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CVS Buy One Get One Free Specials

For the week of February 7-13, CVS has a bunch of buy one get one free offers, mostly on its private label housebrand items.  All CVS vitamins, minerals and herbal supplements are two-for-one, and the one-liter size of CVS brand mouthwash.  So are ten-packs of AAA and AA batteries, four-packs of C and D [...]

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Ski Free Mondays at Stratton, Vermont

Spend the weekend skiing or riding at Stratton, Vermont, and the resort will throw in Monday for free.  You have to book a Friday, Saturday, Sunday three-night weekend lodging and lifts package, and the third day of skiing is free.  Prices start at $68 per night per person.  SKI Magazine has rated Stratton in the top [...]

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Lord & Taylor Winter Clearance Discounts 65% to 80%

Lord & Taylor is clearing out winter coats, sweaters, and more at 65% to 80% off original prices.  There’s still more than a month left of cold, winter weather, so these are great prices to warm your closet and your wallet.  There’s also an additional 25% off some items with a coupon you can [...]

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Discounts to Ski Jiminy Peak for $15

Jiminy Peak is offering e-coupons that lower the price of Twilight skiing and riding from $39 to $15.  The e-coupons are for Monday, February 8th; Tuesday, February 9th; and Thursday, February 11th.  Twilight skiing and riding is from 3 pm – 10 pm.  These e-coupons join other deals, including additional e-coupons, available as part of Jiminy’s effort to make skiing [...]

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Filene's Fantastic Bridal Gown Sale is for Bridezillas or Turns You Into One

Wedding_dailyclipartdotnetGet the wedding gown of your dreams at the annual Filene’s Basement bridal gown sale, Friday, February 5th, when top designer gowns are on sale for as little as 10% of their original price.  Prices are $249 to $699 for wedding gowns that retailed origianlly for as much as $9,000.   Filene’s Basement does not advertise which designers or which specific wedding gown designs, but this annual Running of the Brides sale certainly has something for anybody willing to fight the competition for the dress of her dreams.  And competition there is.  The best advice is to grab your  mother, friends, boyfriend, to grab whatever dress they can for you, and then start trading with other Bridezillas and their team for the size and style you really want.

The  Filene’s store at Union Square store is wedding gown central for this event, which is not for the faint-hearted bargain hunter.  Be on line at 47 East 14th Street before the doors open at 9 a.m.  Here’s what it looked like last year, when the grab-it-and-run insanity was covered by CBS News:

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Spa Specials for Valentine's Day

Lia Schorr is one of the leading day spas in The Big Apple, and for Valentine’s Day and through the end of March, the spa is offering up to half off treatments for men and women.  A seaweed facial, regularly $130 is now $65.  A hot stone massage with reflexology, regularly $145,  is now $70.  [...]

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New Play Stars CSI Gerald McCullough

A new Off-Broadway show titled “Daddy”  features CSI’s Gerald McCullough in the starring role.  The play is about two close friends who examine their lives and their twenty year long relationship when one of them falls for a younger man.  The play has a limited run, through February 13, at the TBG Arts Center, 213 West 36th Street.  Performances are at [...]

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Black History Month Obama Exhibit

The New York Public Library branch in Harlem has a FREE exhibit of photos of the first year in office of President Obama.  The photos are by Pete Souza, chief official White House photographer, ranging from candid shots of a father with his young children to the high drama aboard Air Force One.  Souza uses his [...]

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Income Tax Help for Self-Employed

If you are a non-incorporated freelancer or otherwise self-employed who receives 1099 tax forms, you will benefit from a tax seminar on how find your way around the federal income tax 1040 and Schedule C  forms.   The seminar is taught by a CPA, and answers such questions as how much to set aside for estimated taxes, and [...]

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RIP Skyline Bookstore After 20 Years

Skyline Books, a fixture in the Flatiron district for the last 20 years, closed its doors forever on January 31, the victim of rising rents and the inescapable competition of chainstores like Barnes & Noble and online bookstores like Amazon.  Each time an independent bookstore closes, it is like a knife in the heart [...]

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Rent a Plug-In Electric Car from Hertz in NYC

Hertz is renting plug-in electric cars in Manhattan, under a new program that includes recharging stations at garages and hotels.   The electric cars include the headline-making 2011 Nissan Leaf, Toyota Prius plug-in hybrid, Smart electric drive, and the Mitsubishi iMiEV.  The cars are available only through the Connect by Hertz program, which is a [...]

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