Disney Items on Clearance Plus Codes for Extra 10% Off and Free Shipping Over $50

If you have or know any youngsters who love the Disney characters, you might want to pop over to DisneyOutlet.com where a nice selection of items are on clearance. And to drop prices further, you can apply coupon code OUTLET10 for an extra 10% off.

Standard shipping is $8.50 for orders up to $25.00, and $9.50 for orders between $25.00 and $50.00. But if you exceed $50.00, you can enter promo code FREE50 and get it shipped at no cost.

With the extra coupon savings you can get Disney character Beach Balls for $1.79, Beach Towels for $3.59, PJ Pals for $3.59 and $4.49, and many other items.

To take advantage of the free shipping offer, maybe you can pick up some items to give now, and some to have as Christmas presents (it'll be here before you know it).

Click this link for the Disney clearance items.

100-Sheets Kodak 4"x6" Ultra Premium Photo Paper Free After Rebate

With the low prices on digital cameras making it easier and easier for all of us to take more pictures, there are probably some that you'd love to print out to share with people or have for yourself to display on a desk. So being able to buy photo paper for free might help you print out some of those photos without draining your wallet.

Right now, Circuit City is selling a 100-pack of Kodak Ultra Premium Photo Paper (4"x6") for $26.49, and they have a $26.49 rebate that's valid for purchases until August 16th. So basically you can do your printing with virtually no cost for the paper.

This paper is a high-quality, high-gloss paper so you should be really happy with the quality of your prints.

It's not available for delivery, but you can order it on-line and then pick it up at your local Circuit City. To check it out, click this link.

Men's Relaxed Fit Jeans $5.39 at Kohls

Looking for some relaxed-fit jeans to hang around or maybe do some yardwork in? Right now Kohls.com has their Urban Pipeline® Relaxed Fit Jeans on clearance for $5.99. You can use a 10% off code NEW7342 to bring the price down to $5.39. Or even better, if you have a Kohls card you can use it with a code of TAKE15 to get 15% off, making them $5.09.

Kohls card-holders can also get free shipping with code MVC7482. Otherwise, shipping is $6.95 so the deal is better if you're ordering a few pair, or if you buy some other things and the order totals over $75, so you may want to check out other clearance items (they have plenty!).

To take a look at the sizes in stock and place an order, click the picture!

One Day Only - August 8th: Restaurant.com 80% Off Promotional Code!

I hope a lot of readers check the blog often, because this offer is off the charts and it's available today (Friday the 8th) only.

For the balance of the day Restaurant.com has a promo code that gets you 80% off their gift certificates. A certificate for $25 of dining usually costs $10, so today you get it for just $2! Paying $2 for $25 is like getting 92% off that portion of your bill!

If you buy a lunchtime $10 certificate, that normally costs $3.00 so with today's promo code it costs all of a whopping 60¢!

The certificates do have some restaurant-specific conditions (i.e. minimum check or minimum number of entrees, etc.) but these are still a great way to try new restaurants or visit a favorite a bit more often.

An 80%? I've never seen their promos that deep. The code for today is FIRST and it expires at midnight. Don't forget to hit 'apply' after you enter the promo code during checkout so you actually see the savings before placing the order.

Go vist restaurant.com and take advantage!

GPS with 4.3" Screen, Text-to-Speech $129.99

If you are considering getting a GPS system, and would like something a little easier to see than the smallest units with the tiniest screens, buy.com has a sale now for one that has a 4.3" screen (the smaller units come with a 3.5" screen). It's the Nextar Q4 4.3" Navigation System with Text-to-Speech. The current sale price is $129.99.

This GPS includes text-to-speech, which is really helpful when there might be a few roads close together so it tells you the name of the street on which to turn. It includes a pre-loaded map of the U.S. on a 2GB SD card, can play MP3s if you like, and can be mounted on your dashboard.

Some features include:
- 4.3 inches touch-screen display
- Built-in speaker
- Voice-guided directions
- 1.6 million points of interest
- Address book with capacity for 300 addresses
- Instant automatic route recalculation
- Turn-by-Turn voice prompts
- 2D or 3D map viewing modes with built-in compass
- Day and Night modes
- SD card slot for added memory
- MP3 playing & Photo viewing mode
- Built-in rechargeable Li-Ion battery

To take a closer look and see if this might be the GPS for you, click the picture below.

