Carnival fun on your Wii
Oooh, I’m liking this one: Right now Amazon has the New Carnival Games Motion Plus Bundle available for the Wii for just under $19, right now.
The carnival games themselves get mixed reviews, but if you’re willing to chance it, the Motion Plus add-on for one of your conventional wiimotes (if you, like us, have had a Wii for a while and don’t have the newest wiimotes) is basically a free upgrade at this price.
And who doesn’t like carnival type games? Kitten-kickers, that’s who.
Be an insider
Through April 1st, you can use coupon code INSIDER at the Discovery Channel Store and save 25% storewide.
I love the programming on the Discovery Channel and I love that aside from DVDs of all those cool shows, you can get just about whatever gear your little heart might desire from their store. And I’m not just saying that because I’m dying to buy those Jamie and Adam bobbleheads, either. (If you have no idea what I’m talking about, please go set your DVR to record Mythbusters immediately. You can thank me later.)
Save today at Lee Jeans
For one day only—today, March 29th, 2011—save 35% on everything at Lee Jeans, plus get free shipping. It’s automatic, so you don’t even need to enter a code.
And if you haven’t looked at Lee lately, don’t be scared. They’ve gone way beyond “mom jeans” and have some very cute stuff. Sure, you have to wade through some waist-high pleats to find it, but still. I have some cargo pants from there I love, plus some shorts. Just sayin’.
It’s even fun to say
Looking for a new board game? Check out Stomple at Amazon right now; it’s down to just $12.30, which is lower even than its pre-Christmas Gold Box appearance. And because this one is good for ages 8+, it would make a great gift closet item, too, if you have older kids.
It has marbles, it has great reviews, and I am having a lot of fun just saying it. Stomple. I stomple you. Let’s get stompling. See? Fun!
A Groupon for eBayers
Plenty of Groupon deals are for stores you’ve never shopped at (or maybe even never heard of), so then you kind of have to weigh the savings against the unknown-ness of it and decide if it’s for you. But not today! Today you can go snag a $15 eBay Groupon for just $7, leaving you $8 more to spend on whatever bargains delight you there.
But maybe you don’t want to save $8. Hey, no one’s holding a gun to your head. I’m just saying you’re probably using eBay anyway, so why not?
5GB of free storage, in the Amazon Cloud
Been looking at ways to do a little bit of data back-up online? This morning Amazon rolled out Amazon Cloud, their data storage service that not only allows you to back up anything you want, but lets you play music directly from your archive. 5GB of storage is always going to be free, and if you buy any MP3 album right now, you get another 20GB of storage for a year for free ($20/year after that).
Being something of a Neurotic McParanoid, myself, I do data backup here at home in two different locations. But lately I’ve been thinking about taking advantage of one of these “cloud” solutions, as well, because it doesn’t hurt to have more redundancy. Certainly for free, I’ll check it out.
They said the magic word
The magic word, of course, being “Dansko.”
That’s right—Dansko’s in the spotlight at 6pm.com today, as well as Fila, Crocs, Doc Martens, and more. Plus, it turns out that the $4.95 shipping offer is ending on the 31st (I’m going to miss it…), which obviously means I need to get all of my shoe shopping in this week before they raise the cost again. Right? Right.
Never let it be said that I won’t find a way to justify my shoes.
National Geographic for under $1/month
Thanks to pretty reader Theresa for pointing out that one year of National Geographic is currently just $10 at Amazon; it’s listed at $15, and another $5 comes off at checkout, automatically.
True story: My husband and I have a little… well, not exactly argument, but more like discussion about National Geographic every year. Because every year he renews it without checking with me, and pays more than I think he should. But then he counters that he wants to support the organization and doesn’t mind paying more. And then I feel like a terrible person. Gradually I forget about it, until the next year.
Don’t let this happen to you. Heh.
Modest bikinis for young teens?
As a mom to a young teen, myself, my head couldn’t nod in agreement fast enough when pretty reader Maria emailed me this morning to say:
My current dilemma is about bathing suits for young teenagers. My 13 year old daughter has worn one piece or tankini-style suits. She would like a bikini this year and I’m ok with that, but I cannot find an ‘appropriate style’. The ones we are finding in stores are the string style. I would like more coverage and something that won’t fall off when she actually wants to do some swimming. Any advice on where to buy such a suit?
(I thought it was a nice touch that she added an addendum with a link to this piece about Abercrombie selling padded bikini tops for 2nd graders to highlight exactly what she doesn’t want. Ack.)
The short answer, of course, is that there are viable options at the intersection of “she thinks it’s cool” with “Mom doesn’t think she’s naked.” It’s merely a matter of ferreting those options out. And the first problem is the size issue. read more…
It does everything but drive the car
I am not afraid to admit my deep dependence on my beloved GPS unit. I used to be the person who gets lost all the time; now I am just the person who talks about the miracle of GPS technology all the time. I think this is preferable.
Today the Amazon Gold Box holds the Magellan RoadMate 5045-LM, a 5″ widescreen GPS unit with lifetime maps and traffic. So basically, this one has all the bells and whistles, and I have to say, I will never again buy a unit that doesn’t have lifetime maps. We finally got one that does and it’s magical to be able to plug it in and get updates for free. (Our first GPS, they wanted almost as much for the map update as the unit cost. No thanks!)
Anyway, today you can get this fancy-schmancy Magellan for just $120 shipped—a good $60 cheaper than you can find it anywhere else. Of course, if you’re one of those “I’ve got a map in my head” sorts of people, I don’t even want to talk to you.
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