My Experience with Social Buying Sites and How to Get in On the Deals You Missed

Author’s Note: This article contains no referral links, only links to the homepage of these websites as resources for you. I remember when a coworker of mine came up to me to describe this new social buying concept she had heard about on the news. This was just two years ago; since this time, social [...]

An Experiment: Using Walmart’s New Price Match Policy

In a world tipped in the favor of retailers and manufacturers due to the  recent uptick in media attention on consumer dishonesty and fraud, Walmart has chosen to not only simplify its price matching policy, but to choose to trust consumers on their word with their new price match policy.  Granted, this was not a [...]

New Coupon Fine Print

Have you taken a look at your coupons lately? I mean besides just to see which ones you want to clip and use and which ones to pass on? I did recently and found some very interesting new language included in the fine print section of several coupons. I am not sure when the new [...]

Coupon Fraud Part II

As discussed in this article about how the coupon industry is fighting extreme couponing, there are many fraudulent ways consumers have devised to use coupons for their own economic benefit. These include using a coupon for a different product within the same company, using a coupon for the wrong sized product, using photocopy versions of [...]

Coupon Fraud Part I

Fraudulent coupons that are too-good-to-be-true circulate the web all the time and many innocent consumers, retailers, and manufacturers get stuck with the lost time and money. Last week I walked into my local Subway store for a sandwich. From the back of the line I could see a piece of paper with a coupon for [...]

The Anatomy of a Coupon

Featured in the Yakezie Carnival at Money Reasons. I use coupons like money. When I enter a store I have my wallet clutched under my arm to free up both my hands so that I can thumb through my stash of coupons (which I store in a used junk-mail envelope). The more coupons I use [...]

Saving Money for the Person Who Doesn’t Have Time for Coupons

Author’s Note: This is the second article of a two part series this week on teaching you the skills to become a better shopper, for non-couponers and couponers alike. Check out the first article here. Many of my readers are in the same spot as you; they like the idea of saving money, they think [...]

Frugal Confessions’ Debut on Great Day Houston!

Hello Frugal Confessions Readers! If you are new, welcome! This morning I was one of the segments on the Great Day Houston Show, Channel 11. How fun! We spoke about gift cards, frequent flyer miles, and touched a little on coupons.   Here is the link: http://www.khou.com/greatday/video/?nvid=401123&shu=1 Some other things I wish to add that [...]

Go Primal: How to be Territorial for the Sake of a Sale

On Memorial Day Weekend my fiancée and I made a quick stop on the way home to Old Navy. If you hadn’t heard, they were having a $1 flip-flop sale on Saturday only, and I wanted a pair to wear to the beach for the summer. We get out of the car, knowing that the [...]

Plague of Overconsumption

The other day I found myself racing to a local drugstore for a deal I just could not pass up. After working an eight hour day I shuffled through three lanes of traffic, over untold amounts of construction debris, raced from one redlight to the next, all to get to what appeared to be the [...]