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Okay, so, I’m about to out myself as not terribly logical. But my confession is about laundry, so somehow I feel like you may forgive me. Here goes: I buy organic laundry detergent, but I still buy Bounce dryer sheets. I know. Does that make any sense at all? Probably not. (I can’t find an organic one I like as much.)

I feel better now.

If you, too, have a thing for Bounce, I have a deal for you: Amazon currently has a 2-pack of 120-count Bounce Outdoor Fresh dryer sheets available for just $9.32 shipped when you buy via Subscribe & Save. But if you’re offered grocery coupons on Amazon, you should also have an available $1.50 off coupon to clip (scroll down a little to find it), making it just $7.82 shipped, or around just $.03/sheet.

That’s a lot of static-free laundry, is all I’m sayin’.

Personally, I don’t find it all that difficult to, you know, make iced tea, but I know that sometimes the convenience of bottled is useful. So you might want to take a look at this pack of 8 64-ounce Organic Sweet Leaf lemon iced tea bottles currently just $11.71 shipped at Amazon, when you buy via Subscribe & Save.

Heck, the shipping weight on this is over 37 pounds; you’re probably paying less than what it costs them to ship it to you.

If you love Annie’s like I love Annie’s, you’ll want to go check out the recently slashed prices on a variety of Annie’s Homegrown snacks, pastas, and breakfast foods at Amazon. Most are eligible for Subscribe & Save, which means you can save an additional 15% and get free shipping, to boot.

Although I’ve yet to meet the kid who doesn’t like Cheddar Bunnies and Bunny Fruit—meaning Annie’s has equal-opportunity snacking appeal—of particular note today are the low prices on their gluten-free items. From their rice pastas to their gluten-free cookies, today you can pick up those normally pricy non-wheat items for a very reasonable price.

I don’t know who Annie is, but I love her.

Hold on to your new year’s diet resolutions—today’s Amazon Gold Box holds Scharffen Berger chocolate bars at nearly half off.

Honestly, Scharffen Berger pretty much ruined me for other chocolate. Thanks a lot, Scharffen Berger! I buy the dark bars for baking projects and maybe sneak into the pantry and just nibble a little on a bad day. Heaven.

If you’ve never had Scharffen Berger before, maybe don’t. It makes it very hard to go back to cheap chocolate.

Coconuts, that is. Experts say that cooking with coconut oil is all kinds of healthy, and many are turning to it as a Canola or other oil alternative. (Insert your standard caveats here about how any oil is best used in moderation, blah blah blah.)

Right now Amazon is running a special on Nutiva Organic Extra Virgin Coconut Oil—use coupon code NUTIVJAN to save 10%, then buy via Subscribe & Save to get free shipping and another 15% off. At the current price, that’ll net you 30 ounces for just $12.15 shipped.

Bon appetit!

My least favorite part of returning from an extended vacation from home is buying groceries. We’ve spent the week or two leading up to departure trying to use everything up, and then the first trip when we get back is the basic milk/juice/bread/eggs kind of thing, and then I finally I have to face it: It’s time for me to go shopping for real. That overfull grocery cart is depressing.

I’m mitigating the pain by restocking our cereal online. (What? It’s cheaper this way, plus it doesn’t take up all that room in my cart, leaving more room for gluten-free cookies produce. Yeah, that’s it.)

Here’s three of our favorites sporting excellent prices at Amazon right now:
Kellogg’s Fiber Plus Cinnamon Oats Crunch 3-pack for $7.60 delivered when you buy via Subscribe & Save.
Kashi GoLean Crisp! Berry Crumble 4-pack for $10.61 delivered when you buy via Subscribe & Save.
Kashi GoLean Crunch! 6-pack for $15.91 delivered when you buy via Subscribe & Save.

There. I just marked something off my to-do list. Only… 99 more items to go.

We are home. Home home home home home! Yeah, I’m a little excited. (Related: I do not recommend the New York to Georgia drive in a single day with two kids and a dog. We all survived, but it was looking dicey there around about 10:00 when we were still in South Carolina.)

Anyway, now all I have to do is… wash everything in the world. That’ll be today’s task, and it will let my washing machine know how much I missed it.

If you will be doing a lot of laundry, maybe you’d like to check out this $2 Tide coupon on Amazon, which can be combined with Subscribe & Save on many items for the best savings. Just a suggestion.

Of course, if you really love doing laundry, feel free to come on over here and help me.

If you need to stock up on tissues—and who doesn’t, right now?—take a look at this 6-pack of Puffs Family Boxes at Amazon. It’s just $7.75 shipped when you buy via Subscribe & Save (cancel any time to prevent redelivery).

I’m pretty sure that in amongst the presents we’ve already packed up several months worth of germs while visiting family. I think I’ll go order those tissues right now.

If you have Amazon Prime, there’s still time to order those last few stocking stuffers. And what’s a crowd-pleaser more than chocolate? (Don’t answer that. Some things do not belong in stockings.)

Right now Amazon has a wide selection of discounted holiday candy, and the page says “up to 20% off” but really there’s prices closer to 75% off on some items. And some of those items are things like Hershey’s kisses with mint truffle filling.

Hang on, I think I just drooled on my keyboard.