Do you like to be teased? If you’re seven, probably not. If you’re twenty-seven and with your spouse or significant other … well, I’ll leave you two alone. 🙂 Like everything else, it depends completely on the context. And though businesses don’t tease the way a couple of love birds would, they do sweeten the … Read more
This past weekend at FinCon14 was a loooong-overdue reunion with the money media community. Great times, great talks, great eats … and great music! One of the very first people who greeted me at FinCon14 this past weekend was Crystal from Budgeting In The Fun Stuff. She was sporting some spunky blue highlights and was … Read more
Economies of scale are a wonderful thing. The more you’re willing to buy from a particular vendor, the better the unit price they’re inclined to give you. Selling a thousand items a hundred times is a lot more work than selling fifty thousand items twice. It’s less bookkeeping, less tracking, less shipping, and less labor … Read more
There are a lot of bargain hunters out there, I just found out. Deals are all over the place, of course, but the better-than-average ones get snagged really quickly. As in, “throw the item into the shopping cart and run for the register” quickly! My wife asked me to get some more powdered milk. We … Read more
There are times that I really wish there were a course in how to make one-time purchases. The first time I bought a house I was incredibly naive and did just about everything in the book wrong. Since I bought in 2001, I didn’t get caught buying at the top of the market, but I … Read more
A colleague and his wife are extreme couponers. She spends the equivalent of nearly a full workday a week following through with sales, coupon clipping, stacking, turning in CVS Bonus Bucks, etc. They can get an entire bag of things for next to nothing, and sometimes they even walk away with money in their pocket. … Read more
One of the most visited posts on Mighty Bargain Hunter is my post on seven ways to conquer Chuck E. Cheese. It was hit up on The Consumerist a few years ago. And just a week ago it was hit up again, but this time by the Frugal Reddit. The point that’s been the center … Read more
Online retailers are kicking it up a level for Cyber Monday. One great way to take advantage of even more savings and make your holiday dollars go a little bit further is with a rebate portal like Mr. Rebates. Taking advantage of the extra savings is easy. Instead of heading to your favorite store directly, … Read more