Once again, Walletpop's personal style expert, Holly Getty, tells you to go shopping, wisely:

"Are you still shopping at the same stores you did a year ago? Still wearing the same designers? Well, it's time to upgrade.

"Stores are dropping prices so quickly, they practically hit your feet. Now is the time to shop the designers and stores you have always wanted to shop.

"You see, there are two type of shoppers at this moment in time. One is in fear mode: Purchasing more of what they have in their wardrobes, buying larger quantities, not seeing what's around them.

Welcome to Five Super Savings brought to you by Deal Seeking Mom. Each week I bring you the best grocery and health and beauty bargains around town.

You won't want to miss the savings this week:

1) It's only July 2, but companies are gearing up for back to school already! Register for your Nabisco Back To School Savings. You'll get (2) $20 rebates and $15 in coupons on Nabisco, Planters, Capri Sun and more.

2) Do you enjoy trying new product samples? Then you'll want to join the Kraft First Taste program to receive free product coupons and samples for their latest products.

Today we want to tell you about a new problem sweeping the nation, it's not the swine flu and it's not an addiction to Twilight books but something far more dangerous; IOS.

What is this?

Information Overload Syndrome is a condition affecting business people everywhere. It is, apprently, the result of trying to manage 281 Exabytes (that's eighteen zeros) of non-stop information that comes in form of emails, attachments, text messages, thought-starters and FYIs. As a result, sufferers of IOS will find accomplishing the simplest of everyday tasks nearly impossible.

The problem we are facing is that the human brain can only hold so much information in a logical order at any given time, leaving many important things, like your credit card's due date, to slip into the ether.

Avoiding Information Overload Syndrome won't be easy but the folks at Xerox want to give one WalletPop reader a chance to kick start their fight against IOS with a $400 Spafinder gift certificate. How do you get this? You watch the video below and leave a comment to be entered for the sweepstakes. We'll take entries from July 1 until July 27. See below for rules.

This is a round-up of the most popular finance links from Tip'd, the social media site for finance, in the past week. This week's stories includes the run-down on Cash for Clunkers and powerful tips to improve your life.

Cash for Clunkers Explained (25 Tips)
An explanation of The Consumer Assistance to Recycle and Save Program, more commonly known as the Cash For Clunkers Bill. Looks at what qualifies as a trade in and what you have to purchase to get the vouchers. Read what people are saying about it.

Powerful Ways to Improve Your Life (24 Tips)
Today I thought I'd step outside of the purely financial realm and talk a bit about self-improvement. While many of the following thoughts can improve your finances, they have the potential to have a much broader impact on your life. Check out the comments.

Do You Keep Money Secrets From Your Spouse? (23 Tips)
Do you keep money secrets from your spouse? What is your motivation? Here are some reasons why you might be and some better reasons why you shouldn't keep money secrets. Read what people are saying about it.

How To Save On Your Property Tax (22 Tips)
If you received higher property tax bill, here are a few steps to help you lower it. Read what people are saying about it.

Should There Be Mandatory Personal Finance Classes In High School Or Junior High? (22 Tips)
What do you think? Would mandatory personal finance classes in middle or high school help? How does teaching personal finance in the home help? Read the discussion.

You can get more of today's hot finance stories at tipd.com. At Tip'd, the community chooses which financial stories go "hot" and appear on the homepage. The links above are those links which got "tipped" the most in the past seven days by the community members.

You know those car commercials, the ones that say it's okay to return a new car if you lose your job? Well, Sears has come up with variation on that theme. Buy an appliance and related merchandise worth at least $399, and if you lose your job between 60 days and a year afterward, you're eligible for Sears' own relief package.

For every month you're out of work, Sears will credit one twelfth of the total back. If you are still unemployed a full year later, forget the debt and keep the appliance. It's Sears' way of helping out during these difficult times.

It's also Sears' way of helping itself, of course. Sears is still the largest appliance seller in this country, even after seven years of losing market share to the likes of Costco, Lowe's and Home Depot. But market share started climbing back up last year and Sears must be loathe to lose a single point.

A low-cost airline's attempt to celebrate its fifth anniversary turned into a free-for-all for onlookers trying to grab $50 coupons for the Budapest airline.

Before balloons with coupons worth 10,000 Forints, or $49.45, could be released into the air, some onlookers noticed the coupons attached to each balloon and started popping and grabbing them, according to a Reuters story.

The balloons were to be released from a giant net in the center of Budapest as a way for Wizz Air to celebrate its anniversary.

"Someone popped one of the balloons, hoping to get the gift coupon that was attached to it," said Wizz Air communications director Natasa Kazmer. "As if on cue, the entire crowd attacked the net."

