A Few of my Favorite Websites...

I have kind of become addicted to some of these websites lately, so I'll share them.  Most of them you have probably heard of, but if not they're ones I check every day.  Post Secret is this website that people can mail in any kind of confession or truth about themselves that they want, anonymously, on a postcard.  Its kind of weird but interesting:

Some of the postcards are really funny and light, and others are intense.  Its just interesting.

Now on to shopping!  I have sort of become addicted to Groupon and Living Social.  These guys offer a deal each day.  There is an IPhone app or you can go to the website.  Its everything from museum admissions to hair salons to movie tickets to restaurants.  You kind of never know what you're going to get.  Its a different coupon for each city, and its good to check the cities other than the one you live in, because sometimes the coupons work anywhere.  Yesterday on Groupon for Memphis was a $75 worth of services for $35 at the place I get my hair cut so I got that!  You just sign up with your email address.  I LOVE coupons so I love these websites!

The other two websites that I love that I have to give Summer Tyson credit for are Gilt and Jetsetter.  They are owned by the same people, but Gilt is clothes and home and Jetsetter is travel.  I haven't bought anything through these yet, but they are fancy schmancy and fun just to look at.  I'll buy something soon I'm sure.  Gilt has sort of like Sample Sales from Citizens of Humanity and Kate Spade and some fancy designer stuff that is still too expensive even at 60 or 70 percent of the cost, but fun to look at!  Jetsetter has amazing five star resorts all over the US and the world for usually about half off the regular nightly rate.  The funny thing about these websites is that you sign up, then they make you wait until they "have room for you to join", then you get an e-mail invite a few days later inviting you to join.  So far no one I know has been turned down yet!  Not sure what's up with that, but it is fun to window shop on these websites and I'm sure I'll buy something soon! Oh and if you click on the Jetsetter link above and sign up this week you get a $25 credit toward a purchase.

Last but not least is Restaurant.com.  Here you can buy gift certificates to restaurants at a discounted rate.  There are some important things to know about it before you buy, but still a really good deal.  Enter in your zip code and go through the list and pick out restaurants, then read the rules for the gift certificate.  Usually its a $25 gift certificate for $15.  The important part to know is usually you have to spend a minimum of $35 and tip on the original total.  So just make sure you buy the gift certificates with that in mind.  BUT the MOST IMPORTANT part is that when you check out, they always have a coupon code to enter to get you anything from 60%-90% off and this is when it becomes a really good deal.  You can either google "Restaurant.com coupon code" at the time you are buying it, and one of the coupon code websites like RetailMeNot will have the code for that time, or if you sign up on the restaurant.com website, they will send you e-mails with the coupon codes every week.  So with the codes, the $25 gift certificate ends up being around $2.  Hard to believe I know, but we use it all the time!! 

Back to RetailMeNot, any time I buy anything online I google the coupon code for whatever store it is.  You can usually find a coupon code for at least free shipping for most online stores.  Like if I am ordering something from JCrew, I google "JCrew Coupon code" before I check out and about 25% of the time I find something to save a little money.  RetailMeNot is a good place to look for coupon codes because they keep it very current and let people rank whether the code worked or not so you can see the percentage that the particular code worked for people.  Ok enough!  Enjoy!