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    Holiday Shopping

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    Best deal-hunting apps

    • Honey — auto-applies coupon codes at checkout. Free.
    • Capital One Shopping — price compare across stores.
    • Camelcamelcamel — Amazon price history. Reveals fake "sales".
    • Slickdeals — set alerts for "TV under $400".
    • Rakuten — cash back at 3,500+ stores.
    • RetailMeNot — coupon code database.

    Best buying days

    • Black Friday (Nov) — TVs, electronics, appliances.
    • Cyber Monday (Nov) — online deals, smaller items.
    • Prime Day (July) — Amazon-specific.
    • Memorial Day — mattresses, furniture.
    • Labor Day — appliances.
    • President's Day — winter clothing.
    • End-of-month — cars (sales quotas).

    Avoid scams during holidays

    • Fake "Amazon order confirmation" emails surge in November-December.
    • Sketchy "deal of the day" sites = often scams.
    • Use credit cards (chargeback protection) NOT debit.
    • Don't click email links — go to retailer's site directly.
    • Beware "package delivery problem" texts — usually phishing.
    • If deal seems too good — it's fake. Stick to known retailers.

    Senior shopping tip

    Make a "to buy" list in November. Add things to Slickdeals/Camelcamelcamel alerts. Wait for actual Black Friday — many "early Black Friday" deals are fake. Deals 25-Nov to 2-Dec are real ones.