Amazon Sale on Childrens Shoes

This is a great deal on name brand shoes from Amazon.  They have about 300 pairs of children's shoes for up to 75% off, most of the shoes being in the $10-15 range.  Some of my favorites:



Good deals if you need shoes!

Tub Paints for Kids

This has got to be the best way to keep children occupied.  It's clean, it's contained, and it's a great activity for when it's too cold to go outside and you're on your millionth snow day.  I found the idea at Family Fun's web page, and it is just easy.  The recipe calls for 1/2 cup of clear or white liquid soap, 1 teaspoon of cornstarch, and food coloring.  I cut it in half and still had enough soap to fill 8 of the cups from an old foam egg carton.  I used the food coloring from Kid Concoctions so I don't end up with stained kids and tub, and I let them paint.  (Not my kid)

What more fun can kids have?  My little one was already covered in marker from the drawing they did this morning, so now she can paint all over herself and get the marker off at the same time.

How to Get a 3 Month Free Trial of Amazon Prime

Amazon is trying to get people to come and check out their textbook store, so they are offering people a free 3 month trial of Amazon Prime shipping with any purchase.  Amazon Prime is wonderful!  You get free two day shipping on ANY purchase.  Yesterday, we needed a computer part that was around $10.  When we searched to see if it was on Amazon, it was--for $8 instead.  I have also occasionally purchased items that are only $2 or $3 that wouldn't have been worth buying online without Prime. 

So, if you want to get a free trial of Prime, you can see the details on this page.  There are many of the books that are $2 or $3, and a lot of them are cool classics you might want to read anyway.  Just put one in your cart to be offered the free trial. 

My helpful hint: once you get Prime, go into the area called "manage my prime" and unclick the box that says "automatically renew."  This way, when the three months is over, you will not have prime, but you will also not pay for the new subscription unless you want to. 

Hot Weekend Sales

There are some good clearance sales going on right now.  Target is starting their baby items clearance--look for those items to go 50% off very soon (like today or tomorrow).  Their toys should be at 75% now as well.  Check all your local stores, as they should be really busy trying to get rid of extra holiday merchandise before doing inventory.  Here are some online sales that I know about:

• Old Navy has some really good clearance online right now.
• NY&Co is having a big sale online, with additional online coupon for either $20 off $50 or $40 off $90.  See the sales flyer HERE.
• Lands End is having a great winter sale and the sale items.  See the sales flyer HERE.
• Bath and Body Works is having their big sale online and in store.  The signature collection is buy 3, get 2 free, and the anti-bacterial collection is $3 each, as are home fragrances.  They have a large clearance section in store only.  You can also print some coupons for free products with purchase.
• JCPenney is having a big sale online and in store.  Free shipping over $75 with code SHB75.
• Crocs outlet is buy one get one free, 10% off and free shipping with code CROCSHOLIDAY.
• Toys R Us sale, Babies R Us coupon deals.
• Staples has some great stuff going on.  They have double rewards on toner purchases (20% back) and toner recycling ($6 per cartridge), they have BOGO on all Avery products , free (well, after the rewards) 3 ring binders and other products, and a ton of $1 products this week.  Preview their ad HERE.
• If you are from Iowa, Jordan Creek has a whole flyer of store coupons.  Look HERE.
• Design your own photo watch from Artscow, $4.99 shipped!   Code 499WATCH
• At Amazon, 30% off Air Mattresses
• Great deals on K-Cups at Amazon!  Right now there is a sale on many products from Keurig, PLUS save 10% with code KCUP9306 and save an ADDITIONAL 15% off when you do subscribe and save.  Here's one of the good deals, but there are many more.

CFL Bulbs $1 at ACE Hardware!

Remember that post I did a few days ago, about replacing your bulbs with CFL bulbs?  The sale at Ace Hardware is here now.  They have the smaller bulbs for $1 each and the larger ones for $2 each, so go and stock up now.  It's a huge savings now, with a good energy savings later.  Sweeten this deal by printing out your $1 coupons from coupons.com.  There's a link to the coupon in my earlier post, or you can just click on the coupons.com widget on the right.  This is a potential for free bulbs if your Ace takes printables.