I wrote earlier this week about being a smart shopper. I do a lot of my shopping online. There are several reasons for this including that it’s convenient, it makes more sense for some items since I live in a city where I don’t have a car, and I enjoy it more than being amidst crowds of shoppers.

Since I do shop online a lot, I’ve learned a lot of things the hard way about the good and bad of online shopping. I’ve had problems with identity theft because I wasn’t careful enough when shopping online. I’ve lost money because I didn’t understand certain things about online shopping fees. And I’ve just made some mistakes while learning how to do my online shopping without getting burned.

But, eventually, I did learn those lessons and now I would say that I’m a pretty smart chick when it comes to shopping online. There are many different things I could share about being a smart online shopper but let’s start with “the top five things to remember when shopping online“. That covers the basics and will get you started on your way to being a smart Internet shopper as well.

Tags: Frugal Living, money, online shopping, Personal Finance, smart shopper