Archive for the ‘Saving’ Category
Using Deal of the Day Sites When You Travel
Traveling for pleasure can be a lot of fun. What is not fun is hitting the tourist attractions and spending a bunch of cash on each one. If you plan the trip out at least a couple of months in advance you can save big bucks using the Deal of the Day sites. Lets say [...]
Saving Money On Energy Usage Pt. 4 — Free Heat
You can save a ton of money during the winter by not using your central heating to heat your home. There is this wonderful thing called the Sun and it heats the entire planet. With a little bit of thought you can also use it to heat your home. The easiest way it to open [...]
Saving Money On Energy Usage Pt. 3
One of the major problems we have in using energy is that we heat and cool more space than we need. This is very common when using central heating and air. And I will admit it is difficult to reduce the cost of of cooling without an unsightly window unit in your most used rooms. [...]
Saving Money on Energy Usage Pt. 2
One of the main ways we waste energy is our use of hot water. The hot water heater is a highly inefficient appliance. There are some easy ways to limit how much your hot water heater has to work and I promise not to criticize your one hour hot showers. If your hot water heater [...]
Saving Money on Energy Usage Pt. 1
With cold weather coming to my area in waves this year it seemed like a good time to look into how to cut your energy costs. This will be a four part series with two posts this week and two next week. The first step to solving any problem is to form a plan. The [...]
BigCrumbs Can Save You Big Bucks
I have been a fan of sites that pay you to use their links for a long time. The one I most recently have come across, and my new favorite, is BigCrumbs.com. It has been a while since I have written about one of these sites so let me explain how they work: Advertisers are [...]
Cheap Return Address Labels
My wife collects the address labels that we get free from different advertisers trying to get us to buy their product. This makes it easy when we actually need to send a piece of snail mail. The thought has crossed my mind recently of what would we do if we ran out of those freebies? [...]
Why I Use Coupons
I have a good number of friends and one family member (my brother black sheep) who refuse to use coupons. They see them as a waste of time. I, on the other hand, do not see why you would not use coupons when shopping for groceries or in any situation you can find. In the [...]
Creating a Pricing Strategy
The key to getting a good deal on any product is knowing the best “regular” price on any item. With groceries this has become easier with Wal-Mart and Aldi being the low cost leaders on pretty much every item out there. In fact, if you do not want to play the coupon game you can [...]
Taking Inventory of Stocked Items
Anyone who buys in bulk or stocks up on sale items runs into two problems. The first is running out of space. I don’t tend to have this problem because my wife cuts me off from purchasing more before all the storage in our house is gone. The second, is not realizing that you are [...]
