Archive for the ‘Spending’ Category
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Ask the Readers: Do Groupon and the Entertainment Book Save Money?
Over the weekend, I was thinking about the Entertainment Book. If you aren’t familiar with it, you’ve probably been living under a rock for the last 30 years. It’s a book that has a lot of coupons, often of the buy one, get one free variety towards, as the name implies, entertainment activities. When I [...]
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Top 10 Couponing Tips from the Lazy Couponer
Last month I was in the bookstore and I happened across a book called The Lazy Couponer by Jamie Chase. As you can imagine it caught my eye. A few days before that I saw the TLC program Extreme Couponing, where people routinely get hundreds of dollars of groceries for under $2. The Extreme Couponing [...]
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Things I Like: Cuisinart SmartStick Immersion Hand Blender
About a month ago, I started a series called, “Things I Like.” My mother suggested it because she is generally happy when she asks my advice about various products. In that first post, I highlighted, Progressive International’s lettuce keeper – because it has helped keep spinach fresh for up to two weeks. That had the [...]
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Today’s Deal: Ditch Your Landline for VOIP and Save Big Money
Nearly two years ago I wrote about how you can get free lifetime phone service for $150. The product is called the Ooma Telo and it’s something that I’ve been using the for many months now. It is a great savings over both a standard landline phone and alternative VOIP services such as Vonage (which [...]
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Lazy Man Holiday Gift Guide 2011
It’s that time of year again. The time where I’m out shopping and running around with my head cut off. (Who came up with that expression by the way? Running around is just one of the many things you CAN’T do when your head is cut off. Should be “running around to avoid getting your [...]
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Things I Like: Progressive International’s Lettuce Keeper
Earlier this summer, when I was visiting my mother, she asked for my opinion on a particular product. Today, I don’t remember what that product was, but that’s not important. My mother said that generally I give good advice on what products to buy and that perhaps I should work that into my blog. I’ve [...]
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Amex Gives You $25 to Spend; Costco’s Amazing Dishwasher Tablet Sale
How is your Black Friday going? Mine? I haven’t done any Black Friday shopping. I’m still watching Amazon’s Lightning Deals and I almost pulled the trigger on a blanket with hundreds of reviews saying how soft it is. I’m a sucker for soft. However, I already have more blankets than I can currently use, so [...]
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Ask the Readers: What is Your Black Friday Plan?
With only a few hours until Thanksgiving, it seems as good a time as any to ask what your Black Friday shopping plan is. Years ago, I would love to brave the crowd and the cold for the big savings. Now, that have most of the big-ticket items (TVs, tablets, etc.) it just doesn’t have [...]
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I’ve Finally Ditched My Cable Box and Cable Modem Rental Fees.
For some time I’ve been writing about ending my cable box rental fees, but I haven’t been able to pull the trigger. For those who haven’t read those articles, there are a few hardware gadgets on the market that now allow you to plug a CableCard into them, hook them to a computer and get [...]
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Republic Wireless’ $19 a Month Unlimited Android Plan
I’m a huge fan of Rick Broida’s Cheapskate column on CNET, but yesterday he had a particularly good deal for some of you that I want to share. As you may have guessed from the title of this article, it is an “unlimited” $19 phone plan that works with an Android smartphone. Before you go [...]
