We pay a premium when we're rushed, disorganized or careless. Here are ways to avoid the little bites that add up to big money.
By Liz Pulliam Weston
It happens to the most frugal among us: a moment’s inattention, a second’s lapse and “D’oh!” You’re slapped with some stupid, totally unnecessary expense -- and you’ve no one to blame but yourself.
A parking ticket. Library fines. Late fees for those movies you never watched.
May Choi-Steele of Jamaica, N.Y., has a whole list of these niggling little --and not so little -- expenses, including buying, then forgetting, new clothes for her fast-growing kids.
“By the time I put it on them, they'd outgrown it!” lamented Choi-Steele, mother of two children, ages 3 and 4. “And I ripped off the price tag!”
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