Remember this? Thanks to Allie for alerting me to a new coupon good this weekend only: take $10 off your $50+ order or $20 off your $75+ order with coupon code BOO2U.

Disney says this in the fine print:

Qualifying purchase based on pre-tax, post-discount amount and excludes Shipping & Handling charges, gift cards, animation art, Walt Disney Classics Collection, Disney electronics, DVDs, videos, CDs and cassettes, video games, CD-ROMs, You-Design-It Tees, books, sing-alongs, read-alongs, pre-sales, gift boxes, Pooh Friendship Wishbands and items not in stock.

What it doesn’t say is that you have to use it on Halloween stuff. So if you’re the sort of person who does Disney ornaments or snowglobes each year, now might be the time to get a head start.

On the other hand, that little girl in the (discounted!) Tinkerbell costume on the front page does look scrumptious enough to eat.

It’s a dreary, rainy Friday here, and the kids and I stepped out the door to watch the bus pull away without so much as a backwards glance. Hmph. We piled into the car and took the shortcut to the next stop, and got out to discover twice as many kids there as usual. “So many people are late today!” squealed a little girl, with obvious delight.

“No, the bus came early today,” I answered, and four other parental heads nodded in agreement. Great start to the day. Ahem.

Fortunately, The Amazon Friday Sale won’t let me down. It will neither leave without me nor insist my watch is wrong. I love you, Friday sale!

(I don’t so much love the big processed meat sticks, or, particularly, this, but hey—to each his own.)

Friday Sale, you know that everyone should have their own robot (especially for just $134.99 shipped after coupon). Did I ever tell you that the Roomba actually beeps like a truck backing up when it’s re-docking itself? It’s adorable.

Got a hankering for Mexican food? This is the cheapest I’ve seen this quesadilla maker, and it’s got great reviews.

I don’t really know if this contraption is any good, but it’s 69% off! Which made me giggle!

Need a gift for an avid outdoorsman? Look no further than this backpack chair. Heck, you could probably hunker down and take a nap during your kid’s soccer game in that thing. Not that I would ever do that.

Happy Friday, and remember: Friends don’t let friends pay full retail.

So, apparently this 12% off and $1 shipping promotion at Overstock has proven really popular (duh) and so they’ve gone ahead and extended it through the weekend. If there’s something there you’ve been meaning to pick up, now would be the time. (If, for example, you’ve somehow managed to be a devoted Want Not reader and yet not have fully stocked up on nice sheets yet, check out their selection of insanely high thread count sheet sets on sale. Just sayin’.)

Just in time for the holidays, LL Bean is offering free shipping again. Use LL code 2324840. They’ve changed the checkout page around a bit; click on the “Redeem” button at the top of the righthand column, then use the tabs to select “Promotion.” That’s where you’ll input the code. Coupon expires January 1st, 2007.

Looks like a few of their popular backpacks are back on sale, if you’re inclined to buy ahead, and also for those of us here in the frozen north, there are deals to be had on boots. Heck, there’s a bunch of good deals. (Snowpants, anyone?) Free shipping just makes it all that much more lovely.

Free travel mug using redemption code WMGOHO-2006.

I can always use an extra travel mug, because mine have a mysterious habit of vanishing. Hmmmmm.

I love it when y’all send me deal tips. I did not love it quite so much when the lovely Karen sent me an email yesterday with a subject line of “URGENT!!!” I thought maybe someone had died or I had a gigantic wad of food stuck in my teeth.

Once I got over the panic, I discovered that Karen had just wanted to share the news that Sony rechargeable batteries are marked way down at Amazon right now.

So if you need rechargeable batteries, check it out. It’s URGENT!!!

Who’s a cute mixer? Who’s such an adorable widdle appliance?

Diddums is a cute widdle mixer!

Come here and mix up half an egg, you tiny little squee thing! Yes! You! So cute!!

You know my feelings on the latest and greatest Elmo, and I’m also no Barbie fan, but for some inexplicable reason I just love this doll. No, I’m not going to buy it. But it’s… well… okay, I’m just going to say it: It’s cute. Really, really cute. Excutiatingly cute. Teeny-tiny Elmo faces on her socks cute.

I… can’t believe I admitted this.

I feel cheap and dirty. Get it off! Out, out damn spot!

Seriously, I start squee-ing every time I come across a picture of this thing, and I have no idea why. It’s something of a relief to put it out there in the open, but it does cause a deep pain somewhere in the vicinity of my brain that’s responsible for balancing the checkbook.

Okay, I have to go lie down for a while.