Free Museum Entry Today!

Today is a special promotional day for many museums across the country offering free admission. It's held in conjunction with Smithsonian Magazine, but there are tons of museums around the country which are participating.

To find a museum in your area, go to this link.

After you find a museum you'd like to visit, click on it, then on the "Admission Card" link at the top. You'll have to fill out info for an admission pass that will get you in without paying the fee.

Culture, and at a bargain! Twice as nice!

Restaurant.com Promotional Code for 70% Off! ($25 dining certificate just $3!)

I've posted about a couple of restaurant.com offers and keep finding new promo codes -- this time it's a 70% off code! I thought I was doing well last month when I bought some of these certificates at 50% off...

To those of you who bought them at 50% or 60% off before, you may have a moment of regret not having waited, but I figure they were great deals anyway -- and you have to grab deals when they come along. Maybe you'll take advantage again and find another few restaurants to try with this latest offer.

If you haven't tried restaurant.com, their site has many restaurants which make dining certificates available. Some of them have restrictions about number of diners, minimum check etc. but I have found them to be flexible to use. For a $25 certificate, the regular price is usually $10, but for the rest of July if you apply the code PRESENT in the promo box in checkout, the price would drop 70% so it would just be $3! That's right -- a $25 dining credit for just $3!!!

They also have a spot on their site that you can enter family/freinds' e-mail addresses (who would then get an e-mail from restaurant.com, I'm sure) entitling you to a free certificate if that friend buys one.

70% off. Mmm-mmm-good...

Office Depot Coupon - $10 off $25 Purchase - Through July 15

Here's a link for a coupon that may be worthwhile if you need to stock up on some supplies... Office Depot is offering $10 off a purchase of $25 or more. It has some restrictions, such as not valid on technology items, HP ink, photocopies and some more, but it still may come in handy if you need to stock up on paper, supplies, other inks or the like -- a chance to save up to 40% and if you combine it with other sale items it can balloon to bigger savings. It expires 7/15 so use it soon if you have a chance.

Here's Your Chance: 8-CENT AIRFARE SALE Today!

I wrote that one of the reasons I started this blog was the reaction of people when I told them about my 2-cent roundtrip to Las Vegas. Well, I just spotted this and if you hurry, you have a chance to perhaps book a 16-cent roundtrip!!! Here's the link.

Sale is today (June 20) until 11:59 EDT. Spirit Airlines. Some city pairs are $8 each way and other are 8-cents! Dates vary but this time it isn't necessarily that you have to make the trip overnight to get the 2-cent fare like I did. This time, some destinations look like you could stay a few days or over a week!

Most of the deals are east-coast. Some examples:
Atlantic City and Myrtle Beach, 8-cents each way several days in July
New York and Detroit, 8-cents each way several days in August
New York and Myrtle Beach, $8 each way several days in July
Atlanta and Orlando, 8-cents each way several days in July
Fort Lauderdale and Guatemala City, Grand Cayman Islands,
Santo Domingo, Kingston (Jamaica) $8 each way.

Taxes and airport fees are additional (for the foreign destinations they are steep but they'd be steep even if the fares were full-price).

Amazing travel deals if you can get them... again, click here to get to Spirit.

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Tips and Ideas on Getting Great Deals

I've always been a bargain-finder... not just a hunter but someone who seems to be able to find a great deal -- the kind that's too good to pass up. I always figured why should I pay more money than I have to? If I don't spend the money it's like having earned that much more. (It's really even better than earning that money because if you earned an extra $100 you'd have to pay tax on it, but if you find a way to not spend it you get the whole $100 for yourself).

A few years back I went into a department store in Philadelphia and was able to buy several Geoffrey Beene dress shirts for $2.56 apiece! Set up my business attire wardrobe for a year for less than one shirt normally cost by itself. Later this year my wife and I are flying round-trip to Vegas for 2 cents. Yes! TWO CENTS!!! (Well, the taxes and fees on the trip made it $40 for two round-trip tickets, but the base fare was 2 cents.) And that's not by using any frequent flier points or anything. It was an actual deal I found!

I've shared tales of my shopping adventures with friends and drawn reactions of amazement, laughter and some disbelief -- but they usually ask me to share my tips with them. One of my friends got me an interview on the Sally Jesse Raphael radio show and she named me the King of Getting a Good Deal. So I figured if my friends wanted to see how I do it and Sally Jesse was interested and impressed, maybe lots of other people would like to hear about it too.

These are going to be real tips, ideas, concepts. Sometimes they have to do with websites that help find the deals. Other times they may have to do with specific stores. I do things with rebates and coupons. I'll also talk about some of the concepts that you can apply in your own environment, at the stores you shop or the places you go.

I've also developed a bit of a knack on ebay for both ends of the transaction. Both buying and selling have their own aspects for getting a good deal. I'll share some of my tips for helping ways of making the stuff you sell there get better results.

All the stuff I'm talking about is above-board and legal. We're not talking about any kind of deception, switching tags, or other underhanded ways. When I walk out of a store I want to know I got a good deal but did it in a way the store's own system and policies allowed me to do. And when I make an ebay sale, I want my customers to be satisfied (the way I would want to be if I were on the buying end of an ebay deal) -- I still have a 100% feedback rating after over 600 transactions.

OK, so that's enough introduction. If there are specific areas you want to know about, contact me. I can't promise I'm an expert in finding every deal everywhere -- there are too many things out there. But I'll bet even if I don't know the exact info, some of my concepts will still apply and you may find that better deal anyway.

I hope you will find this readable, enjoyable and most of all, worthwhile!!!

Thanks for reading, and stay tuned.