By Yasarh
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at 2:39PM Thursday November 19, 2009
under
Odds and Ends
Thanksgiving is a very special time of the year. For some, it's
the only time they get to spend with distant relatives and extended
family. That can get pretty stressful if you're the one hosting
Thanksgiving.
Here are some easy ways to help relieve that stress:
By derek70x7
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at 3:53PM Friday November 6, 2009
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Odds and Ends
I challenge you, readers, to find any semblance of a theme for
this week's roundup. Stella
warned me it would be tough, and she was right. I've got
nothing!
So let's forge ahead:
By Yasarh
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at 1:53PM Thursday November 5, 2009
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Odds and Ends
As much as I would love to write about how Andre Agassi should
be praised for admitting he used crystal meth instead of being
chastised, I'm gonna pass. That won't save you money because we
don't have any crystal meth deals (weird, I know...).
Instead I'll provide you with some deals (and hopefully some
entertainment) on some very strange fitness products.
By Yasarh
(view all posts by Yasarh)
at 11:17AM Thursday October 29, 2009
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Odds and Ends
Traveling is one of the best
experiences in the world. You get to experience a new city, new
people, new food, pretty much new everything. The only hard part
about it is staying in shape. Since you're probably not going to
have a kitchen, you'll be eating out a lot more (and most likely
eating less healthy). However, just because you're on vacation
doesn't mean you need to toss out your entire workout
routine.
Here are some great ways to stay
in shape without taking anything away from your
experience:
By Yasarh
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at 12:08PM Thursday October 15, 2009
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Odds and Ends
Fall is here and that means the
weather is changing. Leaves are changing colors, skies are getting
darker, and the weather is getting colder. Unless you're a fair
weather fan that is. Now that MLB Playoffs have started, fair
weather fans are appearing everywhere. If you don't know what I'm
talking about, check out Twitter and Facebook. People everywhere
are all of a sudden hardcore (insert whichever team is
winning) fans.
This strange phenomenon has been
occurring since the beginning of professional sports. I have done
an extensive study on fair weather fans and discovered the
following:
-
Out of every five fans of a team
that wins a championship, four are fair weather fans.
-
Fair weather fans are the most
hated fans in all of sports and yet the most prevalent fans in
sports. This means many of them are hypocrites.
-
Fair weather fans, as it turns
out, started the fire (listen to Billy Joel's "We Didn't Start
The Fire" if you don't know what I'm talking about).
By coupiedoll
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at 10:37AM Wednesday October 14, 2009
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Odds and Ends
In honor of the 25th anniversary
of NationalBreast
Cancer Awareness Month, I decided to examine the simplest thing
we can do to as an act of prevention: eat green. In fact, consuming
more of anything brightly colored or leafy green can help add
preventive carotenes to our diets. Here's a quick guide to
carotene-rich and green treats to throw into your daily mix so this
year you can not only think Pink, but also green.
By WiscoVixen
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at 5:27PM Monday October 12, 2009
under
Odds and Ends
We here at Savings.com are
devoted to working hard so that you always have easy access to all
the best online coupons and
deals. And as much as we know and understand the value of a dollar,
we also see the value in taking time to enjoy some of the finer
things in life.
This past Friday was one of those
times. We invited our significant others, some business partners,
and a few friends to celebrate a successful and exciting third
quarter.
By MBones
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at 12:06PM Wednesday September 30, 2009
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Odds and Ends
It's Murphy's Law: Every time I
have an exciting night planned, my skin breaks out. Next thing I
know I'm accessorizing with a big, honking zit. I started thinking
about important nights out--your high school reunion, a hot date, a
special event--and all the last minute snafus that can spoil your
look and your mood. How do you deal with these unexpected
annoyances?
I asked some of my Savings.com
colleagues for their fast, easy fixes for these common
problems.
By Dealman
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at 11:51AM Monday September 28, 2009
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Odds and Ends
It may still be September but
Halloween is upon us. It's seems these days the new holiday season
starts immediately following the last holiday. Seconds after Labor
Day was over, you could see your local Walgreens
stocking up their Halloween wares. Which is just fine because
Halloween rules. And these days there's so many more cool Halloween
decorations than when I was growing up. Kids today have it good
when Halloween rolls around.
But with all the light-up
skeletons, talking candy bowls, fake severed hands and so-on, we
need a way to pay for those Halloween
deals somehow. So today we look at some of the most
Halloweenish careers out there today. Trouble is, it's a year-round
gig, not just an October thing so it takes a special type of person
to make this their livelihood.
By stella.louise(view all posts by stella.louise)
at 3:55PM Friday September 25, 2009
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Odds and Ends
Annie recently posted about the
happenings at Fashion
Week and it occurred to me that no matter what length hemlines
are, or if pink, navy or brown is the new "black," saving never
goes out of style.
