Shopping

If you’re a warehouse club member with a Costco membership, you know that you have to do some serious navigating when it comes to using your payment methods in a Costco warehouse. The store has long since been an acceptance location for American Express cards, but not for other cards. It’s been a problem for […] More

We discuss so much about finances, and we always want to help you make the most of your money. However, it’s sometimes kind of boring things such as the fact that you have to save more for retirement, and you have to save more money and you have to be more frugal to keep your […] More

I have a warehouse club membership, and I’ve used it one time. That was two years ago when I first joined when a friend talked me into splitting a membership with her. One time; and I ended up buying nothing I needed and things I think I could have gotten for far less at the […] More

Saving is what we love to do, right? We love to tell you how to save money, how to make money and how to live a more frugal and budget-friendly life; it makes things a bit more comfortable and a lot nicer. However, it’s not always a good idea to go for the sale or […] More

It was all the way back in 1878 that January white sales became a thing. Long before the internet, online shopping and the desire to revamp master bedrooms and deck out children’s rooms in the chicest fashions every season, a man by the name of John Wanamaker, department store owner and businessman, decided that it […] More

College students are making their way back to mom and dad’s for the holiday, complete with all their laundry and the hope that their parents will still buy them gifts to open on Christmas morning. After all, they are poor college students who need their parents to go ahead and buy them all the things […] More

There’s an app for that; no, really, there is an app for just about everything from holiday shopping to parking to finding someone’s mom to cook you dinner because yours is too far away and you’re missing home tonight. All right, maybe that last one is a bit of a stretch, but you get the […] More

As the mother of four kids that includes a set of year and-a-half old twins and the wife of my high school sweetheart, you might think that something as small and insignificant as a holiday shopping budget would be cake. In reality, my holiday shopping budget is my downfall. I have a spotless home (because […] More

Holiday gift ideas seem like a cinch to figure out in March, but once the holidays actually roll around we seem to have a much bigger problem figuring out what it is we want to place beneath the tree Christmas morning for our loved ones. Fortunately, there’s a little something for everyone at Amazon. It’s […] More

Holiday shopping bonuses are not something that’s limited to only stores; some of the biggest credit card issuers in the world are currently offering some amazing holiday shopping bonuses to cardholders. Much like retailers want to entice shoppers to come into their stores so that they spend more money than they might have otherwise, credit […] More

Holiday shopping does not come with a guarantee; you might love something that you find for someone else, and they might not love it so much. With that said, always get the gift receipt. It’s going to make a huge difference when it comes to your holiday shopping and gift giving. Before you become offended […] More