Book Reviews and Money Saving Tips

Rebates are a pain particularly if you don’t redeem them.    Statistics range widely on the number of rebates that remain unclaimed, anywhere from 38% to 68%.    Those statistics are exactly why the vendors use rebates instead of price reductions.    Their fondest hope is that the rebate will provide you with the incentive to buy and that you will never claim the rebate.    For vendors it is a win/win, they get a sale and don’t have to shell out the cash for the rebate.    If you make a purchase involving rebates you must force yourself to be responsible and claim your money.    If you don’t you are falling prey to a retailing trick and you only have yourself to blame.    Here is a link to a site that has the 10 most common excuses why rebates are not submitted.

I occasionally write a paid blog. It may be on something as strange as maternity clothes or police type shoes. You write a blog, put in a link and get paid for your trouble. Some really popular blogs with big followings can reap some serious money doing this. I am not in that category but wish I was. I have never written a paid blog that I didn’t believe what I was writing. For example the maternity clothes post sent those who clicked the link to a site that offered some very stylish and reasonably priced maternity clothes. I despair sometimes at how depressed the pregnant woman sometimes gets in regards to self image. My motivation for blogging was that everybody is happier if the expectant mother is happy. The impending Mom, the husband and anyone else in the family is happier if Mom is happy. Clothes can help the self image and if you have never been pregnant or married to someone pregnant or loved someone who is pregnant, you need to understand; sometimes they need help to feel goo...

For those of us who find allergies plaguing us year round, let alone you fortunate few who only suffer in the spring or fall there is some relief. No, pollen has not been abandon but I have found a major savings on my allergy meds. I’m sure any of you who actually pay your own bills have been totally outraged at the price of allergy medication. Even with medical insurance, allergy meds cost bundles of money. Imagine my surprise when I discovered, you can get otc (over the counter) meds from AMAZON . Right, who would have thought to buy their allergy meds from Amazon. I know I didn’t think of it. Ever since Zyrtec went over the counter, I have been using it with great success. (BTW, this is not medical advice and is merely my personal opinion, I have no idea if it will help you.) Anyway, Zyrtec is one of my weapons against sniffling, sneezing, wheezing, coughing, snorting and headaches. When generic Zyrtec (Cetirizine Hydrochloride) became available I shifted over and found no negatives...