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Did anyone else buy the McAfree Anti-virus software through NewEgg (with the $50 rebate)? I got mine last week in the mail and it won’t install? Wondering if anyone else was having problems? My IT guy at work tried to install it and said it looks like it may be fake or a knockoff…
Also, I didn’t get my rebate yet either… :(
Byerly’s has ORGANIC raspberries on sale for $2.50 this week! I thought that was a fantastic deal!!!!!!
Does anyone have any experience with going to the 100 Mile garage sale?
Where is the best place to give tots swim lessons?
Does any one use the website totsy and zulily to buy stuff? What is you experience with them and are you happy with your purchases?
Thanks!!
My son works at Rainbow and he said that next Saturday will be double double coupon days again, fyi. Cut your coupons ;)
Awesome – that’s great to know. I have such a stockpile that I think I can skip a Wednesday shop day anyway.
On another link,someone said that every Saturday in April will be double double coupon day at Rainbow. Might be best to check with customer service.
Groupon – Boston has a Picaboo deal today (3/27). $35 for $100 worth of cards, photo books and calendars. That’s 65% off! Expires in one year. May redeem across orders.
http://www.groupon.com/deals/picaboo-boston-1?c=dnb&p=3
So I know that it’s way past Thursday and there’s probably no one checking this anymore, but I wanted to ask before I forgot. My parents want to give me and my husband a double stroller, but I know pretty much nothing about them. Anyone have any suggestions for types/brands/etc.?
Laura- I absolutely LOVED my Kolcraft Contour Tandem double stroller. I mean when I say LOVED I mean it!!! Never have I been more in love with a stroller. Here’s why I loved it. The seats configured many different ways. You can have two children sit facing each other, back to back, front to back, have an infant and a toddler. The seats pop on and off easily to switch. Also the stroller has two handles on the side so if one didn’t want to sit and wanted to walk they could hold on. It stears great!!! For a double stroller I could always manage in a store with tight racks!! And the basket underneath is HUGE!! The other thing I absolutely loved was the hoods FULLY covered so the sun was out of their eys!! But if the sun was the issue we could just turn the seats around and that solved the problem too. I’m telling you it was a DREAM STROLLER!!! Here is a link
http://www.google.com/products/catalog?hl=en&q=Kolcraft+contours+options+tandem+stroller&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.&wrapid=tlif130135068477310&um=1&ie=UTF-8&cid=226762480642081426&sa=X&ei=RAmRTbGjOISbtwe4qqSICQ&ved=0CDAQ8wIwAQ#
It was worth every penny. Someone actually got it for me. Now as far as heaviness, it is a little heavy but I figured I was hiking a mountain with it just lifting it into my car. And if you pop the seats off it makes it lighter and easier to fold up. But any double stroller is going to be heavier.
Okay, I’ll stop now but I LOVED that stroller. I’m actually thinking of getting the single option one for my new baby.
Carrie,
There is a great opportunity for people working or living in the St.Paul University area to save money on food and retail along the corridor. see link to story.
Thanks to Chris Ferguson the Pioneer Press ran a front pager above the fold article on the Central Corridor program. The story link is
http://www.twincities.com/ci_17729395?source=email