If you’re like almost every other American, after you’ve gorged yourself on all the Thanksgiving day feasts, you’ll be headed out to do a little gorging of a consumer variety.  Black Friday is well known as one of the largest shopping days of the year.  Most every retail store has some huge deals for the [...]

Prosper.com, the social lending site, is having a super special to honor our veterans this weekend.  Starting today (11/11/11) through Tuesday (11/15/11), they’re doing some special stuff for veteran’s loans. $50 Donation for Every Listing to the National Military Family Association Prosper will also donate $50, up to $10,000, to the National Military Family Association [...]

Every day, I hear people say that they don’t use coupons because they don’t have the time to go through the papers and mailers and clip the coupons. “It just takes too much time” they say. Those same people, will spend hours budgeting and finding ways to save themselves money, but they don’t see couponing [...]

This post is being brought to you through the sponsorship of CouponCodes4U.com I have a small confession to make to you.  Despite the obvious frugal focus of this site, I’m terrible at looking for coupons for things before I buy them.  I’m a calculated buyer.  I’ll price compare for hours before deciding on an item.  [...]

Swagbucks is having another sign-up bonus week as well as a referral promotion that will last through the end of the year.  When you sign up a new account with Swagbucks, and use the code 5for5, you will get an additional 70 Swagbucks added onto the normal 30 you get when you sign up for [...]

I’ve done a bit of work with Printing for Less before, both as an affiliate and as a customer, and they’re good folks to work with.  So, I thought I would pass this coupon along to my readers.  The links are affiliate links, so I will earn something if you purchase through them, but they [...]

Swagbucks is running a pretty good bonus on their special offers through the 21st of August.  Here’s the info that I got from them: Swagbucks is always looking for new ways for you to earn Reward Points, and this week they’ve got a promotion designed to help you get your free stuff faster! All this [...]

Ever since TLC decided that it would make for good reality television to follow around a bunch of folks who use coupons and dub them “Extreme Couponers”, there’s been a ton of talk about the people on the show, and people like them.  People who spend hours each day clipping coupons and then checking them [...]

After the long days of summer, many parents look forward to their children’s return to school.  Unfortunately, preparing for the return to school often includes a large financial outlay for back to school supplies and clothes.  However, there are several strategies you can employ to limit how much you have to spend. Back to School [...]

If you’re reading this blog, chances are you know all the tips and tricks associated with spending less. But everyone needs to spend money sooner or later. So when you know you’ll have to open up the wallet, spending smarter is your last defense against wasting your hard earned cash and maintaining a contribution to [...]