During our lives we tend to accumulate stuff. Unless you move often, your attic, basement, garage, and closets are going to get filled with a lot of clutter. If you are sick of it and want to organize your life, start going through things. If you have not even looked at it, let alone used…
Retailers are crafty folks. They know just when to price some items higher for account for more demand and when to cut their losses to sell items at a deep discount. It’s your job as a savvy consumer to figure out when a retailer is trying to play the calendar to get you to pay…
Waited until the 11th hour to buy gifts for your loved ones? Join the club. In fact, often retailers will prey on the unsuspecting slackers and procrastinators who wait to head to the mall until December 24th. Of course, you’ll need to buy gifts regardless, so that could leave you scratching your head, digging through…
If you are planning to travel for the holiday season, and you have not started shopping and pricing out tickets, it is probably a little too late to get the best deals possible. You can still find some reasonable airfare, but for the most part the good deals have long been snatched up. If you…
There seem to be two types of holiday shoppers: those who are so well organized that they have all of their Christmas presents purchased, wrapped, and paid for in cash before the Thanksgiving leftovers have all been eaten—and the rest of us who are stalking wild-eyed through the mall a week before Christmas wondering how…
While trying to live a frugal life we often skip some of the luxuries that others splurge on. Instead of going with a full blown theater room, a smaller cozier setup might be preferred. But there are times when things wear out, need updated, or you have set aside money for a specific item that…
I recently found out about a brand new smartphone app that allows beer lovers to find deals on hard-to-find craft beers. The app is being demonstrated publicly for the first time this weekend at the Great American Beer Festival in my hometown of Denver, CO. “This is the first smartphone app that lets beer lovers find…