Pecuniarities

Favors for Nice Customers
Here are some examples of our experience in dealing with customers in our business where we, as a business, decided to do one of our customers a favor in return for niceness on their part.
Example #1
We have a customer who has ordered costumes from us for her Great Dane twice before. She [...]

As mentioned previously in Part 1 of this series, It’s Business But It’s Also Personal, no matter how professional a business tries to be, we sometimes can’t help but be affected by the people we deal with because we are human. When a customer is nice to us, we are nice in return. In many [...]

When I decided to do an article on how being nice can save you money based on my own experiences in business and customer service (both as receiver and provider), I had intended it to be a single post. But the end result was over 2,100 words, and I figured the chance that even one [...]

While going through my piles of unopened mail (mostly bills) the other day, I decided I’d had enough and finally took the plunge into the world of Paperless Billing and Statements. Even though I’ve been fully online - shopping, selling, socializing, banking and bill paying - for years now, for some reason, I’d always felt [...]

Welcome to the The Old Money Edition of the Money Hacks Carnival! If this is your first time here, please have a look around and consider subscribing to our RSS feed. Be sure to also check out Festival of Frugality No. 139: The Michael Phelps Edition which was hosted here yesterday for more [...]

A few days ago, I came across a thread on a forum where a member wrote about something dishonest she had done in order to save money. This individual was cleaning out her kitchen pantry and came across some jars of pasta sauce that she had gotten in a Buy One Get One Free sale [...]