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5 Simple Steps To Save On Food Shopping

Published or updated December 11, 2014 by Glen Craig

Food Shopping

Ever go food shopping and think you need only a few items?

You do your shopping, thinking you didn’t buy much and then you get to the register.

The amounts on the register screen start piling up.

When your order total pops up you do a triple take saying “what?!?”

You’ve just spent way more than you wanted.  What’s worse is you get home and you don’t really have much food for meals.  Ends up you have a lot of snacks and such.

Ughh.

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Filed Under: Shopping Tagged With: save on food shopping, save on groceries

Join Amazon Student And Get Free Amazon Prime For One Year

Published or updated March 16, 2013 by Glen Craig

Do you shop Amazon?  Are you taking college classes?  If you answered yes two both then you may be eligible to sign up for Amazon Student!

Let’s look at what Amazon Student is all about:

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Filed Under: Shopping Tagged With: Amazon Student, college savings

Pay For Amazon Purchases With AmEx Membership Rewards Points

Published or updated March 25, 2013 by Glen Craig

MMembership Rewards Amazon

Do you shop at Amazon?  Do you have an American Express card that earns Membership Rewards points?  Great news!  Amazon now accepts AmEx Membership Rewards points as payment (for most items).

In order to use your Membership Rewards points on Amazon you need to register your American Express card with Amazon.  It’s a one-time registration and it’s real easy to do.
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Filed Under: Credit Cards, Shopping Tagged With: amex membership rewards, use rewards points on amazon

Peapod Review – Online Grocery Shopping Made Easy

Published or updated February 23, 2012 by Glen Craig

Locked Shopping Carts

Isn’t grocery shopping a huge time suck?

You pack the family in the car, go to the grocer and deal with the kids running around, stand on line, then drive back to unload groceries.  If you’re like me, odds are this is done on the weekend which is the closest you have to free time.

What’s the alternative?  Peapod.

Check out more in our Peapod review below.

Peapod is an online service (through Stop & Shop) that all allows you to shop online for your groceries. They put together your order and deliver it to you.  Simple and efficient.

Here are the basics of Peapod grocery shopping…

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Filed Under: Review, Shopping Tagged With: peapod grocery deliver review

What’s This Groupon I Keep Hearing About?

Published or updated March 16, 2013 by Glen Craig

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Maybe you’ve seen some ads on the web. Perhaps you heard about it on the local news.  I don’t know about you but I’ve been hearing about Groupon everywhere!

So what is this Groupon all about?!?

Groupon (group+coupon) is a site that offers up a daily deal on some of the best attractions, eateries, and shops in your area (well, in lots of areas so far).
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Filed Under: Frugal, Review, Saving, Shopping Tagged With: groupon daily deals, groupon review, saving with groupon

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