My wife said something interesting to me yesterday: "I might not renew our Costco membership." "Why not?" "It's a long drive. With these gas prices, I'm probably...

Chrysler has a new promotion announced this morning-buy a Chrysler vehicle and get a gas card that you can use for three years and be guaranteed that every gallon will cost $2.99, regardless of how...

Isn't it interesting how the same basic thing can have so many price points? This weekend my wife & I went to a local bike shop and got her a Specialized brand bike that cost roughly $350....

© Marc Shandro This passage from J.D.'s post on Get Rich Slowly today struck me: Last fall I was talking to a friend who worked at the corporate offices of The Sharper Image. He told me that the...

Hope you didn't get a gift card from The Sharper Image this past holiday season. If you did, the person that bought it for you gave Sharper Image their money only to get nothing in return: On...

Marketing pro Seth Godin's has an interesting post on whether the "packaging" of a product or experience that includes a lot of waste could be a turnoff to your audience in these...

People always look at the price they pay for a new car or truck, but sometimes they forget to think enough about the ongoing costs, such as how much gas a particular vehicle will guzzle (or save)....

Christmas recap: Happy children, broken toys, frustrated and disappointed parents, followed by some singing of Fah who for-aze, Dah who dor-aze! just to show that it's not all about gifts and...

Learned about this from Flexo at Consumerism Commentary. It's PriceProtectr, which puts a watch on items you've purchased and lets you know if the price drops within the store's Price...

Recently I bought the best pair of shoes in my life. They are the Clarks Escalade, and they are pictured above. For a while I had been looking for a brown shoe that wasn't super dressy but...

This is cool. One of the criticisms of PayPal has been that although it's great for eBay purchases and has been widening its acceptance, it's still hard to use your PayPal balances to buy...

For the first time in my life, I'm buying a totally new car, namely the 2008 Toyota Highlander. I have never purchased a spanking new car before, because I'm well aware that it's not a...

While I'm more than willing to be assertive when I think I'm being taken advantage of, I'd like to be a better negotiator and a better haggler when it comes to what I pay for things....

This post at Wise Bread reminded me of a garage sale I once went to where the people were selling their kids' used underwear, (or "underpants" as my Mom says, a word I find disgusting)....

Flexo has a good post on ticket scalping, a subject I have thought about a lot but never blogged. To follow up on his thoughts, here are mine. It sucks to want to see a show or sports event and......

It's fun to spend money. Yes, it's satisfying to save money, and rewarding to invest it wisely and watch it grow. But it's FUN! to spend it. But only if you spend it on something fun....

Apple just cut the price of an iPhone from $599 to $399, meaning that those who bought last week paid about 50% more for their phones than those who buy today. Everyone knows the price of technology...

A lot of people these days have ditched checks in favor of debit cards. Others have ditched their credit cards in favor of debit cards. While I understand this puts me in danger of sounding like an...

I saw this Bloomberg article yesterday talking about the possibility of us seeing $4 per gallon gas in the near future: Gasoline inventories, measured by the days of demand they will cover, are at the...

Have you seen this Visa Check Card commercial in which a bustling lunch spot moves in a fast-paced yet orderly fashion, with each buyer quickly and easily sliding his/her Visa check card through the...

The holidays are over and, if you're like most of us, somewhere along the way you got a gift card or two. It's nice to get gift cards. You get to buy whatever you want, and you don't have...