Comments on: Save Money by Doing Your (Financial) Chores

By: Best Debt Posts from the Carnival of Debt Reduction #107 at Clever Dude Personal Finance & Money

Wed, 03 Oct 2007 12:51:15 +0000

[...] And lastly, Saving Advice tells us how to save money by doing our financial chores. [...]

By: Fred333

Fred333 — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 19:15:05 +0000

I think the chores are a definite way to get ahead in the finical game. Just like anything in the finical world, discipline is the key to success.

By: 107th Carnival of Debt Reduction - New York Edition | Moolanomy

107th Carnival of Debt Reduction - New York Edition | Moolanomy — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 14:02:36 +0000

[...] Save Money by Doing Your (Financial) Chores posted at Saving Advice Blog [...]

By: Yap Wai Mei

Yap Wai Mei — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 05:41:17 +0000

Apart on saving money on handling financial chores, managing our financial are also crucial…

By: Jsahko

Jsahko — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 05:24:08 +0000

My wife and I use expired coupons all the time. The clerks scan them and sometimes notice that they’re out of date and just manually override it. I don’t think anyone’s ever challenged us or even cared. We have some that are really old. If my wife thinks they’re too old she rips off the expired date section (like it was cut out poorly) and they still always take them. This doesn’t seem to work with store-specific coupons though.

Cheap? Yes. But it saves us loads of money.

Still, the best time to use coupons is when they first come out. Frequently the companies will also have the item on sale in the store at the same time and you’ll get double savings.

By: Shadox

Shadox — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 17:04:49 +0000

Not only do companies count on people not claiming some rebates, they try to make claiming those rebates difficult on purpose.

They make you send receipts, “proof of purchase”, and hit certain submission dates. If you don’t fill out the rebates immediately and follow the exact instruction, forget about seeing your cash.

Generally speaking, I hate mail-in rebates and try to avoid buying products that offer them.

By: Stephanie

Stephanie — Sat, 29 Sep 2007 12:58:21 +0000

I don’t usually clip coupons, but I do sometimes get nice $10 off coupons from the Gap. I enter the due dates of the coupons into my google calendar, and have it email me a week before they expire. It’s a good reminder that if I was planning on buying something within the next few weeks, I should probably do it this week!

By: Ann

Ann — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 22:38:01 +0000

I’m glad you called them chores, Ugh! If only the basics weren’t so tedious! Thanks for the reminders. A good list to print and check yourself against periodically.