Froogle Spending

micamica When looking over your investments, do you ever wonder how the value of the companies you’ve put your money in is determined? What factors decide how well a company is really doing? What’s the source of the company’s financing? Will it meet or exceed this quarter’s projections? While some consider the stock market to be [...]

Get Rich Slowly keeps humming along! Thanks to your participation, it was another great month around here, with a lot of interesting discussions. I’ve managed to collate most of the results from the recent reader survey, by the way, and will share them with you in a few days. Meanwhile, here are some of the [...]

I recently had the privilege of meeting Suze Orman (@suzeormanshow on Twitter) for an hour long meeting that turned into 3 hours. First, the answers to your burning questions: Does Suze always wear fabulous jackets in real life? Yes, yes she does. [...]

The $0.50/1 Dole canned fruit coupon is back! Go here to print it (or here in IE). Use your browser’s back button to print it twice. If your store doubles $0.50 coupons, this should make for free canned fruit when coupled with a sale. I used this coupon last time it was available to get [...]

The winner of the year’s supply of Kraft Macaroni and Cheese is: Charlotte (kandccruse@) And the winners of the five gift bags from Frito-Lay are: Dela Prado (butterfligrl072@)Deb S. (dart1stein@)Kathryn M. (themcclains7@)Lindsay (ltcheng@)Mindy (bigmelw@) Details on claiming your prizes have been emailed to you. If you failed to receive this email, please contact me.—————————— Are you giving something away on [...]

The fifth episode focuses on talking to parents about money and their estate planning as they get older. Along the way, I mention my own challenges in figuring out how to handle this as my parents age. Total time: 16:25. Listen In! Other options for enjoying The Simple Dollar Podcast include: Listen to this episode on [...]

Megan just emailed me to say she had gone to her CVS this morning to pick up milk since it was on sale for $1.99. She bought three gallons and when she checked out, she received $3 ECBs for buying the milk. There is an Oreos and milk ECB deal running this week so it [...]

If you have an eye appointment soon and you wear contact lenses, you can sign up for a free trial pair of Focus Dailies. Just click on the link above and answer a few questions and you’ll then be able to print a certificate for a free trial pair. More free trial pairs of contact lenses [...]

I’ve mentioned this coupon before, but it’s still available so I wanted to mention it again for those of you who haven’t had a chance to print it. Go here and click on “Free Sample” and you’ll be able to print out a coupon (use your browser’s back button to print it twice) for a [...]

Have you heard of Wateroos before? They are kid’s juice-box-type drinks only they are all-natural fruit-flavored purified water. As a mom, I was especially excited to learn that they do not contain any artificial anything. If you’ve not tried these before, this week is the time to do so because you can get 4 6-packs [...]

It’s another great week for bargains at Target! Thanks to Mercedes for her help with compiling these: *****WEEKLY DEALS***** Buy 5 selected Keebler or Sunshine products, Get a $5 Target gift card. Items are reported to be priced around $2.49-$2.89. If you still have the $1/1 Keebler Pecan Sandies coupons which were available on Coupons.com a [...]

Go here to get a free sample of Tide Total Care plus a coupon for $1.50/1 off Tide Stain Release or $1/1 Tide to Go. (Thanks, ChaChing on a Shoestring!) More freebies: Free sample of Drinkables liquid supplements Free furniture polishing cloths (Thanks, Deb!) Free Calcia trial kit If you’ve recently adopted a pet, you can get a month [...]

About a week ago, I challenged my followers on Twitter to give me their best single piece of money advice in ten words or less. I was flooded with responses. After spending quite a bit of time sifting through them, here are the fifty best pieces of advice that came my way (out of well over a [...]

Go here to see the deals and freebies at Menards this week.

Next week, there will be a money-making deal on Post Trail Mix Crunch cereal at CVS if you have the $2/1 coupons here. Since it’s rare that you land a money-making deal on cereal and since the deals at CVS have been a little dry recently, I’m guessing this will be hot item. So, [...]