Posts Tagged ‘Groceries’
Hmmm… I just ran across some bad news related to the PenFed cash back credit card. Here’s the scoop:
Effective March 1, 2011, PenFed will no long offer 2% cash back for supermarket purchases. You will continue to earn 5% cash back on gas purchases made at the pump and 1% on everything else, including your supermarket purchases. If you have any questions, please contact us at 800-247-5626 seven days a week or PenFed.org.
Bummer. The 5% cash back on gas is still a good deal, especially since there are no spending tiers, but this will otherwise end up being…
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Call me a weirdo, but I love grocery shopping
It’s the truth. For me, an afternoon in the supermarket is like a Sunday on the couch for a football-worshipping straight guy. I covet my time alone, wandering through rows of perfectly positioned products that are quietly clamoring to hop in my cart. Seriously, it’s my bliss.
At least it used to be, anyway.
Don’t get me wrong, I still enjoy a jaunt to the supermarket. But if you live in an urban area, you know what it takes to get there and back in one piece. It can be…
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Every Sunday, The Simple Dollar reviews a personal finance book or other book of interest.
Better Groceries for Less Cash by Randall Putala has a subtitle that pretty clearly describes what you’ll find inside the covers: 101 Tested and Proven Ways to Save on Food. While organized into chapters, this fairly short book’s main purpose is to simply relate a lot of methods for saving money on food purchases.
My wife and I already do a lot of things to reduce our grocery bill, from using grocery lists to making meal plans and clipping (some) coupons. Yet we still look…
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Last week, as my beautiful wife was waiting in line at the supermarket checkout aisle, I wandered around. I don’t really appreciate waiting around for much of anything. It is a mixture of impatience, interest deficit, and boredom, but in the time between putting the groceries on the belt and taking our bags to leave, I usually wander around the front of the store. I appear at the piles of firewood, the coffee stand, some of the headlines on the newspapers, and I ended up searching at the cornucopia of scratch off lottery tickets in…
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By Linsey Knerl
We've already asked whether you look forward to tax time, and people are just now starting to see their refunds (or bills) filtering through their home offices. We want to know what you plan on doing with that refund -- if you get one. OR what you believe people should be doing with their refunds. (Now's your time to preach!)
Do you use it for something special, like a big screen TV or computer?
Do you save it for a long-term investment?
Are you likely to use every penny for bills (like that enormous heating charge you…
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By Andrea Dickson
In a consumer world, I am among the least savvy of consumers. I buy stuff on a whim, often without doing my research, and am frequently disappointed in what I end up buying. But every now and again, I find a product or service that is so incredibly awesome, so life-changingly helpful, that I can't stop telling people about it. Here are three of my awesome finds of the past year. Have you found a product that you think is the bomb? Tell us about it in the comments before Sunday, February 21 at 12:00PM Pacific Time, and you'll…
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Monitoring Your Expenses
Now that you are fiar with how a lot earnings money you have coming into your house, it has turn out to be time for you to spend attention to the expenses that you have on a month-to-month basis. You ought to begin with the regular payments and the fixed payments that you make, such as your rental payment or home loan payment, insurance coverage payments, automotive payments, financial debt payments and taxes. For most individuals, these expenses are generally pretty fixed in nature and that indicates that the amount due each and every month is…
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American Express is promoting a new charge card called the AmEx Premier Rewards Gold Card, which is different from their other Gold/Gold Rewards/Platinum/Precious Metal cards.
Since this is the new card being pushed, it has the best sign-up incentives for new cardholders:
* Earn 15,000 Membership Rewards bonus points when you spend $1,000 in your first 3 months of Card membership. MR points are very versatile, and can be converted to 15,000 frequent flier miles in a number of programs (or 10 Southwest credits), or you can simply get $150 in gift cards at several stores like Home…
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