I have always wanted
to start a magazine like
the one I just found. Even have thought
about doing
a newsletter with
the finds
that I come across.
This magazine has everything that
I would include
and a few extras..
The magazine is Arthur
Frommer's' Smart
Shopping and you
can also go to www.smartshoppingmag.com.
They have an area
in the magazine where people write
in about ways to save money, places they've
found and other advice.
Now one of the letters was saying that there aren't
a lot of places online that
are easily
found and I
want to
put this letter to its resting place. Here are
a few that I frequent; The Frugal Shopper, Frugal Families, and finally FreeLanceByU.
Now with the last one, the lady that owns this
site has
been features
in several articles
plus on TV. I have found
a lot of great deals like last year I found out that on a particular day IHop was
giving away free
pancake breakfast. I also found out
about a special that was
unadvertised that McDonalds had.
Now if you have
some sort of medical need and you have an
EBay account then look in the section
for medical supplies. I am a diabetic and
for awhile was on the insulin
pump. Supplies can be quite expensive but I found a bunch of them on
EBay and saved over 60% of my money. Now if you are selling on EBay then look at Surplus.net
or liquidation.com. A lot of
these stores that
sell closeouts are finding
their product on these 2 sites.
If you
want a great deal on a computer
or an accessory then visit
ComputerGeeks.com. They are mainly a wholesale company but sell retail
through the site I just gave you. If you
resell software on EBay then look at nothingbutsoftware.com. Now if you have an
email address then you need to sign up for GoogleAlerts. I have done this on 'saving money', 'frugal living',' Frugal shopping' and a few other terms.
Here's a great money
saving tip for any site owner who to get listed on Yahoo without have to pay a few hundred dollars.
Get a Yahoo account and on your site have RSS and have your site
added to you Yahoo page. This will get Yahoo to crawl your
site. This sites
main page has a page rank of 4 but
yet I
never paid for any submission
service. I think a lot has to do with the techniques I used to get crawled
by the
Search engines.. Another way is to do manual submission on the main directory sites. DMOZ is the directory that a lot of the search engines use and you can be listed just by suggesting your site.
Now some things about saving money are just common sense, like tonight my wife was
talking about how
she has until the end of the
month to renew the tags on our Jeep but the DMV requires a
legal Birth Certificate. Because she doesn't have this and has waited
so long about trying to get one that we now have to pay so much extra for expedited service. Normally we would be looking at a cost of
only about
$12 but now
it's going to cost us about $40 because of the
rush. Common
sense tells us that we should have
either had a copy in a safe place or requested another one several months ago.
Jeffrey
Solochek is the Purple
Cow of todays writers always adding his own
unique wit and humor to
everything. http://www.nosugarcoating.info