Walkthrough on How to Save Money on Virtually Every Video Game!

It’s a simple fact that we here in America love the video games. They’re a great past time, good for entertainment and stress relief, and they also constitute a multi-billion dollar industry world-wide - and one of the few entertainment industries not being effected not being hurt by the current printed media vs digital download format battle (With gaming, you still need disks 99% of the time). Now, some may think that video gaming may be just for kids: but think again. A recent market study placed the age of the average gamer between 28 and 30, both male and female…and that, to us, means that there are probably at least a few of you out there that could benefit from some gaming-related money saving tips. Read the rest of this entry »

Summer entertainment…for FREE?!

As we continue to examine ways to have a fun filled summer without decimating your savings, we’ve stumbled across something so obvious that we almost missed it. For real. Now, we’re passing the info off to you, and getting you and your family hooked up this summer - for free. Read the rest of this entry »

Deals by department

Recently. we talked about credit cards and how they can easily become double-edged swords (not in the literal sense, of course). This time, we’ll go over how to properly wield the power of department store credit to save money and increase your credit score at the same time. Read the rest of this entry »

Give us some credit

Have you ever found yourself buried in piled-up credit card debt? These days, who hasn’t? Here are a few quick, easy and simple ways to help keep your head above water, or in this case, plastic.
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When the price is Right…

Have you ever had one of those trips to the store where you’ve painstakingly budgeted, but wind up spending twice as much as you planned? We all have. Most often times the culprit is the enemy of all things saving money, the impulse buy.
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Keeping a low overhead, vol. 2

Let’s face it. We’ve all got to eat, no exceptions…but there’s no reason we should have to shell out top dollar to do it. Read the rest of this entry »

Keeping a low overhead, vol. 1

Have you found yourself cutting back a little too much lately?

That’s one thing that most of us have in common lately. If you’ve been fortunate enough to not be hurt by the economic crisis, you’re certainly more aware. But this has been a great learning experience in keeping the unavoidable costs of living down, and still getting by with style.
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Raising morale.

It’s time. If you check out the news from Wall Street, you’ll see that we may just well be slowly heading out of these dark economic times, with all the stocks that matter climbing and climbing, peaking out at nearly 70% of their former glory. Companies nationwide are beginning to hire again, and maybe, just maybe we should start to feel secure once more. I, personally, am stoked…and you should be, too. Even stoked enough to get out there and spend some dough.
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Thank you for your patronage.

I’ve had a single sentence from a previous post rolling around in my head, and I wanted to elaborate on it.

“Do you remember when businesses were simply grateful for your business?” Read the rest of this entry »

Pop-ups? In real life?!

Do you ever feel like you’ve got a target painted to your chest? You should. In fact, you should feel like the Predator is lurking with his nifty tri-laser targeting system homing in on you and his thermals enabled to determine the exact location of your wallet at a distance.
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