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Don’t feel like cooking during the weekend? If you live near a Lucky’s store, you can outsource your cooking thanks to their weekend sale, running July 7-9 (2017) that can get you their 30 oz rotisserie chicken for $5 instead of their usual price of $7. This is a reasonable price, competitive with the everyday regular price of $6.50 for a 3 lb chicken at Smart and Final. You can also add a pound or two of cherries for $2 per pound 🙂
If you are an existing Virgin Mobile USA customer, you can still buy Android phones! There are a dozen Android phones still available for purchase through the Virgin Mobile website, with prices ranging from $30 (LG K3) to $650 (Galaxy S8). A number of them are on sale. As far as deal hunting, this is something you can keep an eye out for when they have the “fire sale” where you can get good deals.
We have a very detailed post on how to do this, which includes the list of currently available Android phones and prices.
You used to be able to buy phones at the Virgin Mobile USA website using your available balance, but they changed that a few months ago. You can still do it, but you have to call their customer services and buy through them. Expect some waits. I did this when I bought the LG Stylo 2. Some phones are excluded from “pay with balance”, such as the iPhones and select Galaxy models.
We have a new low in the T-Mobile Tuesdays. July 11 (2017) will be the first time ever they are only offering coupons. Make no mistake about it, these are all glorified coupons, they are not freebies. If you pay, it’s not FREE 🙂
The three glorified coupons are:
If you like to buy tea from the Peet’s Coffee website, until Sunday night July 9 in 2017, you can get 20% off the teas they sell there (loose leaf or tea bags) using coupon TEAPARTY. The coupon is only good for their website, not their B&M stores. Other exclusions apply (not gift subscriptions or gift cards).
This is a good time if you are a fan of the “legacy” Peets teas as they have four of them currently in-stock, including Ser Pumphrey’s Blend and the good old Scottish Breakfast and the smooth Lion Mountain Keemun.
“Killjoys” is an underrated and underappreciated space science-fiction TV series that is airing on Syfy and Canada’ SPACE channel. It has its own unique style and personality, which may not be for some people, HOWEVER, this has a lot of in-world mythology and world-building, and there is an underlying story underneath it all, so you are not just watching episodic television, it has an overarching arc.
The TV show is currently not available at any of the major streaming services (Netflix, Hulu, Prime), which makes this sale even better, because for under $17, you get the BluRay sett with Digital HD (Ultraviolet, through NBCUcodes) at amazon.com. This is a limited time sale, with up to three sets per customer during the sale.
Meanwhile Season 1 goes for just under $21, likewise in a BluRay set with Digital HD.
There’s also a music discovery component to the show as they play a lot of new and fresh music throughout the episodes!
Showtime is the home of the new Twin Peaks. If you want to climb aboard the Agent Cooper hype train, the Google PLAY store is running a promotion for Showtime, you get 20% off the monthly subscription fee for the first three months of your subscription. This is for subscriptions through the Showtime app, downloaded from Google Play. Once subscribed, you can use your Showtime credentials to login from other devices and systems.
I haven’t done this offer, so I don’t know how it goes from there. There’s only so much TV I can watch 🙂
If you have Samsung hardware device that is participating in their lesser known “Book Deals” program (Samsung it survived the regular purge of Samsung’s never-ending stream of projects), and if you have installed the Kindle app from the actual Samsung app store (it has S-Pen support after all), then every month, either for the lifetime of your device or for a preset number of months, you can receive a free ebook every month from a choice of four.
Almost all these books are part of Kindle Unlimited, so they have lots and lots of reviews, which can help you device which one to get or which ones to avoid. This unlike Kindle First which offers pre-release ebooks, so you have to wait for a few days before they build up a review profile.
The choices for July 2017 are:
Happy reading 🙂 I am leaning towards the “The Gift” because one can never read enough alien invasion stories 🙂
One more thing, once you get your freebie, a lot of these ebooks have an audiobook co-promotion. You can add the audiobook for $2 or so.
If you are participating in the Walgreens rewards program, and if you have been offered this promotion (check emails or coupon page), and if you “clip to card”, between July 1-7 in 2017, you will earn 5000 bonus points if you make a single purchase of $15+ at Walgreens in-store or online. You must first “clip to card” before you make the purchase.
5000 bonus points are the equivalent of $5 in spending power (or slightly more if you bank your points for a higher redemption reward). Walgreens is doing the goofy thing where 10 points are the equivalent of a penny. The simpler (and more honest) thing for rewards points to use 1 point = 1 penny, to make it easier for the average consumer to figure things out. It’s not like the Walgreens rewards program is complicated enough that the extra level of accuracy is needed!
The one below is a screenshot. You must needs click on the thing in your email or the Walgreens coupons page.
If you like Norse and medieval-y type of fantasy books, Book #1 of the “Shattered Sea” trilogy by Joe Abercrombie is on sale for a limited time for 99c in the Amazon Kindle ebook format. All three books have “Half” in their title. Book #1 is “Half a Sea”. This is a completed trilogy, so you don’t have to wait for “Winds” 🙂
Once you buy the ebook, you have an option to buy the Audible audiobook for $7.49, so even if you prefer the audiobook, it is cheaper to buy the e-book first, and then add the audiobook. The crazy way Audible works 🙂 This is a 385 pager from Random House. So you are getting 3.85 pages per penny 🙂
It averages 4.2 out of 5 based on 700+ customer reviews. I haven’t read it but I just bought it, to add to my never-ending “To Read” list!
It’s a new month, July 2017 is here! We are exactly at the half-way point towards New Year 2018! That’s right folks, time flies! This means, among many other things, a new selection of pre-release e-books have been loaded at the Kindle First page. As usual, Prime members get one FREE e-book from the choice of six, and you can read it right now.
All six e-books will be released August 1st, so if you like more than one, you can get them then. Almost all of these will be part of Kindle Unlimited, so if you are part of that program, you can read them for free when they get there.
So without further ado, here are the six options, one of which is a “Kindle in Motion” format which includes all kinds of multimedia but can still be read with ereaders (obviously without the features that require a touchscreen):
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