You know Murphy’s Law, right? It states that that which can go wrong, will go wrong?
It can be further extrapolated to such obvious applications such as, if you carry an umbrella, it won’t rain. But if you do, it won’t. I often carry an umbrella just to keep it from raining.
What?
Anyway, that’s why it’s good to have a roadside emergency kit in your car at all times—so that you won’t need it. You can’t go wrong at $10 shipped, you know. Makes a great gift, too, because it’s sort of like magical protection, but much more useful and less gross than a monkey’s paw.
Stop looking at me like that.
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7:06 am |
You have until just before midnight tonight to make your entry into the Flipper toothbrush holders contest. Don’t forget to go leave a comment on that post for an entry, if you haven’t already!
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8:52 pm |
Hey, it’s been kind of a big day ’round here. I feel like I’ve been trying to get a million things done at once, and inbetween it all, a million other things. Ack!
Know what calms me right down? Thinking about shopping for shoes. Yes. And through May 12th, 2008, you can use coupon code Mothersday08 over at Shoebuy.com to take 20% off your total order. Remember they always have free shipping/returns and no sales tax, too.
If I didn’t have to much to do today, I’d totally be surfing for cute flats. Maybe you could go do it for me? Thanks, you’re swell!
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2:44 pm |
I have a hard time getting excited about wiper blades, but that’s okay, because it’s still one of those things you’ve gotta have. And when they’re on sale, so much the better.
So check it out: Right now the Bosch evolution wiper blades
at Amazon are on sale, plus they’re on a buy 1, get 1 free via rebate special (details on the individual wiper pages, as well as a chart to help you figure out which ones you need for your particular car).
So am I jumping with glee? Not exactly. But I’m still buying ‘em.
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1:02 pm |
If you’re needing some vitamins, minerals, supplements, or whatever else they sell at GNC (heck, they’ve got it all these days—protein powder! shark cartilage!), you have the through May and June to automatically get free shipping on orders of $75+. Even better, they’ll take 10% off your $75+ order and 15% off your $100+ order, automatically.
Because you can never have too much shark cartilage on hand, you know.
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12:19 pm |
Today’s Amazon Gold Box Deal is a variety of Timex Ironman watches for just $49.99. Great gift for the athlete-geek in your life.
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10:16 am |
Several of you wrote in to let me know that the big book deal at Weekly Reader is back; they’re offering 12 kids’ favorite hardcover books plus 12 CDs for $20. Even better, the shipping is just $3.85. This is a great gift-closet stocker if you want to break up the set, and an even better teacher gift if you like to contribute to the classroom library.
My kids are beyond this level, now, but I’ve bought this bundle a few times in the past and have always been pleased.
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8:08 am |
I’m putting it in “Bragging on a deal” because it feels like bragging, but several of you asked me to let you know about this, so here I am letting you know.
Remember that time I went to New York City? Well, the segment I taped with NBC is supposed to air this morning on the Today Show. I was told “during the 10:00 hour, probably around 10:10.”
I’m a little nervous. Will the magic of editing render me eloquent and beautiful? Or twitchy and bizarre? Tune in to find out! The funny part is that I’m volunteering at school today, so I won’t even be home to watch it; I’m taping it to watch later on, when my husband can sit with me and hold my hand and tell me that I did fine, regardless of what fool thing comes flying out of my mouth on national television.
Edited to add: The clip is available here. Six hours of taping, 10 seconds of screen time, edited to make us all look like vapid ninnies. I am taking small comfort in the fact that Kathie Lee whasthername didn’t even know how to pronounce the NBC correspondent’s name.
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6:15 am |
Sorry to be late on this one, but Damsel just tipped me off: Tonight (Tuesday, May 6th, 2008) teachers eat for free at all Chipotle restaurants (find one here):
Bring your ID showing that you are a teacher, administrator or school faculty member to any Chipotle store between 3 and 10 p.m., and you will receive your burritos and tacos for free.
Mmmmm… free tacos. It never occurred to me to get into teaching for the free food!
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4:23 pm |
Hey, I forgot one thing in my previous post about saving money on groceries—I totally scoop up the food deals on Amazon. I get snacks for the kids and such for less, plus it gets delivered right to my door. Score!
I just came across this deal on qualifying Beigel Beigel snacks. Spend $29+ and you can take off another $10 with coupon code BEIGEL05 (and it’s all already on sale, too). Their pretzels are 100% natural, made of whole grains, and really, who doesn’t like pretzels? Communists, that’s who. (I’m kidding. Please, no hatemail from people who are allergic to pretzels or who are friendly communists.)
Although I’ve taken to making most of our snack food from scratch, I’ve yet to figure out how to make pretzels. This may be an acceptable alternative.
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2:30 pm |
