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If you have kids, then read on you will relate to this and find this useful. If on the other hand you don’t have kids, read on, for one day you may. When you shop for kids, these are some handy tips to keep in mind:

Don’t take them along: if you have the luxury of being able to do so, keep the kids as home when you go shopping for them. Less distraction, and less likelihood of coming home with a lot of attractive looking useless stuff that you were tantrum-suckered into buying. If you have gone shopping with kids you will know how difficult it is to keep little fingers from picking up sweets, bright toys and other junk and how tiring it is to have to keep fishing items out of the shopping cart and returning them to the shelves.

Join or check Yahoo groups: I have found yahoo groups to be a source of great information about all kinds of things, such as product reviews, bargains, great deals etc. You can join one of like minded people who share their experiences with different brands, great deals that they found etc. For instance there is the mommy community where women are encouraged to “network and experience sisterhood thru chats, sharing of stories, tips, ideas, advice, goals, opportunities and inspiration.”

Kids Consignment Sales: This is a site that has a lot to offer if you are shopping for children. Parents know how fast children outgrow things, not just clothes but also strollers, car seats, bouncers and things like that. Seasonal consignment sales is a sort of exchange opportunity for both sellers and shoppers. These sales set up shop for a weekend or a few days more in the spring and fall. Some sales also offer a holiday sale around December that specializes in toys and holiday clothes. You may be able to find clothing, baby gear, toys, children’s furniture, maternity and postpartum items. Perhaps you can find branded items like Baby Gap, Ralph Lauren, Gymboree, Abercrombie, Peg Perego, Pottery Barn, Britax etc.

Buy for next year: Wait for the sales and buy on discount even if the clothes are a bit big to fit right away. They will fit next year if not now, nothing is going get wasted! So keep an eye open for the clearances and remember, clothes as also toys don’t spoil! Like I tell my significant other, if kids weren’t so expensive to bring up, maybe we’d have one or two more!

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Regular readers here probably know that I been toying with the idea of getting myself a new laptop. Yesterday I finally zeroed in on this Dell XPS Series model for $999. As usual, I then began my hunt for discount coupons for the same. And boy was I successful! I landed up on BestOnlineCoupons.com which provides innumerable discount coupons and codes for shoppers like me. Here I found Dell coupons that can help me avail huge discounts on my Dell laptop purchase. Not only this, the site is a treasure trove for bargain hunters.

They add new coupon codes and discount information on a daily basis. The Hot Coupons page lists the selected few unbelievable coupons that are far more lucrative than others. Their coupons are divided into many easy to browse categories. All the information is very well organized. The coupons for Apparel and Clothing are too good to ignore. Also worth checking out are the Health and Beauty coupons. They have great coupons on office supplies too. Some worth checking out are the Vistaprint coupons for low cost promotions on custom color printing. The discounts range form 25% to 75% with some stuff actually being given away free. That’s one find my better half will be happy about. Not so sure about the Clothes and Beauty coupons though. LOL.

And I must add, the site is completely free to use, no free registration required either. Do check it out and let me know if you use a code that helps you save bucks.

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If you read my Freebies post, you will know what an optimist I am and how, like a dog with a bone I don’t easily give up. So I shall sally forth into the realm of the unknown and try to seek out the freebie that be’est only in the flights of my imagination! (I have been reading Shakespeare, can you tell?)

I tried a different tack this time; I thought I would search for specific freebies: first I tried out free music. I’m talking legal music downloads not limewire and bootlegs. This site, has some cool music on offer; within seconds I had this nice track from the Buddha Lounge, but you need to buy most of the stuff. The Gibson Guitars site also has a quite extensive list of stuff you can download, but most of the stuff I found a little underwhelming. There is of course the famous Radiohead initiative where they gave their complete album for free download. Check out the remixed album here. There are other sites to be sure but they require registration.

Then I saw this advert for free Ben & Jerry ice cream cone sample! And I simply love Ben & Jerry’s ice creams, especially their out there flavors, so I really perked up but was rapidly crestfallen: that offer was for only one day: 29 April. Ah well, there is always next year.

Then there are Walmart freebies (I can see you’re thinking, finally this is getting interesting): John Frieda collection sample! Wonderful! I clicked on the get your sample link and Presto! I got the BROCHURE! You do however get free toothpaste samples and bedwetting shorts samples for the price of a few details and answering a few questions.

