School Supply Deals for 8/10 – 8/16

August 11, 2008

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Here are this week’s school supply deals: K-Mart 50 cents: Designer portfolios and stretchable book covers $1.50: Westcott scissors Office Depot These offers are valid only Sunday – Wednesday 5 cents: Eraser caps 12-pk and 6″ protractor 50 cents: Crayola [...]

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New York City Discounts

August 7, 2008

For visitors vacationing or residents staycationing in New York City there is a great website for discounts for restaurants, tours, shopping excursions and more. NYCVisit.com has both information on where to go and a deals and promotions page with ways to save. Some of the offers are exlcusive to American Express card holders but most are [...]

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Wallet Shock Today

August 6, 2008

My dear husband called me this morning at 8:30am and said it’ll be $3,700 and please come pick me up in an hour. That woke me up faster than five cups of coffee. No, my husband was not calling from jail. He was calling from the dentist’s office, the periodontist’s office to be exact. I [...]

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School Supply Deals for 8/3 – 8/9

August 3, 2008

Here are this week’s school supply deals: K-Mart 25 cents: RoseArt crayons 24-pk 33 cents: PaperMate pens 10-pk $1.50: RoseArt markers 10-pk $5: Sharpie markers 12-pk Office Depot 1 cent: Office Depot slider pencil box, pencil sharpener and wood 12″ ruler 5 cents: Office Depot 2-pocket folder with or without prongs, Scholastic crayons 16-pk 25 cents: PaperMate pens 10-pk 79 cents: [...]

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Welcome Miami Herald Readers

August 2, 2008

The Saturday edition of the Miami Herald included my website as a reference for money saving tips for back to school shopping. So Welcome to all of the new visitors from Miami! I hope you enjoy my site and blog. Secrets of saving on back-to-school shopping

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Sales Tax Holidays this Month

July 30, 2008

In time for back to school shopping, many states will have a sales tax holiday this month, especially this first weekend. Qualified purchases are exempt from state sales tax. Here is the Guide to State Sales Tax Holidays which includes participating states, dates and qualified purchases. It’s going to be busy at the stores, so [...]

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Miami Restaurant Months

July 30, 2008

I was quite surprised when I saw this. As I had mentioned in a previous post, many cities are having a restaurant week to entice diners to try some of their cities’ finest restaurants. Well Miami wants to one up all the other cities by having Miami Restaurant Months. Yes, that’s right months! This August and September [...]

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Cheesecake Factory Celebrating 30th Anniversary with $1.50 Cheesecake

July 30, 2008

Happy Birthday to the Cheesecake Factory. In celebration of 30 Delicious Years and in commemoration of National Cheesecake Day on July 30, The Cheesecake Factory will offer every slice of its more than 30 varieties of cheesecake at $1.50 per slice on that day to dine-in guests (limit one per guest)- just as they were when [...]

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Free Food at Chipotle Restaurants in Georgia and Iowa

July 30, 2008

Chipotle has a special promotion in Georgia and Iowa. (Those are the only states I am aware of having this promotion. If there are others, please share.) Chipotle customers who purchase a burrito, taco, salad or burrito bowl on July 30 and/or July 31, can return Aug. 2 and Aug. 3 for a free burrito, [...]

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Finding a Job – the Proactive Way

July 30, 2008

A friend of mine recently told me she was laid off. She seemed surprised but I wasn’t. Not that she was a bad employee, but because she worked for a home products company. With the dramatic drop in home sales and the shrinking of the credit markets providing home equity loans, it was just a [...]

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