I was organizing my wallet today and realized that I had several prepaid debit cards taking up valuable space. They had been given to me as gifts on special occasions, and I knew I had long since used up the majority of the value of each of them. Still, each had a little bit of [...]

Amazon.com has a rather generous return policy, but did you ever wonder what becomes of the returned products? Me either. It wasn’t until I was shopping on the Amazon website recently that I came across their Warehouse Deals section and quickly became hooked! Amazon Warehouse Deals are items that have been returned, have damaged packaging, [...]

Longtime readers may recall last March when I wrote about how I would be using our tax return to launch a “debt snowball” and pay off our car and student loan debt. I was excited, but also apprehensive about the idea–depending on only $1,000 in an emergency fund was scary, and I wasn’t sure if [...]

I first purchased from RedEnvelope almost ten years ago, when I was trying to find the perfect gift for my now husband who was living in England at the time. I remember being impressed by their assortment of unique products, and was thrilled to find just the right gift; I sent him a little metal [...]

It feels like forever since I last updated my blog, but I am slowly getting back into the swing of things and hope to resume posting more regularly soon. Our family has been extremely busy with various goings-on, most notably moving house last month! Yes, we managed to do what we thought would be almost [...]

I can always tell when tax season is here–local stores stock up on flat screen TVs, setting up the extra boxes in the aisle to await the influx of customers with their tax refunds. In years past, my husband and I have certainly enjoyed the extra money as much as anyone–tax refunds have helped pay [...]

When I first started to hear about J.C. Penney’s new advertising strategy that ditches frequent sales in favor of lower regular prices, my knee-jerk reaction was “oh, brother”. I guess it’s the way that people were describing the new approach that inspired my cynicism; shoppers saw it as a kind of “perpetual sale”, where everything [...]