Cut your bills with these money-saving tips on buying household essentials, clothing, and personal products.
Consumers spend a lot of time worrying — or at least complaining — about those prices that seem to keep climbing ever-higher: gasoline, health insurance, college tuition. So it’s a pleasure to stumble, every once in a while, on something that is getting cheaper.
Now through June 6, EyeBuyDirect is selling prescription eyewear on a buy one, get one free basis. Many sets of glasses start for under $20, and the free pair must cost the same or less than the pair that’s paid for. Shipping starts at $5.95.
To celebrate its fifth anniversary, EyeBuyDirect offers a buy-one, get-one-free promotion for orders placed by March 14. The minimum order is $14.95 per pair of glasses, and the freebies are for standard single vision lens, no sunglasses allowed.
From now through Sunday, November 8, EyeBuyDirect is giving away a free pair of eyeglasses with every pair purchased.
Chief Savings Officer. Who knew that such a job title existed? Every household—and every government office, for that matter—should have one or more of these people, whose job it is to see that money is saved whenever possible, and spent efficiently when purchases are necessary.
The WSJ’s Cranky Consumer shops for spectacles at Costco, Sears, online retailers, and a mom-and-pop glasses store. (Sidenote: Why are these stories always written with the plural “we,” yet there’s typically only one writer doing the testing? Were two people really trying on eyeglass frames at the same time?) The verdict? Online seems like the [...]
