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  • Ask the Readers: What is Your Favorite Thing About Fall?   10 years 39 weeks ago

    I love the changing leaf colors an the cooler temperatures!

  • Effortless Ways to Make Money Online That Don't Require Skills   10 years 39 weeks ago

    Great one Rebecca, AS usual.

    This is the perfect elixir for anyone who ever has the intention to make money online.

    thanks once again, Rebecca.

  • Fiverr is Giving Away $500 to Wise Bread Readers!   10 years 39 weeks ago

    Awesome prize

  • Never Order Fish on Mondays and 7 Other Bad Days to Buy Stuff   10 years 39 weeks ago

    IKEA on weekends. It's a mess of screaming children writhing over everything, packed to the rafters. Long, long lines for EVERYTHING: kitchen planning, appliances, the restaurant, getting items in the warehouse area, checking out. A nightmare.

    Take a day off work, go around 11am on a weekday. By the time you wend your way through to the restaurant, it's lunch time. Have lunch, then go through the marketplace and warehouse and check out. By then it's about 2.30, so you have the rest of the afternoon to drive home and put together your haul.

  • 5 Little Known Amazon Shopping Hacks   10 years 40 weeks ago

    I learned something new and valuable. Great tips. Thanks!!

  • Ask the Readers: What is Your Favorite Thing About Fall?   10 years 40 weeks ago

    Curling up with a good book, a cozy blanket, and a cup of hot chocolate.

  • Ask the Readers: What is Your Favorite Thing About Fall?   10 years 40 weeks ago

    The air smells crisp and clean.

  • You’re Fired! 20 Signs That a Pink Slip is Coming   10 years 40 weeks ago

    I was smart to quit my old job when I did, because I had 13/20 of those. Now, I no longer regret quitting and taking a lesser paying job. That and my old job was a hell-hole.

  • The 10 Best Couponing Apps   10 years 40 weeks ago

    Our favorites are coupons.com, cartwheel and Ibotta. Plus it is not necessarily an app to give you money back from shopping but WE love the CVS APP!! You can sign up for beauty rewards and track your coupons and spending on easy friendly app. Plus, the other day for some reason the cashier had a hard time understanding my phone number and I just pulled out my phone and in the CVS App it stores your card for you. Simple!

  • How to Answer 23 of the Most Common Interview Questions   10 years 40 weeks ago

    #21 Answer= Of course I'd put the company first . If I'm hired, doing what's best for the company is doing what's best for my future. I am looking for long term employment and making the company top priority ensures the future of myself and the company I am working for.

  • 13 Dumb Little Purchases You Need to Stop Making Today   10 years 40 weeks ago

    Delivery fees for the larger Pizza franchises state that the delivery fee does not go to the delivery driver (in very small print, mind you). Everything you said about covering the cost of higher priced gas and ingredients over the years is true and that's why it's there. However, instead of adding the cost to their product's price individually, they try to sneak it in the final bill thinking you'll deal with it since you've gone through the trouble of making your order already. Also, many people who call or order online don't even know it doesn't go to the driver already because they didn't bother to look into it further. So, basically, it's just higher cost of pizza while footing the bill to those that don't come pick up the pizza themselves. Not only is this insulting, it actually causes people to tip less because of it being added in the end. The delivery drivers are ultimately being screwed by their own employee. For one pizza chain in particular, this wouldn't be the first time they've screwed their employees. *cough cough I love it when you call me big PAPA" *cough.

  • Ask the Readers: What is Your Favorite Thing About Fall?   10 years 40 weeks ago

    my fav thing about fall is the cooler weather

  • 12 Side Jobs for Stay-at-Home Moms and Dads   10 years 40 weeks ago

    These are great ideas for making money from home but many appeal more to women (shopping, beauty, crafts, etc.) than men. I've got a great home biz guys really might like. No parties, no inventory, no meetings. KnoMii virtual business cards are a great way to make money! All I do is text my biz card and my contacts see my biz card and can sign up right on the stop. SO EASY! The easiest biz I've ever had.

  • 8 Reasons to Stay Calm When the Market Tanks   10 years 40 weeks ago

    I used the market pullbacks since mid August to add to many ETF positions and acquire some short-term stock positions. The greatest advantage of having an emergency fund that has more than 6 months of savings allows me to tap some when we have extreme volatility and make purchases. Then as things bounce around I refill that fund and see my returns quickly.