Many of us express our
personalities through the clothes we wear, music we listen to or
things we buy. But our shopping habits can also provide insight as
to our saving style. I've narrowed it down to four categories.
Which defines your style?
By Phaedrus(view all posts by Phaedrus)
at 12:08PM Thursday September 24, 2009
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Odds and Ends
Any of us who've ever been faced
with a long distance commute to work have likely pondered any and
every way to save money on the costs of gas and vehicle
maintenance. Since I try to stay well-versed in most
things both savings and motorcycle related, I've read countless
articles that discuss a fuel-efficient motorcycle or scooter as a
potential solution to this dilemma. Lately I've seen
more and more of these articles surfacing--both for and against
owning a motorcycle/scooter as a means of saving money.
Over time I've developed some
strong opinions on the matter so when Stella
(the Queen of our Saving.com blog) recently sent yet another
"Can you save money by motorcycle commuting? " article my
way, I jumped at the chance to chime in with my two
cents.Â
By Scoupie
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at 1:58PM Tuesday September 22, 2009
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Odds and Ends
Gwyneth Paltrow loves the Master
Cleanse, yogis love raw juice cleanses, and some hardcore Spartans
just pray for survival during a week-long fast of nothing but lemon
juice and water (which I so DON'T recommend!).
I did my first full body cleanse
four years ago out of sheer naivety and blind curiosity. I had no
comprehension of the commitment, dedication, and focus behind
successfully finishing a week-long physical purification. Perhaps
that was the stupidest or smartest way to approach a
gut-transforming detoxification. All I knew was that--at that time
in my life--I was feeling sluggish, sleep-deprived, and irritable.
I needed to do some tidying up of my intestines.
It really doesn't matter what
brings you face-to-face with your juicer; what does matter is your
intention to clear your mind, body, and perhaps spirit. As a
sensation junkie, vigorous and physically challenging types of yoga
usually resonate with me, but even if you don't practice yoga and
you do other physical activities, cleansing may help bring out a
lighter and stronger fighting machine in you.
By Scoupie
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at 10:16AM Tuesday September 15, 2009
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Odds and Ends
It's 3:00 in the afternoon and you're sitting
behind your computer at work with a slight tension headache
mounting and tight, sore shoulders screaming for release. Who
hasn't felt this way sitting in the same position for long periods
of time? You've hit the late afternoon wall.
What do you do?
If weekly chiropractic sessions or massages
aren't in your budget, there are many good habits to adopt to
alleviate that knot between your shoulders.
Here are some suggestions:
By derek70x7
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at 3:54PM Thursday September 10, 2009
under
Shopping Advice
Just because I think Macs are a colossal waste of
money doesn't mean I wasn't paying close attention to yesterday's
Apple
announcements--because I pretty much worship everything else this
company makes. My iPod, an original video model (I guess it's an
"iPod Classic" now), is still going strong after its fourth
birthday, and I'll be buying an iPhone the instant AT&T
extends or lets go of their exclusivity (just in case Verizon joins
the party and saves me the trouble of switching
networks).
Steve Jobs announced a video camera for the 5th-generation iPod nano and
a software update for the iPhone 3GS, but
my focus was definitely on the new features of iTunes
9:
By Scoupie
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at 10:06AM Tuesday September 8, 2009
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Odds and Ends
It takes a profound kind of modern-day alchemy to
make it through the day in this shrinking post-industrial world.
Every morning people wake up just to jump into their cars and rush
barking mad to work, juggle raising families and tending to
careers, or deal with the responsibilities of winning or losing the
bread in this economy. And recent college graduates have to
confront their disaffection toward their expensive education, with
no apparent reward of a job.
No doubt, people's stress levels are on the rise
and health levels are on the dive.
Making a giant lifestyle change to improve your
health is sometimes a decision you make out of duress, nudging from
family, or the numbers taunting you on the scale. Whatever the
impetus, you own it and need to feel the most comfortable to make a
change.
Last week I posted the top three ways to manage
your own health care. Here are three more things you might want
to consider when restructuring a lifestyle regimen:
By stella.louise(view all posts by stella.louise)
at 12:27PM Friday September 4, 2009
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Odds and Ends
With the news of unemployment rising to 9.7%, this year Labor
Day is more of a time to be grateful for HAVING a job rather than
celebrating a day off from one. In the midst of the barbecues and
bargain
shopping that the holiday has become known for, I thought I'd
take a moment to muse about what this Monday is really
about:
Working and workers.
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the average
American will change careers 2-5 times and hold more than 10
different jobs during their working years. I thought it would be
interesting to journey back in time with my Savings.com co-workers with this
simple query:
"What was your first job?"
