saving money

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General Thoughts and Fun Topics

Learning Knowledge and Skills Without Money

Over the week I was interested in finding an activity partner to do some martial arts before I get rusty from not practicing. Now normally the first thing that comes to mind is to join a club or school and pay some kind of monthly membership fee. Instead, I went looking at some free classified

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General Thoughts and Fun Topics

Taking Advantage of New Customer Benefits

A lot of companies usually offer people some type of discount or special benefits to entice new customers to do business with them. Very common examples are stores that give you say a $10 coupon that can be placed towards your first purchase. Recently, I was reading about a person who was willing to go

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General Thoughts and Fun Topics

Saving Money As A Competition

This was kind of funny as just the other day a person asked me how much I paid for a specific desk and I said about $40. She then mentioned that she was able to get it for $30 and was so happy to be able to finally beat me in terms of being able

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Business

Inflated Sense of Savings

Many times when we see one of those “You save this much off the regular price” type of signs it can create a rather emotional purchase if the savings amount is large. Sometimes too, you have to be careful on whether or not the price has been bumped up which means you aren’t saving as

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General Thoughts and Fun Topics

Smart Power Meters

I was recently reading this story about a smart power meter that is taking place in some places in the US with the intent to change people’s habits in regards to how much electricity they use and when. In a nutshell, it sounds like by trying to get people to use the majority of their

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Financial Management

One Time Use Items

Today I was talking to a person who mentioned that he wanted to buy some kind of weed puller for this one day that he was holding an event in his backyard. He mentioned that it cost about $30 or so which wasn’t too bad. This got me thinking on how many times we tend

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