Archive for the ‘Shopping’ Category

Amazon keeps impressing us with its food selection

Friday, May 9th, 2008

We've come to enjoy Amazon Prime. (For those not familiar, Amazon Prime is all-you-can-eat 2-day shipping for $79 per year. Over a million items on Amazon qualify for Amazon Prime.) We've mentioned this before but our daughter has a number of food allergies that make some of her staple ...

Buy a huge gift card with your rebate?

Tuesday, April 29th, 2008

Retailers are lining up with carrots to help you put your economic stimulus check to good use. For large gift card purchases at stores like Kroger, Sears, KMart, and others, the retailers will kick in extra value on the gift card: up to 10% above what you pay for. Is ...

Forever Stamp: You pay for choice

Saturday, April 26th, 2008

The United States Postal Service will be bumping the price of a first-class stamp up a cent to 42 cents on May 12th, 2008. We (foolishly?) have about a couple books' worth of non-Forever stamps that we probably won't be able to burn through before the 12th. (I ...

Earn MyPoints points with printable coupons

Thursday, April 17th, 2008

For a site named Mighty Bargain Hunter you might expect that I use coupons religiously at the grocery store.Nope.It's pretty rare that we use coupons in the grocery store, actually. (Costco is an exception. We check those coupons out each time we get the booklet.) Most of ...