Special guest here with us who
clearly brought the credit card.
How are you doing, Mark?
And what have you bought?
I'm trying to find what else I can buy.
I think I bought it all.
Well, wait, you haven't got my list yet.
I told you, right,
because we're talking.
We have you here because we're talking
holiday shopping in ways that you
don't have to break your budget and
ways that you can actually make money.
But I know you wanted to get
out here and buy some gifts.
Two quick things. I mean, lavender,
I found this out this morning.
Dear repellent,
you can put it around your garden.
No way around it. That's right.
It comes in white.
And pink as well.
And they use it in the mummification process.
That's how long lavender has been
used. Learn something new.
I like, just like that you show up,
like with all the facts, right?
Like give us some facts too on.
Because I feel like people are
thinking I want to buy things.
But I mean, the economy is,
you know, and I don't want to
break the bank this holiday season.
You know what?
If I can save you 50 bucks, 200 bucks,
500 bucks, I want to do that.
So here's a few ways.
So the first one,
there's a a website calledsmartypig.com.
It's actually government owned by Sallie Mae.
They'll pay you.
3.1% maybe a little bit late this year
because you can set up to come out
of your checking account each month,
but if you'll make a deposit in it,
you can also go to retailers and buy
and get 20 to 30% off through that
through that savings account that they have.
So that's pretty,
that's a pretty good one,
a little bit late this year,
but the other ones may
save you a little bit more.
Now there is one that I you told
me about the last time on the show
and I do want to like remind people
again because I have gotten more
coupon codes from RetailMeNot,
RetailMeNot is amazing.
I went on last night just
to check it for the story.
Leaders has 40% off right now on RetailMeNot.
So literally they've got like 250,000
stores you can get live coupon codes.
I mean they've got Lowe's 35% off,
Home Depot 35% off.
Women's fragrance is 50% off.
I hope she's not watching socking supper.
I know you got some stuff for her
today, Jennifer. Don't worry.
Can saving seriously good ten.
I saw as much as 70% off on RetailMeNot
talk about like, gift cards,
because I feel like a lot of
times we give gift cards to
people or I get them and mark,
I forget about them.
I don't use them at all.
The industry loves gift cards because
most people forget about them.
So if you're not going to use this,
Aunt Sally gives you one to Home
Depot and you're not a builder,
go to giftcardrescue.com or
raise like raise your hand.com.
Those are the two best
they'll give you up to.
90% fifty to 90%.
But as a consumer,
I can go on and I can buy these gift
cards for 7580 sixty cents on the dollar,
depending on how popular retail is.
So literally,
it's free money you get paid to shop.
Refutation. Braccus tan. Yes.
Tell me, what is that like? Well,
I see that a lot and people talking about,
but I don't know what it is. It used
to be called ebates.com,
but here's the deal.
They get paid a Commission.
If you go to their site and then
click on another site or click on it,
something to buy,
they'll split that Commission with you.
They've paid over $2 billion back
to US consumers over the last
several years because you can
make anywhere from 4 to 25% back,
depending on the Commission they get.
But it's Rockies RACQ.
I'm sorry,
RAKU. TEN. Looking at my CHEAT SHEET here.
But it's a good site. And literally
they'll split Commission with you.
So you get paid to shop. See,
we we need you to tell us how to save
money and make money this holiday.
And you know we talked about last time,
make a list. Here's my other thing.
If you make a list and you know you're
gonna buy a lot at Walmart or Target
or Amazon and you know you're gonna
spend that money there, go ahead.
And I hate to say go in debt.
I'm not telling you to do that.
But if you get that card,
they may give you 10 to 15%
off your purchase and they'll
give you 5% back on the card.
In cash and credit it back against
your purchases, right.
So again, you're making 5% on money
you're gonna be sending anyway,
plus you get 20% off.
So let's be careful this year
the recession come in,
prices are up depending on how
much you send for Christmas,
that's 50 to couple 100 bucks.
It goes to the gas tank.
Even looking like into next year,
we could have, you know,
a couple more rate hikes on the way.
I mean there's just things we need
to kind of buckle down the end
of the day. Healthy impulse purchases.
Stick to your list RetailMeNot.
Get those coupon codes and get
that money back. There you go.
Alright, I'm giving you my list
now. What I want here. Very nice,
very nice. And I like lots of
gifts from little mount laughter.
So don't worry, I've already bought a
bunch. What the heck? If you want to
get in contact with Mark,
we have a phone number and a
website there on your screen
where you can reach out to him.