Here’s a compendium of interesting, sometimes weird, sometimes surprising factoids about consumer spending, housing, modern family life, and more.
May is National Bike Month, and May 16-20 is Bike to Work Week. So if the money-saving, environmentally-friendly concept of pedaling to work will ever move you to write poetry, it’s probably now.
When the first of several credit card reforms began taking place two years ago, the response from more than a few consumers amounted to: “thanks, but no thanks.” Soon after the legislation passed, millions of credit card accounts were summarily closed, and interest rates and fees soared. For a while there, the post-reform credit card [...]
Use the coupon code 20OFFSO to get an extra 20% off skis, ski boots, winter clothing, and other snow sport merchandise at Skis.com. With all the discounts accounted for, items are priced as much as 80% off original retail.
It wasn’t pretty when Walmart underwent an identity crisis. Take that back. Actually, it was pretty—neat, orderly, attractive—in terms of the consumer shopping experience when Walmart began emptying overflowing store shelves and pushed more upscale merchandise. What wasn’t pretty was the backlash among blue-collar shoppers who felt Walmart had sold them out in the hopes [...]
Guess what happens when regulators don’t restrict cable rates, and when there’s not much legitimate competition in the marketplace? Cable companies jack up the rates. Whodathunkit?
Mother’s Day is over, but some Mother’s Day sales are still in effect. Use the coupon code MOMSALE11 to get 40% off online purchases from Esprit now through Tuesday, May 10.
They’re an emerging new breed, and they’re coming to a strip mall near you. Filling the empty big-box shells left behind by Blockbuster, Circuit City, and other stores hammered by the one-two punch of the recession and the sharp rise of online shopping, these chains come seeking bargain shoppers (and cheap rent), and they’re numbers [...]
He lives beneath his means, has a ten-minute commute to work, and bought a house he can afford. Then again, what house can’t he afford?
In this week’s link roundup: wisdom, tips, and lessons about money and family from moms everywhere—and tons of affordable, heartwarming gift ideas that’ll show much Mom is appreciated.
