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These days, the last thing you want is more e-mail or text messages. You might consider signing up for a few that can save you money. We’re not talking about deals and coupons, but alerts from your bank and credit card companies. You can sign up to be alerted about low balances, unusual activity and [...]  Last week, I got a phone call offering me a six-month subscription to a publication. When I got a renewal notice, I ignored it because I didn’t want to continue the subscription. • Tip No. 1: You can no longer afford to ignore subscription notices for print or online services. This is especially true when you take [...] When gas prices are low, it doesn’t always make sense to drive around looking for a station where it’s a few cents cheaper. Time is money, after all — not to mention the extra fuel you’d burn in the hunt. But as prices hit $3.45 a gallon and the cost of filling a tax exceeds [...] wrote a column last year about why using coupons may not pay, especially for small households like mine that don’t eat a lot of processed food. Then I decided to give it another try. If the shoppers profiled on TLC’s Extreme Couponing can get hundreds of dollars worth of groceries for $25, I figured, can’t I save [...] If you shop online, you know it pays to look for coupons and promo codes. But finding the ones that are still valid among the multitude of coupons online can take time. Now there’s an app for that. What’s more, you don’t need a mobile phone to use it. Drop Down Deals is an app [...] One reason I haven’t longed for an electronic book reader is that I figured all the books would be expensive. Why pay $9.99 for an e-book when you can buy the same title in hardback for $1.50 at Goodwill or get it free at the public library? But as more people have acquired Kindles, Nooks [...] If one of your New Year’s resolutions is to exercise more and lose weight, you may be wondering how best to do that on the cheap. The diet industry is big business, and it’s easy to separate yourself from more money than pounds. One advantage of living in South Florida is that we have the [...] The new year has arrived, and we’re ready to throw our bad habits out the window, exercise daily, lose 30 pounds, clean out our closets and organize our lives once and for all. At least that’s what we want to do. To improve your chance of actually accomplishing something, pick just one goal. It could be cleaning [...] I recently read a story about a Hollywood woman who did her Christmas shopping for 20 people for a total cash outlay of $6.32. This gives us all something to which we can aspire. One of the ways she did that was by using Amazon gift cards she had earned by doing surveys and other [...] I have subscribed to e-mail promotions from dozens of stores and restaurants over the years, and that means I get notices about sales, deals and coupons every day. And lately, I’ve been spending way too much time going through them, looking at a sweater here, a TV there, potential holiday gifts elsewhere. So far, I [...] |
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