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Following are
some money-saving tips or suggestions that have been submitted
to us by singles. If you have good money-saving tips that you would like to share with other singles,
please contact us. Thank you.
Savings for
traveling
- Southwest
Airlines has a program that provides substantial
discounts to different destinations every day. Each day they
have special sale to different cities for certain flights
but the special discount is available only for a very
limited period of time (such as several hours, half a day or
one day). If you can catch the sale and the discount is
available for the flight that you want to take, you can
save a lot of money. For example, I purchased a ticket with
the special fare to travel from Portland to Sacramento on
May 30, 2008 for only $35 each way plus tax. The program is
called
DING
and you
need to download the
DING
webtool from Southwest Airlines' website, namely,
http://www.southwest.com.
Once you have downloaded the program, you can check the
specials that they have every day.
- Southwest
Airlines has a special frequently flyer program for college
students that allows them to get a free tickets very easily.
It normally takes 8 round trips within a 24-month period to
earn a free tickets. For college students
between the ages of 18 and 23,
it only requires
half
of
that, i.e., it takes only 4 round trips to earn a free
ticket. That's a really good deal! To qualify for this
special reduction in flight requirements, you must signed up
on the frequent flyer program, namely, Rapid Rewards, as a
college student (there is no fee) on the following website:
https://www.southwest.com/rrenroll/college
Savings for
gas
Savings for
restaurants
- There is a
website where you can purchase restaurant gift certificates
at a great discount. For example, for a $25 gift
certificate, you only pay $10. After you have purchased one
certificate, they periodically send you an email for special
promotions in which you pay $5 or $4 or somtimes even just $3 for a
$25 certificate. The website's address is
www.restaurant.com.
There is no fee for signing up the program. The list of
available restaurants is pretty good. They have restaurants
nationwide who participate in this program. Check it out.
The only catch is that most of the restaurants require you
to spend at least $35 to redeem the $25 gift certificate. So
you go as a family or as a group of several people, you
would not have any problems in satisfying the requirement.
- There is a coupon book called ENTERTAINMENT which
provides coupons for buy-one-get-one-free discounts at many
restaurants in many major cities. You can purchase them
online (http://www.entertainment.com)
or locally from many charity organizations who sell them to
raise funds. This coupon book also provides discounts for
many other things in addition to restaurants.
General Tips
for Savings
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