22" Widescreen Monitor with 1000:1 Ratio, Built-in Speakers, $179.99

If you'd like to upgrade the ease of looking at your computer screen, perhaps you're considering getting a larger and clearer monitor. Make those small figures on those documents just a bit easier to read. Or make the graphics pop on those photos or videos you like to watch. Or maybe it's just time for a nice thin monitor to give you some more desk space. Here's a nice deal on a 22" widescreen monitor with some powerful capability: buy.com is selling the SOYO 22" Widescreen DYLM2284 Citrine Series TFT LCD Monitor for $179.99, including free shipping. That's $120 off the list price and close to what you might be paying if you were looking at 19" monitors.

The SOYO DYLM2284 22-inch (21.6 Viewable) Widescreen LCD monitor has a wide-angle flat screen that offers a quality view from various angles. It features high brightness, sharp contrast and vivid colors for comfortable viewing, and built-in speakers for stereo-quality sound.

Some specs and features:
- Display Type: Widescreen LCD
- Viewable Screen Size: 21.6 inches
- Display Colors: 16.7 million
- Vertical Refresh Rate: 50 Hz - 75 Hz
- Horizontal Frequency: 30 kHz - 80
- Input Video Signal: DVI VGA
- Speakers: 2 x 1 Watt
- Contrast Ratio: 1000:1
- Brightness: 300 cd/m
- Response Time: 5 ms
- Horizontal Viewing Angle: 170 degrees
- Vertical Viewing Angle: 160 degrees
- Maximum Resolution: 1680 x 1050
- Dimensions With Stand: 20.71" x 17.05" x 6.89"
- Unit Weight: 13.5 lbs.
- Power Consumption: 54W

They show this as a limited stock item, and it's a hot seller on the buy.com sales rankings, so if this is up your alley, you may want to check it out before long. Just click on the image below.

7-Night Cruises in Mini-Suites on Norwegian Cruise Line for $898-$899 - Miami to the Caribbean or Los Angeles to Mexican Riviera

Followers of Travelzoo are getting an exclusive pre-sale on some cruises being offered by CruCon to celebrate August 8, 2008 -- or 08-08-08, which is a very unique number combination. CruCon is offering some special savings that day, but they're offering 50 cabins at the special price before they have a more general announcement that day.

These specials are priced very attractively with mini-suite accommodations, with their own balcony. An extra nice way to enjoy a cruise.

There are deals for a 7-Night cruise from Miami for $898 and a 7-Night from Los Angeles for $899.

The Travelzoo announcement only mentioned the Miami to Caribbean offer but I checked their link, and CruCon also had the Los Angeles deal as well.

The Miami sailing is on the NCL Dawn, and includes 7 nights sailing the Exotic Caribbean roundtrip from Miami. The itinerary includes Samana, St. Thomas, Tortola, Great Stirrup Cay and return to Miami. These prices are for the sailing dates of 11/29/08, 12/06/08 or 12/13/08. The mini-suite is $898 per person (or you could step down to a balcony room for $698.

The Los Angeles sailing is on the NCL Star and includes 7 nights sailing the Mexican Riviera roundtrip from the City of Angels. The itinerary includes Cabo San Lucas, Mazatlan, Puerto Vallarta and back to LA. For the following sailings you can get a mini-suite for $899 per person (or a balcony for $699): 10/25/08, 11/01/08, 11/15/08, 11/29/08, 12/06/08 or 12/13/08. They also have some other sailing with the mini-suites priced just a bit higher.

There's also a bonus shipboard credit given with each of these cruises on top of the great savings!

With only fifty suites available at these special prices, they may disappear, so if you want to cruise in grander style, this may be worth a quick look.

Even if these dates/destinations don't work out, you can go to the link and register by 1:00 p.m. Eastern Time to have them e-mail you all their 08-08-08 specials the evening of August 7th. The sale starts at o8:00 a.m. on the 8th, of course.