By Yasarh
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at 12:50PM Thursday September 3, 2009
under
Odds and Ends
There's an ongoing debate over whether college
sports or pro sports are better. Some people argue that pro players
don't try nearly as hard as college players because they aren't
playing to get signed to pro team (obviously because they're
already on one). Others argue that the reason it seems they
don't try as hard is that they're playing at a higher level of
competition.
I personally agree with the former assertion and
think this problem could be solved by lowering pro athlete
salaries. According to Blake Oestriecher of Tigerweekly.com, the economy is
impacting the pro sports world. I think this is a good
thing.
Here's why:
By Scoupie
(view all posts by Scoupie)
at 1:22PM Tuesday September 1, 2009
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Odds and Ends
Listening to the shouting and--in my
opinion--utter nonsense being thrown around during town hall
meetings discussing health care reform got me revisiting how
inextricably interwoven money, politics, and health care have
become.
If you lost your job recently, you may not have
the great health benefits you once enjoyed and risk facing
insurmountable bills should you fall ill. If you're a child with a
life-threatening disease and your laid-off parents can't afford
health insurance, you're probably receiving state aid to which we
all ultimately contribute.
This crisis has an unrelenting ripple
effect.
Then I got to thinking (after feeling
incredibly helpless): Why can't we deconstruct this colossal
beast and try to simplify a complicated, chaotically spiraling
system? We can take action to improve and rehabilitate what we know
best -- our OWN health. I can't nit-pick the granular here, but I
can try to speak to those who want to make visits to their doctors
as minimal as possible. Or to those who just want to embark on a
healthier lifestyle where they can deal with barking-mad commutes
with a bit more clarity.
Here are three simple steps toward a healthier
lifestyle AND a healthier life:
By stella.louise(view all posts by stella.louise)
at 12:34PM Monday August 17, 2009
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Odds and Ends
I was confronted with an interesting situation
when I went to pay my T-mobile bill
online the other day: either I "go green" with their paperless
billing, or pay $1.50 for privilege of receiving a paper bill
each month. The choice was a no-brainer.
I "chose" to go green...
By WiscoVixen
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at 2:16PM Friday August 14, 2009
under
Odds and Ends
We've all heard it before..."The best things in
life are free." If you really think about it, you'll find that
statement to be pretty true. I've polled my co-workers here at Savings.com to see what kinds of
free things they consider to be priceless. Yeah, I'm going for
something along the same lines as the g'zillion MasterCard
commercials we've seen over the years. You know...two tickets to a
baseball game - $24. Two hotdogs and sodas - $30. An afternoon
ballgame with your kid - priceless.
In any case, here's what I heard back from the team...
By Yasarh
(view all posts by Yasarh)
at 9:32AM Thursday August 13, 2009
under
Odds and Ends
Playing sports is a great way to get some
exercise, have fun, and bond with friends. Whether you're playing a
pick-up game or on an organized team, there are tons of different
sports to choose from. However, sometimes we get bored of playing
the same sports over and over. Here are sports that are fun but a
bit--uh, unusual...
By HSimas
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at 7:42AM Tuesday August 11, 2009
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Odds and Ends
I recently had to fly across the country on short
notice for a funeral. I found a round trip ticket to New York for a
little over $700 on Virgin America and considered myself lucky, as
other airlines were showing prices of $1200 or more for a similar
last minute trip. When I returned from my travels, I got to
wondering if I has been too hasty in buying that Virgin America
ticket, and if I could have gotten a better deal if I had
investigated so-called bereavement fares from the major airlines .
My conclusion: probably not.
By dinardo(view all posts by dinardo)
at 1:36PM Tuesday August 4, 2009
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Odds and Ends
It's the age old (well, couple of years
old...) debate: whether to buy a CD or get the download? I'm
going to start by saying that to me this is a no-brainer. So if you
feel like my argument is one-sided, you're right--it is. If you
have the option (I realize not all music comes packaged nowadays
and you have to download them) then you should always buy the
actual CD.
Here's why...
By HSimas
(view all posts by HSimas)
at 8:37AM Friday July 31, 2009
under
Odds and Ends
So this blog was supposed to be all about The Day
of Living Cheaply, aka how to get through a day spending zero
dollars. I was even going to test-drive all of my ultra-frugal
tips: steal complimentary coffee from a nearby hotel lobby, eat
Costco samples for lunch, be a paid audience member for dinner
money, etc.
I soon realized that not only am I too lazy to
partake in said activities, I have far too much pride. So ended The
Day of Living Cheaply.
By stella.louise(view all posts by stella.louise)
at 12:02PM Friday July 24, 2009
under
Odds and Ends
Recently we posted about our upcoming site
re-launch. We've been working super hard and are really excited
about the new design and functionality. No doubt some of you are
dubious about it--after all, "new and improved" is a staple
marketing tactic.
You won't have much longer to wait until the new Savings.com is unveiled, but until
then let's take a look at some examples of when "new and improved"
wasn't vs. when it actually lived up to the hype: