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Shop Sam’s Club Free: August 6-8 Posted: 05 Aug 2010 09:18 AM PDT This weekend, Sam’s Club is hosting an “open house” from Friday through Sunday where non-members can shop without paying the standard 10% service fee on purchases. Typically, when a non-member shops at a warehouse store, like Sam’s Club or Costco, there is a “service fee” tacked onto the purchase. This fee is waived for the weekend at Sam’s Club. If you’re lucky, this could coincide with a sales tax holiday like it does for my fair state of Maryland (Sunday). Membership at Sam’s Club starts at $35 a year and gets up to $100 for an Advantage Plus membership.
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Convert Purchases from Dollars into Time Posted: 05 Aug 2010 04:22 AM PDT One strategy that seems to work well for people looking to conquer bad spending habits is to convert purchases into hours of work. A $4 latte, the classic enemy of frugalists everywhere, doesn’t seem too expensive because it’s only four dollars. If you only earn minimum wage of $7.25 an hour, that’s nearly half an hour of work before you take taxes into consideration. Is a cup of coffee worth half an hour of your life? This is why the strategy works and here’s how you can start using it. If you don’t want to dig through tax returns, here’s another way. Take your take home pay and divide by the number of hours it covers. If you’re paid every two weeks, take your after-tax salary and divide by 80. That’s your earning power per hour and you can use it to decide how badly you want something. The pay check should say how many hours you’ve worked that pay period. Once you have that number, you can start converting all your spending into hours of work. Your rent or mortgage payment goes from a nebulous dollar amount into actual hours. $1,200 a month for rent and you earn $20 an hour? That’s 60 hours – a week and a half of work. Is that a lot? Is that a little? That depends entirely on you, but at least now you have something more concrete than numbers on a screen to compare it to. Do you do this? Do you think it works to help save you some money and curb your spending? (Photo: rafaelnc)
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