Joss Whedon and Nathan Fillion, please
This deal is hugely popular every time it comes around, so I’m posting it again (even though, yes, old-timers, I know you’ve seen it before): Right now Amazon has the complete Firefly Blu-ray set available for just $25 shipped.
It’s Joss Whedon. It’s Nathan Fillion. In short: It is yum. And as a bonus, you can buy it for your guy and be all “I know how much you enjoy science fiction!” and then just quietly drool over Nathan Fillion while you watch it, pretending that you bought it for him.
It’s true, I’m an evil genius.
Sally beautiful (I smell stocking stuffers)
Through Sunday, shop at Sally Beauty and get free shipping on every order, plus use coupon code 555156 for an additional 25% off your order.
Sally carries all sorts of products you’d want or need for everyday, but I’m thinking stocking stuffers. Nothing says joyous noel quite like glittery nail polish, am I right…?
Tasty treats for the rest of your list
Did the last few days of shopping make you realize you have a couple of hard-to-buy-for folks on your list who already have everything they need? No worries—through the end of the weekend, you can shop at Harry and David and get free shipping on everything, plus use coupon code SAVINGS for an additional 10% off your order.
In addition to having all sorts of decadent treats, Harry and David carries amazing fruit, and everything they sell can be scheduled for delivery however you like (you can buy now for delivery closer to Christmas, for example). Everything always comes packaged beautifully, too.
And… now I’m hungry. Probably can’t justify buying truffles for myself, though, huh…?
The Wii for the James Bond fanatic
If you’ve been wanting a Wii console but somehow didn’t buy one during any of the thirty different sales yesterday (ha!), plus if you’re a James Bond fan, your waiting is about to pay off.
Today only, Amazon is offering a Wii James Bond bundle wherein buying the black Wii bundle (which comes with Wii Sports and Wii Sports Resort) gets you the James Bond 007: Goldeneye 007 bundle for free. It’s a $70 value, plus you get the gold classic controller (shiny!) and, one assumes, the right to say, “The name is Bond. James Bond.”
I am not, however, to be held responsible if this irritates your friends and family to the point where they throw couch pillows at you.
Be a Band Hero while I cry in the corner
So a few weeks ago I may have been positively elated to pick up the Wii Taylor Swift Band Hero bundle on a Lightning Deal from Amazon for just around $90. Look at me go, I thought! What a deal!
Right now Buy.com has the very same Band Hero bundle for just $58 shipped. Yeah. Kicking myself. Hard. [Edited to add: I take back my kicking, because this is just for the Xbox and PS2 versions. Now I am just kicking myself for not reading carefully. Carry on.]
This a great way to pick up instruments even if you don’t want Band Hero, but want, say, to be able to play Lego Rock Band. Just sayin’.
Waaaaaaant (MacBook Air)
Amazon is killing me dead today.
They have the 11.6″ Apple MacBook Air available for $898 shipped.
I believe what I am experiencing at this moment is called unadulterated consumer lust. I repent! Mostly.
Attacked by UNO cards
What could possible make UNO more fun? UNO Attack!, of course, where the motorized doohickey might spew cards at you at any given moment. All it needs now is to say “Ha-ha!” in the same voice as the bully from The Simpsons and it’ll be a perfect torture device.
Regardless, I think my kids will love it. And at $13.50ish, it’s the cheapest price I’ve seen. Time to attack.
One of our favorite DS games
I am not a big fan of the Nintendo DS, quite honestly, because I have one child who would happily play it 24 hours a day rather than do anything else. That said, there are a few games for it that I think are truly engaging, creative and educational.
One of those games is Scribblenauts, which is just $15 today at Amazon. It’s rated at nearly 5 stars with 181 ratings, so I think it’s not just me who loves it. It requires both critical thinking and creativity, and is pretty much everything you’d hope a video game could be for your kids in terms of a nice blend of skills and fun.
Granted, Scribblenauts is marked down because Super Scribblenauts is newer, has more features, and is still nearly full price, but Scribblenauts is plenty fun, too. (I asked my kids to tell me the difference, and here’s their answer: “In Super Scribblenauts you can also use adjectives. So you can make a pregnant cannibalistic man and he’ll give birth and eat his little baby man!” Ooookay….)
I am not sure I am comfortable with pregnant cannibalistic men. Maybe I’ll just stick to the original Scribblenauts.
Accessorize your iPod (or phone, or whatever)
So you’ve gone and purchased an iPod or a new phone or something else similarly shiny. (Shiny!) And now you’re ready to get a case or other cool accessory for it. This weekend only, Griffin is offering 20% off and free shipping on your order with coupon code SVNG20FOR24. Griffin—if you’re unfamiliar with them—carries high quality cases along with things like the limited-edition Threadless cases, and they also carry those unbearably adorable Slap bracelets that allow you to turn your wee little Nano into a wristwatch.
Digression: Know what is a good way to convince your kid that it’s okay that you didn’t give her the Touch you gave away? To show her the Slaps and suggest she ask her father for a Nano, instead. You’re welcome!
It’s a fleece frenzy
They always do this to me; I was just shopping Children’s Place on Thanksgiving—feeling all smug, mind you, that I wasn’t waiting until Black Friday—and then what do they do today? A “fleece frenzy” event with $5 fleece tops, bottoms and accessories.
I’m only human, people. It’s not like I could turn away. (Hey, even nearly-a-teen kid can wear their hats and gloves, though I may have to cut the labels out so as not to disrupt her cred.)
Stack the coupons to make it even better: Use FSHOLIDAY for free shipping and THANKS X3CNWAJQ12A for an additional 20% off. That’s fleece goodies delivered to your door for just $4 apiece. If you’re strong enough to resist that, well, my hat is off to you.
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