Some people scrambled after balloons, chasing as many coupons as they could. One young woman kneeled over a grill in the gutter to grab coupons out of the rainwater underneath.

"The idea was that the balloons would spread far and wide, so we did not place a limit on how many vouchers they could use for a single purchase," Kazmer said.

The crowd and the vouchers were mostly gone before the airline, the largest in Eastern Europe, could outline its long-term vision at a press conference.

When I was a kid, lo these many moons ago, a bike light was to a kid what fog lights were to our parents' cars; a delicious add-on.

We all wanted a shiny new bell or handle bar streamers so the other kids on the block would ooh and aah over our latest acquisition. Today, as I watch the kids riding up and down the sidewalk in front of the house, these bicycle accessories are not often seen. Still, someone must be buying them, because hardware stores and dollar stores alike, still stock them.

Here are a few available at dollar stores:

Cable locks with key -- Unfortunately, a bike lock is pretty much a necessity in most neighborhoods. The dollar store version is vinyl-coated and 27 inches long, an adequate size for a kid's bike. It costs $1.25. The hardware store cable lock is similar but is 6 feet long and costs $14.99. Neither one of these is going to stand up to a determined crook with a good set of cable cutters but they will keep an opportunistic thief from swiping your kid's bike from where he parked it outside the video store.

One rainy evening in New York, I was lucky enough to happen upon a CRT/tanaka sponsored benefit for L.E.A.D. Uganda. The organization, founded by photojournalist Stephen Shames, funds the education of young people in Uganda. The non-profit helps AIDS orphans, former child soldiers and laborers become leaders, get a basic education and win scholarships to continue their education at elite institutions. Shames has changed the lives of hundreds of people, and by accident, he's doing it in style.

At the event I purchased three necklaces made by one of the mothers of a student in Uganda. Shames says he bought them just out of consideration for her work and needs. He didn't expect them to take-off, but I have a feeling they're going to.

The necklaces are just so beautiful and unique and the majority of the proceeds go to a good cause. I've been wearing these Hope Necklaces nearly every day since I bought them and even sported a light-yellow strand onstage as the moderator for Walletpop's panel with the Huffington Post. Fellow Walletpopper, Ariston Anderson, a master of the sample sale, charged up to me at the event and started fiddling with my necklace. "Where'd you get this!"

Since I've been benefiting from the Hope Necklaces, I thought I'd spread the message that guilt-free shopping does exist. We come up with all sorts of excuses for spending money on the way we look and here's one: you're putting children, on the brink of survival, through school and helping them become leaders of their communities so that they too can change lives for the better.

Now that the "Cash for Clunkers" bill is federal law, it's a good time to see if your car is eligible for the $3,500 or $4,500 rebate when buying a new car with better gas mileage.

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has 30 days to implement the program, although trade-ins will probably be able to start in about three weeks. The government Web site for the program, cars.gov, targets the program implementation to begin in late July. The program ends Nov. 1.

The recession-choked hotel industry is making it easier for guests to score free nights at major chains, so this summer is a great time to embark on that multi-city roadtrip you've been mulling over. In some cases, the complimentary night could be at a much pricier hotel than the ones you paid for.

I just arrived home from a 17-day family roadtrip from Boston to San Francisco. Along the way, we paid for a total of four nights at three Holiday Inn Express hotels and earned two free one-night stays redeemable at more than 4,000 properties worldwide that are also under the InterContinental Hotel Group umbrella, including the much more upscale InterContinental Hotels & Resorts brand. Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide Inc. -- which includes brands like Aloft, Westin, Sheraton, and St. Regis -- also is offering a free weekend night at its top-tier hotels after guests stay at any of its hotels twice by July 31.

These are among the best hotel deals being dangled. The three of us paid $119 for a night at Holiday Inn Express in Fort Smith, Arkansas; $119 for a night at Holiday Inn Express in Amarillo, Texas; and $140 per night for two nights at Holiday Inn Express in Page, Arizona (all prices include taxes and free continental breakfasts). Yet we can cash in our free-stays at some place posh, like the InterContinental Hotel Los Angeles Century City, where a standard room costs $199 to $829 per night before tax, depending on the popularity of the reservation date.

Do you live with a baseball "superfan?" Are you one yourself? If so, this might be your lucky year, as ballparks around the country slash prices on their ritzy luxury-suite digs.

