For your portable DVD player
Perhaps you got in a Black Friday portable DVD deal, or maybe you’ve had one for a while. Either way, this is an awesome deal on the accessories.
Sweeten the deal: Use coupon code ANYFSH for free shipping!
It’s not that I think you can put a price on sweet, sweet silence on a long car ride (that’s what our portable DVD is for), but if you had to, this would be a good price to put on it.
As long as we’re talking about rice
(You all have a lot of opinions about rice cookers, did you know that? Sheesh.) (Kidding. I’m loving the discussion. I just didn’t know that people felt so passionately about rice.)
Anyway. Go get some rice for free.
Instead of coal
I suppose the naughty might awaken Christmas morning to find their stockings stuffed with this.
(Can’t… stop… gagging….)
Free shipping right now, too, on a holiday special. So that’s… uhhh… good. And they take Google Checkout, so you can get a discount, and… I can’t believe I’m talking about this.
(Danielle, I’ll get you for this.)
Rice is nice
I hate it when people ask me questions about things I know nothing about, and I actually have to, you know, think. It makes my brain hurt. But I do it, because I love you all. Also because it irritates me when I realize I don’t know something. Anyway!
Heather writes:
Hey Mir —
Since you were so very helpful on my coffee-maker purchase (I got the Gevalia one and love it, by the way) … I have another small-appliance question for you. I’m considering getting a rice cooker (or at least requesting one from Santa). But I see they come in a huge price range, from like $15 to more than $150. I don’t need a super-giant one or anything, and I do kind of like the veggie steamer function that many offer.
So, oh wise one, what’s your advice? Do I even need a rice cooker or will it just clutter up my counter? Do I go for the cheapest one I can find or spend a bit more?
I do not own a rice cooker. I’ve never used a rice cooker. But—to be fair—we don’t eat very much rice. Let me assume the role of Rice Consumer and see what I can do for you, here. read more…
If you must buy a mug
Okay; if you’ve been reading me for any amount of time, you know how I feel about mugs for teacher gifts. Here, let me refresh your memory:
*yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaawn*
And while I am not recanting my position on that, the reality remains that sometimes people like to give mugs for gifts. To teachers, or to other people. If you absolutely, positively feel that you must give someone a mug (maybe they’re very thirsty, and you’re just that sort of humanitarian), it needs to be a really exceptional mug, wouldn’t you agree?
Check out these mugs. I love them. I love them deep down in the recesses of my blackened little heart. I think that if everyone was slurping their coffee or tea out of these mugs, the world would be a happier place.
And now through Friday, December 1st, you can take 25% off of your $75+ order with coupon code tryptophan. They have lots of other stuff there, too, but I am mesmerized by the mugs. Thanks, Kristy!
At that price, buy two!
I confess to being something of a name-brand moron, sometimes, but this Prada satchel
I mean, ordinarily 84% off would make me feel tingly all over. But for something like this, I’m just left wondering two things:
1) Is that nylon interwoven with platinum threads?
and
2) At what price point, exactly, does the color fuschia become “fuxia?”
Doxie shops, hilarity ensues
I loves me some Miss Doxie, and she’s put up her holiday shopping guide for our perusal. She’s not only pretty and entertaining, she finds all sorts of wonderful things, many of them for not very much money. And if it wasn’t for her I never would’ve found these earrings, which I’m fairly certain will make my life complete.
Also, if you’re a dachsund fan (or just a Doxie fan), check out her new store.
American Girl coupon for the holidays
I know someone was waiting for this one… Katie? Was it you?
Anyway, American Girl just released a $10 off of $30+ coupon—just use code 151676. I’m not sure when it expires.
You’re still better off getting the movie collection at Amazon, if that’s what you’re wanting, but it’s a great coupon to use towards other things.
And if your daughter is anything like mine, we can just rename December “begging for an American Girl doll month.” (Lord, grant me patience.)
Film? I think I’ve heard of that
Today we have a question from the lovely Daisy about film cameras.
Hello, pretty Mir, I know you have a source for this information. (snicker, sneaky laugh). My college age daughter is a journalism major and budding photographer. She recently won a photo contest (her third so far), and part of the prize package was a roll of film Well, she usually shoots in digital, but this reminded her that she would like to take what she calls “pretty pictures” with a camera of reasonable quality that won’t break the college-tuition- paying bank. Any suggestions? Is buying used a safe thing to do?
I’m not sure why she can’t take pretty pictures in digital, but I turned your question over to Otto for his expert take, anyway. He took it very seriously and he’s really cute when he’s serious. read more…
PetCo Google Checkout goodie
So remember how we’ve been talking about all these Google Checkout specials? Someone pointed out that you can’t seem to use it on gift cards.
That’s true. Mostly.
You absolutely can use it on a gift card at PetCo. Now, you have a few options. If you’re willing to take emailed GCs (which can only be used online), you can use either the $10 off $30 promotion or your $10 off of $10 sign-up bonus (if you got in on that and haven’t used it yet), and buy exactly $10 or $30 worth. That’s a nice deal, but you (obviously) can’t use it at the store.
If you’d rather have a real gift card for in-store use, you have to do it in $25 increments. Though I might be tempted to get a $25 in-store and a $5 email GC, to get up to $30, if they were a store I regularly shopped.
Shipping on gift cards (real or emailed) is always free.
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