Maybe you aren't even thinking of buying a gas grill! But perhaps you should. According to Life Hacker, the first quarter is the best time to buy not only a gas grill but also an air conditioner. Of course, that makes sense as it is the off season for those summer season needed items.
The people behind the site - a great resource for lots of techie type and life style information - have pulled together a seasonal buying guide. They first published one last year, and this yea'rs is now ready. It's been pulled together from their research, comments from their readers and with additional information from the book, Buy Ketchup in May and Fly at Noon: A Guide to the Best Time to Buy This, Do That, and Go There, by Mark Di Vincenzo.
The buying guide is broken into what's best bought for each the four seasons as well as with additional specific items for each month, and reasons why that particular item is best purchased in that month. Some of the reasons are obvious, as chocolates are a better value after Valentines Day. Guess that makes sense! Luggage is the best value in March because it's halfway through the traveling seasons. Stores often have sales to move their inventory at that time.
One less obvious, at least to me, best time was when to buy a wedding dress. Life Hacker says that would be after November 15th, before the cutsey December engagement season starts.
They even get into the best tme to buy a house.
That would be during the second quarter and say this about it: "It's a tricky thing, house buying, but if you do it early enough to see how the house survived winter, but not at the height of warm-weather open house season, a good deal can be found."
Seems like a good time to get your saver's hat on, and make your buying plans fit the seasonal guide's recommendations. Maybe you'll be able to take advantage of the cruise deals they say are great in the month of April.
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