Make it your own story
Hey, the current Amazon Lightning Deal is the IlluStory Make Your Own Story Kit for just under $12. This is a great gift for kids of all ages—my kids have done them several times and it’s always a huge hit.
Get ’em before they’re gone!
It’s back, briefly
You may remember that last year there was a deal like this, and they’re doing it again, so commence with the happy dance!
Burt’s Bees is offering grab bags for just $20, and you can ship ’em for free with coupon code fallbag. You’ll get at least 15 products, some of them full size, some travel size.
Last year I brought it up and used some stuff for teacher gifts, others for stocking stuffers, and then kept a few things for myself. Worth every penny, no matter how you break it up. I pink puffy heart Burt’s Bees.
Just, please, don’t call them booties
Today’s featured deal at 6pm.com is up to 75% off on ankle boots. Which I love.
What I do not love is when grown women talk about wearing booties. Booties are adorable, wee shoes that go on babies. Occasionally, booties also get worn over your shoes, say, in an operating room, or when the cable guy is nice enough to not want to track mud through your house.
But what’s on sale right now at 6pm is ankle boots. Amen and hallelujah.
Are you feeling gifty, punk?
You know, the holidays are coming… and with them, I can almost guarantee you will have at least one oh-my-gosh-I-forgot-we-needed-a-gift-for-them moment. And you know I’m an advocate of being prepared. I’m like a Boy Scout. But female. And with more shoes. Anyway.
Who knew that Cleveland might save your bacon? Head on over to today’s Groupon deal for Cleveland and you pick yourself up $40 worth of gourmet yum from igourmet for just $20. Buy it now, and when you’re freaking out in December, bam! order a little something and save the day.
(Or just enjoy it, yourself. I was browsing around and one of the first things I came across was a 2-pound wheel of Brie. I was then catapulted into a cheese reverie from which I haven’t yet fully recovered.)
Be part of the family (of savers)
Today and tomorrow (that’s through October 7th, 2010), eBags is having their Friends and Family Sale, which means not only a warm, fuzzy, family-reunion feeling for you, but an additional 20% off and free shipping on your $50+ order. (Some brand exclusions apply.)
Sadly, this likely won’t include any cousins diving into the punch bowl, but it also won’t include any drama about that time when you were all kids and your sibling totally made you take the fall for that vase that got broken. Basically this one is just about saving money. Which is probably for the best.
Wednesday means Kohls
It’s Wednesday, and that means you’re nearly halfway through the week, and also means that it’s the right time to shop at Kohls, because on Wednesdays they put the entire store on sale and we’re supposed to act surprised. Well, no; acting surprised is optional, but today is the day for the best sales.
Also, you can redeem your Kohls Cash from the last time you ordered. (Though you have to visit the actual store, to redeem that. Sorry.)
Also, today is the last day to use coupon code TWENTY4U with your Kohls charge card for an additional 20% off!
Also, today is the last day to get automatic free shipping on your $50+ order.
And lastly, today is the last time they’re having a giant sale like this! Okay, I made that one up. There will always be another Kohls sale. But that was funny, right?
Wii will clarify you
Very pretty Want Not reader Candi writes:
I have been very good about avoiding video games for my son, but for Christmas this year, I think it might be time for a Wii. I am very Wii-clueless. I have seen frequent postings on your site about good buys here and there but have not paid much attention. Now, I think it might be time – is it possible to get a short informative post about what is new and current in the Wii games – isn’t there a Wii and a Wii 2? Do you get both? Or just the 2? What is a reasonable price on one of the systems and how much comes with one? Which games are the coolest ones to get? My son is 6 and it is just the two of us.
Don’t worry, Candi! If you have not yet been sucked into the Cult of Wii (motto: Just one more game!), we can help you. And it’s probably easier than you think.
Okay: Back when the Wii first came out, and for a few years, the game system itself cost $240, world without end, amen, and it never went on sale ever. Times have changes and the price has become more flexible, thank goodness. So here’s the scoop now: read more…
To your health
You do know that Soap.com offers one big discount every day, right? It’s just another reason I’m a little bit in love with them. Heh. Today’s special is appropriate for the start of Fall, which is—as we all know—also the start of cold and flu season. Today shop their assortment of Nature’s Bounty vitamins and supplements and it’s all buy 1, get 1 free while supplies last.
As an added bonus, right now you can use coupon code SOAPBONUS and you’ll get $5 back on a $50+ order, or $10 back on a $75+ order. Sweet.
Free two-day shipping on $25+, and this totally doesn’t even count as shopping because it’s still you need anyway. To be healthy. Hard to argue with that.
This is what Prime does to me
Now that I’ve signed up for my holiday-time Prime trial, it’s possible I’m spending a little more on Amazon than is healthy warranted. Ahem. But, you know, I shop more so that you don’t have to. Or something.
Anyway, this morning I got an email about kitchen products, so I was poking around, and I do think I’ve found both the heights and the depths of what Amazon Kitchen has to offer.
First, the bad news: Have you ever been whipping up some scrambled eggs and thought to yourself, “Self, what these eggs need is more rodent!”? Of course you have! You’ll want to pick up this two-whisk set where both whisks appear to have squirrels embedded in their cores. Because that’s not disturbing in the slightest.
The good news, however: How utterly adorable and awesome are these Measuring Matroyshkas? I love them! They’re only marked down a little—currently they cost just over $10/set—but they are available as part of the 4-for-3 promotion, just in case you’re doing other shopping or want to stuff stockings with them because they’re so cool.
Yes, ’tis the season for me to become utterly obsessed with Amazon. But when there’s great finds like this (well, the measuring cups, anyway—the whisks are still skeeving me out a little), can you blame me?
More ways to stay warm
(Can you tell the heat went on in our house for the first time this season, today? Apparently all I can think about is coats and boots. And maybe hot chocolate.)
Listen, if you can’t find the right coat for you at Target this morning (using the deals in the previous post), you should probably check out 6pm. Jackets are up to 70% off, and then there’s a bevy of discounted boots to go with ’em—Sorel, Clarks, and more.
It’s almost like Winter is coming, or something. Huh.
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