Since I love perfume, I thought let’s check out if there were any freebie perfume samples to be had (they spray it on really liberally when you visit any store that sells perfume, so why not samples). Apparently you can get a free Escada sample here for the price of a few personal details, but only if you live in the US, Spain, Germany or France. Here also, you get free samples if you fill in some details and answer some questions.

Be warned though, my skepticism is still rife, so I will trust all these freebie claims when I smell the perfume, so to speak! If you have had good or bad experiences with freebies, do let me know.

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Regular readers here will know about my love for shoes at a discount. If you are a woman, it will instantly be clear, the spell that shoe shopping can cast; the driving force that lust for shoes can be! If you are a man, try and work with me here, if you can’t empathize, at least try to sympathize. Let’s explore some online shoe shops today.

A site that sells all kinds of stuff including shoes is Zappos. They have shoes, clothing, bags, accessories and all kinds of other stuff. While this is not one of your bargain sites, it has the attractive feature of free shipping both ways (if the shoe doesn’t fit, ship it back free of charge). What interested me about the site is its designer shoes on sale segment which you may want to check out.

Piper lime is also a site that offers free shipping both ways. I loved these Thong dress sandals for $40. I also liked their smart gray pumps for $ 50. They have a really nice selection of shoes for under $75.

Another site for shoes is the self explanatory shoes.com with a very substantial sale section. These black crinkle patent shoes cost just $19.99; I think they are really smart.

Now sole fetish may not be to everyone’s taste, but there’s no cost to browse, so let’s check it out. If you are looking to stand out in a crowd, then this may be the place for you. As is my habit, I headed straight for the sale section there as well and look what I found: these (ahem!) eye-catching blue canvas boots were on sale for $55. And I actually liked these pink sandals for $70, down from $180.

Urban Original is another site which you may want to check out; it offers apparel, shoes, accessories, swimwear, lingerie, etc. There I found these lovely wedges for $14.99 down from 39.99! These black boots are available for the bargain price of $14.99 too, down from $79.99!

These gladiator like boot sandals are available for $ 30.99 down from $79.99.

Some of these shoes just made me salivate! Going shoe shopping anyone?

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What is better than a bargain, a discount, a good deal, an on-sale item? A Freebie, that’s what! Economists, however, would disagree with me, because the theory is that if a thing is free, its intrinsic value for the customer will be reduced. Whatever! I love freebies so lets go shopping. Without any money!

Freebies Archive is a site that claims to offer all manner of things free, including free laptops and free iPhones. Now that made me very suspicious so I delved a bit. Lots of pages regretted to inform me that the offers were no longer available or had expired; others redirected me to pages where I saw that in order to get the alleged ‘free’ iPhone you have to do all kinds of things and the rules stated:

“Please note Sponsor offers may require you to sample and/or purchase products of interest and/or take other actions such as applying for or obtaining a loan or extension of credit (including credit cards), transferring a balance, or similar steps. In order to remain eligible for your gift, you must complete all of the sponsor offers that require you to sample and purchase products of interest within 180 days of signing up for our service.”

Hmmm, not free after all. I looked with rather less suspicion upon the free samples sections. However a lot of these also redirected me. My desire to get 6 free toothpastes took me to a site called Brandrama (wonder if this one was named by someone hung up on the ghastly 80s band Bananarama) where I was firstly asked for my email address and the home page told me that the six tubes would be mine if I “took a survey and completed participation requirements where I sampled and purchased products of interest”. Most of the offers ominously informed me “Participation required”. Lots of strings there, and sounds like work to me.

Frankly disheartened I clicked on the free antivirus software, very hopeful that at least this would yield a genuine freebie? Nada, me hearties! The page offered zilch, it came up blank! Thoroughly dejected I ploughed on to the free Books and magazines section. A free magazine subscription offered me “the opportunity to participate in health surveys and polls.” And in all probability it will be an email subscription, so my ebbing enthusiasm evaporated entirely. Then there were free fonts to be downloaded, which I did, but my computer informed me that I would need to go and find the appropriate program to open the damn thing.

I hereby, most gloomily conclude that there is no such thing as a free lunch. But you know what, I am an eternal optimist and my quest for the freebie shall continue, I will bring you good tiding about it anon!

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