Arden B. Sale - $5 tops this weekend!!!!

Apparently the retail stores are really trying to get us shopping this weekend (see previous post about Banana Republic sale)!! Get $5 Tops In Stores Only This Weekend! But You Better Hurry...This Deal Ends Tomorrow! So Get to A Store Today...

See you there--No, SERIOUSLY!

25% OFF at Banana Republic this weekend!!!

Eyeing the spring fashion from the window? Wanting to don the latest style but not willing to pay the full retail price for it? Here you go!

Two little days, One Big Deal

25% off ALL Regularly Priced Styles this weekend, 3/27-3/28.
Good for Online Purchases only. Use code WEEKEND25 at checkout.
Direct link here.
Fine print mumbo jumbo reads like this: [Offer valid on regular-priced Banana Republic merchandise purchased online only between March 27, 2010 at 12:00 AM ET and March 28, 2010 at 11:59 PM ET in the U.S.(including Puerto Rico). Offer not valid at Banana Republic Stores, Banana Republic Factory Stores or Edition by Banana Republic. Qualifying amount applies to merchandise only not to Giftcards purchased, packaging, applicable taxes or shipping and handling charges. No adjustments on previous purchases. Not valid for cash or cash equivalent. Offer cannot be combined with Gap Inc. employee discount or any other offers or discounts. Not responsible for lost or stolen coupons.]

2-For-1 gallery admission to 1964 at the Walker!!!

I received this in an email from the Star Tribune's weekly Offers newsletter:

1964 was the year of Pop Art - and so much more. With nearly 100 works, including work by Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Donald Judd, and Yoko Ono, 1964 focuses on art made during a period of tremendous transformation in the U.S.

Look for the Dot Deals coupon ad in the paper on 3/25, 3/27 and 3/28.

New Target Mobile Coupons

There are a lot of Target deals available this week. So make sure to stop by later for them. Not signed up for Target Mobile coupons yet? Just register your cellphone number to get text alerts from Target. Every sunday you will get monthly offers via text message with a link to a barcode that can be scanned at checkout. The same barcode can be used for multiple one-time-only coupon deals throughout the month. Please note that standard text messaging rates apply. In other words you will get charged for these texts if you don’t have unlimited texting plan.

New Target Mobile Coupons

[I got this from an email from Common Sense with Money (Thanks to Laura for introducing it to me).This could be very useful for those who forget to print out coupons, or refuse to carry them around with you! Click the link above to read more and to sign up to receive the coupons. :) ]

Freebies for your Birthday!!!

No one wants to pay for themselves on their birthday! It's our god-given right to expect everything to be given to us, without monetary cost or question or delay! It's the one day you get to look around the room and demand they treat you like the queen/king and they might actually oblige, isn't it? Well, at least that's the way we WISH it would work--at least I do. ;) Instead I end up baking myself a cake, blowing out the self-lit candle while hoping it's not a trick candle, and sometimes I make my friends take me out for a meal.  I always hate the inevitable frustration of everyone chipping in a few bucks for the birthday person's mean because it NEVER works out easily or fairly and it usually takes as long to figure out as the meal itself! Well, if you've had those frustrations, too, the read on...

There are about a million places that offer a free dessert with entrée purchase on your birthday. I’m not adding ALL of those to this blog. I’d rather limit it to the more substantial offers, like FREE MEALS or BOGO (Buy One, Get One) offers. Let’s face it, you could probably talk any server at your restaurant of choice into bringing you a scoop of ice cream (albeit the “scoop” at Boca Chica came with fresh pureed strawberries on a warm, flaky sugar-coated fried tortilla—YUM!). But can you talk them into comping your entire meal? Not likely, unless it’s an established birthday special. And this way your friends can breathe easy that there will be no fiasco at the end of the meal--except for their own damage, of course. 

Many of the restaurants require you to sign up for their birthday mailing list or for their email newsletters. One could look at it as a hassle, but it’s getting you a free meal! I would guess if you don’t find your favorite restaurant on this list it’s likely if you go to their website you may find a newsletter/birthday club offered by them as well. I think the biggest problem you’ll have is figuring out which restaurants to limit yourself to, and then making it to the gym enough times afterward!!

**Please let me know if you are aware of any others I've missed. I will add them to this list. I have almost a FULL YEAR to develop this list before my birthday comes by again and I can be the Queen :) **