Month: June 2018

July 4th is coming up this weekend, and God bless America! But moreso than America and its crumbling political system, God bless the savings from the many online retailer sales that occur during holiday weekends.

Not just July 4th, but during all major holiday weekends, online retailers go ham on their discounts. Thankfully, I have an eerie ability to get a shopping craving RIGHT before holiday weekends and then I hit any website and am greeted with a front page of THIS [insert holiday here] WEEKEND ONLY: 75% OFF HOLD ONTO YOUR HOLIDAY THEMED PANTIES BECAUSE THIS IS GOING TO BE A DOOZY.

Some of the notable sales going on this July 4th 2017 weekend are:

Department Stores

Barney’s New York: up to 60 percent off select designer styles, plus an extra 10 percent off select sale styles

Bloomingdale’s: up to 50 percent off of select items, plus up to 70 percent off select sale and clearance styles when you sign up for a code through email; through 7/4

JCPenney: additional 25 percent off when you spend $100 or more with your JCPenney Credit Card or additional 20 percent off under $100 with your JCPenney Credit Card (use code: 34BUYNOW); online only through 7/4. Also, enjoy $10 off $25 or more (use code: 9SHOP) in stores and online through 7/4

Lord & Taylor: 20 percent off your online order and up to 70 percent off clearance items (use code: FOURTH); 7/1 – 7/4

Macy’s: up to 60 percent off site-wide

Saks Fifth Avenue: up to 60 percent off select designer styles in stores and online

Clothing & Shoes

Ann Taylor: up to 60 percent off all sale items

Anthropologie: up to 50 percent off sale items

Aquatalia: additional 20 percent off sale items (use code: SALE20); through 7/5

ASOS.com: up to 50 percent off select styles

Boden: 50 percent off select items; through 6/29

Chinese Laundry: extra 25 percent off all sale items (use code: 4THJULY); through 7/4

Coldwater Creek: 20 percent off all sale items and 40 percent off all outlet items (use code: FREEDOM); through 7/4

Cotton On: up to 70 percent off select styles; through 7/2

ELOQUII: up to 50 percent off select styles (use code: EXTRA)

Express: up to 50 percent off select styles

Foot Locker: extra 25 percent off select markdowns

French Connection: extra 30 percent off sale items (use code: FSALBR)

Gap: up to 50 percent off select summer styles

Halston: additional 30 percent off sale and clearance; through 7/4

H&M: up to 70 percent off select styles

J.Crew: 25 percent off purchase and 40 percent off sale items (use code: SUMMER); through 6/29

J.Crew Factory: 40 percent off new arrivals; through 6/29

Joe’s: 30 percent off select styles

Kate Spade New York: extra 30 percent off all sale items (use code: SUNNY); through 7/5

Ked’s: extra 20 percent off sale items; through 7/9

Leon Max | Maxstudio.com: extra 40 percent off sitewide (use code: JULY40)

L.K. Bennett: up to 30 percent off sale items (use code: CELEBRATE)

L.L. Bean: up to 50 percent off select styles

Loeffler Randall: up to 50 percent off select styles

LOFT: up to 50 percent off select made-for-sun styles and and extra 50 percent off all sale items

MATCHESFASHION.COM: up to 70 percent off luxury labels

Michael Kors: take an extra 25 percent off already reduced prices; through 7/4

M’oda ‘Operandi: up to 70 percent off select designer styles; through 7/11

Neil J. Rodgers: 50 percent off sitewide; through 7/5

Of a Kind: 30 percent off select items; through 7/6

Old Navy: up to 50 percent off select items

Parker NY: to 70 percent off select items (use code: LUCKYSTARS); through 7/2

Ramy Brook: 25 percent off select styles; through 7/4

Rebecca Taylor: 40 percent off sale items (use code: JULYSURPRISE); through 7/4

Schutz: up to 50 percent off select styles

Shopbop.com: up to 70 percent off sale items

Sigerson Morrison: up to 70 percent off (use code: HAPPY4TH); through 7/5

Solid & Striped: 20 percent off select items (use code: USA25); through 7/4

Soludos: 25 percent off select styles (use code: JULY25); through 7/3

Soma: up to 80 percent off select styles

Sperry: up to 50 percent off select sale items; through 7/12

The Outnet: extra 30 percent off select items at checkout

Topshop: up to 50 percent off select styles

Tory Burch: up to 30 percent off select sale items (use code: EXTRA30)

Trina Turk: additional 25 percent off sale items; through 7/4

Yumi Kim: take an additional 30 percent off sale items (use code: FIREWORKS); through 7/4

White + Warren: up to 50 percent off select styles

Jewelry, Handbags & Accessories

BaubleBar: up to 75 percent off select styles and an extra 20 percent off select sale styles

