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Electronic gifts might be high on anyone’s shopping list, but is a bad economy forcing shoppers to look for cheaper, less safe products? Underwriters Laboratories puts Christmas gifts to the test. 

Will Amendinger’s selling Christmas spirit. Has been for almost 50 years. He knows trees. And he knows Christmas consumers.

Shoppers may be cutting back this year, but they are starting their holiday shopping early. The National Retail Federation reports 40.2 percent of consumers have already started their holiday shopping, in fact, they started before Halloween.  And everyone is looking to save, so here are a few tools to help you save.

If you or anyone you know wears make-up, chances are at some point you have tried Mary Kay.  With a sales force of close to two million people, it’s hard not to be familiar with the brand and it’s signature pink packaging. But the Texas-based company also like things a little green.

Think about what you wear.  Maybe 20% of your clothes about 80% of the time? We’ve found five ways to make your old unused clothes look fresh for fall.

Airlines are slashing rates, but experts say the deals might not last. 

Fidel Castro says Barack Obama is smarter and less warlike than John McCain, who he calls “old” and “uncultured.”

Brad Franko walks you through the step-by-step set up of your Digital Converter Box so that you can see digital tv.

Texas designer turns rags into riches with eco-friendly fashion.

Sales of new homes recorded an unexpected increase in September as median home prices dropped to the lowest level in four years.

What does it take for a song to make the campaign playlists of both the Democratic and Republican presidential tickets?

With Halloween just around the corner, the South Carolina Department of Consumer Affairs issued a warning parents and children about the sale of decorative/cosmetic lenses without a prescription. 

Vendors, artisans and garden experts are on the agenda this weekend during Autumn on the Ashley, a Lowcountry Horticultural Fair, at Magnolia Plantation and Gardens.

In these tough economic times do you know everything you can about all those credit cards in your wallet? 

“Average” students find free money for college

Neiman Marcus unveils its Christmas book amid the worst economic crisis.

A meltdown in confidence strangled Asian stock markets today on accelerating fears that the widening financial crisis could spawn a global recession.

Oil prices have fallen below $90 a barrel on worries that the spreading financial crisis will exacerbate a global economic slowdown and cut demand for crude oil.

Economists consider it a safe bet that a lot of banks are not going to survive over the next year despite Washington’s 700-billion-dollar bailout plan.

The idea of paying a single, simple fare to fly is rapidly becoming a thing of the past.