To see these cruise specials, or to register for news about other specials available Friday, click this link to CruCon.

3 DVDs for $10 at Amazon

Want to fill out your movie collection a bit? For a limited time, amazon.com has an assortment of 100 DVDs that are available for a special 3 for $10 offer. They have movies for children, action movies, romances -- someone for just about anyone's taste. There's Oscar Winner Charlize Theron in Monster... stars like Katie Holmes, Jessica Alba and Sandra Bullock, Tom Hanks, Jack Nicholson, Meryl Streep and many others.

If you can get your order over $25, either by buying more of the DVDs or just some other products that they have, you can get free shipping as well.

To take a look at the movies available under this special deal, click 3 DVDs for $10

See Spamalot in Philadelphia at 50% Off

For my Philadelphia-area readers, here's a sweet deal on tickets to Spamalot, the wacky Monty Python hit musical at the Academy of Music. Telecharge has an on-line code for tickets at 50% off to selected performances.

Shows available with special pricing are:
Evening performances August 14-17 (Thurs, Fri, Sat and Sunday)
Evening performances August 19-24 (Tuesday through Sunday)

Special prices are good for balcony seating and up, excluding boxes.

The promo code is PATSY which knocks 50% off the price of tickets. Telecharge service fees don't get discounted. But if you have a hankering to see the silliness, the savings are quite nice.

Tickle the inner you! Here's the link.

Canon iP4500 Printer with a Hannah Montana or High School Musical Digital Camera for $19.99 After Rebates (Or Another Kid's Camera for $14.99)

A lot of the free-printer rebates come when you buy a printer together with a PC, but if you just need a new printer and don't want to spend a ton, there's a nice rebate deal at Ritz Camera right now.

They have the Canon Pixma iP4500 on sale for $100, a printer that gets very high reviews. There's a $50 rebate on the printer valid for purchases until October 31st. In addition, they have a bonus $50 rebate program when you buy this printer with any digital camera. So after the combined rebates, the printer is free and you basically just have to pay the cost of the digital camera. Shipping is free too.

Now if you happen to be in the market for a good digital camera anyway, you might want to take advantage of this deal and get the printer too.

But if it's the printer in which you're interested, there's a low-cost option that lets you get an inexpensive little camera and get the printer rebate. If you search their website for digital cameras, you can find two inexpensive ones featuring Hannah Montana or High School Musical for $19.99 apiece. Or they also have some slightly less expensive low-price digital cameras such as the Girl Gear Heart-Shaped Digital Camera that also acts as a webcam and takes some video, priced at just $14.99.

Now, the resolution on pictures and videos from cameras like all of these are obviously not anywhere near that of a serious camera, but they could still make a nice little gift item for a very young child. And if not, you've still gotten a nice Canon Printer for a net of about $15-$20 even if you just throw the camera away.

I called the rebate center and the representative with whom I spoke confirmed that the offer is valid with the purchase of any digital camera.

The camera and printer must be bought at the same time on one receipt. There are two different rebate forms to complete and submit separately, so you want to note which UPC goes with which. The $50 combined camera-printer offer (offer 109486) gets the original white UPC from the outside of the printer box. The $50 printer rebate (offer 109485) uses the secondary red UPC that's found on the inside flap of the printer box. Each rebate form also asks for a copy of the receipt with the qualifying items circled. And you should note that no P.O. Box addresses are allowed on the rebate form. As with any rebates, do take the time to read the conditions so you know what's required. After all, a free-after-rebate offer is only good if you actually get the money back -- and that requires following all the directions fully.

One more little note about ordering: Ritz gives you an order confirmation and an e-mail after you place your order, and they ask that you call a toll-free number to reconfirm the order before they ship it. No problem, just something you might want to know.

By the way, I've used Canon printers and have been really pleased with the quality of the prints and the reliability. You should note that the more modern printers read chips in the ink cartridges to make sure you use Canon-brand ink, not some generics or refills.

To take a look at the printer (where they also have links to the rebate forms), here's a link to Ritz. Then you can search for your digital camera using my suggestions or just look at their whole selection by using their search box.

