Now that Spendster is starting to take off, we’ve found mentions around the web with people writing what they think about it. Here are a few reviews and mentions from finance bloggers with a penchant for penny pinching.
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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.
TJ Smith at downturnliving.com says, “It’s (Spendster) a great slap in the head when I feel the spending bug trying to come on. Worked like gangbusters.” Read the full review at downturnliving.com.
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 wrote “Spendster wants you to come clean about your impulse purchases. On its site, you can confess to them.” Read the full review at www.komando.com.
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.” Read the full review, and more, at MSN Money.
Lifehacker invites readers to share their shopping horror stories “and repent for your consumer gluttony.” Check out the post on Lifehacker’s site.
“These video confessionals are fun to watch (I would never buy that) until you realize just how much junk you probably have in your own life,” writes J.D. See the full review at Get Rich Slowly.
Mrs. Accountability at OutOfDebtAgain.com can relate to being a Spendster. She writes, “I have a terrible habit of buying something on sale or clearance as a birthday present, then forgetting about it, or forgetting where I put it.” Read the rest of her review, and more of her True Confessions, at OutOfDebtAgain.
Moneyclipped.com’s Nivek understands that for those less interested in finances than himself, financial education can be “a boring and dry subject.” He adds that Spendster is an entertaining and easy to use outlet for sharing spending mistakes, noting that “the video interface is very slick and makes it easy to upload your own confessions” and “add comments on other people’s submissions.” Read the rest of his review at moneyclipped.com.
Over at Moolah Blog, Tony Tovar feels that Spendster emphasizes a sense of unity and provides a place to just be human. “Through today’s economic hardships, it seems that Spendster.org has stirred something big with this viable and necessary method of educating the masses of their spending behaviors!” Check out the rest of Tony’s review, and much more, at moolahblog.com.
James and Miel, a.k.a. The DINKs, know that we’ve all made a shopping blunder or two, but that “Spendster has done a good job of making these mistakes fun.” They highlight the video section as “one of the best parts of this site.” Read what else they had to say at dinksfinances.com.
Personal finance writer Bob Lotich says Spendster is an “interesting idea – you tell them (in a variety of ways) what you have wasted money on.” View his review of Spendster in his Random Stuff post.
Debtkid.com writes that, “Spendster.org is a place to share videos and stories about the stupid purchases we’ve all made.” Read his entire review and more, on Debtkid.
Tightfistedmiser.com notes that, “I do agree with their (Spendster.org) philosophy of discouraging unnecessary purchases and educating consumers on their own personal financial needs and capabilities.” Read the rest at TightFistedMiser.
Read other sites that have linked to Spendster:
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