shopping

A quirky doormat brought out the best in one man during a recent package delivery.

Here are a few personal tips I use to help me survive each Walmart trip.

Twelve bucks for a jumbo-sized bag of Halloween candy? Scary. The next thing we know we've spent fifty bucks or more planning for trick-or-treaters, and let's be honest, because we want to hold back a stash for ourselves. It happens. Save yourself some stress, and shop these stores for the lowest Halloween candy prices.

If you really want a new fancy new tablet or iPad, take your driver's license with you to buy it. Texas has a new law that kicks in next January, that will allow a store to decline your credit card purchase if you forget your ID.

There is something you actually use everyday up for grabs from businesses in Lufkin and Nacogdoches. Visit Lufkin-Nacogdoches Seize the Deal website and check out the items in the auction still waiting for opening bids.

With a few big retail stores closing sites in Lufkin, it creates new opportunity to make use of that space.  If you made the rules, what would you put in the empty Lufkin Mall spots?

If you bought a 40-inch flat screen TV over the Thanksgiving shopping weekend, you matched most East Texas shoppers. Each of us spent a little under $300 over the Black Friday weekend, but that's only a third of what our holiday shopping total will be.

If you're planning to burn some Thanksgiving calories by shopping, these stores will open up to you on Thursday night. Others will wait until Black Friday morning.

I found this while I was out running errands this week. Somebody apparently polished off a chicken wing and left the bone in the shopping cart. What in the world?!  I have so many questions for this person.  Like, where are the rest of the wings?  No one can eat just one.

Some of the big sale items are obvious right now.  As the weather gets a little bit cooler and fall finally arrives, prices drop on lawn mowers and patio furniture.  But there are some other hidden deals that you might want to take advantage of.

There's a secret to choosing the right checkout line to get in and out of the grocery store quickly, and it's not what you think.  Sometimes getting behind that lady with the full and overflowing cart can be the fastest.  Let me explain.

If you're like me, weekends include a trip to H-E-B to stock up. Good news...If you came home with an SUV full of a mix of name-brand things and generics, you probably did it right. There are some things we should buy generic and some things we shouldn't, and there's a key to telling the difference.