Aquazone 2 - Oceans of the World Software Free After Rebate

This is the third time I've seen a free-after-rebate offer for Aquazone 2 - Oceans of the World software. Some of you may have gotten it one of the first two times I posted. But for new readers who might not have it (or for people who might want to have a second copy they can give as a gift), buy.com is selling this marine-themed software for $28.99 with free budget shipping. And there's a $28.99 rebate for purchases until August 17th so you're picking up this software at a net cost of zero.

Maybe you're captivated with oceans and marine life. Maybe you'd like to give your children an educational tool to learn about fish and the sea. Or maybe you're just like the idea of having your computer screen become a grand aquarium looking into the oceans!

The software allows you to bring four of the world s grandest ocean environments to your PC. You'll be able to skim the reefs of a warm tropical sea. You can cruise the currents of a cool blue ocean. You can trawl along the darkest of marine trenches. You're even able to bob under the ice caps of the arctic.

The software allows you to choose from forty-five species of fish, whales, manatees, manta rays, sea turtles, jellyfish, dolphins, sharks, seals, and more.The images are realistic, so they can allow you and your children to learn a bit more of the undersea in a captivating way. And it's free after your rebate.

A note: one of the reviews at buy.com is negative because he didn't receive his rebate. I received mine both times I bought this software. As with any rebate, you do have to read and follow the instructions to a T. With this rebate you have to not only send in a rebate form, copy of your receipt and UPC but also a registration card inside the box. It's not difficult, it's just paying attention to details. Both times I submitted my rebate forms for Aquazone I received the check just fine.

One other thing for people who haven't ordered from buy.com before: to get free budget shipping, you have to change the shipping method from standard to budget during checkout, and you'll see the shipping cost drop to zero. My experience is that budget shipping still arrives fairly quickly.

So if you want to take a look at the software and maybe soon be looking at fish undersea, click the picture below.

Almost 1,000 Books at $1.00 Apiece

If you'd like to check out a nice selection of books on closeout that are all available for the low price of $1.00, you may want to hop on over to BookCloseouts.com. For the month of August they've put almost a thousand (okay, it's 982 right now) books on their site at a price of $1.00.

They have books available in all sorts of categories and topics. In doing a quick glance through Sports books, I found a nice bunch about Golfing if that's your thing. They have a bunch on Travel, but I'd check the publication date on those since travel guides have time-sensitive information. They have children's books, books on health, fitness and spirituality, cooking, biographies and fiction as well.

Trying to look through all 982 would be daunting, but the site allows you to refine your search by types of book, authors etc.

Their shipping charges seem reasonable, with standard postal shipping quoted as $3.25 for one book, and going up only to $3.65 if I was ordering four books.

Hey, for a buck a book, maybe you can find that summer reading for the beach. Here's a link to the $1 specials at BookCloseouts.com.

Extra-Durable 8GB USB Flash Drive $24.99 After Rebate

Looking to drop your memory into some water and have it survive? Maybe you use your laptop while you're soaking in the tub. Or you're the type of person to go swimming while a USB drive is in your pocket. Who am I to judge?

Well, here's a deal on a very durable USB flash drive by Corsair. The price after rebate is a good deal for an 8GB drive, so the extra durability is like a bonus.

Buy.com is carrying the Corsair 8GB Flash Survivor USB 2.0 Flash Drive right now for $44.99. There's a $20.00 rebate for purchases until August 7th, and shipping is free, so it's like getting the drive for $24.99. That's a nice price for 8GB.

Flash Survivor is an extremely durable, water resistant, drop-tested USB drive. By design it is perfect for transporting valuable data without having to worry about damage or loss of data due to the elements.

It is:
- Encased in extremely strong CNC-milled, anodized aircraft-grade aluminum.
- Water resistant to 200M through the use of a EPDM waterproof seal.
- Protected from vibration or impact damage by a molded shock-dampening collar.
- Protected by a 10 year Limited Warranty.

Plus it looks kind of cool with it's cylindrical case. You can check it out for yourself by clicking on the image below.

