Comments on: American Express Charge Card Flip Video Camera Holiday Giveaway

By: Ryan

Ryan — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 00:04:11 +0000

Thanks for the comments, everyone! The winners have been selected and notified via e-mail.

By: Bridget Farrington

Bridget Farrington — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 04:58:06 +0000

“What is the savviest way you have made your money work harder for you this holiday season?”

For me it was Saving all our visa point rewards and using them for gift cards, I also did lots of surveys n saved up. Then I bargin hunted online. Save money on gas n got free shippin n some great deals. Then I also made baked goods n handmade stuff for bosses n peeps that I know who liked hand made stuff!

By: RC@Thinkyourwaytowealth

RC@Thinkyourwaytowealth — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 04:37:29 +0000

My wife and I made it a point to plan ahead this year, and by doing most of our shopping in advance, prior to Thanksgiving even, it allowed us to avoid getting caught up in the mad rush of holiday spending and stick to our planned budget. It has also made the week before Christmas a lot more relaxed!

By: Jamie

Jamie — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 04:26:14 +0000

I use reward sites like Swagbucks to earn Amazon gift cards to purchase holiday presents. I’m able to purchase to gifts at little or no cost out of pocket to me!

By: MBAbriefs

MBAbriefs — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 20:00:40 +0000

The savviest way I made my money work harder for me this holiday season was to have the kids give homemade and personalized gifts for friends and family and to have everyone spend more time doing volunteer work and helping elderly neighbors. I want the kids to understand Christmas is way too commercialized and isn’t supposed to be all about expensive gifts, and homemade baked goods and arts and crafts type presents make great gifts too.

By: MLR

MLR — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 18:14:54 +0000

My Xmas strategy goes as follows:

1) Make a list in Excel of what I want to get everyone and list the MSRP price next to it. (A month or so ahead of time)
2) Set up price alerts with Price Grabber to alert me when anything drops below 50% off. You’d be amazed how often this happens.
3) Frequent Slickdeals.net to see if anything I want to get has a crazy sale going on. The forums are full of deals where people will stack coupons and special promotions to get the product very cheap and even free sometimes!
4) Sign up for an Amazon Prime trial. This entitles me to FREE 2 day shipping on all Amazon purchases. A lot of deals I find are through Amazon, so no shipping is a great deal.
5) If I have family / friends I won’t be seeing until after Xmas anyways, I don’t stress. Hopefully some after holiday sales will pop up

Last year I beat my Xmas budget by about 70% (I budget @ MSRP of all the gifts I want). I’ll usually donate half my savings, still falling well within my budget.

By: Theo

Theo — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 18:13:52 +0000

I took advantage of Bing CashBack to save 15% off purchases from eBay.

One purchase was a $500 Target gift card for a total price of $412.25 – over 17% off! Not only that, eBay has their own reward program called eBay Bucks which gives another 2% back.

I shop Target anyway so spending a few minutes online buying gift cards makes my money go further.

By: Evolution Of Wealth

Evolution Of Wealth — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 18:09:10 +0000

I think my best financial decision is participating whole life insurance.

My best economic decision this holiday season is arguably my boycott of gift cards. I’ll explain this on my Monday blog post.