Bringing you the best deals from southern Chester county and beyond!
First deal is from Groupon. Purchase a $50 gift card for Gap for only $25.
Second deal is a coupon. Get 30% off at Gap stores, including Old Navy & Banana Republic. Plus 5% of your purchase total will go to benefit Lymphoma & Leukemia Society.
I have no idea if we’ll be able to stack these deals, but I’m going to try!
This deal has been floating around lots of places on the internet and I debated on whether or not to share it. One is that it was very confusing to me at first, and two, it’s a very specific deal–you have to have a copy of Parents magazine. But then, just at random I shared it with a friend and she said “Hey, I have that magazine laying around!” so what the heck. Here goes:
First, you do have to have Parents magazine. If you have August AND September, even better. But you need at least one. I took three from my pediatrician’s office yesterday; they had about ten copies laying there. That’s what prompted me to pursue this deal more.
If you go to amazon, check out their diaper section. Some of the big boxes of diapers are eligible for a deal when you sign up for auto-ship. If you sign up for auto-ship, you’ll get 30% off the price of the diapers. ***Remember to UNSUBSCRIBE when you get your order!!! Or you will get more diapers at full price.
Ok, sign up for the auto-ship and get 30% off. Go to checkout. Then you can enter codes for more savings. The September Parents code is for 20% and free shipping. You can then stack the August code on top of that for more savings, plus any gift cards or gift codes you may have.
I ended up with a box of Size 4, 176 count Pampers–shipped to my home for $9.
You cannot stack two September codes, I tried. Also, if you calculate your total, enter all your codes and then want to go back & add more diapers, it wouldn’t take the % off the boxes I added on. Once I saw that I’d be getting the diapers at that price, I wanted to add two or three more boxes, but it didn’t discount them. Boo. You can always remove items at the end if you want, but not add and get the discount. Make sense?
Those codes are very specific and a one-time-use. Once you use it, that’s it. And if you have the magazine but not kids in diapers, I’ve seen moms paying as much as $2 paypal per code–maybe you want to sell yours, ha ha.
Check your pediatrician’s office, library, etc. for copies of Parents magazine. It’s a colored card in the middle–like the subscription cards that are in magazines.
Good Luck!
On Mondays I feed my family garbage. Not literally of course. Tuesday is our trash day, so every Monday I clean out the refrigerator and determine what stays, what goes and what really should be eaten now or it will go bad. And we don’t just necessarily eat only leftovers on Mondays, I try to be creative and make it into something interesting. A leftover hamburger may become a taco salad, leftover chicken breast a chicken Caesar salad, leftover lunch meat into a turkey & cheddar melt….and so on. It’s usually a big salad night for us as well, so that we don’t waste produce.
I like this Monday habit I’ve developed for several reasons. One is that nothing is in my fridge long enough to stink it up, or to become so unidentifiable that I don’t want to touch it.
But the main reason is that it’s really allowed me to focus on what we’re wasting on a weekly basis and how much money we’re throwing away. Sure, it may only be few slimy pieces of lunchmeat. But lunchmeat around here can be $9-$12 per lb. Just a few pieces of lunchmeat=$3 or $4. A bag of prewashed salad is $4 or $5 not on sale, so even if you’re only throwing out a third of the bag, that’s a buck or two.
This article from Slate quotes some studies that say Americans waste as much as 40% of our food. Forty percent! Are you wasting 40%?
Start monitoring what you are throwing away on a weekly basis and try keeping a mental tally. Next time you’re at the grocery store, before you purchase those highly-perishable items, ask yourself “Do I have this at home? Are we really going to eat this? Do I have a plan in place and a recipe in mind to use this item?”
Get into a garbage-night habit. Clean out your refrigerator weekly so that you’re mindful of what you’re using and what you’re wasting. Then turn that into actual savings at the store. It’s a very easy way to trim your bill–eat the food instead of throwing it away.
There are still 4+ months left in 2010 so still time to do some home improvements for the tax credits if you need to. If you need a roof, water heater or several other improvements, they are included. I found a good list with guidelines here.
There are lots of ways to save on home improvements. If you already have the cash in savings, great. Put it somewhere to gain interest for 6-18 months, and try to find a “No payments for 18 months” type of deal. Just make sure you pay it off! The interest rates on those deals can be atrocious.
At the very least, if you do an internet search on Lowe’s or Home Depot coupons, you can usually find one for 10%.
