[1]Photograph Credit: Flickr (Mike Lewis)
Today concludes this quick tip week. It has been a catch-up week, and I’m still a little behind. But in moving forward, I am making progress. Yeah! 🙂
If you have missed any of quick tips this week, click on these links to each tip:
- #5 – Butter bread before toasting [6], and
The last quick tip this week looks ahead for your travel plans to help in stretching your dollars.
Quick Tip #7: Subscribe to Daily Deal Sites
The value found at daily deal sites is far better than using a coupon. Almost all daily deals are 50% or more off from the regular price.
If you are planning a family vacation or will be traveling for a wedding or anniversary, then subscribe to those destinations at your favorite daily deal sites. For our family, I subscribe to the main cities in South Carolina and then certain cities in Florida, where we plan to spend our vacation with my extended family. As I see deals for activities that fit within our budget, I snag them.
Since the daily deal sites send an e-mail daily with the new deal, I choose to subscribe using my junk e-mail account [8]. I then check my e-mail every other day to view the deals. Usually, the daily deals have a 48 to 72-hour time limit. By checking my junk e-mail account [8] every other day, I can still snag a day-old deal.
My favorite daily deal sites are Groupon [9] and LivingSocial [10]. With so many deal sites popping up, I know of no exhaustive list. However, Biz Tech Day listed the Top 50 Daily Deal Sites as of June 2011 [11].
In using time wisely, I subscribe to my two favorites and one local daily deal site. For these sites, the e-mail subject line identifies the type of deal. If you are not interested, you can just delete it without wasting time checking each e-mail.
As you prepare for your summer travels, use the deals at your favorite daily deal sites to stretch your dollars. By subscribing, I found an annual membership to a garden near a children’s museum that we plan to activate on our trip this summer.
I continue to watch for deals and plan to have a great family vacation while stretching our dollars. Continue using time wisely by subscribing to one or more deal sites. By doing so, the deals will come to you. Happy savings!
Question: What are your favorite daily deal sites?