Archive for the ‘Dining’ Category

Our big spending weakness

Wednesday, January 19th, 2011

One big advantage of tracking the categories of personal spending is that you can see where the weak spots are -- categories that have grown a little too big for their britches and are ripe for cutting down to size. As I pile through a year's worth of financial statements in ...

Meal planning for plugging budgetary holes

Tuesday, October 5th, 2010

Chief Family Officer and I go waaaay back: we both started blogging in 2005.  She, being the consummate CFO, has been far more regular with monitoring her routines than I have.  (By contrast, if you were to count the number of times I start something up on here, and then ...

It’s CLEARANCE time at Restaurant.com

Friday, August 27th, 2010

CLEARANCE is the word that will give you 80% off of your Restaurant.com dining certificates! For those of you who aren't familiar with Restaurant.com, here's a quick rundown.  Restaurant.com sells dining certificates for thousands of restaurants across the US.  A $25 dining certificate gives you $25 off of qualifying expenses at ...

Note from Restaurant.com clarifying some of its policies

Thursday, October 8th, 2009

In my last post announcing an 80% Off Restaurant.com coupon, I decided to highlight some things to bear in mind before buying a dining certificate package.  Jeff Conlin from Restaurant.com responded to that post in a message to me: Mighty Bargain Hunter, Thank you for your recent write-up about Restaurant.com. I appreciate ...