Alas, it’s not another $100 Amazon gift card. I wish I could give away one of those every week (and keep a few for myself).
However, it is a $10 head start on something you want — and it comes with chocolate!
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The winner! And a reminder.
Of the more than 350 entries in the $100 Amazon.com gift card giveaway, only one could be a winner.
Gina was chosen and she’s very excited. Five weeks ago she had a baby — funny how expenses go up at such a time.
Congratulations to Gina, and thanks to everyone else who entered. It’s a tough act to follow, but at least this week’s giveaway is both cute and attitudinal.
A non-chocolate, non-Amazon giveaway.
Last week’s giveaway is a tough act to follow. What could possibly be as good as a a $100 Amazon.com gift card?
Good question.
Hmmmm.
Dang.
I’ve got it: A cute puppy!
Shopping online? Don’t forget your coupons.
Over at my day job — the Living With Less personal finance column at MSN Money — I’m sharing info about online discount codes.
“Nab a $19 discount in 80 seconds” provides a primer on the five basic types of discount codes offered at sites such as Fat Wallet, Savings.com, Sunshine Rewards, Rather Be Shopping and Retail Me Not. These codes work just like coupons, with a couple of significant differences:
- No clipping or filing
- You don’t have to listen to folks in line lowing like cattle when you pull out a fistful of paper Qs
Who the hell would want to hear bloggers talk?
“Microsaving” may sound a little dull, but we talked about everything from recycling cans to getting paid to watch porn.
It’s the “Tania necklace” now, baby.
We have a winner! Two of them, in fact. The “Carrie necklace” goes to Tania, whose name comes in well under the allotted 12 letters. She’ll be the envy of all the other girls (and not a few of the boys) if she wears it to “Sex and the City 2.”
The confectionery consolation prize winner is Catseye. As we all know, confections have a stupendous capacity to console. In this case, that’s a bag of Godiva milk chocolate strawberries and two Godiva bars (milk chocolate with almond, dark chocolate with extra-dark ganache filling).
Congratulations to both, and as for the rest of you: Suck it up. I wasn’t even eligible to win and you don’t hear me whining, do you?
Minor celebrityhood: What’s YOUR dubious claim to fame?
I miss the Fly By Night Club, a proudly sleazy Alaskan bar that served up Spam and satire in equal doses. Nine months a year the club presented “The Whale Fat Follies,” a musical revue that skewered local and national politics, Martha Stewart, wildlife management policies, the Neiman-Marcus catalog, the official state fossil (that’s the woolly mammoth, not Sen. Ted Stevens), money-grubbing evangelical ministers, opera, squid, Bill Clinton and just about anything else that club owner Mr. Whitekeys figured could get a laugh.
The slide shows usually included at least one naked backside. The male cast members enjoyed the cross-dressing skits just a little too much. Some shows featured the world’s first tap-dancing outhouse, a performer introduced as “the happy tapper in the snappy crapper.”
Postcards from the edge of the world. Also: A giveaway reminder and a gun-related memory.
I’m getting ready to go to Anchorage, Alaska for a long trip, house-sitting and hanging out with family and friends.
Anybody want a postcard?
Friday giveaway: Necks and the city.
“Sex and the City 2” opens May 27, and I’m happy to be hosting the Blog & Save giveaway of the script necklace — aka the “Carrie necklace” — made famous in the TV series.
You don’t have to be named Carrie to win it, though. The necklace, from Limoges Jewelry, will spell out your name as long as it has fewer than 12 letters.
Normally this necklace it would cost $69.99 – but if you win, it won’t cost you a dime.
The cellphone as Romulan Cloaking Device.
Have you ever used a Blackberry or a Bluetooth to get out of interacting with a crashing bore or an insistent vendor of organic skin care products?