4GB USB Flash Drive in Yellow $14.47 with Free Shipping

Looking for a nice bit of memory with a little color? Buy.com is selling the Kingston 4GB Flash Memory DataTraveler 101 in Yellow color for just $14.47. Shipping is free, so you don't even have to burn any money on gas going to your local store.

Kingston is one of the very reliable names for computer memory. This drive has plenty of space for high-definition photos, graphics-intensive documents, videos, spreadsheets, presentations, term papers, and music that can be stored and retrieved in a flash. You can password-protect data with SecureTraveler software, which can create and access a secure area of the drive called a “Privacy Zone.”

It features a capless, swivel design for added protection while traveling. And it's yellow!!!

To take a look at the details, click on the image below.

Women's Shoe Sale at $9.99 with Free Shipping and Free Returns - Lots of Styles, Up to 85% Off

Looking for some women's shoes? Getting them on-line can seem a bit tricky because of size and fit, but it's a little easier if shipping is free and you also get return shipping free. Shoetrader.com has a large selection of shoes, many of them on clearance, marked down to the single price of $9.99. Some of these retailed for $59.99, $64.99, even $69.99, so the markdowns are huge!

There are all sorts of styles: dressy, casual, athletic, boots, sandals and more. Clearance items may have only certain sizes available, but at this price it might be worth taking a look.

This sale ends August 27th, but the selection of styles and sizes are sure to dwindle by then, so if you want to pick up a pair or three, it may be wise to head over there quickly. Here's a link to their $9.99 selections.

Maggiano's Little Italy® Restaurants - $15 Coupon Off $45+ Check

If you enjoy going to the Maggiano's Little Italy® restaurant chain and dining on their enormous portions, you may want to take advantage of a printable offer for $15 off your bill of $45 or more. If you take your family for an outing there, the $45 limit won't be hard to reach at all. Or maybe you can try those appetizers or dessert and make your meal more complete.

They have a wide menu of Italian favorites available to delight anyone's palate. The coupon offer is valid until August 31st, any day except Saturdays after 3pm. Alcohol, tax and gratuities aren't included in calculating the $45 limit.

But hey, $15 off a nice meal should make that next outing taste even more delicious. To print out your offer, click this link.

Macy's Men's Clearance Items at $9.99, Many Items 75% Off or Better; Plus Coupon for $10 Off $75+

Macy's has a listing of a nice big variety of men's clothing items they have on clearance at a single price of $9.99. They have dress shirts, polo shirts, ties, shorts, pants... well basically you could build a good part of your wardrobe. They have lots of casual items, as well as some dressier attire too.

And on top of that, if your order gets to over $75, you can apply coupon code REDACCEPT (expires August 25) and get another $10 off the order total.

Shipping charges do apply to your order, but with savings like these it's worth taking a look. Some examples of items now selling for $9.99 include:

Tommy Bahama Big & Tall All Shook Up Half-Elastic Board Short (was $78.00)
Izod Premium Pique Polo - Hot or Pastel colors ($38.00)
Alfani Green and Blue Fitted Dress Shirt (was $45.00)
Marc Ecko Cut & Sew Lord of the Flies Vest (was $58.00)
Alfani Linen Drawstring Pants ($49.50)
Club Room Wrinkle-Free Flat Front Pants ($49.50)
Geoffrey Beene Dress Shirts, various styles ($45) (on Page 2 of the list)

To see the whole list, click this link.

And remember the coupon code if you find seven or more items you want to buy. With the $10 code, it's like getting your next item free!

Railroad Gifts and Thomas & Friends Items: Smith Thompson Going Out of Business Sale - 50%-85% Off

If you know someone who loves Thomas the Train or is otherwise into Railroad items, you might want to pop on over to Smith Thompson, which is having a going-out-of-business sale. They have a variety of items on which prices have been dropped 50-85%. There are also some specials on the site, like a free Thomas Engineer's cap with the purchase of a six-engine set (which has also been discounted way down).

Some of the items have already sold out, so quantities are probably dwindling. So if you want to stock up on some Christmas presents early, now might be a good time. All sales are final.

To check out the sale, click this link to Smith Thompson.