If you don’t want to appease the Cylons, you don’t call them toasters, but you politely show them your nice shiny toaster as an homage 🙂 Which brings us to the Oster TSSTTRWF4S 4-Slice Toaster, on sale for $29.49 at amazon.com. Free shipping for Prime member or with a $35+ order. You can buy as many of these as you like. Only the Stainless Steel color scheme is on sale. It has four slots, with each pair of slots independently adjustable toasting-strength wise. It averages 3.8 out of 5 based on over 1500 customer reviews.
Pay $40, Get $50 Famous Footwear eGift Card with coupon
Shoe shopping season! For a limited time, coupon code FAMOUS10 gets you $10 off a purchase of a $50 Famous Footwear gift, delivered by e-mail (not a physical plastic one) at amazon.com. Select the “$50” box on the page there and proceed to checkout where you enter the promo code in the usual manner. This is a limited time offer, but they do not specify the expiration date. Limit ONE per customer.
Extra Membership Point at Best Buy and Macy’s
This is another American Express Offer you can find in the “Offers” section when you login to your account. It is available only to cards that participate in Membership Rewards (not the lovely AMEX Blue), and it is YMMV. First you have to find these offers in your account (some of them are targeted, so only some people get them), and then you have to manually activate them, which sounds ore complicated than it is, you just press the “Add to Card” button for every offer you are interested in. You can “Add to Card” on as many offers as you like, including all of them. But you have to do it one by one 🙂
An extra 1% may not be much but if you are only getting 1% in points anyway at Macy’s or Best Buy, then it is doubling up your Rewards points 🙂
Here are the screenshots of the two offers, Best Buy first, then Macy’s:
The Road Rage Coloring Book for $4 (limited time offer)
For a limited time only, the brand new coloring book, “The Road Rage Coloring Book” by James Alexander is on sale, in new condition, as a special release promotion, for $4 in paperback (100 pages, April 7 (2017)) at Amazon by Amazon actual. Free 2-day shipping for Prime members even though it’s under $5. You can buy up to 30 at this price.
But that’s not all! A lot of the other coloring books by James Alexander, many themed around anger and expression and processing of said feelings are also on sale for $4 or less at Amazon, again, with free 2-day shipping for Prime members, despite the sub-$5 price. This includes the 150-page Sh*t Happens. That’s the name of the book, I did not replace the “i” with the “*” ~ the publisher did 🙂
Shhh! Don’t tell the “Add ON” police 🙂
$5 to spend at Kohls (check emails)
If you are signed-up for the Kohls e-mail newsletters, make sure you check them! One of them for April 6 has a personalized coupon code that gets you $5 off a purchase of $5 or more at your local Kohls brick and mortar stores. The coupon is good until the close of business on Sunday April 9, and can only be used in-store. This has to be used on a single transaction of $5+. The usual Kohls coupon exclusions for promotions of this kind apply.
Per the email, the coupon is also stackable with two other promotions, the $10/$50 promotion (get $10 Kohls Cash for every $50 you spend) and the 15% to 20% off coupon on your purchase. These coupons have different expiration days.
There are also recurring promotions on Kohls at the Discover website. Check the “Discover Deals” section there to see if their computers are targeting you for the promotion.
Don’t miss the Chase Q2 (2017) Cashback Bonus rewards
Don’t you dare miss the second quarter 5% Chase Freedom cashback rewards bonus offers! They offer two very popular categories that almost every person spends money on! Grocery stores and Drugstores! You get 5% on up to $1500 spending on those two categories between April 1st and June 30 in 2017!
The $1500 total is on both categories, not each category. However, if you have multiple Chase Freedom credit cards (Chase has been buying other small credit card companies left and merging them into their own), the amount is $1500 per card for the quarter.
As you can see from their promotion, a lot of popular stores are participating in this promotion, both on the grocery and the drugstore front!
Uno Card Game for just $2.86 [limit 5]
If you are a fan of card games or if you want to stock up on stocking stuffers or toy donations, run to Amazon! The new condition Uno Card Game is on sale for $2.86 at Amazon by Amazon proper. You can get up to five at this price!
There’s only one catch to this, they are currently marked as an ADD-ON product, so the only way the shopping cart will allow you to buy it is if your order total is $25+.
