Black Friday at Bon-Ton, on Wednesday
Yet another store can’t be bothered with waiting until Friday to do the Black Friday thing—doorbusters at Bon-Ton launched this morning, plus they’re offering free shipping sitewide.
There’s smoking deals throughout the store, plus you can take another 25% off sale items (not the doorbusters, but other sale items) with coupon code AFTRTHX2012.
Have a toddler to shop for? Check out the kids’ doorbuster section, which includes two popular Fisher-Price toys—their activity walker and baby basketball—for under $10 apiece (about half the regular price).
It’s beginning to feel a lot like Black Friday, and I haven’t even finished cooking yet. Weird, but I’ll take it.
[Edited to add: Look in the Men’s Doorbuster “gifts” category to find Apples To Apples—one of our favorite family games—for just $13.97. That’s a steal.]
Another Amazon reminder
If you didn’t read my tips about the Holiday Lightning Deals yesterday, do yourself a favor and check ’em out. You may snag something wonderful today if you play it right.
So in addition to today’s awesome Lightning Deals (I just snagged a deal on Stash herbal teas; my favorite!), be sure to check today’s Gold Box Deal if you have a fella who needs a fancy electric razor. You can get the Panasonic ES-LT71-S Men’s 3-Blade(Arc 3) Wet/Dry Nanotech Rechargeable Electric Shaver with Vortex Cleaning System (geez, with a name like that, I kind of expect it to do the dishes and mop the floor via laser beams, too) for just $75—Amazon’s lowest price on this model, ever.
My name is Mir, and I am addicted to Amazon Lightning Deals. The first step is admitting I have a problem, right? I hope the second step is snagging lots of deals.
Meet you by the mistletote
It turns out that The Body Shop can’t be bothered to wait until Friday to roll out the deals. Check this out: Spend $30 and you can redeem their bonus offer, which is a “mistletote” worth $100 (cute bag filled with products) for just $30. (You’ll find it by clicking on “Black Friday Offer” in their product menu bar.)
Don’t know how to spend the $30 to get it? That one’s easy—they’re running a “3 for $30” special, too, and you know what I’m going to tell you to buy, right? (Hint: body butters. Delicious, skin-soothing body butters.) So get your three full-size body butters, add the tote, and voila! You’re paying $60 (shipping will be free) for $157 worth of items. Sounds pretty awesome to me!
$.99 bargains, plus bonuses
Have you been checking the Pfaltzgraff Deal of the Day? I’ve actually forgotten for a few days, but I’m glad I checked today—they’ve got pages and pages of items marked down to just $.99/each. Pick up a few items for yourself, or stock up on hostess gifts for the season.
In addition to the markdowns, there’s a triple bonus going on where you get free shipping on $25+, and additional bonuses as you spend more (details on the front page).
There’s some really cute ornaments in the sale… just in case the salt and pepper shakers aren’t quite doing it for you.
Lands’ End again? Yup.
We’re kind of getting to the point here where there are so many sales, already, I’m beginning to wonder if Friday is going to be a heretofore unknown carnival of ridiculous discounts or if it will just be a monumental letdown. Because at this point, I’m thinking it could go either way.
But while we wait to find out, here’s a Lands’ End discount for you: use coupon code AIRCORE with PIN 1244 for 30% off your order and free shipping. Friday may bring some goodies, too, but in the meantime, I’m sure I can put this one to use….
Make a (free!) photo calendar
There was a period of time where I made photo calendars for the grandparents every year; who didn’t want adorable pictures of my sweet children doing cute things?? But now my children scowl at the camera and look significantly less cute while scarfing down dessert than they used to (the jerks). Anyway, maybe your kids are still small and pliable and don’t roll their eyes at you, in which case you may wish to hop on over to Shutterfly before November 23rd to redeem coupon code CALENDAR2013 for a free photo calendar!
You’ll still have to pay for shipping, and that’ll run you $5.99. If you’re ordering other items, though, I think you may be able to stack code SHIP30 for free shipping on your $30+ order.
Go ahead, get that calendar before the kids turn into surly teenagers. I mean, I could make a calendar, now, but it would mostly be my daughter glaring at me and my son insisting I look at what he just made in Minecraft. Heh.
Leap for a LeapPad deal
You know I’m a big fan of eschewing the latest-greatest-newest version of whatever for the deal on the previous generation (or a refurb), right? Especially when it comes to stuff for the kids. I doubt they really care if they have every bell and whistle possible when it comes to getting a new toy.
Right now Amazon is offering a sale and bundle deal on the LeapPad1, because they’re counting on most people ponying up for the LeapPad2. Heh. So yeah, sure, feel free to spend $100 on the newer version if you want, or go get the earlier one for just $60 plus get a free case.
Seems like a no-brainer, to me.
[Thanks for the tip, Brittany!]
It’s all half off at Aeropostale
No waiting for Friday happening here; Aeropostale‘s got everything marked at least 50% off, today (clearance items are even cheaper). Spend $75+ and your order ships for free, too. You don’t even need a coupon—it’s all automatic.
Spend anything at all and your teenager will think you miraculously became cool for a few minutes. (Don’t worry, it’ll pass, and you’ll be stupid and tragically unhip again in no time. I speak from experience.)
Your daily Amazon reminder
So I know we’re all eagerly glued to the Amazon Lightning Deals this week, so I thought I’d give you a couple of quick tips about ’em.
First of all, many of the deals are visible in advance of their “live” times (not the price, but the item itself), and even the “mystery” items can often be decoded based upon the descriptions, ahead of time. I know that scrolling through a hundred pages of deals first thing in the morning isn’t everyone’s cup of tea, but if you’re wanting a particular item, it may be worth it to check ahead to see if something you want is coming up. And if you see an item you want, decide well before deal-time what you’re willing to pay for it. As with everything else, some of the deals are better than others.
When you want a deal: Make sure you’re signed in to your Amazon account and sitting at your computer, ready to click, as soon as it goes live. I have a friend who was trying to snag a deal on a Touch yesterday and both of us clicked for it the minute it went live and neither of us got it. Some deals (particularly the good ones) are available in extremely limited quantities and sell out in a flash. That’s the bad news. The good news is that when you miss out—don’t panic! Many of these deals are showing up more than once. The deal you miss today may be back on Friday. Be patient. Stalk your prey like a lioness, my pretties. Persistance pays off.
Remember, once you add a Lightning Deal to your cart, you only have 15 minutes to check out before you lose the deal price. If you’re on the fence about an item for some reason, you are better off clicking to add it to your cart immediately and then taking those 15 minutes to decide after you’ve secured your shot at it. And if you decide not to buy it? Take it out of your cart—there are people on the waiting list, most likely, and it’s the courteous thing to do.
Happy Lightning-ing!
Crazy deal on an iPod Touch
Don’t ask me why this is, but: Right now Nike is offering an additional 25% off their clearance, plus free shipping, when you use coupon code BLUERIBBON. That’s not the weird part, actually. The weird part is that part of their clearance is a 64GB 4th generation iPod Touch marked down to $318ish, and then when you apply the code, you end up getting it to your door for $239ish.
Just for reference, this Touch is currently $370-$390 at Amazon, so that’s a huge savings.
(Also note: The Touch is not showing up in the Clearance for some reason. Search for iPod to find it.)
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