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By: Carnival Of Personal Finance #118: Fun Money Facts Edition

Carnival Of Personal Finance #118: Fun Money Facts Edition — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 15:24:04 +0000

[...] Save Money by Returning Items by Mike @ Four Pillars. A couple of months ago I did some more exploring in the basement and found more returnable items and got another credit for $137 at Home Depot. [...]

By: FourPillars

FourPillars — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 01:49:53 +0000

Jennifer, I know a few habitual shopper/returners – sounds you might be one of them

Mike

By: Jennifer

Jennifer — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 00:10:31 +0000

I completely agree! I have often written about this in my blog but I think this is the first post I have read by someone else. I actually plan on my schedule to “do returns” every other Monday. And I always have something to return! (This is my secret weapon against Buyer’s Remorse – article included in this weeks Carnival also!)

By: Brian Poncelet

Brian Poncelet — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 18:01:23 +0000

Good point! A better point is have a wife who keeps receipts! Before I was married (12+ years ago) I was the worst!
Things would break down about 3 weeks after I bought the thing! Now no problem thanks to my wife (yes I know I am bad)

regards,

Brian

By: Mr. Cheap

Mr. Cheap — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 17:46:00 +0000

Good advice! I always bought more than I needed when I was doing work on the condo, then made a big trip at the end to return stuff everywhere, definitely saved me having to run back and forth over the whole job.

I actually did this with a bunch of books I’d been given as gifts (and expect to read from the library), I took them to Chapters and got credit for them.

By: FourPillars

FourPillars — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 15:19:44 +0000

Wooly – the worst thing that can happen if you try to return something is they say no…

By: Wooly Woman

Wooly Woman — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 15:16:34 +0000

I am terrible at returning items. I know I should return them and then there they sit and then I think the time has gone past when I can return it. How amazing you got back so much money though! I need to get motivated to return items…

By: telly

telly — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 15:05:57 +0000

Thanks for the reminder. I have a CO dectector in my desk that needs to go back to Lowe’s.

Besides the fact that they tend to be much cheaper than Home Depot in Canada, they have a great return policy. If you return an item that was purchased with a credit card, they swipe that CC and credit the card…no receipt required!

By: MillionDollarJourney

MillionDollarJourney — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 13:03:05 +0000

Mike,

I agree, i’m a big fan of returning items. Especially @ hardware stores. That reminds me, I have to return some lighting that I purchased recently.