June 2006


Currentcodes.com is a clearing-house for coupon codes offered by online retailers.
Hundreds of well-known online stores like Barnes and Noble, Staples, and Amazon.com have a place within their shopping cart for a “coupon code” that gives a percent or dollar amount off your purchase. If you don’t know the code, you can’t take advantage [...]

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Cribcage took exception to a comment I posted yesterday. In the further discussion of things your supermarket won’t tell you, I quoted a Digg-user who works at a grocery store:
Since I have started changing prices I have noticed a lot of tricks that Safeway uses. [...] Everything at a grocery store is close to double [...]

[read all of Price vs. Ethics: Is the Best Price the Best Choice?]

The New York Times has a piece entitled Looking for the Incentives that Will Prompt Americans to Save More [may require registration]

[read all of Prompting Americans to Save]

“What to do before your neighbor’s overgrown yard, Day-Glo paint job or never-ending renovation drives down your home’s value — and drives you up the wall.”

[read all of The Nightmare Next Door]

Mr. Food Markets takes exception to the recent post about ten things your supermarket won’t tell you. He’s provided a point-by-point rebuttal.

[read all of A Treatise of True Things About Whole Foods Market]

The Ten Things Your Supermarket Won’t Tell You story from yesterday has been posted at Digg, where the members have shared some great comments. Here are some of the best.
One supermarket employee notes:
There’s no privacy risk with loyalty programs. At the store I work at, your address is only used to send you thank-you coupons [...]

[read all of More Things Your Supermarket Won’t Tell You]

At Yahoo!Finance, David Bach (author of Start Late, Finish Rich) offers four tips for vacations that give more.
According to nonprofit consumer education organization the Myvesta Foundation, the average American planned to spend $2,249 on his or her summer vacation last year. Taking the average family of four to the archetypical American vacation spot — [...]

[read all of Spend Less and Live More with a Volunteer Vacation]

My wife isn’t one of those women who can buy hundreds of dollars of groceries for $12.93. She is, however, a frugal shopper, and can often trim an $80 bill to a $60 bill. Here are some of her top tips:

Don’t shop for groceries if you’re hungry. You’ve probably heard this before, but it’s true. [...]

[read all of 17 Ways to Save Big at the Supermarket]

The Bargain Queen has a piece on which cosmetics to buy cheap and which to spend money on. As a guy, this is all a mystery to me.

[read all of Balancing the Beauty Budget]

Last fall, Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania published a study exploring the relationship between portion size and food consumption. They found that people tend to consume more when given larger portions. From the abstract:

People seem to think that a unit of some entity (with certain constraints) is the appropriate and optimal amount. [...] We [...]

[read all of Save More by Eating Less]

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