Coach: 50 percent off all sale styles

Furla: 50 percent off all sale items plus an extra 10 percent off sale items; through 7/4

Henri Bendel: 50 percent off select styles

Rebecca Minkoff: up to 60 percent off select merchandise; through 7/4

Taii Jewelry: 20 percent off sitewide, through 7/4

Home & Travel

Dormify: 20 percent off sitewide (use code: FIRECRACKER); through 7/4

Williams Sonoma: up to 75 percent off select items, extra 25 percent off select clearance items

Beauty

Dr. Brandt Skin Care: save 35 percent (use code: FNF35); through 7/4

It is absolutely advantageous to either wait to buy something or buy something early so that you can get it during a holiday weekend sale, so whip out your wallets, grab your hot dog and your tiny flag, and get shopping during those July 4th sales! Don’t miss out!

Shop More & Spend Less

Have you ever wondered how some people seem to have a magical knack for purchasing items cheaper than you? Are you wondering what special deal and savings blackhole all of your money seems to be disappearing into? Meanwhile your deal hunter peers are getting animal style fries at In n Out and you are stuck with their plain cardboard fries that don’t even come with salt on them. Ironically, this is enough to make anyone salty, but fear no more! I am going to teach you how to save fat money on your online purchases and all it takes is a few measly minutes of researching (which is far less than the time it would take to eat those viciously delicious animal fries you will finally be able to afford).

Too Good To Be True?

As we all know, there are lots of various websites touting various coupon or cashback benefits, but there is understandably a lot of skepticism from the general public as to which of these actually work, which ones actually pay out your cash earned, which ones have the best savings, amongst other concerns. On my quest for the best cashback click through service, I discovered something far better than just cashback. Thanks to a deal savvy blogging angel, I found the website TopCashBack.com, through which I stumbled upon the savings wonderland known as Raise.

Gift Card Heaven

Raise.com is an oasis where unloved relatives who received gift cards instead of actual presents sell their unused cards, which would likely just expire and turn to Lotto Scratchers scraping tools, and instead sell them to you at an upwards of 20% discount so they can get cash to definitely not use on Aunt Susan, instead of a gift card, and you can get your animal fries saucy savings. Almost every single major establishment and a huge assortment of smaller websites have gift cards listed for sale on Raise.com. In the last 3 weeks I have saved $109 on purchases from Nordstrom, Forever 21, Amazon, Macy’s, Starbucks, amongst other places. The cards rotate as does the amount of savings, but you can guarantee a minimum of 1-5% savings, with the occasional, but not rare, 5-20% savings on cards. In addition to the savings you will get by purchasing these gift cards, both the eBates cashback and TopCashBack services have cashback earning chances on Raise.com, so you can determine which cashback service you want to use depending on the rate that day. Even if all of those savings percentages are only 1%, you are doubling down by getting cashback on the Raise purchase, 1-20% savings on the Raise gift card, then cashback on the site you are purchasing from if it’s available. Add in using a cashback credit card and hot damn, we’re in business.

Now to ensure that you are getting your best savings, it is well worth your precious time to poke around websites for a product you may have found somewhere (e.g. Amazon) and see if the cashback and Raise savings are better if you got it from Target, Walmart, Bed Bath & Beyond, what have you. Usually once I determine I am purchasing an item, I will first see if it’s available elsewhere and compare the gift card savings from Raise between websites. For example, I want to purchase a $100 rice cooker on Amazon that is listed at Target for the same price. At the time of purchase, Raise.com has Amazon gift cards worth $100 for $99, but has Target gift cards worth $100 for $83. A few extra clicks just made me aware that I could save $16 extra dollars if I bought it from Target, so you bet your sweet behind I am buying it from Target. Sometimes this tactic has saved me upwards of $30-50 on large purchases from certain websites, especially since gift cards for very product-specific establishments consistently have higher saving percentages than, say, Amazon, which is quite popular on Raise and thus has only a 1% savings most of the time. Overall, this process adds about 5 minutes of extra time to the purchase process, which is less than the amount of time it would take me to find a parking spot at the physical establishment, and while we’re on the topic, less than the amount of time it would take me to eat a hearty plate of my well earned animal style fries, dou$ed in chee$e onion$ and $pecial $auce, which thanks to Raise.com, I can now afford.

Give Me The Animal Fries!

So what do you say, friends? Would you spend an extra few minutes to Raise your income hundreds, maybe thousands of dollars over the years and swim in your very own mountain of animal style fries? Or will you be a sucker and keep paying full price with no discounts and no cashback on all your purchases? Make the right choice. Nothing is worse than In n Out’s plain fries. Raise your savings with Raise.com!