If you're like most people, all you want for Christmas is some
savings. Forget your two front teeth or Mariah Carey singing
about wanting "you," the average consumer is expected to spend $838
this holiday season, according to
Discover's
Annual Holiday Shopping Survey, and it's important to soften
the impact on your bank account.
The question is how.
There are a number of tried-and-true holiday savings methods,
including taking advantage of sales on
Black Friday and
Cyber
Monday, selling unused gift cards for cash, and doing some
comparison shopping online.
By CardHubGuest Blogger
at 7:49AM,
7 months ago
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Holidays
Instead of a "Happy Holiday", it's more like the "Nightmare Before Christmas" as soon as someone mentions the word "budgeting" for the Holidays. Facing the Holiday season can be both fun and frightening. In fact, I think I'd rather face the Zombie Apocalypse than a retail store early on Black Friday morning.....#TrueStory
But I digress, there is some use to having a plan in place. Gives me a little more room to breathe...after I've stopped hyperventilating over the thought of the word budget. So here we go...we can do this....
By CrystalECollinsDealPro
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7 months ago
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Money Saving Tips
Happy New Year everyone! It's only the 3rd and I'm sure some of you have already given up on resolutions made three days ago. I have not, but only because I never make life changing pronouncements due to arbitrary dates on the calendar. There are however certain things that are easier to do at the end/beginning of the year than at any other time.
By brwood
at 8:54AM,
a year ago
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Personal Finance
Recently (
Monday?)
PayPal pissed off a lot of people. You may have seen the story on
Jezebel,
Consumerist, or a bunch of other outlets: Regretsy collected $2 donations from thousands of users to buy toys for needy kids for Christmas via a PayPal "Donate" button. PayPal froze the account and went on to provide a very nice example of how not to treat your users. Anyway, last I heard it was being worked out--someone at PayPal issued an apology and promised a donation to the Regretsy cause.
Still for many people online it was one more nail in the coffin of PayPal. All you have to do is a little Googling to read page after page of complaints against them. So here are a handful of viable alternatives I was able to find while looking online. There are pros and cons to all of them, and most likely you will still need a PayPal account in order to pay some online sellers. But you should definitely check these out:
By brwood
at 9:58AM,
a year ago
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Personal Finance
By pmiller
at 7:56AM,
a year ago
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Personal Finance
Betterment is the website that prides itself in offering low cost investment choices to individual investors. It's an online broker that helps to make investing easier for novices that may not know exactly what assets to invest in. The company's website does all of the work for you.
Here's how it works:
By Mark.RiddixGuest Blogger
at 7:56AM,
a year ago
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Personal Finance