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The Best Store Return Policy and Refund Policies – Extended Holiday Returns

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Last Updated: 12/3/2025

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Stores Hate Returns

Let's face it, any store wants you to keep what you buy and never return it.  Returns are costly to process, restock, and ship. Consumers need the option of returning an item, or else they would purchase far less products. Read the full post…

How to Switch From AT&T to T-Mobile

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Why to consider switching from ATT to T-Mobile:

  • You want have $800 or less in payments on your phone
  • You want unlocked phones
  • Better coverage
  • T-Mobile has Unlimited text, 5GB of high-speed data in 215+ countries & destinations in many plans
  • T-Life promotions
  • T-Satellite option
  • Netflix™ Standard with ads ON US
  • Apple TV+ ON US
  • Lower Prices

T-Mobile has a page outling how to switch carriers. You can get up to $800 per line when switching, paying off most phones. Read the full post…

Top Ten Gluten-Free Friendly Fast Food Chains in America

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18 Restaurants That Will Give FREE Food

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Do you love free food? We obviously do. Do you love walking through Costco and getting samples of all sorts of tasty morsels? We never say no and you probably don’t either.

The point is, we all love free stuff, and you’ve just found the best resource to score free food.

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What is an Unlocked iPhone – Smartphone? Why do I need one?

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Last Update: 7/1/2025

What is an Unlocked iPhone?

When you buy a phone from a cellular carrier, the phone has a piece of software that “locks” your phone into the carrier’s network, preventing you from switching to a different network. It does this by preventing you from swapping out the SIM card or adding new eSIM profiles, which are like key cards that give you access to a carrier’s network.

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The Insider’s Shopping Guide to Black Friday Deals and Sales

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Last update: 7/1/2025

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Ahh, Black Friday...that delirious, manic shopping frenzy the day after Thanksgiving, and now the entire week! Black Friday marks the kickoff of the holiday buying season and retailers offer deep discounts to coax our credit cards from our wallets and purses.

Covid-19 Pandemic’s Effect on Black Friday

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The Insider’s Guide to Cyber Monday Deals

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Last Update: 7/1/2025

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The best time of the year to purchase many items is approaching rapidly. The holiday shopping season starts off at Thanksgiving and continues to Christmas. Between those two holidays, you will find two major shopping days, Black Friday and Cyber Monday.

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The Truth about Black Friday Sales

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Last Update: 6/1/2025

The truth about Black Friday? Black Friday has morphed into Black November, and retailers - both traditional and online, begin running their Black Friday deals on November 1st. That’s right - as soon as you finally hit the bed after a fright filled night of collecting candy from your neighbors, retailers are gearing up to relieve you of your holiday shopping budgets. With dilution of the term Black Friday, the best sales are saved for the day itself.

Be sure to look at our Black Friday Ad Scans and Deals Page

Covid-19 Pandemic’s Effect on Black Friday

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Credit Freeze – Block Thieves, Protect your Credit with a Security Freeze

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Last Update: 9/21/2018

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In September 2017, Equifax got hacked affecting 143 Million customers. (Almost everyone!) Equifax is offering complimentary identity theft protection.

As you probably know, security breaches at retail companies, banks, and even government agencies have been making their way to headlines rather frequently within the past few years.  At this point, if you are not concerned about identity fraud, you should be. Just this past week, Americans found out that an attack on the Office of Personnel Management had impacted 14 million more people than initially reported.

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Twelve Ways to Save on Gas

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Gas prices have been rising constantly for months now, for a variety of reasons. For one, the pandemic has led to major supply issues in many parts of the economy. Gas prices have suffered from almost a 50% increase in the past year. Additionally, the recent war between Russia and Ukraine has sent oil prices up, with gas prices following. Below are twelve tips on how you can improve your fuel economy, and save more money overall.  We actually came up with more than 12, but who is counting!

  • Use gas finding apps to discover the lowest gas prices

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