South Florida on the Cheap

Best expedited shipping deals

Teresa — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 15:48:12 +0000

Still have some shopping to do?

FreeShipping.org has compiled a list of holiday delivery deadlines for more than 100 stores.

If you’re buying online any time and the store doesn’t offer free shipping, don’t click “Buy” until you check for a promo code at FreeShipping.org. The site is the best repository of free shipping offers all year.

Here [...]

Free Shipping Day is Dec. 16

Teresa — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 15:04:56 +0000

Still have last-minute holiday gifts to buy and mail? Friday is Free Shipping Day, when more than 1,800 merchants have agree to ship your purchases for free and have them delivered by Christmas Eve.

The list of participating merchants includes large and small stores, including Toys R Us, Sears, DSW, Barnes & Noble and more.

The website [...]

25 free holiday songs

Teresa — Sat, 03 Dec 2011 05:17:59 +0000

Amazon is offering 25 days of free music, with a new holiday song for to download free every day from Dec. 1-25.

If you miss a day, you can go back and download all the songs through Dec. 25.

Amazon is an advertising partner of On the Cheap.

Top 10 Cyber Monday Coupon Codes

Teresa — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 16:09:12 +0000

Here’s some good information from CouponSherpa’s Cyber Monday page to help you save more money today.

According to CouponaSherpa, these are today’s top 10 Cyber Monday coupon codes:

Dockers Get 30% off when you spend $100 using coupon code GOBBLE. Gap Stores Take 30% off any order at Gap, Athleta, Old Navy and Banana Republic with coupon code HUGECYBER. Chico’s Receive 30% off [...]

Free $10 restaurant certificates

Teresa — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 14:53:13 +0000

Restaurant.com wants to meet your friends. Through the company’s Feed It Forward promotion, you can send one free $10 Restaurant.com dining certificate to each of 40 friends every day through Dec. 25.

You can send only one certificate to each person during the promotion. I think it’s a safe guess that the recipients also will receive promotional e-mail fromRestaurant.com, [...]

Free ‘Wake Up and Workout’ mix

Teresa — Sun, 20 Nov 2011 22:09:50 +0000

Loser and Subway are offering free downloads of their workout mix “Wake Up and Workout.”

To download your free mix tape, click here.

When the link stops working, the deal’s over.

Have the ‘money talk’ with returning grads

Teresa — Thu, 26 May 2011 13:43:08 +0000

Many of you are proud to have in your homes a new college graduate. He doesn’t have a job yet, but surely that will come soon.

In the meantime, you have a new roommate.

That’s right. These days, as young adults live at home with their parents for years after they leave school, 50something and 60something adults [...]

Advice on money for new grads

Teresa — Wed, 25 May 2011 13:42:05 +0000

One of the joys of getting older is offering young people sage advice, whether they want to listen or not.

As graduation time nears, I can’t resist offering today’s graduates the advice I wish I’d gotten when I was their age. Or maybe I got the advice and didn’t listen. I should have.

Last year I advised [...]

Money lessons from ‘Sesame Street’

Teresa — Tue, 24 May 2011 13:41:06 +0000

When it comes to financial advice, you may not think to ask Elmo. But the furry Sesame Street character is the latest advocate parents can call upon to teach their children about money. April is Financial Literacy Month, so there’s no better time to start.

PNC Bank has teamed up with Sesame Street on a new initiative to teach preschoolers [...]

Tips for spending less on air conditioning

Teresa — Mon, 23 May 2011 23:39:46 +0000

Summer is nearly upon us. In South Florida, that means high electric bills.

Except for a hardy few, going without air conditioning is probably not a practical cost-cutting measure. Still, there are ways to save energy and cut your electric bill.

We consulted the websites of Florida Power & Light and the U.S. Department of Energy for [...]