Using the code below gets you a FREE $10 gift from ProFlowers with every order. Sounds like Valentine’s Day was just taken care of. I love 2 birds with 1 stone deals!
Get 70% off Restaurant.com gift certificates, gift cards AND Diner of the Month Club using code HEART through 2/7/11. $25 gift certificates are now only $3, but you’ll get 70% off any denomination.
**See my example of How to Use a Restaurant.com Gift Certificate.
If you’re not familiar with Restaurant.com, you’ll find it’s a great way to try a new local restaurant with 13,000 participating restaurants nationwide! The gift certificates are valid for one year, so you have plenty of time to use them! *Don’t forget, restaurant.com also offers actual gift cards which make great gifts!
Have you used a restaurant.com gift certificate? Great value, yes?
Here’s a coupon preview of the 2 inserts in this Sunday’s paper. (SmartSource and Red Plum) *As always, coupons and values vary by region, so please use this as a guide only.
To get more coupons:
Want a look ahead? Check out the 2011 Coupon Insert Schedule.
 #GRDates is a weekly series highlighting fun & frugal dates in Grand Rapids and around West Michigan for $25 or less! Because I love West Michigan and want to experience everything it has to offer, but I do have to stick to a budget.
Snowshoe with Your Sweetie at Blandford Nature Center – February 10. RSVP $16 per couple, or $8 per couple without snowshoe rental. I LOVE THIS. (Thanks, GRNow.com!)
The Red Party at Cygnus 27 in the Amway Grand Plaza Hotel – February 10. No cover charge & complimentary valet parking. I attended last year and it was a great party with a great view of Grand Rapids.
Little Black Dress Party at the JW Marriott – February 12. No cover charge. I went to this party last year, too. DJ Todd Ernst is not to be missed!
Friday Night Dance Party at Salsalogy Dance Academy – February 11 or 18. $10 for non-members. Your evening might heat up in a hurry.
What do you have planned??
Final Price $25 or less
Get more #GRDates ideas here. Have you already done this date or do you have other ideas? Let us know in the comment section of this post.
Lavish for Less:
 Get free shipping on orders of $100+ at Tulle4Us using code FRSHP2011. There are soooo many cute things in the sale section right now… like this ruffle cardigan! I think I should add it to the collection of Tulle in my closet. What do you think? ;)
 Don’t forget I have a code for discounted tickets to tomorrow’s Griffins Hockey game using code SAVVY. Benefits the Area 11 Special Olympics Polar Plunge! $1 beer and $1 hotdogs, too!
Today’s Groupon: Get $10 lower level, center ice tickets to the Grand Rapids Griffins. Choose from 4 games:
- Wednesday, February 16 at 7 p.m. against the Hamilton Bulldogs
- Sunday, February 20 at 4 p.m. against the Peoria Rivermen
- Sunday, March 20 at 4 p.m. against the Rockford IceHogs
- Wednesday, March 23 at 7 p.m. against the Toronto Marlies
Wednesdays you have the chance for Winning Wednesdays (come back to the next Wednesday game for FREE if they win) and Sundays are $1 breadsticks and $1 sodas!
If you already have a Groupon account, go here.
See today’s Groupon, Seize the Deal, and LivingSocial deal for YOUR city here.
This post is linked to Things I Love Thursdays.
 Silly me to think the $25/wk Food Budget Challenge would be no harder than my 2010 budget of $40/wk. It takes a LOT more effort. Here’s what I’ve learned so far. Can you relate to any of this?
1. I started out making meal plans. 7 breakfasts, snacks, lunches, dinner. What I learned? I don’t eat all that food. I probably should. It’s probably close to the calories I should be consuming, but I don’t. Talk to me in a month when I’m training. Anyone else have a hard time getting enough calories?
PS I didn’t post the week 4 meal plan. Should I? Do you really care exactly what kind of meals I’m making?
2. If I don’t prepare the food ahead of time, I don’t cook it. Meaning? If I don’t cut up the veggies, make the salad into daily-portioned containers for lunch to grab on my way out the door in the morning, or prepare soup in bulk for consumption throughout the week, it doesn’t happen. I’m either too hungry or too tired when I get home. Now I understand why you all get so excited about your freezers.
3. I never knew impulse-buying applied to food shopping. It does. When you only have $25 per week to spend, you are ever-so-careful about what you put in your cart. You have to stick to the list. I got sucked in by a 95¢ bag of croutons tonight, justifying that it would tempt me to finish up the lettuce from 2 weeks ago before it goes bad. But those beautiful bell peppers? You can’t just throw them in your cart because they’re too expensive. I have to stick to the shopping plan.
4. I want to stockpile as much as possible now so I can spend my entire $25 per week at the first sign of Farmer’s Market season. When you’ve just been dug out of Snowmaggedon 2011, all you can dream about is summer and sweet-smelling, local produce.
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 I found another cool deal site with chic and unique deals. It’s called Jasmere. Same deal you’re familiar with: if you refer a friend that makes a purchase, you get a $10 referral credit.
With Valentine’s Day coming up, I like today’s collapsible vase deal. I live in an apartment with very limited storage space, so the idea of donating my glass vases to charity and having a vase I can store in a drawer is rather appealing.
 If you love Jasmere and daily deal sites, don’t forget about Gaggle of Chicks, Eversave, and Zulily.
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