With the holiday shopping season upon us, online stores will start to see an increase in sales and people like us will see a decrease in the depth of our wallets!  If you’re like most people, you probably dread the holiday shopping- and not because you don’t want to get your family and friends nice things, but just because the expense of doing so takes a toll on your budget!

In addition to shopping the sales, both online and off; (and shopping places with free shipping if you’re having it delivered) there is another way to save some money on your holiday shopping (actually, on your anytime shopping but you’ll probably see the most benefits when you are buying a lot in a short period of time- like around the holidays!)

Fatwallet.com has a variety of ways to help frugal shoppers like us!  Some deals are provided in the form of coupon codes, so when you check-out, you simply enter the code and receive the advertised discount.  Some of the deals are special discounts on select items; or free shipping.

One of the greatest features of Fat Wallet is that you are getting deals and discounts from the stores you’re already shopping, like Target, Kmart, Walmart, Circuit City, Dell, and more!  So you grab your discount codes or special discount links from Fatwallet.com; and then go about your normal online shopping experience with your favorite retailers.

Unique to Fat Wallet is their cash back sales.  These allow you to participate in one of the advertised deals, and even earn cash back on the purchases you make at select merchants.  Fat Wallet has worked out deals with 125 retailers.  They earn commission for all the referrals they send to the retailers through their site, and Fat Wallet shares their commissions to the people making purchases in the form of cash back!  Average cash back amounts are 2 to 5%; but I saw a few as high as 19 and 20% cash back.

If you’ve got a shopping list of things to buy for friends and family, you may as well start with Fat Wallet and give yourself the opportunity to save some money, get free shipping, or earn cash back at the same time.  With a little research and planning, the money you save could be enough to get yourself the gift you wished someone had gotten for you but didn’t!

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