Penny For My Thoughts

I made my second Groupon today-I ordered a gift certificate to a store that has been catching my eye for a bit.  I also experienced a wonderous headdesk-I was waiting for my previous Groupon to come in the mail, but it’s waiting to be printed in my groupon account.  Oops.

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Amazon is offering a $3 credit in their MP3 store today with code MP34FREE. What an awesme deal. For those of you who have, like me 10 minutes ago, never used Amazon’s MP3 offerings, you need to enter the code BEFORE you shop. Also, you should download a their Amazon MP3 downloader, [...]

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November 11 (next Wednesday!) is Veterans’ Day.  My father served in the Coast Guard during the Korean War, so it was always a celebrated holiday in my house.  Were he still alive today, I’m quite sure he’d be plotting out the best way to take advantage of these freebies.

Applebees is offering veterans and active military [...]

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It’s that time of year again!  On Thursday the 24th, if you make a donation* to Make-a-Wish at Coldstone between 5pm and 8pm, you’ll get a free Like It cup with Jack’s creation-Sweet Cream Ice Cream with brownies, rainbow jimmies, and caramel.
*If I may hop up on my soapbox for a moment-at the Coldstone I [...]

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I don;t know about you, but I love search engines-I must use one every day.  Recently, I’ve found search engines that give you points for searching.  Scour gives you up to 3 points a search (their search platform is a combination of Yahoo, Google, and , and 6500 points can be cashed in for a [...]

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You may have noticed (or not) that I was absent from my blog for a bit the other week. I went away for my birthday* at the end of January.  Anyway, if your birthday is coming up (or even if it’s not), you may want to take notice of places that will give you discounts [...]

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I recently signed up for a Dollars4gold.com G-Pack to be sent out to me via a banner ad on a website that I frequent.  I had some ugly jewelry I had gotten for Christmas which I wanted to get rid of, as well as a few links from a bracelet I had resized, as well [...]

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I’m very excited-I saw Stephen Sondheim at a local university last night. While it’’s not as cheap as it seemed on the surface-I had a cheap ticket, but I still had to pay to park at the subway (which is going up $2 more at the start of the month!), take said subway, buy [...]

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I got an e-mail from Ben and Jerry’s today offering you a free cone on Election Day (November 4, 2008) if you vote.  The promotion will be going on from 5pm to 8pm at “participating locations.” The website states that proof of voting includes an “I voted” sticker, a photo of you at the [...]

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As I’ve mentioned before, I do a number of online surveys and the like to earn extra money. For about the past year and a half, I’ve bee doing what many people consider to be the holy grail of surveys-surveys through Pinecone research. After reading some posts on a few online forums that [...]

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