Kids Konserve offers eco-friendly, waste-free and reusable lunch/snack products.  From insulated lunch bags to stainless steel containers, we are making a difference one lunch at a time.  Kids Konserve also offers waste-free challenges for schools – a percentage of all sales goes back to the school.

I first heard about Woot a few years ago. I was searching the web looking for websites selling whatever it was I was looking for….  I found the item listed for sale at Woot — then went to do some price checking, then came back to Woot the next day and found the item was no longer for sale.

The reason: They only sell one thing a day.. and the thing I was looking for was only available “yesterday”.

Yup. One item. And they won’t tell you how many they have for sale. When they run out, that’s it.

Woot is not the ordinary kind on online store.

At midnight every night they post a new item for sale. It is available until they run out or until 11:59pm when the next Woot starts. (If they run out early, they sometimes list a second item for up to 12 hours).

Aside from the daily Woot, the site occasionally offers specials like their “Bag O’ Crap” sales which are styled after Japanese New Years Day “lucky grab bags” — a tradition of merchants selling bags of assorted inexpensive items at a discount to encourage new shoppers to come to their stores, (the tradition is called Fukubukuro …seriously).

You might also run across a “Woot Off” which is when they sell off small quantities of multiple items, (one at a time until they run out) throughout the day.

Sometimes manufacturers use Woot to test market new products — if you run into one of these, you might get the latest, greatest new gadget at a serious discount

Then there’s 2-for-Tuesdays when items are sold in lots of two. Woot also sells a Shirt of the Day.. a different t-shirt design every day of the week — only available that day. Woot also sells wine — again, offering only one (different) bottle of wine every day!

To give you an idea of the corporate attitude at Woot: if you live in Texas, (where Woot is headquartered), and you buy something, enter the PROMO CODE: TAXSUCKS at checkout and they pay the sales tax.

For a totally different shopping experience visit:

www.Woot.com – the daily woot is usually an electronic product!

wine.Woot.com – a different bottle of wine each day!

shirt.Woot.com – a different t-shirt design every day!

NOTE: When you visit the Woot websites, check the upper left corner of the site — sometimes you’ll find a link to another retailer’s site where the PROMO CODE “WOOT” will get you a discount, other times it’s a “Side Deal” directing you to a discount at another site… yeah it’s advertising, but its targeted at discount shoppers.

Taking a vacation doesn’t have to cost every last cent you have saved, (or every last dollar you can charge on a credit card), spending a little time researching online deal, and planning ahead can save you hundreds, or even thousands of dollars.

Planning ahead but remaining flexible is probably the best way to save on vacation costs.

Cruises, airfare, hotel accommodations, tickets for theme parks and many other vacation related expenditures sometimes cost 20%, 30% or even 100% more when you book them at the last minute. On the other hand, there are some great last minute deals.

Do as much research online as you can. Here are some questions you can ask yourself before you start:

Does your vacation have to occur at a predetermined time? (e.g.- if you work ful ltime and must schedule your vacation time and can’t easily change plans at the last minute, the answer is “yes”… If you have a boss who understands that if since you found a deal for a cruise at 50% off what it normally costs — but you have to leave in 48 hours — and the boss is cool with that, you can answer “no”).

Do you care exactly where you go for vacation? (If you have always wanted to see New England in the Fall, and that’s the only type of vacation you want to take, then answer “yes”. If you see a travel deal for a week of kayaking and snorkeling in the Florida Keys or a week watching the Iditarod in Alaska, and you open to whichever one is the best deal — answer “no”).

Once you figure out when and where — the next thing to do is shop! Comparing airfares, hotel rates or “package deal” for the same week, in the same location makes it easy to spot the best deal. If the prices are close from two different companies, maybe one includes first-class travel or complimentary tickets to local attractions. You work hard to earn your money — time spent bargaining for the best vacation package deal will save more per hour than most people earn! Check for reviews from real people.

If you’re surfing the net researching vacations, adventure travel, low cost airfares or cruises, please share any PROMO CODES or other discounts you discover.