Robo Form

Daily Tip:
If you like to enter contests and get free stuff it can be time consuming entering your contact info over and over again on all the different web sites. I have been using a great free program called Robo Form. You download the toolbar to your browser and once you put in your info it saves it. All you have to do is hit a button and will fill in all your info on whatever web site you are on. This is great if you buy a lot online too. If you want it will even save your credit card number, but I don’t do that. The basic Robo Form is free, but if you want extra features you’ll have to pay. http://www.roboform.com/download.html


So, I went back to Old Navy. It was totally worth it! Yesterday, I bought a bunch of stuff and then later that day I got an email for 30% off. I couldn’t believe, so I thought I’d try and see if they would honor it and let me return the stuff and buy it again with the 30% off. It was super easy, no arguing, no nothing. I got the 30% off and ended up saving another $37. If you want the email, let me know I can forward it to you. It expires tomorrow night.

We bought season tickets for the University of Texas football games. We thought we go to a few games and sell the rest. It’s very hard to get tickets to the football games so we thought this would be a great way to go to the games and maybe make a little bit of money. I think we paid $1500 for 4 seats for 7 home games. The face value of the tickets ranged from $60-$90 depending on the game. We went to a few games and the ones we couldn’t go to we sold the tickets to our friends at face value (which let’s us make a little money since they give a little discount when buying season tickets). There is one game left. It’s a big one against Texas A&M (major rival). We can’t go to that one because it is over Thanksgiving and figured we could make some good money selling the tickets. The face value is $90/ticket. I put them on Craigslist and got quite a few responses. I met a lady today who bought 2 tickets for $300. We made $60/ticket so far. I have someone else who is interested in the other 2 at the same price. Let’s hope it works out.

Wholesale Clubs

Daily tip:

Getting the most out of warehouse/wholesale clubs.

The best things to buy at warehouse clubs such as Sams, BJ’s, and Costco:

• Alchohol
• Milk, butter, eggs
• Electronics
• Meat
• Prescription medication

The worst things to buy:

• Designer clothes
• Frozen foods
• Paper goods
• Gas
• Items that won’t get fully used
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Here’s the link to the article http://articles.moneycentral.msn.com/SavingandDebt/SaveMoney/5-best-and-worst-costco-deals.aspx?page=2

Today I had a successful shopping trip. Old Navy is having a sale on winter coats. My son needed one and we got a nice one for 30% off.

We needed to buy some toys for birthday presents so we headed over to Kohls. Most of their toys are 30-40% off. In addition to that I had a coupon so we got an additional 15% off.

The only bad thing is just now I checked my email and I got a coupon for 30% off at Old Navy. I wonder if I can go in there and get them to give me the discount on the stuff I bought today. Is it worth the effort? I’ll think about it.