My mom did this a few times after she retired. She and her husband would pack suitcases and go to the cruise ship terminal (they live about a hour north of Ft Lauderdale) and go to the check in lines to see if there were any cancellations or unsold cabins. They got some FABULOUS deals but there were times they just went home instead.
We save on our candy by watching for good deals and using coupons! We try to watch for sales for the costumes too! I like to buy decorations after Halloween to use to decorate next year!
I imagine this free shipping base rate will cause a lot of people, myself included to make the jump to Amazon Prime. They will get more money up front, from people joining AP, but it will cost them more when I order little things that I might ordinarily wait on, every week or so and have them delivered via 2-day.
I don't buy Halloween candy at all, as I am a single mom and go with my 10yr old daughter to trick or treat in my mom's or her friend's neighborhood, so no one is home. Plus, we live on a street with no sidewalks, so probably wouldn't get many trick-or-treaters anyway. We always re-use decorations every year, possibly buying a couple cheap ones each year, like the spider webbing that everyone hates untangling, LOL! My daughter's costume this year is an "80s" outfit - skirt purchased at Goodwill, and cheap t-shirt from Walmart with the shoulder cut out, and some ingenuity with makeup and hair.
You can not get a rental car without credit card. No company ever did this when I rented a car. Not sure about large deposits as described below... but I wouldn't want to fork over 500 Dollars, either.
I just canceled my Capital One secured credit card. I got in in January of 2012. So I had it for 22 months. Even after always paying on time ( I also never carried a balance over to the next month ), they still refused to convert it to a regular credit card. So I just canceled it. When I was starting out with credit in 2007, I got the BoA one. After one year, they converted it.
I just read that someone below lamented the same thing. Not sure if they do this intentionally so that you keep paying the fee.
I also hated the lack of benefits ( NOT rewards. I know those cards don't have any ). But I mean benefits such as purchase protection or rental car protection etc. I did not have any of that. At least Wells Fargo has the rental car protection.
Although I must admit I extensively used the card outside the country. So the no foreign transaction fee perk came in handy.
I'm trying to figure out which one to get now. Looks like Citibank is out of the question ( no branch anywhere near me ) and BoA is quite expensive for not having any benefits.
Another attempt to get consumers to spend more money to 'save' with free shipping. I've made purchases to meet the minimum just to get the free shipping, I may rethink that. Why buy things you don't truly need to meet the free shipping level, when the shipping fees alone may not even bring your total to the required $35.
When the kids were younger we'd make our own costumes like I did when we were kids(gypsy, bum, ghost,angel, etc,etc). Now that my kids are older we forgo trick or treating. The kids get a horror flick for $10 or under and choice of a candy bag at the store. We buy a second bag for trick or treaters. We usually come in under $20 for Halloween.
Hi! I'm writing an article for a feature writing class in college. The paper I'm writing now is about tipping procedure in restaurants and I need some professional perspectives on the matter. So as someone who has been a mystery shopper in restaurants...
How do you tip your server when you are mystery shopping?
What criteria do you base the tip on?
What makes someone a good server?
What's the worst experience with service you have ever had and how did you tip at the end?
It is fairly easy to save a lot of money on halloween costumes, especially if you have a lot of kids! All you have to do is get your creative mind kick started and keep it going for an hour. Thanks for sharing this post!
I like this advice. I do however think it is important to believe how you do whilst at High School in order to make sure you actually get the work done.
I make a point of only checking my email once a day and having a pretty simple to-do list and then just extend on what I have on that list. These tips are good advice and will help your work be much more efficient.
These are some great articles that you have shared. I was going to do nothing for Halloween this year due to lack of money but using these articles I think I could still make a lot out of it!
We don't have kids so we don't usually buy costumes, if we need to dress up for anything we've been creative and kept the cost pretty low. As for candy and decorating, I only decorate for autumn using the same decorations from last year (or anything I see on clearance after the "fall season" is over), not Halloween specifically, so everything is still out for Thanksgiving when we also may have people over. We don't decorate with pumpkins or anything that gets thrown out. Candy is bought on sale with a coupon if possible, and either hidden out of view if I saw a great deal ahead of time, or purchased right before Halloween so as to not eat it ourselves!
I use coupons when buying candy to hand out, and I make sure to get some that my husband and I both like so if we have any left it will get used up. We don't dress up, but we do spend on costumes for our dogs, and that's our only real splurge.
My mom did this a few times after she retired. She and her husband would pack suitcases and go to the cruise ship terminal (they live about a hour north of Ft Lauderdale) and go to the check in lines to see if there were any cancellations or unsold cabins. They got some FABULOUS deals but there were times they just went home instead.
Oops, I RSVPed twice!
We save on our candy by watching for good deals and using coupons! We try to watch for sales for the costumes too! I like to buy decorations after Halloween to use to decorate next year!