YMMV Amex Blue Offers Upgrade to Preferred with $150 Bonus on $1000+ spend
If you have an American Express Blue credit card, check your AMEX Offers (at their website or app). You may have been offered an Upgrade promotion to the Blue Cash Preferred credit card. The upgrade promo is a $150 statement credit if you make $1000+ in purchases during the first three months of the upgrade.
Staples 300/20 VISA offer returns March 12-18 in 2017
The VISA gift card promotion is making a comeback at Staples brick and mortar stores during the shopping week of March 12-18 in 2017. The terms are the same as before. You have to buy $300+ in VISA gift cards. Then you file an Easy Rebate (can be submitted online; nothing to mail in physically) and a few weeks later you will receive a $20 Staples gift card by mail. The rebate using data from your cash register receipt, so it’s easy to do (and works well for them too, since they can verify the purchase directly from the cash register data).
The strategy is the same as before, you have to get to the $300 amount using two or one gift cards. $300 gift cards are unicorns (hard to find), so the most realistic way is using one $200 and $100 VISA gift card. This will get you about $7 of profit, which is not bad for a $213 investment and a one month vesting period.
Plus, if you pay with a Chase INK credit card, you will receive 5% cashback on your credit card. Then you can use the VISA gift cards on items that would otherwise only get 1% credit card rewards.
TIP: sometimes they have gift cards throughout the store, hanging from the shelves – in addition to the gift card section. If you can’t find them in the gift card section, you may want to take a mini walk around the store for a little bit of a treasure hunt. Or ask the employees 🙂
T-Mobile Tuesday freebies for March 7 are media-centric
UPDATE: the free pizza promotion (for the remaining customers (lines) who didn’t get it before) was not mentioned in the app teasers, but it appeared to the lines of everyone who should have, it will look like this in your Tuesdays app:
Media is the theme of the Tuesday March 7 (2017) for T-Mobile customers. It is a mix of digital freebies and real-world coupons. The good news is that the FandangoNOW offer has been improved. Now you can also use your $5 credit towards the purchase of TV shows. You can still use it towards a movie rental. Unless they changed something (to make it like the much better Vudu offer), you can only rent one movie, even if it costs less than $5. We’ll have to wait and see on Tuesday! I’ll test it out and post an update as soon as I can.
The other digital freebie is a one month ad-free subscription to the Slacker music streaming service. Slacker is also part of the prizes (the ones without the magenta gift icon on the left side), so you may want to play those silly app and web games if you want to have a chance at winning a bigger Slacker prize.
The other two offers are coupons. You can get 50% off George Strait concert tickets, and the usual 25% off at Papa John’s pizza.
Not shown in the teaser of the time of writing, but it should be there according to previous Tuesday postings is the last round of FREE Papa John’s pizza. This is on a line by line basis, not by T-Mobile account, so be sure to check all your lines!
20oz Contigo Byron Stainless Steel Travel Mug for $9.34
Travel cups are all the rage these days! And sales too! The 20oz Contigo Byron Stainless Steel Travel Mug in the Gunmetal color scheme is currently on sale for $9.34 with free shipping for Prime members (or with a $35+ order) at Amazon by Amazon actual. Here’s how it looks:
This is a SnapSeal model, so it has its own rather unique way of dealing with the lid. Here’s a picture showing how to use it. The stickers are on the actual product. They don’t want to risk people returning it because they can’t guess how to use it 🙂 [this is a good thing, it’s better to over-explain than not explain!]
This is not the only model on sale. Peruse the different options at Amazon. For example, this Vivacious red goes for $10. If you want a slightly larger capacity, the 24oz “Stormy Weather” (some kind of a metallic blue?) goes for $11.12.
CUP STRATEGY
It’s a good thing they stuck to the standard coffee house sizes, 16oz is the Starbucks Grande after all 🙂 Another benefit is that some coffee houses, big and small, give you a small discount if you bring your own cup. So this will pay for itself. For example, Starbucks and Peets give you 10c off per purchase. So this will pay for itself in around 100 purchases 🙂
TIP: if you switch between coffee and tea or other delicate beverages, it is a good idea to have two. Use one for coffee, and another for tea. Coffee can overwhelm the flavor. And while stainless steel does not “drink” the drink like other material, coffee can find its way in the tiniest of nooks and crannies of a cup and lid.
