Groupon’s looking awfully pretty today

by Mir | Oct 21, 2010 | Hot Hot Hot!

Every now and then I think to myself, “Self, Groupon is going to get stale. They’ve offered several of the same online deals for something like fourteen days in a row, now, and soon there will be nothing new I need and that will be sad.” But then...

Get there, forever

by Mir | Oct 21, 2010 | Hot Hot Hot!, Product Talk

If you still haven’t gotten yourself a GPS unit (what are you, one of those photographic memory people who can look at a map and forever remember the route?), check out today’s Amazon Gold Box—they’re offering a Magellan RoadMate 3030LM for...

Actual unretouched quote

by Mir | Oct 21, 2010 | Hot Hot Hot!, What to Wear

So I was chatting with some other frugal blogger types yesterday evening, and I actually said the following: When Zappos stopped pricematching, I thought life as I knew it was over. But then they started 6pm, and my life had meaning again. It was an emotional moment,...

Cookie winners, and Voskos reminder

by Mir | Oct 20, 2010 | Contests

I, um, would like a refund on this morning. Pretty sure I never received it. (Related: rumors of my demise are greatly exaggerated. I wasn’t so much dead as just lost. Carry on!) Anyway! I have two things for you. First, I have winners of this past...

A big box of games

by Mir | Oct 20, 2010 | Hot Hot Hot!

Today all of the deals in the Amazon Gold Box are going to be on video games. So far I’m not too excited—Super Street Fighter IV isn’t really my style, even if they had a Wii version—but I’ll be keeping my eye on the Lightning Deals as...