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Saving Money with Internet Shopping Deals

It’s about time again to talk a little about saving money; not the “let’s put more into the bank savings account“, savings, but everyday savings in buying “stuff”. Now “stuff ” doesn’t just mean toys, although there’s a lot of toys in our stuff. I mean for stuff we shop for every day.

I would bet that in today’s economy a lot of people are internet shopping. I’d bet they’re also looking for internet shopping deals. One type of shopping many people are not aware of is internet cash back shopping.

Not the credit card cash back, but cash back from the stores they’re doing their shopping in, through the website portal at which they’re doing the shopping.  They’re shopping at the same stores they usually shop in; big stores, like Target, Office Depot and Home Depot.  There’s several ways of saving big-time from these types of sites:

• Free to join – not like a shopping club
• Great prices from each store
• Coupons from many of the stores
• A percentage of their total, as a cash back
• By using a cash-back credit card
• By sharing their experience with other people and leading them to shop at the site.
  • The “referrer” then gets a percentage of cash back, above and beyond what the other person gets

A web portal actually does exist like that, and it’s called “GreenBackStreet.com”.  I’m sure there are other web shopping portals, but this is one I have known about and have been using for quite while now. By the way, I do get, as stated above,  a percentage of cash back, above and beyond what the other person gets. Is it self-serving? Maybe, but if it’s helping someone save money? And that person also gets a percentage of cash back, above and beyond what the person they referred to the site gets. (After all that, I’m glad there’s copy and paste.)!

Anyway, click here on greenbackstreet, and check it out. Let me know what you think.

George

So – What Business Got Better

The government just got finished with a bailout for a whole bunch (a technical term) of big banks and car companies. They gave them hundreds of billions of dollars, (a whole bunch), so they could become solvent and start lending money and selling cars again.

Now they’re back and asking fora whole bunch more money. And from what’s in the media none of them are solvent yet and it looks like they could still file for bankruptcy. I can’t see where any of them got better.

I do know one thing though, it was all done “For the children“. And for their children and probably their children after that. At least the taxes they’ll pay, to pay back the all the “money out of nowhere”, the government spent.

That’s our Change, and we Hope there’ s a way other than taxes on the back of our children, to pay for it all.

As the title asks and I’ll ask again, “What business got better”, that we spent hundreds of billions on?