About Us
Spendster wants you to show us your stuff. Face it: you’ve made some lousy purchases. But don’t worry; you’re not the only one. Spendster recognizes that everyone has a junk drawer or garage full of stuff they never use or a spending habit they just can’t break. That’s why Spendster has created a safe haven for you to clear the air about what’s cluttering your life or draining your wallet.
How to Use This Site
- Upload a video showing us your Spendster side.
- Watch other Spendsters’ video confessions.
- Talk to Spendsters just like you by joining the conversation.
- Use the Spendster Calculator to find out what your money could’ve been worth had you not wasted it on something you didn’t need.
- Read the Litter Man blog, where you can learn how to turn around your Spendster ways.
- Check out Your Stuff. Add your most wasteful habit to our Top 10 list and mend your spend with helpful resources.
Spendster is a program developed by the National Endowment for Financial Education® (NEFE)®, an independent, nonprofit foundation committed to educating Americans on a broad range of financial topics and empowering them to make positive and sound decisions to reach their financial goals.
Read, watch, or contact us to learn more about Spendster.
What People Are Saying About Spendster
Minneapolis Star Tribune personal finance blogger Kara McGuire says “Spendster.org is a place where you can memorialize your big spending mistakes and then let them go. It seems perfectly appropriate to put your purchasing oopses in the past before the new year begins.” Read more.
NBC’s Today Show financial editor Jean Chatzky cited NEFE findings that 80 percent of Americans say they’ve made impulse purchases in the past year; and not only that, 66 percent of them regretted those impulse purchases. That’s quite a few Spendsters! Watch more.
Beth Kassab from the Orlando Sentinel says, “Kudos to NEFE for coming up with a fun way to hammer home a point we could all use a little nudging on. There’s nothing like a good look in the mirror to make us reconsider our bad spending ways.” Read more.
Eve Troeh from NPR’s Marketplace® says, “The stories [on Spendster] are all too relatable.” Read more.
MSN’s Everyday Money blog says, “It’s hard enough to earn, so when you’ve got some cash it makes no sense to fritter it away. If you want to feel a bit better about your situation, check out Spendster.” Read the full blog post here.
The Chicago Tribune calls Spendster a “lighthearted look at how we can learn from our mistakes.” Read more here.
Eileen AJ Connelly at The Associated Press says, “Whether it’s the $600 treadmill you bought on a credit card, then used as a really expensive clothes hanger, or that collection of pricey handbags you just had to have, Spendster.org is the place to bare your frivolous soul.” Read more here.
Ellen Breslau, editor of Woman’s Day, blogs: “It’s hilarious and somehow rejuvenating, getting you past the guilt of throwing money down the drain-not to mention comforting to see that you’re not the only person out there who’s ever had a lapse (or two) of judgment.” Read her full post at the Daily WD.
Cameron Huddleston, contributing editor at Kiplinger, says “You get sucked in because the videos are laugh-out-loud funny. But the stories on Spendster.org aren’t just entertaining. They make you evaluate your own spending decisions.” Read more at kiplinger.com.
Kim Komando at The Kim Komando Show wrote “Spendster wants you to come clean about your impulse purchases. On its site, you can confess to them.”
Karen Datko over at MSN Money acknowledges that “we all have our financial secrets, and some undoubtedly have to do with stupid things we bought. Now there’s a place to make a confession.”
Lifehacker invites readers to share their shopping horror stories “and repent for your consumer gluttony.” Check out the post on Lifehacker’s site.
Spendster’s Family of Resources
More about NEFE:
www.nefe.org
Helpful tips, articles, and info:
www.smartaboutmoney.org
Retirement planning resource:
www.myretirementpaycheck.org
High school financial planning program:
hsfpp.nefe.org
Resource for colleges and universities:
www.cashcourse.org
Financial planning in the community:
www.financialworkshopkits.org
