Archive for the ‘Deals and Steals’ Category

Are refurbished low-end computers worth the money?

Saturday, January 29th, 2011

My wife's laptop is showing signs of getting ready to fail, so I've been looking around for the past couple of days for replacement options.  Since "buy used when it makes sense" is one of the very best money-saving tips I can give, part of my research involved looking for ...

Snag a $20 Amazon.com gift card for $10

Thursday, January 20th, 2011

I'm a tad late to the party on this one, but if you act within the next nine hours or so, you can snag a $20 Amazon.com gift card for only $10 at LivingSocial.com! This is pretty rare. Unlike most other online merchants, Amazon.com usually doesn't have a lot of coupons ...

Six tricks to finding deals on coins

Monday, January 3rd, 2011

Nickel is talking up entrepreneurship to his oldest son, and has found a stash of coins that could be ripe for reselling on eBay.  He asked his Twitter followers about starter investment books for kids because they were starting to get fairly sizable savings accounts.  (I never addressed that question ...

Ssshhhh! Don’t tell my daughter

Sunday, December 12th, 2010

My daughter isn't quite old enough to start reading my blog yet, so I can let you in on a little secret. My wife and I just ordered a bunch of stuff online from The Disney Store for Christmas and her birthday.  She's really into princesses. :) Anyway, after my wife picked ...