Category: Money

Are You Being Careful About Gift Cards This Year?

Are You Being Careful About Gift Cards This Year?

For so many years, the gift card has been the gift of last resort… or sometimes first when you just want an easy solution. But they have disadvantages that are present every year… and potentially more than usual this year. Gift Card Negatives 1. Companies going under. If a...

What Really Happens in Liquidation Sales?

What Really Happens in Liquidation Sales?

This year there are a lot of stores shutting down. That means lots of liquidation sales and great bargains, right? Maybe. Then again, maybe not. My mother called me the other evening about a story she’d seen on the news on the liquidation sale at one company going out...

Time to Simplify Christmas?

Time to Simplify Christmas?

The holiday shopping will be kicking into high gear very soon. But if your family is like many others, times are tighter than usual. But even if they aren’t, could this be a good time to simplify your Christmas gift giving? My family has long kept our gift giving...

How Organized Are Your Coupons?

How Organized Are Your Coupons?

I’m not much of a coupon user – too disorganized and I know it. It’s a round and round kind of thing where I might be interested if I were more organized but I’m not organized so I’m not interested… But for those of you who are more organized,...