is valid for purchases made by Monday, April 4.
Ashley Grimaldo is a stay-at-home mom from Texas with two kids and a third on the way. She began the month of March with a huge stack of gift cards, along with plans to make all of her family’s expenses—gas, restaurants, baby shower gifts, home improvement supplies, groceries, Starbucks—exclusively using gift cards. No cash, no [...]
Anchor, nibble, crunch. They sorta sound like they could be yoga positions. But they’re actually part of a strategy to talk your way to lower cable bills—or to getting your way in any other business arrangement involving back-and-forth negotiations.
Here’s a research finding that the people running Vegas casinos seem to have known all along: When it comes to evaluating the risks of winning or losing money, sleep-deprived individuals tend to be more optimistic than their well-rested counterparts. No wonder casinos are open 24/7, no one ever knows what time it is, and the [...]
Follow this link, fill out a form, and mail it in with 10 UPCs of Kellogg’s cereals, and Kellogg’s will send you a $10 prepaid gas debit card. Forms must be mailed in by December 31, 2011, and there’s a limit of five cards per household.
Beauty is the path to happiness—by way of money. A new series of studies shows that attractive people earn more money and marry better-looking spouses, and that the economic benefits of being good looking make them happier than their homely counterparts. Logically, you’d think that efforts to improve one’s appearance would somehow lead to more [...]
“Money is like fire: it will warm your feet or it will burn your socks off.”
During a short-lived site-wide sale at Jos. A. Bank, nearly all of the menswear retailer’s merchandise is marked down by 50% off the original retail price. Shoes and gift cards are excluded, and sale prices are in effect through Tuesday, March 29.
It would be one thing if food companies acknowledged that due to rising costs, products had to be shrunk to avoid price increases. But the latest marketing gimmickry barely acknowledges shrinking products at all—and instead calls attention to the idea that smaller packages and less food is better for the environment and healthier for consumers. [...]
