February 27, 2007 | Hot Hot Hot!

Need make-up? (You know, you really don’t. You look so beautiful just as you naturally are, Pretty.) If you’re in the market, this week is a good time to go shop at e.l.f. Through March 4th, 2007, take advantage of one (just one; they don’t stack) of the following three promotions:

• Use coupon code save1 for 10% off your $20+ purchase.
• Use coupon code save2 for a $5 egift card with your $20+ purchase.
• Or, use coupon code save3 to get a free mascara and hypershine gloss with your $15+ purchase.

Or you can just work from home in your pajamas, like me. Coincidentally, I don’t spend very much on make-up.

February 26, 2007 | Hot Hot Hot!

Now through tomorrow night (February 27th, 2007), SmartBargains is doing an Excess Inventory Sale wherein they’ve slashed prices to just get stuff out of their warehouse. There’s more stuff on sale than I could possibly list, but it may be worth a look.

Also, you can take $10 off your $100+ purchase through this link. Just because I love you. (Er, and because they sent it to me as a promotion. That too.)

Quick Tips, Product Talk

I had the nicest man come give me an estimate on my move, and he told me something that I already knew, but maybe you don’t: Don’t buy your boxes from the moving company. The don’t get them all that cheap, to begin with, and then they mark them up before they sell them to you. Now, if they’re packing for you, you have to let them use their boxes. But if you’re doing all of your own packing or—like me—most of your own packing, you’ll need some boxes.

Or perhaps a gazillion boxes.

Now you know that I am going to be referring to the good folks over at Moving Scam for lots and lots of move-related advice in the coming months, but I have to tell you that their recommended box source didn’t pass my litmus test. Good product? Yes. Best bargain? Sorry, but no.

I’ll be buying boxes from Metroboxes for my upcoming move. Their prices are significantly lower than the other dozen sites I checked out. The only real difference I could find (other than their lower prices) was that most box sites have free shipping regardless of your order size, and here you have to order $75+ for free shipping.

Um, I’m going to be up to $75 before I finish packing up my kids’ rooms. So, no problem there! Also, please send alcohol!

Hot Hot Hot!

You know how I keep asking if you signed up for Skype when I told you to? I’m going to keep asking, so get used to it. I don’t know that it’s the greatest thing since sliced bread, but it’s at least as great as shredded cheese. I’m just sayin’. I use mine all the time.

Anyway, I hardly ever log directly in to my account, because there isn’t anything I need to do there, but today is a Skype Free Gift Day! Just go log in and you’ll be offered 10 free SkypeOut minutes, just because.

Just try to tell me a package of mozzarella is better than that.

Hot Hot Hot!, What to Wear

If you were, say, wanting to buy your guy a new suit or some spiffy new shirts—for, oh, I don’t know, perhaps an upcoming wedding—and you weren’t exactly sure of his jacket size and he was sitting in a conference (unreachable by phone) right now while all the clearance is just flying out of the store at these ridiculous prices, you’d probably feel sort of dumb.

Not that I’d know anything about that.

Hot Hot Hot!

I’m talking about this Toro leafblower, of course. Why? What were you thinking about? (Oooops! There I go again!)

It can be used as a blower or a vacuum, and at its current price ($37.79) plus the available 10% discount coupon code (YARDSALE) and the free Super Saver Shipping, you’re looking at getting it for about half price and zero hassle.

Spring yard clean-up is coming, you know. Speaking of which, if you all really loved me, you’d be offering to come over here and help with the yard. And bringing your leaf blower-sucker thing. But I see how it is. Fine, then. You just clean up your own yard, while I slave away, here, bringing you all the great deals. No, that’s fine.*

*Really, it’s fine. If you volunteer to do my landscaping you’re just going to scare me. Just go enjoy your leaf thingie, weirdo.

February 25, 2007 | Hot Hot Hot!, Product Talk

I’m the last person on the planet not to own an iPod, so I’m just going on what I’ve heard, here, but these iSolate earbuds are getting a fair amount of buzz around the various deal boards. Choose the orange or the blue, and after you add them to your cart, you can use coupon code ISOPHONE to take $20 off, making them just $9.99.

They ship for just $2.85, which brings your total for a pair of $50 headphones to just $12.84. I’d definitely buy some if I had an iPod to plug ‘em into. (Alas; sometimes I’m too darn frugal for my own good!)

February 24, 2007 | Hot Hot Hot!

In general I dislike department store so-called “one day only” sales, because the places which offer them tend to have them about every other week.

On the other hand, if you’re willing to suspend the cynicism and shop during these events, the prices really are pretty good. Oh, the irony!

Anyway, Macy’s is at it again—today, February 24th, save 10-50% + values plus take an extra 25% off clearance. Just in case there’s something there you need.

February 23, 2007 | Hot Hot Hot!

More Amazon goodness: Buy 3 kitchen or home products, get the 4th free. Good for combining with some of the Friday deals, maybe.

Hot Hot Hot!

And I will spare you the gruesome details of why, but let’s just say that I am not well this morning. Although I am better than I was last night. And also that I am planning to never eat again. Let’s just leave it at that.

But! Time marches on, and whether or not I’ve forgotten how to quietly digest food, the Amazon Friday Sale marches bravely onward, oblivious to my difficulty. That jerk.

I’ve always wanted one of these. I mean, sure, it says it’s only for bikes. But I’m pretty sure my 7-year-old would fit on there. (”Young man, go to the ceiling!”)

This is a nice little bike pump for a great price, suitable as a filler item while striving for free Super Saver Shipping. Also, your bike tires are going to get flat, faster, on the floor, while your kid dangles from the lift, so….

I’ve been trying to figure out if I’m too old to wear these shoes for months. I’ve been looking at them forever; maybe it’s time to buy them.

As a worrywart kind of mother, I would never in a million years buy something like this. But I have to admit it’s pretty cool.

I can’t stop saying fruit scoops. Fruit scoops! Fruit scoops! (See also: zester!)

Fortunately, food is so repulsive to me right now, I don’t even want cookies.

Did you miss it last time? The blue full-spectrum light is on sale again. Awesome price on a product that provides sanity for some of us in the winter….

There’s more (isn’t there always more?), you’ll have to go look for yourselves. I need to go lie down and pray for death.