Some links on this site are affiliate links. That means if you click one and buy something, I get a small commission. It doesn’t cost you anything extra. The price is the same whether you use my link or find the product on your own.
How I pick what to recommend
Every product recommendation on this site starts with research. I look at what’s available, compare the options, and pick what I think is the best choice for the person reading the post. The recommendation comes first. After that, I check whether an affiliate link exists for the product I’ve already chosen.
If there’s an affiliate link, I use it. If there isn’t, I link directly to the product anyway. The recommendation doesn’t change based on which option pays me. A good product without an affiliate program gets recommended over a worse product with one.
How you can tell
Not every product I recommend has an affiliate link. Some links on this site earn me nothing. That’s by design. If I only recommended products that paid me, you’d have no reason to trust any of it.
You can also look at the recommendations themselves. If a post tells you to buy new instead of refurbished, or to skip a product category entirely, or that the savings aren’t worth it, that’s the site doing what it’s supposed to do. Honest recommendations sometimes mean recommending against a purchase.
The short version
I use affiliate links. They don’t change what I recommend. The research decides. The links follow.