Want Not

Granted, I hear the Kindle Fire is pretty sweet, but if you don’t mind going a little bit old-school with your e-reader, I love how the prices on Kindles just seem to keep dropping and dropping.

If you’re finally ready to take the plunge, but want to do it as cheaply as possible, today’s probably the day—you can hop on over to Amazon Local to snag a voucher for $20 off a certified refurbished 6″ Kindle with Special Offers, making it just $49 shipped.

This is the model Kindle I have, and I love it. I just carry it around in my purse and I always have a book or twelve on hand, plus the Special Offers sometimes alert me to coupons and deals I wouldn’t otherwise know about. Twofer!

Been waiting for a deal on a latest-generation, non-refurbished iPod Touch? Amazon has both black and white 8GB versions right now for $175 shipped. True, that’s only $25 off the retail price, but for the newest model that’s as cheap as you’re going to find it.

Of course, my teenager owns a Touch and I’m pretty sure it’s been surgically attached to her hands, so I’m not necessarily recommending it, but she probably would.

In addition to the rest of the fabulous boutiques available today at Fab.com, they have a couple which are dedicated to FLOR carpet tiles, the easiest way to perk up a room. Now, the Fab prices aren’t all that much better than retail on these, but most of them do then come with free shipping… plus, if you had Fab credit to spend (Fab is very generous with their referral credits—you get $25 every time a new friend registers and makes their first purchase!), this could work out to be a good deal for you.

And I’m only a little bitter that FLOR either didn’t exist or I’d never heard of it back when I had a projectile-vomiting baby. How awesome would it be to be able to just swap out one fouled cube of carpet rather than having to replace the whole thing??

Hey, it’s Wednesday, and you know what that means—time to get your Kohls on!

Everyone gets free shipping on their $75+ purchase and earns $10 Kohls Cash for every $50 spent. Kohls charge card holders can use coupon code MAY30 for an additional 30% off, and those without the magic card can use coupon code SMS1327 for an extra 10% off. Free shipping on any order for card holders with coupon code MVCFS4FUN, too!

Here’s the deal to get: Right now they have the Presto Cool Touch Electric Griddle marked down to just $18 (from $40). That means card holders can get it with coupons for around $13 shipped! Craziness. (I own this griddle. I love this griddle. Sunday pancakes wouldn’t be the same without it.)

I love Wednesdays.

If Santa didn’t bring you a Kindle Fire, and you’ve been patiently waiting for a better way to afford one, get yourself over to Amazon today—their Gold Box is filled with certified refurbished Fires for just $139 shipped.

Me, I’m always happy buying certified refurbished. It comes with the same warranty as a brand-new product, is usually indistinguishable from new, and you save money. Perfect. But if you want to pay full price, go ahead, I guess.

Oh, Woot, you have to stop featuring cheap Lock & Lock sets! My cupboard are overflowing! It’s just that I love your watertight silicone seals and easy-to-open lock flaps so much, and also you can’t put a price on being able to quickly pack up lunch for the kids even when someone forgot to run the dishwasher the night before.

So just stop it. But, uh, maybe after today. Because that 36-piece set for $20 is a really good deal.

I, uh, realized after I titled this post that it kinds of looks like I’m talking about something which is not a tent. Like, maybe an octopus! Or something else. Whoops? (And yet, I am too lazy to change it.)

Anyway! Today’s Big Steal at Meijer is a 15′ x 15′ Northpole tent with three rooms. According to Meijer, this tent normally goes for $200 and today’s deal is that it’s just $135 and ships free. (There’s also coupon code BLUESKY for an extra 15% off almost everything, but I haven’t been able to figure out if you can use it on Big Steal items.)

That seemed like a pretty good deal to me, so I went looking on Amazon for a price comparison, and discovered that either it’s a crazy good deal or the gerbils who power the inner workings of Amazon’s pricing structure are smoking crack again. See for yourself—Amazon is selling this same tent for $689. So… there’s that.

(I doubt this is a $700 tent, obviously. Still a good deal at 33% off, though!)

The thing about Lock & Locks is that it starts out casually. You just need a few containers that absolutely, positively won’t leak in your kids’ lunchboxes, that’s all. But then you try them and it’s like, well, your eyes open to this whole new world. Suddenly the rest of your plastic food storage seems inferior. So you buy a few more pieces. Maybe throw out some of your old warped stuff. But somewhere along the way, you realize it’s become a habit you just can’t kick. Because you don’t have one in that shape, yet! And look, purple lids!

You should probably get some help with that. Right after you scoop up today’s Home.Woot deal of a nestable (hey! mine don’t nest!) 18-piece set for just $13 plus $5 shipping.

(What? I never said I was going to help you overcome your addiction.)