Memorial Day comes to Frederick’s

by Mir at 8:02 pm on May 22, 2013 in Hot Hot Hot!, What to Wear

I can hear some of you now. “But Mir,” you say, giving me meaningful eyebrows, “doesn’t Frederick’s of Hollywood sell, you know, trashy stuff?” The answer, of course, is that yes, they do. (Not that there’s anything wrong with that!) Mostly they sell lingerie, and it’s often very… ummm… interesting lingerie, at that.

But they also sell regular clothing, and shoes, and accessories like bags, and some activewear that I swear no one would know came from Frederick’s if you didn’t tell them. And right now all activewear is automatically 75% off, and all swim and clearance items are an extra 40% off, and even though the site says free shipping on $75, I have a present for you: Use coupon code SHIPFREE for free shipping on any size order.

And hey, if you buy some of the interesting stuff, more power to you. I’ll just be over here in my yoga pants.

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What’s better that Star Wars?

by Mir at 10:24 am on May 22, 2013 in Hot Hot Hot!

Star Wars origami, of course, at a bargain price ($6.78) at Amazon!

Buy extras for the gift closet. I suspect this one will be very popular among most of the nerdlings I know.

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Need something to watch?

by Mir at 9:01 am on May 22, 2013 in Hot Hot Hot!

It’s not Memorial Day quite yet, but enterprising retailers aren’t going to let that stop them. Right now the Warner Brothers Shop is having a blowout sale on DVDs and Blu-rays in celebration of the upcoming holiday, and all discs ship for free, automatically.

Search on 3fe to find 3-packs of movies for the best deals—the Blu-rays in this category are mostly $8.99, and if there’s a better deal than $3/Blu-ray on movies you actually want, I don’t know what it is.

You may be able to apply coupon code WBAFF5 for an extra $5 off $50+, too, but I haven’t tested that yet. I’m just busy throwing movies in my cart….

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Guilt-free lollipops

by Mir at 2:53 pm on May 21, 2013 in Groceries, Hot Hot Hot!

Want to be a hero to your kids? Buy a whole mess of lollipops. I’m not saying I’ve done this, but I’ve totally done this. The thing is, though, I’m totally a hippie when it comes to food, and I don’t want my kids eating all kinds of weird dyes and high fructose corn syrup and stuff. So when I want to buy their love, I go for these Yummy Earth Lollipops—they’re delicious and made of all-natural stuff and no dyes.

Right now this 30-ounce bin is marked at $16.15 at Amazon, but there’s a 20% off coupon to clip on the page, and then buying via Subscribe & Save will save you anywhere from another 5% to another 20% (if you have Mom Prime and 5+ subscriptions this month), making the final price very nice indeed. S&S gets you free shipping, too.

In fact, I’d be all over this deal, but I bought a 5-pound bag of these the last time they were on sale, and we haven’t quite finished them yet….

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Time for the everything-on-sale sale

by Mir at 9:31 am on May 21, 2013 in Hot Hot Hot!, What to Wear

Absolutely everything is currently on sale over at Eddie Bauer, and the clearance items are up to 75% off. Better still, coupon code PICNIC will get you free shipping on $49+.

Styles are selling out quickly, but if you jump on it, you can score some great deals.

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An unexpected insomnia perk

by Mir at 4:12 am on May 21, 2013 in Hot Hot Hot!

Sometimes when I can’t sleep I get up and work in the middle of the night and feel super-productive. Mostly I get up and work and feel super-tired, though. So tonight (this morning? I am so confused) as I was poking around, it felt like a extra bonus to discover there’s a Woot-Off happening right now. Why work when I can sit here and watch the rotating deals at Woot, Home.Woot, Kids.Woot, Sport.Woot, and Wine.Woot? With $5 shipping for the whole day’s worth of purchases, my insomnia can get me started early on the deal-finding, and my mind can be blown by things like the fact that there’s a wine aerator currently available in the Home.Woot section instead of Wine.Woot. Chaos!

Yeah, I should probably try to go back to bed for a while….

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A good day for growing children

by Mir at 12:10 pm on May 20, 2013 in For the kids, Hot Hot Hot!, What to Wear

Uh, I mean it’s a good day for your children to get taller/bigger, not that it’s a good day to plant kids in the soil. Though if that works for you, um, Godspeed, I guess.

Anyway! It’s another free shipping day over at Children’s Place, plus if you use coupon code V8KFAY13 you’ll get an additional 20% off your order.

So if someone woke up 2 inches taller today or one of your darlings just brought you a pair of pants which mysteriously blew out the knees (through no fault of anyone’s, naturally), you’re covered. Order what you need now, and by the time it happens all over again, there’ll be another sale.

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Not as much fun as shoes, but…

by Mir at 10:53 am on May 20, 2013 in Hot Hot Hot!, Product Talk

… if you—like us—use those expensive allergen-filtering air filters in your home heating/cooling system and wonder why they are never on sale (so that you have more money to buy shoes…), today is a great day to check out the Special Buy of the Day at Home Depot. They’ve got select Filtrete filters at 60% off, so you can stock up with a case or two and pat yourself on the back for all the money you’ve saved. You’ll get free shipping, too.

And then with the money you saved, well, you probably deserve a little something pretty.

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iPad savings, just for today

by Mir at 8:43 am on May 20, 2013 in Hot Hot Hot!

If you’ve been looking for a pre-owned iPad deal, today would be a good day to scoot on over to Cowboom—their featured Deal of the Day is a 16GB iPad 2 for just $250 + $5 shipping.

My experience with Cowboom in general lis that their refurbished items work fine but have more cosmetic blemishes than you’d find if, say, you were buying from the Apple Store. As long as you’re planning to use a case of some kind (and you should, to protect your items, anyway), it’s pretty much a moot issue. Unless you need something pristine, this is a great way to score a bargain.

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Big savings on movies that confuse me

by Mir at 8:45 am on May 17, 2013 in Hot Hot Hot!

So today’s Amazon Gold Box is filled with discounts on Studio Ghibli movies, which is great if your kids are like mine and think these are the greatest films ever made.

Personally, my kids made me watch Ponyo and I spent half the movie yelling at the screen. Because this fish becomes a person? And eats ham? And a single mom says to her 5-year-old “Oh hey, there’s a huge storm coming, so I am going to go back down the mountain to what will probably be my death, but you just hang out here, okay? Okay.” And then the kids just go tooling around in a motorboat. Nothing about this movie made any sense to me. I wanted to call CPS, but the whole fish-that-became-a-girl thing seemed like it would be hard to explain.

If you’re better at suspending your disbelief than I am, though, this might be a good deal for you.

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