Category Archives: Saving Money

How to Use the Prepared List!

After just a few trips to the store, your list becomes a functioning piece of consumer shopping intelligence. Every time you go to the store, you have more information about prices. This creates a continually updating and improving price list. … Continue reading

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The Advanced List – Preparation

A good list like a good plan requires focus, planning, testing and revisions. You have years of experience shopping, and you can use that to your advantage. Wal-Mart may have selling experts on staff, but you are a buying expert. … Continue reading

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Advanced Lists for Specific Stores

This article is the next part in the series on Controlling Cash Flows: Maximizing your Savings when Shopping. In the last article we discussed the overall situation of using advanced lists to compete with major retailers. We now start to … Continue reading

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Maximizing Savings While Shopping

This article continues the series on Controlling Cash Flows and sets up the simple theory and practices you can utilize to compete head to head with entire corporate sales teams run by retailers like Wal-mart to entice you to spend … Continue reading

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How to Avoid Maxing Your Credit Line-Part 2

Controlling Cash Outflows Series Today we pick up where we left off yesterday running down ways that you can avoid maxing out your credit card. To revisit the First part of this series see How to Avoid Maxing Your Credit … Continue reading

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How to Avoid Maxing Your Credit Line-Part 1

Yesterday, we discussed our intent to help people learn how to control their Cash Outflows. There is no genie in the bottle of the Credit Cave that will fix all of your problems however we will now start to empower you to tackle or prevent credit issues.

As a credit card holder or borrower you never ever want to Max out your credit, your credit lines and not even a single credit card. Continue reading

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Controlling Cash Outflows Series

We typically have a limited capability to increase our cash inflows unless your boss is a push over and will give you a bonus on demand!

Our Cash Outflows are usually much more flexible. This week we will look at ways to improve our ability to control Cash Outflows to our maximum advantage! Continue reading

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Spend so that you can save

Sounds a little convoluted but that’s exactly what banks are helping their customers do. Spending done via credit and debit cards are linked to a savings component. For example, American Express offers a credit card where one percent of the … Continue reading

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The PayPal Benefit to Savings and More Interest

Learn how to get Cash Back, avoid interest charges on your small purchases, and earn interest on your savings at a high rate of return! Continue reading

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Let this be the season of intelligent credit card spending

Christmas season is increasingly being looked upon as an excuse to shop and its spirit as a festival is perhaps on the wane. These are the views of F&C Asset Management. 72 Point Limited undertook research for F&C Asset Management … Continue reading

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