Posts Tagged ‘Saving’

Fewer Parking Tickets, More Money to Park.

The parking authority in my town has a cheeky sense of Christmas spirit: Two days before the holiday, as I got into my car to make the long drive north, I found a little Santa-Come-Early gift. Make that
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My Cash-Only Countdown.

It’s T minus one day until I start my life with no credit cards. I can’t lie: I’m a little terrified. It’s not like I put most of my purchases, or even half of my purchases, on the
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Regifting: Once under wraps, it’s now a perfectly “acceptable” spending strategy.

Ah, yes, the fine art of regifting. A moral quandary or shrewd shopping? Still up for debate, sure, but it’s not totally déclassé. After all, even Jackie Onassis regifted: As an anniversary present, she gave her 2nd husband a
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Confessions of a spendaholic. (Don’t tell dad.)

I had an epiphany this past weekend. I was with my mother and my grandmother reminiscing about the good ole days. We were joking about how the things we purchased on shopping trips with Mom absolutely – without
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BLACK FRIDAY SAVERS’ EXTRAVAGANZA!!

You may find this hard to believe, but here at We The Savers we absolutely luh-huv Black Friday. Not for the awesome sales and deals (last time we checked, there weren’t that many good ones), but for the outrageous,
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Black Friday binge: Buyer beware.

Ah, Black Friday. It’s the one day of the year when otherwise sane people wake up horrifically early to schlep across town to large box stores. They wait in around-the-block lines, drinking lukewarm coffee and jockeying for the highly
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Black Friday: Tell us your story.

Gobble, gobble. For this upcoming national day of spending gluttony, we’d like to hear from YOU, fearless Savers. Tell us what you’re doing – and seeing – at home, out and about or at the mega-mall (perish the thought).
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Black Friday Week: It’s like Shark Week for Savers.

Remember the episode of The Office where Dwight buys up all the Princess Unicorn dolls and then resells them for an obscene profit? And desperate parents lined up at his desk to pay him $200 a pop for the
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