Even since we started using Restaurant.com certificates, I’m a lot more willing to try a new restaurant or even bring the kids along to a place that’s a little pricier than our usual fare. Hey, when the savings are this good, I find I’m just a lot more generous. What can I say?

Through September 22nd, use coupon code SHARE for 80% off your dining certificates. That’ll net you $25 of dining for just $2. What you do with your saved $23 is up to you. Use it for a babysitter. Use it to bring the kids along. Use it to buy yourself something pretty. Or just leave it in the bank and feel superior. It’s all good.

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Goood morning! Were you woken up by a dog licking out your sinus cavities this morning? No? Just me? That’s okay. I hear you can start your day without that, though I barely remember what it’s like….

Let’s see what’s on tap for today.

The current Lightning Deal at Amazon is a cool looking karaoke machine where you can dock your iPod. What better way to let your children amuse themselves (and the rest of the neighborhood) for hours on end? Exactly. (Ooooh, another Amazon goodie: Need a few Mead composition books? At $.61 apiece you can use ’em for order filler or just stock up for the rest of your kids’ academic career.)

Need razors? Right now at Soap.com they’re running a 50% off special on Gillette products, for up to $15 max total off your purchase. Just make your selections (those Mach3 razors my husband uses are expensive!) and then enter code GILLETTE50 in the promotions box at checkout to get the savings. I don’t think you can stack that with code WANT4631 for 20% off your entire first order, but if you haven’t ordered before and if you’re not buying Gillette stuff, they recently bumped that coupon from 15% off to 20% off, so there you go.

Today’s top deal at 6pm.com is dresses for under $50, to go with the shoes you’ve been buying lately. Heh. Plenty of shoe deals on tap there, too.

Do you wear contact lenses? We have a Want Not mole at 1800Contacts—they’re running a contest where they’re giving away free contacts for life to a lucky winner every day. Just click right here, enter your information, and cross your fingers. (Disclosure: That’s an employee referral link because apparently they’re also having a competition to see which employee can send the most folks to the contest. Just doing my part to help.) You bet I entered my daughter’s info there and crossed my fingers for a free year of lenses!

If you’re serious about your winter fleece, go check out the fleece sale at EMS, where everything’s already marked down and then drops another 20% in your cart. Nice stuff if you live in a frozen climate.

This weekend you can shop Macy’s and use coupon code SAVEMORE to take an additional 10% or 15% off of just about everything, on top of their weekend sale prices.

Don’t forget to check out your local Groupon every day! And don’t forget about those sneaky online deals you might find in another city—today if you check out the deal in Bakersfield, it’s $127 worth of gallery-quality Canvas On Demand photo reproduction for just $45. (This makes an incredible gift, particularly for grandparents. Trust me. My mother-in-law has a canvas of all the grandkids in matching Christmas jammies and it’s pretty darn awesome.)

That should keep you busy for a little while, yes? And I think we’ll have a little contest later on today. Just because.

Pssst! Have you read about Save Up ’10 and voted for Want Not so that I can learn even more ways to save you money? Every click helps!

Oooh, just came across this and figured it was too good not to share:

Currently at Amazon, the Wii Guitar Hero 5 Bundle will run you $50, which seems like a pretty good deal. But if you buy the Stand-Alone Guitar for $20 and the Stand-Alone Software for $15, shazam, you’ve just bought the bundle equivalent for a cool $35! Nice.

My Christmas fingers are getting twitchy, is all I’m sayin’.

Pssst! Have you read about Save Up ’10 and voted for Want Not so that I can learn even more ways to save you money? Every click helps!

Was this the longest week ever, or is it just me? I can’t remember being this happy to see a Friday in a long time. Think my kids will mind if I bid them goodnight, tonight, and tell them not to wake me until Monday…? (Just a little fantasy. I would never do that. I always let them wake me on Sunday night.)

Anyway! I was hoping that maybe, for once, the Amazon Friday Sale might help snap me out of the doldrums. Of course, they’re still mostly featuring coffee (Dear Amazon, Exactly how many warehouses full of coffee do you need? Love, Mir), but there are a few other notables. Like this Zoe Extra Virgin Olive Oil, which is what’s in my cabinet right now. I bought it because it was cheap, not because it was voted a best choice by the New York Times, but whatever—it’s good. And right now if you buy via Subscribe & Save it’s just $13.59 shipped for two liters, which is crazy cheap for good EVOO.

I’m also kind of crushin’ on today’s Gold Box Deal, which is this adorable tabletop Cuisinart gas grill—perfect for tailgating, camping, or small spaces. It’s adorable, highly rated, and a good $45 cheaper than I can find it anywhere else. And don’t forget to check out this month’s 100 MP3 albums for just $5; this is how I stock my iPod, and now think albums that cost more than $5 are for suckers. Heh.

Today’s deals at 6pm.com are once again a cornucopia of awesome brands; the Old Gringo boots—while cute—are a bit too rich for my blood even at 50% off, but I’m all over the 75% off Simples, under $25 Nine Wests, and the under $20 women’s shoe assortment. Come to Mama.

And if you’ve got your heart set on something new at Old Navy, right now new arrivals are 30% off with code ONNEW30.

Oneida has a new crop of deals, and today and tomorrow only, the more you spend, the more you save. Use code JF5 for $5 off $50+, JF15 for $15 off $100+, and JF30 for $30 off $150+. Free shipping on $99+, too. (Did you know they carry entire cookware sets? They do!)

Headed out on the town this weekend? Don’t forget to check Restaurant.com for discount dining certificates! Through the weekend you can use coupon code SPORK, which is not only fun to say (spork! spork!!), but will take 70% off your purchase price. That means $25 dining certificates are just $3, and let’s face it, you probably found that much in the laundry this week.

I’ll have this week’s contest winner for you later today, too. TGIF, everyone!

Pssst! Have you read about Save Up ’10 and voted for Want Not so that I can learn even more ways to save you money? Every click helps!