Tuesday, February 3, 2015

Three Apps That Will Help You Save Money



There are literally thousands of apps available for download (and a lot of them are free!) on smartphones or tablets.  A lot of them help us do a lot of useful things, like pass the time beating every level of Angry Birds or dominating your friends in Words With Friends.  As fun as apps like that are, there are quite a few other apps that can do something even more powerful…they can help you save money!  Here are three types of apps* that you need to check out -

1.  Retailer’s Apps – Instead of keeping all those junk emails with coupons, or actually using scissors to physically cut coupons out keep them all at the swipe of your finger!  So many retailers have their own app that will let you select your main location and will even push coupons to your phone and notify you when they are available and when they are about to expire so you don’t miss out on any savings!

2.  Gift Card Apps – I can’t count the times that I have been searching through my wallet or purse looking for that gift card I just KNOW I have in there somewhere to finally give up and end up paying with cash or credit because there’s a line behind me.  Save the room in your wallet and stop missing out on gift card balances by keeping them in your phone!  The app holds the balance, so even if you break or lose your phone (gasp!) you won’t miss out on the money you had left on the gift card because it’s stored in the app!

3.  Honor MobileApp (last but certainly not least!) – Gone are the days when you could only access your account inside your local credit union branch.  Honor’s gone mobile, and a lot of other financial institutions have to!  Having your account at your fingertips via your smart phone or tablet will allow you to keep better tabs on your account balance and your spending.  Plus, through Honor’s app, you have access to features that the website doesn’t offer – like mobile deposit that lets you deposit checks without having to come into the branch!  New features are on the way, too like P2P and Apple Pay!


Honor's Kaylee stopped in to chat with 97.5 Y-Country's Wild Bill about her favorite apps to help you save money in this week's Mason Jar Monday!



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