Why yes, I do have drugs on the brain
So, it appears that I’m going to live. But you’d better believe I’m eating about a billion milligrams of vitamin C every morning in a desperate attempt to boost my immune system. (Seriously, if I’m getting knocked flat with something flu-like in August, I fear I’m in for a very long cold and flu season this year.)
While stocking up on my favorite supplements at Drugstore.com, I discovered two awesome things. First, the Buy One, Get One Free on Vitamins promo is going on right now, so it’s a great time to stock up.
Second, remember when they used to have a Penny Item every day? It’s back! Until Friday, anyway. Limit one penny item per order, but still—one penny! Hard to beat, particularly if you’re already there stocking up on vitamins.
Awww, that’s so cute
So, one of the daily deals today at 6pm.com is that all Pro-Keds are just $14.95. Now, I don’t know about you, but I think of Keds and I think of white tennis sneakers.
But these Pro-Keds are totally different. They’re what happens when regular Keds dream about growing up to be Chucks, I think. Kinda snazzy.
I think my tween would approve. Then again, maybe she wouldn’t, simply because I kind of like them and that automatically makes them uncool. I don’t know. It’s all very confusing.
Snuggle in
Sure, today the sun is shining and the projected high temperature is 93 (well, where I am, anyway—positively balmy for Georgia in August!), but eventually the cold nights will return, and then you’ll be wishing you’d snapped up today’s Amazon Gold Box Deal: a microfiber down-alternative comforter set. Choose from twin, twin XL, or full/queen; regardless of size, $40 shipped gets you the comforter and matching shams, in your choice of three reversible color schemes.
That’s a good enough deal to get one for you and one for the guest room, even.
Hey, Mac-heads
Mac OSX version 10.6 (Snow Leopard) isn’t being released until Friday, but it’s down to $24.99 at Amazon if you want to go ahead and pre-order it now.
On the plus side, that’s a great price.
On the minus side, if you don’t have Prime, you’ll need to add something to your order to get Free Super Saver Shipping. (Really? They couldn’t just make it an even $25?)
Still. Not a bad way to save $5 on something you’ll probably want to get. (Thanks, BB!)
It’s nice to be appreciated
This week at the PBS Store you can take 25% off your purchase with coupon code THANKS25.
There’s tons of stuff on sale already (works on sale items), and if you were swept away by the movie Julie & Julia, they even have plenty of classic Julia Child DVDs available.
Happy shopping!
And speaking of organic food
As I said in the previous post, I will pay full price for organic foods, but that doesn’t mean I always have to. Consider, for example, he current Amazon special on Late July products.
I can’t eat their cookies and crackers (darn wheat…), but my kids love ’em, and I feel a lot better feeding them this than the standard generic cheese-n-crackers packs the grocery store carries. Through August 30th, 2009, use coupon code LATEJ444 to save 25% off the already-reduced price, plus buy via Subscribe & Save for free shipping and another 15% off.
The end result is lunchbox-friendly snacks you can actually feel good about, at the price of the stuff that’s not, you know, actually food.
Sometimes I pay full price
I was telling a friend this weekend (before I got sick, and now I’m hoping to type out this tale before the Dayquil wears off…) that I recently walked into Target and paid full price for a new blender. And then I realized that was significant enough to warrant its own post.
Yes, Virginia, sometimes I don’t wait for something to go on sale. I know. Crazy, isn’t it?
In the case of the blender, well, our ancient blender was on its last legs, and my daughter has taken to drinking smoothies on school mornings. Her lunch period is at 10:30 (don’t even get me started on that…) and she says that if she eats anything else at breakfast, she’s not hungry enough at lunch time to eat her lunch, and then she’s starving at the end of the day. So, smoothies it is! I punch up the nutrition by adding salba and spinach to our concoctions of orange juice, yogurt, and frozen fruits. Frozen fruit is hard on a cheap blender, so I knew I needed a decent one rather than one of those $19.99 specials. And I could’ve waited for a sale, but we use it five days a week, and I was worried the blender we were replacing could die at any moment.
So I bought it. For full price. (I got this Oster, both because my research showed it to have great reviews particularly with pulverizing frozen fruit, and because it matches my new stainless kitchen appliances nicely.)
The way I see it, getting as many bargains as I do offsets the occasional time I want/need to “just buy it.” I felt a flutter of guilt and then it passed. The moral of the story is that sometimes it’s okay to “just do it” (provided you can afford it, of course). Other things—off the top of my head—for which I will pay full price, on occasion: Local/organic foods, the perfect bra (sorry guys, but fellow women will understand that one!), and my work computer (because Macs don’t really ever go on sale).
So tell me—what will you pay full price for, regardless of your propensity to find the best deal on everything else?
End-of-the-month savings
It’s that time again: Now through the end of August, save 80% on dining certificates from Restaurant.com with coupon code TASTE. That’ll get you $25 worth of dining out for just $2, and they take Paypal, which is the electronic equivalent of your couch cushions. (Well, for me, anyway. I always have a couple of bucks in my Paypal account, don’t you?)
Check and see if there are any participating restaurants in your area. If there are, you’ve been paying too much for date night.
GoPicnic update
Thanks for your patience, folks—I just received word that the 20% off coupon GPMOMS for 20% off your order at GoPicnic is working properly, now.
(Still loving GoPicnic. We had a lunch emergency this morning, in that the thought of getting off the floor to make my kids lunch made me want to cry. So they took GoMeals and were happy, and I got to go back to bed.)
Don’t mind me
Posting may be a bit light today—I appear to be dying. (But! It’s not the flu! Just “general yuck,” says my doctor. Thank goodness.)
Here’s a few goodies to tide you over while I languish:
Today at 6pm.com they’ve got deals on Privo, Steve Madden, and—oh how I wanted a pair of these when I was younger—Kangaroos! Awesome.
For those of you who haven’t headed back to school yet, you won’t feel like today’s Amazon Gold Box Deals are too late—they’ve got a slew of school supplies on the cheap.
I think the Target Daily Deals are getting too ritzy for me. A $150 purse? From Target? Maybe it’s the fever, but my mind boggles.
I need a nap, but I’ll be back in a bit. Hopefully.
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