Automate your iced tea
Personally, I don’t find iced tea all that complicated, or anything. Certainly I don’t feel the need for a dedicated device to make it for me—I boil water, steep the tea, and then add more water and put it in the fridge. It’s not rocket science.
Still, I can’t help noticing that this Hamilton Beach electric ice tea maker isn’t just at an all-time-low Amazon price of just $15.85, it has nearly 400 overwhelmingly positive reviews. Either tea is more complicated than I think, or I’m really missing out.
Or—third option—people are really lazy. That could be it, too. But hey, a full pitcher of tea in under 10 minutes. Maybe this is perfect In Case of Iced Tea Emergency!
Portable fruit, at a nice price
If you like all-natural fruit leathers for the kids (or yourself; I don’t judge!), check out the Fruit Island fruit leathers at Amazon—at just $10.19 shipped when you buy via Subscribe & Save, they’re about $.30/serving.
No added sugar or anything yucky, perfectly portable, and the price is certainly right.
Bouncy!
Because I am a mean, mean mother, I have never purchased a trampoline for my children. Because I am mean, did I mention?
Of course, now that they’re too old to think it’s the greatest thing in the world, the Sears Real Deal of the Day is a 12′ trampoline and enclosure for just $199—a full $150 off the regular retail price.
Now let’s all sit back and wait for someone to come tell their broken arm horror story. Someone always has one, when the topic of trampolines comes up, right?
Weekend savings at the Creek
It’s time to hit up Coldwater Creek for some deals—through Sunday, you can use coupon code FB30SHIP for 30% off and free shipping on any order!
That applies to already-reduced items in the Outlet, too. And boy do they have some adorable things in the Home & Gifts section. I mean, strictly speaking, I don’t need an owl-shaped tea set, I know….
Grow organic, from the start
This weekend is a big one for religion—Easter is this Sunday, and it’s Passover right now—but I’m going to go ahead and be slightly blasphemous and say this is not what I look forward to most, this weekend. Holidays aside, Easter weekend is when I put in my vegetables, and that means the season of Children Grazing Outside Like Animals and Roasted Tomato Sauce Making will begin.
Yum.
If you’ve been looking for organic seeds, there’s a couple of good options at Amazon right now; choose either the Ferry Morse 9-packet basic organic vegetable garden assortment for $11.38 or go whole hog with the Ferry Morse 13-packet large organic vegetable garden assortment for $17.15.
I’m trying to decide if I want to branch out this year. There are several options in there of things I’ve never grown (like okra, because, well, I don’t particularly like okra) that I’m trying to decide if I’m brave enough to try….
For the hardcore bacon lover
So this morning I sat down with my coffee and clicked over to the Target Daily Deals, as I do ‘most every morning, and there I see an adorable $5 boys’ shirt that says “I heart bacon.” The heart is formed with a fried egg, and the words are written in—what else?—bacon.
Is that enough for me to whip out my credit card and buy one for my bacon-loving boychild? Absolutely. At $5 and with free shipping, I cannot resist.
However, then I see that this shirt is… scented.
I’m still buying it. But I can’t stop laughing.
Eyes are overrated
What parent doesn’t love the opportunity to say, “You’ll shoot your eye out, kid” to their offspring? Or, in this case, I guess you could say “You’ll poke your eye out, kid,” instead. Today’s Daily Easter toy deal at Target is a double-sided Darth Maul Lightsaber for just $9.99 shipped (half price, free shipping).
Just think of all the damage that thing could do! Your kids will be in heaven… right up until the detached retinas and/or scratched corneas.
(Why no, no one else have ever mentioned that I’m sort of a curmudgeon, why do you ask?)
Look generous to your teen
I have no idea what it is about the clothing at Aeropostale that makes my teen lose her mind, but apparently their offerings are superior to most other stores in nearly every way. According to her, that is. According to me, their stuff is just overpriced. But a sale like they’re having today is my chance to look like a big spender—all regular-price items are half off! There’s $8 shorts and t-shirts, and $10 polos, which makes shopping there a lot more reasonable.
Spend $87+ and you can use coupon code RMN87 for free shipping on your order, too. And I don’t think there’s any need to tell our teens that everything was on sale, do you? Nah.
Another excuse to buy some shoes
If you’ve had your eye on some shoes at Piperlime and just felt like you needed a little extra discount to justify it, I’m here to help. Right now you can use coupon code BOXES to take an additional $10 off your $50+ purchase. Unlike a lot of other Piperlime codes, which exclude clearance and sometimes even sale prices, this one should work on everything.
And of course, insert your own obligatory “Piperlime carries more than just shoes” disclaimer here, but I still can’t get used to the fact that they carry clothes and such, and prefer to believe they exist purely to taunt me with pretty shoes.
Deals on Dockers
Whether you’re buying pants for your favorite guy or picking up a few cute tops for yourself, Dockers has a ton of items on sale right now, so it’s definitely worth a look.
Make the deal even sweeter—use coupon code welcome2011 for an additional 20% off and free shipping on any order. Spending $100+? Then use coupon code PLAYBALL, instead, for 25% off and free shipping.
I get sucked in every time they have a sale. I’m all “I’ll just get some pants for my husband” and then invariably I find something cute for myself. Heh.
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