While many of these deals aren't what most people would dub inexpensive -- some of them are still in the five figures -- fields desperate to get customers through the gates are offering one-time deals for seats that are normally sold only by the season and packages including perks like wine tastings, limo transfers and access to players. The bottom line: They're still luxuries, but if you've got the disposable income and want to see baseball in high-roller style, this is your season.

What's fueling the sudden sale on swanky seats? A big part of it is companies and even municipalities cutting back on their luxury-box expenditures as the recession continues. The beleaguered General Motors is reportedly trying to unload a chunk of its Detroit Tigers luxury seats. In the Big Apple, New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg pulled back on suite seats at the city's two new major league ballparks.

The exchange rate with the pound is slowly turning back, against our favor. It's still nowhere near the scalding $2-per-pound rate that kept us out of London in droves last year, but it still hurts to pay $1.65 to get a single pound.

As someone who often spends chunks of time abroad, I've learned that even though the exchange rate hurts, there are in fact some things that are cheaper abroad, even with bad rates. I wrote about the phenomenon for our sister site in the United Kingdom (did you know there was one?) in May. Because so many Americans are about to jet off on their summer vacations in Europe -- Visit Britain, the official tourism office of the U.K., says nearly 3 million of us head over each year -- I thought I'd re-export my British import and serve my findings up here, where Americans can use them.

I love buying homewares when I'm abroad. I keep important papers in box files that I can only find inexpensively at Ryman in Britain, and friends rave about the ornate stationery I bought them in Florence. I don't need more knick-knacks and souvenirs that take up space, but when I sleep on sheets I bought abroad, I re-live my travels again. I consider them to be enhanced souvenirs.

Stuff like this is cheaper in London than at home:

Ever since the Chicago Tribune gave me the heave-ho in April, I've been thinking a lot about my image and the way I dress. An awful lot.

Ready to hit the job market in mind, body, spirit and attitude -- but not in wardrobe -- I sought the advice of a true master, and a man after my own Italian roots. Marco Liotta, who owns two Amarcord Vintage Fashion stores in New York City, agreed to take me on as my fashion mechanic ... and just to make things interesting, we at WalletPop finessed Marco into the equivalent of one fashion-savvy arm tied behind his back. That is: Could he make me over at a Goodwill store, and on less than $50?

This is a round-up of the most popular finance links from Tip'd, the social news site for finance, in the past week. This week's stories include tips on buying a really cheap house (think fix-me-upper in a bad part of town), automating your income, and how much you can save by ditching your automobile.

How Much House Can $10,000 Buy? (29 Tips)
Jim at Bargaineering points out the recent article at Bankrate, showing what $400K can buy in terms of a house. But let's be realistic. (After all, we're in a recession!) Here are the homes you can buy today for only $10K. What can $10K buy in your neighborhood?

Automate Your Income Just Like You Would Automate Your Expenses (23 Tips)
So we've all heard time and again how wise it is to automate your expenses. It saves time and money. But what you don't hear as often is automating your income. This post urges its readers to attempt to separate what they do with their time from what they do to earn money. Have you automated your income? Discuss it here.

5 Tips to Prepare for Next Year's Tax Season (23 Tips)
I know, most of us would prefer to wait until the last minute. But what's the harm in taking a mere glance at these five tips? Maybe one of them will save you big bucks come tax season. Have any other tips? Share them here.

Exercise on the Cheap -- Frugal Workouts for You and Your Spouse (20 Tips)
Why pay hundreds of dollars a year on gym membership when you can workout for free? (Or at least for cheap!) Add your thoughts to the discussion.

How I Save $8,535 Per Year By Not Having A Car (19 Tips)
Remember, the cost of the car itself is never the only cost of car ownership. Finance charges, gasoline, insurance, and maintenance add up. If you must have a car, there are a few tips on minimizing these costs, too. Read how much car ownership costs others.

Welcome to Five Super Savings brought to you by Deal Seeking Mom. Each week I bring you the best grocery and health and beauty bargains around town.

I've rounded up some great grocery savings on items you actually use this week.

1) Have a Giant Eagle nearby? Save $5 each on your next 3 shopping trips for a total of $15 just for watching a short video.

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3) If you love Trident Gum, you'll want to print this $1 off 2 packs of Trident coupon to use on a future purchase. Hold onto this for a good sale, and you should be able to get free or nearly free chewing gum.

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5) Are you a coffee lover? Wal-Mart has great prices on Maxwell House coffee, General Foods International Coffee, Starbucks coffee, Coffee-Mate, Eight O'Clock coffee, Seattle's Best coffee, and Starbucks ice cream pints with printable coupons right now.

Looking for more printable coupons? Coupons.com, SmartSource.com, and RedPlum.com are always good choices.