This holiday season was big for retail gift cards--it was estimated that
$28 billion would be spent, with 58% of shoppers saying they'd be happy to receive them as gifts.
Gift cards are easy to give and can be easy to spend, but apparently they can also be a tremendous waste. This week, the
Wall Street Journal reported that $41 million has gone unused in gift cards since from 2005-2011. Amazing!
Are you among those letting gift cards go to waste? Take a few minutes this week to make a plan for your gift cards, so you can keep your money:
By MoneywiseMoms
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Shop Smarter
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
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a year ago
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Personal Finance
By pmiller
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a year ago
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Product Review
Peter Thiel, the billionaire
co-founder of Paypal, is giving out fellowships to young entrepreneurial hopefuls. The Thiel Foundation plans to grant a $100,000 fellowship to 24 people under the age of twenty. To qualify, the recipient must start up their own business, and drop out of college for two years to do so.
By dealtown
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Newsworthy
Image courtesy of ICanHasCheezburgerThis week Google enters the payment business--and gets sued for it, housing prices drop and nobody cares, going out of debt can still make you anxious--and we cover two geek-related stories about space and pyramids.
Oh, and hugging cats.
By Dealman
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a year ago
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Loose Change
Admittedly I am not much of a traveler and therefore I'm not your go-to source for how to score great
hotel deals like Holly or how to plan a vacation to take advantage of hot
travel deals like Loren, but should I ever need to find a way to put together a cheap vacation I do have one secret weapon in my arsenal: my sister Laurie.
Recently I enlisted her expertise on behalf of a friend of mine and she came up with such awesome tips on how to get hotel deals using
Priceline that I decided to share her insights with the Blog & Save readers:
By stella.louise
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2 years ago
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Money Saving Tips