TIP #2: if you want to have your own unique color combination, buy two different colors and switch the lids. So you can have a blue body with a red lid, and a red body with a blue lid 🙂
T-Mobile Tuesday freebies for 2/28: free eBook, discounts at Travelocity, Movies, Papa Johns (plus 1/4th get free pizza)
T-Mobile Tuesdays end the month with a mix of freebies and coupons. For February 28 in 2017, current T-Mobile customers will receive:
- one freebie (an ebook from a choice of ten at BookShout; not as good as it sounds – you can only read it using the BookShout apps or website)
- two coupons: $30 off at Travelocity, 25% off at Papa Johns Pizza
- discounted movie ticket: $4 but you can use it all week, not just Tuesady
In addition to the above, about 1/4th of T-Mobile Customers (or T-Mobile lines – I don’t know if they do this by line or customer, neither of my lines got free pizza so far) will receive a free large Papa John’s Pizza.
T-Mobile Tuesdays for 2/21/17: Movie Rental, Discounts, and some get Free PIZZA
The freebies for the 2/21/17 T-Mobile Tuesdays are not as good as the Valentine’s bundle of last week. It looks like T-Mo is saving some of the best freebies for special holidays and events 🙂 The freebies for this week including another FandangoNOW movie rental (single movie, price up to $5) and two coupons, 25c off per gallon of gas at Shell (great for anyone who already refills at Shell; meh for everybody else), and 25% off a Papa John’s pizza.
But the best deal is the free pizza, which is going to be available roughly to 1/4th of the T-Mobile customers each week until March 7th. T-Mobile is rotating the customers who get this freebie (check the Tuesdays official app every Tuesday), to prevent what happened a few months ago when Domino’s pizza stores got overwhelmed with hungry Tuesday guests.
T-Mobile Freebies for 2/14/17 include Free Socks, Movie Rental, Lyft and Pizza coupons (and 1/4th will get a FREE PIZZA)
UPDATE 2/14/17: here they are! The store I went to was well stocked and was not busy, so if you are worried about crowds – don’t – go and grab the freebies 🙂 There are two color options, the black-white-red (below) and a white-red-black.
T-Mobile has planned one of their best freebie Tuesdays for Valentine’s Day, February 14 in 2017. There is a brand new freebie, a pair of T-Mobile branded Valentine-themed socks you can pick up at your local T-Mobile store. This is the second time they are doing an offer of this type, they had previously offered gloves and beanie hats. Both stores I checked had plenty of stock, and socks are less of a “sexy” freebie than hats and gloves. The offer is one per line, but some stores may only give one freebie (one freebie is _two_ socks) per person, so you may want to visit more than one store if you have two personal lines.
From there on, we have two returning offers, a free movie rental (up to $5 in value) at FandangoNOW. The $5 amount can only be used towards one rental. You can’t use it to rent five 99c movies. If the movie rental amount is more than $5, you have to pay the different out of your own offer.
The other two offers are the usual Lyft ride coupon (up to $15 per ride), and a new 25% off coupon at Papa John’s pizza.
1/4th of the Customers get FREE PIZZA
The above offers are available to all eligible customers. In addition to that, about 1/4th of T-Mobile customers (or Lines to be more specific) will be getting a free large Papa John’s pizza with online order and carryout. The offer will run for four weeks, with 1/4th of customers getting the freebie each week. The Tuesdays app will tell you whether it’s your turn. More details on our explainer post.
Buy $50+ in select Gift Cards, Get $10 off your next grocery purchase at Lucky’s
There is a very nice gift promotion at Lucky’s stores until 2/14/17 (yes, a Valentine’s Seasonal promotion). If you buy $50 or more from a list of eligible gift cards, which include Starbucks, Best Buy, Macy’s and Kohls), the cash register will print a coupon at checkout that gets you $10 off your next grocery purchase at Lucky’s stores. So you will pay full price for the gift cards. The list of eligible ones can be seen in the screenshot below:
You can get to $50 with any combination, one card from one retailer, multiple cards from the same retailer, or multiple cards from multiple retailers. If you plan to buy $100 or more, you may want to buy them in two separate transactions, so you can get two $10 off coupons.
“Next purchase” means you can turn around after buying the gift cards and start shopping groceries to spend the $10 coupon right away. You don’t have to come back at a later day. Even if you don’t need/want to buy anyone else a gift card, you can use these yourself. For example, you can load the Starbucks card into the app, and it will spend itself in Cascara Lattes and the like 🙂
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