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Thank you UPS and FREE Amazon super saver shipping! So this season has been all about Amazon for me (and much of my family I hear). I decided to compile some of my tips and others tips for getting the best deals possible from Amazon.com.

Filler Items:

Here is a cool website called www.filleritem.com where you can type in the amount you need to get free shipping and it will bring up a list of links to everything with that price or a very close price. Personally I usually just leave it at the default to bring up everything under a $1 to $2.50. As a side note, this website could get some serious traffic if it had a search feature where you could enter any website to scan for fillers…..who knows how many countless hours I’ve spent on beauty sites that don’t allow you to search by price for the cheapest pencil sharpener to get free shipping. Also would be awesome if you could search within a website for a specific brand name lowest to highest…..anyway enough of my rambling….back to Amazon. If the info in this paragraph doesn’t stay up long I am starting on a new business venture

Price Guarantee

Amazon’s pricing is crazy. Something that seems like it may be the deal of a lifetime could still go down a couple of dollars, as well as double in price by the next day. They must have some crazy software that tracks sales and increases/decreases prices with real-time inventory. Case in point, I was looking to possibly pick up this Wild Planet Hyper Dash game for Christmas. It was in the $20.xx range when I first saw it. Apparently it was getting really popular and was $99.99 yesterday! Now it’s back down to $14.99 (but offered from target.com not Amazon). Both other times this was offered by Amazon, not a third party seller. This has happened with so many things I can’t even list them all. Most things I ordered for Christmas have at least doubled in price. Crazy I tell ya! So here is what to do.

1-Go to Your Account (top right link right by help).

2-Click on items you ordered and it will pull up the current price of the item. If it is less than you paid write down the item and order number.

3-Go to this link to request a price guarantee (up to 30 days from purchase date).

find the items that you previously looked up that have dropped in price. Check the box next to the first item and then press the email button on the right side. Next you will be able to add all of the additional items that you are contacting Amazon about. Make sure to write the item’s new lower price in the email and send your email.

Lightning Deals Preview

Get a heads up on the Amazon lightning deals at this website, updated daily. If you have never taken part in the Amazon lightning deals check it out. The good stuff gets snapped up in minutes for unheard of prices.

Subscribe & Save Promo

Amazon is running a promo where if you subscribe to have 3 different eligible grocery items delivered you will get a $30 Amazon gift certificate for a future Amazon purchase. They have some great prices on grocery items that can be delivered straight to your home. If you aren’t all that interested in that (even with free shipping on any and 15% off) then just make the delivery for 6 months out, there are no restrictions on this promo as far as I know and you can cancel after getting your gift certificate. Click here for eligible items and you can browse by category or price (change in drop down box at right to sort by price). Here is a deal picked out especially for mom & dad. 4-8oz. pkgs Brown Sugar Splenda, 6-5.35 oz. jars Coleman’s Original English Prepared Mustard, & 2-9.7 oz. pkgs Splenda. After Amazon rebate & 15% off subscibe & save better than free shipped to your door!

Make sure when you add the item you want to not click “add to cart”, but look lower change button to deliver every six months (or however often you want it) and push subscribe now.

To cancel is easy, go to my account, scroll down and click manage my subsribe & save to skip a shipment, send next shipment now, or cancel. But make sure you at least wait for your $30 first!

My personal favorite is this delicious McCann’s Steel Cut Irish Oatmeal, a steal at this price. Takes a little effort to prepare, but so worth it!

Making it Fool Proof

www.amzon.com redirects you to www.amazon.com, smart, think how much money they will lose with you taking that 5 seconds to figure it out yourself….wait I guess it could be a lot…..when you consider the speed of my parents’ connection.

I feel homeless. I don’t really know how to explain it. We just moved about an hour away from where we have been living for the last 2 1/2 years. It didn’t seem like it would be that big of a deal.

Things just feel different. That knot in your stomach you have when you just want to go home and relax in your own room, your own bed, with your own things around you. I still have the room, the bed, and the things but can’t seem to shake that knot when I go home at night. Maybe it’s the getting ready in the morning and not having things where they “should be”, maybe it’s not yet taking a bath to relax (because I am weird about things for a while and can’t get over the fact yet that someone else was using that shower…ick…even though it has been thoroughly cleaned), maybe it’s the one level instead of split level, it seems like it is a multitude of things that all add up to a homesick heart. Silly, I know.

I miss going to the places I would always go. It’s basically changing my whole life. No Kneaders….where do I get to satisfy my craving for a great key lime tart? No Williams Sonoma 5 minutes from our house located very conveniently right next to two of my other favorite places; Bath & Body Works, and Bajio. It’s the not knowing just the right place to go to get so& so a birthday present, that perfect thing to eat, the ingredient I am missing, or a great place to browse for ideas.

I miss going to lunch with my Grandma and mom. I miss being able to pop over to my mom’s house whenever I needed someone. I grew up close to where I was living and sometimes saw old friends, went shopping and dining in the same areas, and just knew my way around. Now I am trying to figure out what places are around here. I also don’t know anyone. I’m not a student, and the only people that I talk to in my line of work are people who don’t really want to talk to me much. Basically, I’m lonely.

Maybe not the most important post ever, but I think this is the first time it has ever happened***drum roll*** I finished a lip gloss! Stila lip glaze to be exact in Apricot. To be completely honest it came in the gift of glaze that was out for the holidays last year. About half the size of a normal one. It is a perfect shimmer nude with a smell that is intoxicating. I couldn’t stop applying this one. Addicting for sure. Now I am working on the vanilla one, love this one as well.

You can buy it here at sephora for $20.

Maybe I should buy the new limited edition spiced rum…then I could really say it is intoxicating!