Archive for the ‘Shopping’ Category
Tuesday, October 6th, 2009
Liz Pulliam Weston had an article today on the new tip-jar economy -- that new business practice of putting out the tip jar, raising the "customary" tipping percentage, and adding other tip-like fees that are no longer discretionary, but mandatory.
Her take regarding the tip jars was, in essence: Ignore the ...
Posted in Economy, Shopping, Taxes | 8 Comments »
Friday, September 18th, 2009
OK, so I'm reading the July, 2009, issue of U.S. News & World Report that my mother-in-law left the last time she visited, and I happen on an article called "Frugal Forever?" written by Kimberly Palmer, senior editor at U.S. News and blogger at Alpha Consumer. (She had several articles ...
Posted in Frugal Living, Shopping | 25 Comments »
Wednesday, September 16th, 2009
Dawn over at Frugal For Life discusses some of the ethical implications of stockpiling foods. She gets into a few rules of thumb for testing to see whether stockpiling has crossed into greed, or just plain inconsideration. Talking to the store to have them do a special large-quantity order is ...
Posted in Economy, Frugal Living, Shopping | 10 Comments »
Thursday, September 3rd, 2009
This weekend I saw a sign for a very important-sounding event:
Remerchandising Relinquishment!
It was on a sign for a store sale. I was curious what the heck this means so I did a Google search for it. Only 186 hits came up (which is pretty paltry considering Google indexes 17.1 jillion ...
Posted in Shopping | 2 Comments »
