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Amazon Prime Price Increase: What You Need to Know
Image Credit: @rohane/Twenty20 It's been four years since the last price hike, but another was bound to happen: Amazon announced on Friday that its wildly popular Prime service is about to to
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U.S. Postal Service Releases Scratch-and-Sniff Stamps - A Nostalgic Trend?
Image Credit: @ccjohnson0711/Twenty20 The fancy name for stamp collecting is philately. In future years, this summer's hottest stamp might become the Beanie Baby of its time, not least becaus
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Digital Book Ownership: Do You Truly Own Your eBooks?
Image Credit: @doondevil/Twenty20 Ebooks and ereaders like the Nook and the Kindle were supposed to change the face of reading. The book industry braced for a sea change that never quite happened
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Sensory Grocery Shopping: How Retailers are Engaging All Five Senses
Image Credit: @heatherdeffense/Twenty20 Consider how your senses affect how you shop and where. A store with too much incense might chase you away, while a business with cool minimalist design mi
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Are Vitamins & Supplements Worth the Cost? A Critical Look
Image Credit: @LittleIvan/Twenty20 Snake-oil sales are as old as medicine itself. We're right to be skeptical of the health benefits promised by many pills, ointments, and yet we've been
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Chick-fil-A to Launch Meal Kits: Bringing Restaurant Favorites Home
Image Credit: @danny4win/Twenty20 It seems like the two concepts are fundamentally at cross purposes: Meal kits, like those offered by Blue Apron, are to make cooking easier, while restaurants le
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Apple Discontinues iPhones with Headphone Jacks: What's Next?
Image Credit: @nina_p_v/Twenty20 Last week, the end of an era passed quietly in the Mac Store. After the launch of this year's Apple product reveal, the technology giant removed the last iPho
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Birchbox Partners with Walgreens to Offer Beauty Products
Image Credit: @Elisall/Twenty20 For a while there, literally everyone had a subscription box. You could order cooking ingredients, dog toys, business clothes, weird merch for your favorite sports
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Sustainable Beer: Does Eco-Friendly Brewing Pay Off?
Image Credit: @daphneemarie/Twenty20 What's the most important thing you look for when you buy beer? Is it a punny name? A cool label? The fact that it's anything but an IPA? For some, in
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Battery-Free Devices: The Future of Internet Connectivity?
Image Credit: @anniejanssen/Twenty20 There's energy independence, and then there's forgoing energy altogether. Believe it or not, that could be the future of certain internet-connected de
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Vaping Alone Isn't Enough to Quit Smoking: New Research
Image Credit: @FraGalante/Twenty20 The eye-rolling comeback still holds true: We get it, you vape. And there are all kinds of reasons people turn to e-cigarettes, whether it's liking the flav
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Maximize Savings: A Guide to Smart Shopping & Best Sales Strategies
Image Credit: @maffophoto/Twenty20 It pays to be thrifty, especially when you can sniff out the best sales. Whether the discount is temporary or closeout, sales can help you nab that item you'
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In-App Gifting Arrives on iPhone: New Opportunities for App Developers
Image Credit: @5byseven/Twenty20 We live on our phones, and not just for the boring stuff. Games probably take up just as much space on your mobile device as productivity apps. Until now (at leas
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The Joy of Giving: Why Generosity Makes Us Happy
Image Credit: @nikmock/Twenty20 The end of the year comes with a lot of shopping stress for most of us. No matter which holidays we celebrate, it's likely that we're trying to coordinate
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Amazon Free Samples: Why Are You Receiving Unexpected Packages?
Image Credit: @jtobiason/Twenty20 We've all got different reasons for how we react to surprises in the mail. It could be a scam, or maybe a trap designed to glitter-bomb porch thieves, or a p
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Super Bowl 2019 Snack Trends: Healthy & Popular Options
Image Credit: @AmeliaJean/Twenty20 The Big Game 2019: It's coming up on Sunday, Feb. 3, and if you're a football fanatic (or just adjacent to one), you might celebrate with a party or two
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Daylight Saving Time & Consumer Spending: The Hidden Link
Image Credit: @Top.venom04/Twenty20 If you sprang forward over the weekend, you may still be muddling through the day, trying to remember whether you've changed your non-Internet of Things cl
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Sushi & Entomophagy: Why Sushi Lovers Might Embrace Insect Protein
Image Credit: @chuckflwrs/Twenty20 It really wasn't that long ago when sushi was a punchline, something that most Americans found weird and gross and more than a little snooty. Flash forward
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DirecTV Now Price Increase: What It Means for Cord-Cutters
Image Credit: @stoyanovska/Twenty20 Cable is out — no one wants it anymore. Cord-cutting is in — except now every TV and movie studio is creating its own streaming service, which doesn't save
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Unlock Savings: Secret Phrases for Better Deals Online
Image Credit: @kayasoleia/Twenty20 One universal pastime has to be the urge to browse online stores we can't necessarily afford. Imagine the rad wardrobes and decked-out homes that only exist
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Car Insurance for Teens: A Parent's Guide to Affordable CoverageTake (some of) the terror out of letting your teenager behind the wheel and figure out how to cover them in case of an accident. See car safety pictures. No two words can fill parents with mor...
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Unlock Your Potential: The Power of Ambition for SuccessWhat human traits predict career and life success? I’ve been curious about that question since I was 16. But at that age I didn’t think ambition was important.That was also the time I became int...
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Florida First Responder Stimulus: Potential $1,000 Relief ProgramTalk about a nice windfall. ...
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Charles Schwab & Fidelity: Hundreds of Commission-Free ETFs Now AvailableThe next salvo in the brokerage price war has been launched, with Charles Schwab and Fidelity Investments slashing completely the commissions they charge on hundreds of their exchange-traded funds.Th...