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5 Ways Flexibility Can Cut Travel Costs
When it comes to bargains, it pays to play it cool. High maintenance travelers can be as finicky as they want while on vacation, but that approach won't get you the cheapest trip while in planning mode. Think flexibility when organizing a vacation, and the deals will come to you.
Back to Basics: Achieve Your Goals With These Calculators
Sure, we'd all love to snap our fingers and achieve our financial goals. But successfully paying down credit card debt and saving money can only happen if you go in with a plan, and a realistic one at that.
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6 Saving Suggestions to Consider This Weekend
If you spent the week carefully monitoring your spending and trying to be productive and efficient, don't play clueless on the weekend and blow all your efforts with a Saturday spending spree. Consider these smart saving tips before you whip out your wallet.
Find the Tastiest, Cheapest Food While Traveling Anywhere
Exploring new cities means exploring new food, and it's a glorious part of traveling. A limited budget doesn't mean your options are equally constrained, it just means you need to know where to look for cheap and delicious eats.
Money magazine has some helpful, universal tips for anyone who's hungry in a strange place and doesn't want to spend a fortune.
7 Small Ways to Save Big When You Eat Out
People are definitely eating differently thanks to the recession. But cutting food costs doesn't mean you still can't enjoy eating out. Tough times for consumers means empty tables at restaurants — and to fill them, restaurants are making menu changes and slashing prices, or offering discounts.
5 Things You Should Consider Renting
Friends and neighbors can be helpful when you need to borrow something, but asking to use an expensive possession is much different than requesting a cup of sugar. Aside from avoiding stepping on questionable boundaries, renting certain items can be smarter than buying if its cost-per-use ratio isn't favorable to your budget. Your money might be better spent by renting these five things instead of purchasing them.
Four Ways to Get In-the-Black
Halloween is a good time to focus on getting back in-the-black, and thankfully there are a few simple tricks that will help you treat yourself to a more stable financial life — even with the spendy holidays around the corner. After you've seen them all, tell me, which tip do you think is most helpful?
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Reader Tip: Tracking Your Budget Is Boring, But It Works
We each develop a unique saving style over the years, which is why we started the How Do You Save? group for you to divulge your winning tactics. It offers a place for you to dole out your advice to other SavvySugar readers trying to save a little moolah and learn from their experiences.
I'm Asking: What Are Your Savvy Halloween Tips?
It seems there are a couple of key trends for Halloween this year — thanks to Twilight, True Blood, and TV's other vampy dramas, vampires are hot this season. But, another major trend just may be savvy Halloween spending. While Halloween last year seemed an ideal opportunity to escape economic woes, a year later — and a year wiser — more people are practicing smarter spending when it comes to celebrating Halloween traditions.
10 Time-of-Day Discounts, From A.M to P.M
Timing is everything. Money saving opportunities can be found all day long — if you arrive at the right time. Consumer Reports tapped its secret shoppers for intel on timely bargains and shared the tips in the magazine's July issue.
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