Shopping
Quick Tip: Sell Your Gift Cards
Gift cards can make great gifts…if you use them. Otherwise, they take up room in your wallet and any flat surface you have available. Not a fan of the card you received? No worries…sell them to GiftCardRescue.com and they’ll send you a check within 2 days. Not in the mood to sell? Exchange it for [...]
YouTube Puts the Spotlight on “Hauls”
Ever heard of YouTube? Stupid question, I know. I have an account and I bet almost everyone reading this article has one, too. Sometimes, the videos are funny and other times, not so much. And, sometimes, they are just unexplainable. Take, for instance, the popular YouTube craze called Hauls. In these videos, people show off [...]
Convenience Plus Savings!
I’ve always done a lot of my shopping online. I can take my time to browse and comparison shop, but only recently did I begin to appreciate the value of looking for online promotion codes. Over the past 6 weeks, I have saved over $70.00 with online coupons on items we were prepared to pay [...]
Shopaholics Are Not Hoarders in Disguise
Hoarders may sound like they are shopaholics, but while there are some similarities, there are some differences between the two. First, let’s start with what hoarding is: “Compulsive hoarding is a common and potentially disabling problem, characterized by the accumulation of excessive clutter, to the point that parts of one’s home can no longer be [...]
Control the Urge to Shop
Interestingly, after writing my article yesterday, The Thrill of Thrift Stores, I found a related blog post today by Professional Organizer, Stephanie Calahan. In her comments, she mentions 11 questions you can ask yourself before you commit to buying something. Here are a few that I use personally and tell my clients to etch in [...]
The Thrill of Thrift Stores
Have you ever been to a thrift store? Have you ever been to a thrift store and found a new (or like new) item for pennies? If you’re the sort of person that loves finding a great item at a phenomenal price, you may well enjoy the thrill of going to a thrift store. This [...]
Quick Tip: Give Yourself 30 Minutes
Image via Wikipedia On Saturday, I listened to a very interesting discussion, Kids and Money: Have You Had The Talk?, on the American Public Media program, Marketplace. It started out by asking why it’s impolite, almost rude, to talk about money (e.g, “Are you rich?”). Then the program segued to a mom (a financial expert) [...]
Cleanup in Aisle 1
We’ve all seen it! You’re in the grocery store picking up your weekly food fix, when right there in the produce aisle between the apples, and organic tomatoes you hear a child pitching the loudest fit ever! You try not to look. You try not to judge. While all the while thinking to yourself, how [...]
Efficient Shopping with Giant
I discovered a cool new thing at the local Giant supermarket in Waldorf, MD on Sunday. They are offerring a new way to shop more efficiently and it’s a little gadget called Scan It! It’s described as one of their new In Store Shopping Tools that can help you get in and out of the [...]
