How to get free stuff!
We love anything free, so when we went looking for freebies for our annual issue, we were excited to find some great new sites: Free Sample Monkey, which aggregates the aggregators; Poshly, where you take quizzes and are entered for... [ More ]
Finding deals in a flash
I have to admit my current addiction is flash-sale sites! I’ve signed up for e-mail alerts from a bunch of websites that offer limited-time deals—I have to, it’s research for my job! But lately, I’ve been buying. The deals are... [ More ]
A Costco mortgage? Really?
Sure, you buy tons of TP and caseloads of coffee at BJ’s and get all your groceries and household stuff cheaper at Walmart, but have you ever considered getting a mortgage there? For our July issue, we decided to take... [ More ]
Tips for saving money on those big vacations
As I mentioned last week, my family and I are headed to San Francisco for this year’s summer vacation. That’s a big trip for us. But after talking with Jenny McIver, the author of Round the World in 30 Days, I’m definitely putting more ambitious trips on my travel bucket list. [ More ]
Mindful spending really adds up
Acting mindfully is defined as being “actively attentive, or deliberately keeping something in mind.” In other words, going out of one‘s way to be aware. It takes effort. It is fairly easy to slide through life on autopilot, but at what cost? [ More ]
Getting adventurous with vacation lodging
Now that it’s Memorial Day, the unofficial start of summer, I’m getting serious about nailing down my family’s summer vacation plans. This year, we’re ditching the usual trip up the coast to Cape Cod, where we rent a summer house for a week. Instead, we’re venturing west to San Francisco. [ More ]
Save on makeup with store brands—really!
Have you tried store-brand beauty products yet? If I told you that you could save as much as 40 percent, would you reconsider? In our latest price scan, that’s how much our secret shoppers found that you can save buy choosing Walmart’s Equate Refreshing Apricot Scrub over St. Ives Invigorating Apricot Scrub. [ More ]
