How To Be a CheapSkate:
Welcome to Cheapskate Shopping! We are professional cheapskates. We LOVE saving money, and we're GOOD at it! We have helped 1000's of people save tons of money. Being a professional cheapskate is not about just getting the best price. It's about taking advantage of all possible discounts, coupons, deals, etc. A professional takes it to the next level to save!
A Professional Cheapskate:
1) Always Pays with a Credit Card (why?)
2) Always Compares Prices (why?)
3) Always uses Coupons, Discounts, AND Free Money (why?)
A professional cheapskate gets the biggest bang for the buck. What's the use of saving money if it sucks up all your time. That's what we're all about. Helping you find FAST ways to save money. Have fun saving!
How To Become a Professional Cheapskate
Professional Cheapskate Tools
Shopping.com: Our favorite comparison shopping portal. Always check prices here first, then decide whether or not to purchase.
Credit Card Strategy: Best way to compare credit card offers and find huge savings. Remember, credit cards are "discount cards" when used correctly!
Grobux.com: Grobux is a free cashback shopping site. You get paid $5 to join. Plus, they give you cashback everytime you shop online or comlete an offer. Plus, they pay you to refer friends. Cool!
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TIP: Most pro cheapskates use Multiple credit cards to save more!
Get Free Money
A professional cheapskate loves free money, no matter the source. However, we hate scam artists who advertise something for free which is not. We try to be fair about what we promote. We have found quite a few easy ways to get free money.
Get Free Money With Free Trials
A professional cheapskate enjoys trying a free trial for a reward. Of course, the reward needs to be big enough to justify our time. Sometimes we enjoy the service and we continue to pay for it. Sometimes we don't. Either way, we keep the free money or gift for TRYING the freee trial.
Best Free Trials For Free Money
• Grobux Free $5: Grobux is awesome. It helps you save money by giving you cashback at over 800 stores. The best part is that they PAY YOU $5 just to join, and $3 for everyone you refer. Get paid money to save money? Cool!
• Free $40 Gas Card: Autovantage offers a Free $25 gas card. A prcheapskate favorite. Get a 30 day trial for a month and get $40 in free gas. Theres no obligation to contine your membership.
Get Free Money With Surveys
A professional cheapskate rule is to never pay money to make money. Unless, of course, you are paying less money than you are going to make.
There are many free money scams online that require you to sign up for offers that cost money, then never send you anything or don't allow you to complete the terms and condidions. We believe we found some good offers. Avoid all survey sites that charge a fee!
Best Survey/Deals Sites for Free Gas
• Grobux.com: Grobux is a free cashback shopping site. You get paid $5 to join. Plus, they give you cashback everytime you shop online or comlete an offer. Plus, they pay you to refer friends. Cool!
• Greenfield Surveys: This is a truly legitimate survey company. You won't get tons of money from them, but a few buck here and there helps out. Free to Join.
• $250 Gas Card: We don't run this program. We were able to get the $500 free card with about $80 in expenses. Make sure you follow all of the terms/conditions carefully. Use an alternative email address from your main one, in case you get spammed (we always use a separte email address for all of these types of deals)
Get a free email address from hotmail.com or yahoo.com. Please enter your email address and then closely evaluate the deals. You'll need to complete a total of 6 deals within 60 days to qualify for the card.
• $1000 Gas Card: We don't run this program. Same rules apply as for the $250 card. A total of 10 deals need to be completed. We spent $185 completing the deals. Please enter zip code first then read the requirements.
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Save $100's of Dollars in 15 Minutes
Many people are good at comparison shopping. They'll spend hours researching prices to save $10 on a computer. Yet, they waste $100's of dollars in other ways. A professional cheapskate loves saving money fast, even if it's something we don't like researching. Most people make the following mistakes:
- Never comparison shop for the best credit cards
- Compare insurances only when need a new policy
- Don't know their credit scores
- Don't earn enough interest in their bank accounts
If you're like most people, you probably never thought about these things. If you did, you said to yourself, "I have to do that someday." Make that day today! Use us as your excuse. We'll make the chore much more enjoyable with our research.
Many people have told us they save $100's of dollars with our advice. We recommend you start with the BIG items first, then move on to smaller items in the future. The big items are:
We have done the hard part, researching these topics. Now it's up to you to be a professional cheapskate. Start saving today. Especially insurance and credit cards. Several new insurance companies can probably BEAT your current insurance rate!
TIP: Most pro cheapskates KNOW their Credit Scores. Free!
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