    Calling the US economy healthy is a questionable area at the moment. We are still showing great signs of health, but the FED is also getting into a sticky situation with when to raise rates and how much. They have lost ammunition like they had in 07 and are no where near getting it back. Yes unemployment is low, but underemployment is high and the labor force continues to shrink creating artificial perspective to unemployment.

  • Fiverr is Giving Away $500 to Wise Bread Readers!   10 years 40 weeks ago

    Oh No. Nigerians can't participate

  • Ask the Readers: What is Your Favorite Thing About Fall?   10 years 40 weeks ago

    I love the weather, cool and clear! Perfect for hiking, camping, and bonfires.

  • The 10 Best Monthly Subscription Box Services   10 years 40 weeks ago

    Re Stitch Fix, this is not necessarily a monthly service. You can schedule a "fix" to be delivered automatically each month OR you can schedule them manually. The $20 styling fee is not a monthly charge--you only pay when you receive a box.

    I don't know if the other services have similar set-ups, where you can schedule deliveries on your own schedule instead of monthly/automatically.

  • Save $100s Next Month With These 10 Grocery Shopping Tips   10 years 40 weeks ago

    Yes, pack a lunch, good tip!
    Here's a few more:
    1. Hang laundry outside to dry.
    2. Get an online checkbook that lets you pay your bills online for free. I save around $75 in postage and envelopes.
    3. Use bankrate to find the best rates on savings accounts, cds and loans.
    4. Use rebates and coupons on groceries, I print mine at refundsweepers or you can find others by using google.
    5. Ditch newspapers and read the news online.

  • The 10 Best Couponing Apps   10 years 40 weeks ago

    I love the Ibotta app. The company partners with certain stores' rewards clubs. If that's the case, you just register your card number and Ibotta knows what you bought. No receipts to photograph or barcodes to scan. It's very quick.

  • The 10 Best Couponing Apps   10 years 40 weeks ago

    I have given up on Ibotta, you have to watch videos for some items to unlock them. I have tried over and over to do so and my phone would freeze. I deleted it and added it again and still would do the same thing. Savingstar doesn't make you jump through oops to unlock items and I have made more money through them even though they have less items than Ibotta.

  • Fiverr is Giving Away $500 to Wise Bread Readers!   10 years 40 weeks ago

    love to win

  • Ask the Readers: What is Your Favorite Thing About Fall?   10 years 40 weeks ago

    What I love most about fall is the beautiful colors as the leaves change! I also love the cooler weather and being able to have the windows open! Love that fresh air!

  • 10 Tips for Landing the Perfect House-Sitting Gig   10 years 40 weeks ago

    Hi Richard,

    My wife and I (59 & 58 years old) decided to try house and pet sitting in March this year and honestly, we have found being a bit older is a real advantage. It's much harder for the youngsters as many have little experience of pets, or of home/garden maintenance. We run an online gift store: http://www.giftcityuk.com and homeowners like the fact we are at home working on the website/business most of the day while they are away, as the pets get plenty of attention.

    We started applying and it went crazy with 8 bookings of up to a month in length between March and September. In fact, we are now back in the first house sit we did in March, looking after a beautiful converted mill in Cornwall, with 5 acres of gardens, 3 mills ponds, a kitchen garden, productive orchard, 7 chickens, 15 ducks, 4 geese and a Pointer puppy who is now 8 months old (9/10 weeks old first time round). It's a mile walk to the beach on a public footpath and we're here for all of September. Life doesn't get much better than this!

    Amazingly, we are already booked up right through to the end of July next year, apart from the odd week here and there. We've loved every minute of it and cannot recommend it highly enough. Looking to the future, we'd like to pick up some longer term house and pet sitting assignments so as to get more settled in an area and have now developed our own website: http:www.housesittingandpetsitting.com in the hope it helps us achieve this.

    Good luck if you do go for it!

  • 10 Surprising Things You Can Rent   10 years 40 weeks ago

    Another great rent-a-paparazzi service I've found is: http://famousforaday.co/index.html

  • Ask the Readers: What is Your Favorite Thing About Fall?   10 years 40 weeks ago

    I am a huge fan of the beauty of fall - the changing colors, the dropping temperatures and how could I forget all the awesome fall festivals!!!