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How To Haggle For A Bargain

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

If you like saving money, haggling for a better price should become a habit for you, a habit that can easily save you thousands of dollars over the next 10 years. So haggling for a better price was born out of necessity. Hopefully this advice can help you save some money as well and turn the art of haggling into a habit.

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Friday Links – Colder Than Mars Edition

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

SBB from Simple Budget Blog has a great post for all you renters out there: Renters Insurance: All the Pros, None of Cons. PET Archives : How To Haggle For A Bargain. Ben’s post from The Wealth Gospel is a must-read: How to Waste Time and Kill Productivity. Should You Save Or Invest Your Money?

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Learn to Negotiate Better Prices

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

Americans historically have not haggled for better prices on most items. To keep up we need to learn that negotiation (aka haggling) is acceptable, expected and useful. We need to practice haggling. It was humiliating to have to haggle. Start the Haggle. Subtly mimic the person with whom you are haggling.

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Friday Links – Too Swamped Edition

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

How to haggle for a bargain. These days, if you spend any time on most personal finance blogs, one of the author's main goals in life. 4 traits of successful people. Hope you have a great weekend. As December. Is Travelling Overrated?

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How To Recover From A Home Fire

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

Andi has a blog about her house burning to the ground in the Boulder wildfires of 2010 and it brings tears to my eyes. You may need to haggle with them over what was covered or not. How does a person extend empathy in these types of situation? I mailed a letter to them – hopefully they received it.

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Carnival of Personal Finance #384 – Time for a Laugh Edition

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

Each clip corresponds with one of the blog posts included this week. ” Robert from My Multiple Incomes presents 5 Tips on How to Be a Better Negotiator , and says, “Not every store and place allows haggling and negotiating on their prices, but trying to negotiate won’t hurt either.

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The Ultimate Guide to Saving Money with Vouchers and Coupons

Koupon Karen

Newsletters and Blogs Publications and niche bloggers distribute hand-selected, time-sensitive codes and coupons via email and websites catering to fervent deal hunting enthusiasts. Following #couponing hashtags surfaces unpublished deals. Subscribing fuels the savings habit. This expands future savings opportunities.