Overspend, Overspend-Me-Not
A recent Businessweek.com story mentioned a coupon site I had never heard of before that turns out to be unusually good: RetailMeNot . Enter the name of an online store where you're planning to do some shopping and it'll give you a coupon code, if available.
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I figured the site would have coupons for all of the common e-tailers--Amazon and such. But while placing an order for custom water bottles for an upcoming event, I decided on a whim to enter the name of the little-known company I was using. I assumed it would be a complete waste of 15 seconds of my life, but was amazed to find a coupon code available. It didn't save me much--about $3--but that's not bad for 15 seconds of work.
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Managing Money by The Book
- "Therefore everyone who hears these words of mine and puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house on the rock. The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house; yet it did not fall, because it had its foundation on the rock." - Matthew 7:24-25
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