Two of the sweetest words on the Internet are Promo and Code. Here’s how to make this web-shopping tool work for you.

SHOP SMART | If Santa didn’t have elves working furiously in his workshop, he’d be wise to buy all his gifts online.  No crowded malls, no parking traffic, no stress – in fact, if I didn’t know any better, he probably does this already.  And you probably do too. But did you know that besides saving time, you can also save money? All you need is a neat little thing called a promo code.

Chances are you’ve seen it before: that small box at the bottom of the checkout page where you can “enter promo code here”.  I burned through a lot of plastic before it occurred to me to figure out how to get one.  After all, you can find anything online, why not a promo code. Read more