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The Top 10 Best Christmas Holiday Deal Websites. Want to go beyond those everyone-knows-about-them websites the regular news reports on? Here are the real places to get hot deals this Christmas, and all year round.
How to Save Money
There are a lot of how to save money articles going around these days. I guess that is what people think about during tougher economic times. I stumbled across a pretty great one today. SooperCard For those of you not from one of the mountain states, King Soopers is a grocery store. The chain is owned by Kroger whom you may know better. Anyway, way back in the day, just like all the other grocery stores, King Soopers started a shopper card program where you got savings by using your card. The card is called a SooperCard. Now, like a lot of other people, I gave them fake information when I signed up because I was suspicious and didn’t want them selling my name or tracking how many Pop-Tarts I buy. Several years later, I’m a financial professional and much more astute on how the world of business works, and I now know that at best I was being naive. After all, the three credit bureaus gladly sell not only your name and address, but your credit score (not the exact score, but you can buy a list of people with over a 700, for example) and how you use …
Credit Card Rewards Catalog
One of the toughest things about comparing all the different rewards credit cards out there is that the credit card companies aren’t very good about showing you what your points can buy until AFTER you sign up. Go ahead, try and find the rewards catalog for a reward credit card without logging into the site. Most reward programs sound the same. Earn 1 point for every $1 you spend with some specials here and there thrown in to maybe give you more points at grocery stores, gas stations or elsewhere. The catch though is that it doesn’t matter how many points you earn, what matters is what you can get with those points. Remember Chuck e Cheese and Showbiz Pizza? 10,000 tickets gets you an 8″ stuffed animal. What do 10,000 points get you from your credit card? Less than two years ago I used 40,000 points on my Capital One Miles Reward card to get $400 worth of gift certificates to Baby’s R Us. I pretty much furnished the nursery for free. It was a great deal. I logged in at Christmas time this year (2007) looking to do the same for a pregnant friend. Imagine my shock when …