10/14/18 Newsletter: This Shopping App Saves You $$

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Spotlight

You can earn cash back on almost all of your purchases just by using an app. Ibotta’s free to download, and you can use it almost anywhere, including online. Plus, there’s no coupon-cutting or mail-in rebates to worry about.

The Deets: On the app, you can save any and all offers for items you plan to buy before you go shopping. Offers include money back on items like makeup, milk, eggs, bread, toilet paper, beer, boots, shampoo and more. Afterward, upload a picture of your receipt into the app. Ibotta will scan it for all of the items you saved earlier, calculating the total amount you earned in cash back. If you don’t want to scan a picture of your receipt, you can link a store loyalty card to your Ibotta account instead.

The Bottom Line: Once your balance hits $20, you can cash out via Venmo or PayPal and enjoy. Now that’s what we call savvy shopping. [Swirled]

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Health

Turning off those phone notifications could be the best thing you do for yourself today. A Carnegie Mellon University and Telefonica study suggests that using your smartphone sans notifications for a mere 24-hour period can noticeably improve your concentration, as well as reduce your stress levels. [Swirled]

Did You Know? A lot happens in your body when you cross your legs. When your leg goes numb after a while, your peroneal nerve is being pinched, and when your leg throbs, it means your blood pressure is spiking due to limited blood flow. Crossing your legs from time to time is harmless, but if you have blood pressure issues, refrain from doing so when you can. [Swirled]

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Career + Finance

Did You Know? If you’re low on cash, you can sell your clothes easily on a number of websites (that aren’t just eBay). Poshmark, for instance, is the perfect match for people who want to take control of their clothing sale experience. Users create listings, write descriptions, post pictures and set prices for their products on the app or website for potential buyers. [Swirled]

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Food + Drink

A jar of apple butter can go a long way. Add some to your grilled cheese sandwich to give it a fall spin or even use it to flavor carnitas tacos (we swear, it’s delicious). And when in doubt, douse your cinnamon rolls in apple butter for an especially cozy sweet treat. [Swirled]

Recipe Of The Day: Our creamy ricotta gnocchi recipe is foolproof. The gnocchi requires just a few simple ingredients, doesn’t use any special tools, and even includes an equally-easy brown butter sage sauce that will fill the void in your life that you didn’t even know you had. [Swirled]

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Travel

Salem, Massachusetts is calling for a spooky weekend venture this fall. The home of the infamous Salem Witch Trials has attractions based around that dark period in history, as well as reenactments of 1800s seances and ghost walking tours. [Swirled]

Deal Of The Day: Live like Grecian royalty by visiting a lava cave Airbnb in Santorini. Located in the heart of the island, the isolated cave apartment includes an indoor-outdoor jacuzzi (yep) for you and your BFF, and it’ll run you $289 per night. See ya there! [Swirled]

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