Recent financial figures show that for the last 20 months US credit card users have put less debt on their cards. I don't know why this would seem to be such a shocking thing. With so many people …

The summer heat is on and people are trying to look for energy-efficient means to keep themselves cool. One way to do this is to make sure that all your cooling equipment are in good shape and working…

Everyone is trying to cut some costs these days, but we are often at a loss as to where to start.

Well… if you really are serious about cutting down your expenses, here are some household items y…

If you're trying to save some cash (like we all do!), it helps if you know that there are some products that you can buy just as good when they are used as when they are new.

All you have to do…

Many people think of jewelry, particularly designed jewelry, as frivolous expenses and put off buying them for special occasions or when they've landed some kind of windfall. However, one shouldn&…

I bought an iPod Nano about 3 weeks ago. It was my second one – and the second time I've made my purchase right before Apple slashes the prices.

The first time, I had just bought the 4GB Nano, a…

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Kimberly Palmer had an interesting post last week about a Best Buy customer whose TV came out of the box broken:
So, as irritating as that would be, you wou…

Good Morning America had an interesting little feature the other day. They asked a family – Mom, Dad, baby – to go without using any sort of money cards for a month – no credit, no debit, not even ch…

My post last week bashing supermarket loyalty cards brought this response from Craig, whose Flickr photo I used as part of that post:
The photo above shows a loyalty benefit to using the cards at Kro…

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Nancy Trejos wrote an interesting article in the Washington Post last week about compulsive shoppers. Here's the lead:
Shannon Hassemer went on a shop…