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Psych Experts: There’s Nothing Crazy About Giving Christmas Presents to Pets

Wanna hang a stocking for your cat? Or wrap a new rhinestone collar and place it under the tree so your dog can open it on Christmas morning? Knock yourself out, say psychologists.

Increasingly, Black Friday Is a Day to Stay Home, Not Hit the Mall

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The day after Thanksgiving has become the official kickoff for the holiday shopping season. It’s also become a day to exhibit nonsensical consumer behavior, such as waiting outside for hours in the freezing cold at stores that don’t have special Black Friday discounts. This year, signs indicate that fewer consumers will bother putting up with [...]

Gaming Apple: How to Time It Right and Get the Best Prices on Apple Products

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As Apple gives the impression that the price is the price, with strategy, good timing, and — something many Apple-o-files lack — patience, it’s fairly easy to pay less than retail for all sorts of Apple products.

Online Shopping Guide to Geek Chic

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How much of a premium are you willing to shell out for something as cool as a Star Trek Enterprise Pizza Cutter?

Why the Best Online Customer Service Is Invisible

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Forget customer service rankings. Think how satisfied you'd be if you picked online stores that simply worked right in the first place.

How to Snag Free or $1 Summer Beach Reads

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If your vacation plans include a little light summer reading, you couldn’t ask for lighter fare this year. While the downloads might be wispier than air itself, most books, digital downloads or not, still come with a hefty price tag.

5 Ways to Stretch Your Summer Vacation Dollars

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Fears of a double-dip recession are no doubt crippling a lot of people’s summer travel plans. Between small business owners who are canceling their vacations altogether to families planning yet another year of staycations, this can be pretty sour news to swallow. But if there’s anything we’ve learned from the past several years of recession, it’s that there are ways to get around the high costs of anything, from buying a new huge flat-screen TV to traveling in style, as long as you follow a few frugal rules.

20 Best Black Friday Deals: Why You Might Want to Get Up Early and Fight the Crowds

With one week before Black Friday, and with the Black Friday ads from most retailers leaked to the media, the time seems ripe to put together your list of must-gets, sharpen your elbows to fight off other shoppers, and plot your trip to the mall.

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More Drop-Dead Online Holiday Shopping Deadlines Than You Could Possibly Need

Not one, not two, but three round-ups of retailer deadlines for placing online orders that are guaranteed to arrive by December 24.