Living Social is a Groupon style site offering daily deals. Today's is pretty sweet, a $20 Amazon Gift Card for only $10. Just register and purchase for a gift card to add to your Amazon account.
I love both Groupon and Living Social. In fact, I'm using them so much that I'm thinking of adding a category to our household budget called "Deals," so I don't have to shuffle money around when I want to take advantage of them. What would Dave say?
There are a couple of ways to look at it. First, if it's a food or entertainment expense just take it from its respected category. Sometimes that isn't feasible because great deals you may not have specifically budgeted for present themselves. When I'm hitting the Target clearance and find 75% off whatever, I will take that from our "Blow Money" envelope. Having a specially designated envelope just for acquiring deals is great if you have the flexibility in your budget. The problem lies when the deals require to be purchased with a debit card. Instead of making a physical envelope of cash for deals, you could have your cyber envelope for deals, making sure you account for every dollar spent.
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I love both Groupon and Living Social. In fact, I'm using them so much that I'm thinking of adding a category to our household budget called "Deals," so I don't have to shuffle money around when I want to take advantage of them. What would Dave say?
There are a couple of ways to look at it. First, if it's a food or entertainment expense just take it from its respected category. Sometimes that isn't feasible because great deals you may not have specifically budgeted for present themselves. When I'm hitting the Target clearance and find 75% off whatever, I will take that from our "Blow Money" envelope. Having a specially designated envelope just for acquiring deals is great if you have the flexibility in your budget. The problem lies when the deals require to be purchased with a debit card. Instead of making a physical envelope of cash for deals, you could have your cyber envelope for deals, making sure you account for every dollar spent.
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