I imagine this free shipping base rate will cause a lot of people, myself included to make the jump to Amazon Prime. They will get more money up front, from people joining AP, but it will cost them more when I order little things that I might ordinarily wait on, every week or so and have them delivered via 2-day.
Great ideas to try. But did you really say toss the banana under headache remedies?
How about eating it instead of wasting it?
I don't buy Halloween candy at all, as I am a single mom and go with my 10yr old daughter to trick or treat in my mom's or her friend's neighborhood, so no one is home. Plus, we live on a street with no sidewalks, so probably wouldn't get many trick-or-treaters anyway. We always re-use decorations every year, possibly buying a couple cheap ones each year, like the spider webbing that everyone hates untangling, LOL! My daughter's costume this year is an "80s" outfit - skirt purchased at Goodwill, and cheap t-shirt from Walmart with the shoulder cut out, and some ingenuity with makeup and hair.
You can not get a rental car without credit card. No company ever did this when I rented a car. Not sure about large deposits as described below... but I wouldn't want to fork over 500 Dollars, either.
I just canceled my Capital One secured credit card. I got in in January of 2012. So I had it for 22 months. Even after always paying on time ( I also never carried a balance over to the next month ), they still refused to convert it to a regular credit card. So I just canceled it. When I was starting out with credit in 2007, I got the BoA one. After one year, they converted it.
I just read that someone below lamented the same thing. Not sure if they do this intentionally so that you keep paying the fee.
I also hated the lack of benefits ( NOT rewards. I know those cards don't have any ). But I mean benefits such as purchase protection or rental car protection etc. I did not have any of that. At least Wells Fargo has the rental car protection.
Although I must admit I extensively used the card outside the country. So the no foreign transaction fee perk came in handy.
I'm trying to figure out which one to get now. Looks like Citibank is out of the question ( no branch anywhere near me ) and BoA is quite expensive for not having any benefits.
I'll be surprised if they don't raise the price for Amazon Prime as well.
I buy halloween candy on sale, with coupons.
By not celebrating it! ;) No kids, don't eat candy, living in a sketchy neighborhood = few trick or treaters.
Thanks for mention the Wealthy Turtle. You're the best Ashley!
Another attempt to get consumers to spend more money to 'save' with free shipping. I've made purchases to meet the minimum just to get the free shipping, I may rethink that. Why buy things you don't truly need to meet the free shipping level, when the shipping fees alone may not even bring your total to the required $35.
When the kids were younger we'd make our own costumes like I did when we were kids(gypsy, bum, ghost,angel, etc,etc). Now that my kids are older we forgo trick or treating. The kids get a horror flick for $10 or under and choice of a candy bag at the store. We buy a second bag for trick or treaters. We usually come in under $20 for Halloween.
Won't be as likely to add items to meet the minimum now, but I probably need to shop less anyhow, so thank you Amazon!
Hi! I'm writing an article for a feature writing class in college. The paper I'm writing now is about tipping procedure in restaurants and I need some professional perspectives on the matter. So as someone who has been a mystery shopper in restaurants...
How do you tip your server when you are mystery shopping?
What criteria do you base the tip on?
What makes someone a good server?
What's the worst experience with service you have ever had and how did you tip at the end?
Thanks for your time!
Kira
Sad to hear this, but good to know. Thanks for sharing. I have Amazon Prime and love it!
It is fairly easy to save a lot of money on halloween costumes, especially if you have a lot of kids! All you have to do is get your creative mind kick started and keep it going for an hour. Thanks for sharing this post!
What does this mean for add on items where you need at least $25 of qualifying items to even have it shipped? They all still say $25.
Pretty! This was an incredibly wonderful post. Many thanks for supplying these details.
I like this advice. I do however think it is important to believe how you do whilst at High School in order to make sure you actually get the work done.
I make a point of only checking my email once a day and having a pretty simple to-do list and then just extend on what I have on that list. These tips are good advice and will help your work be much more efficient.
These are some great articles that you have shared. I was going to do nothing for Halloween this year due to lack of money but using these articles I think I could still make a lot out of it!
We don't have kids so we don't usually buy costumes, if we need to dress up for anything we've been creative and kept the cost pretty low. As for candy and decorating, I only decorate for autumn using the same decorations from last year (or anything I see on clearance after the "fall season" is over), not Halloween specifically, so everything is still out for Thanksgiving when we also may have people over. We don't decorate with pumpkins or anything that gets thrown out. Candy is bought on sale with a coupon if possible, and either hidden out of view if I saw a great deal ahead of time, or purchased right before Halloween so as to not eat it ourselves!
I use coupons when buying candy to hand out, and I make sure to get some that my husband and I both like so if we have any left it will get used up. We don't dress up, but we do spend on costumes for our dogs, and that's our only real splurge.