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Dealighted helps you find the best deals online

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coupons-deals-bargains.gif I don’t know if you do this, but whenever Chris and I go shopping we always try to find the best deal. Especially if it’s a costly item. Whether you’re living from paycheck to paycheck or have a fat savings account it just makes sense to make your money go as far as it can, doesn’t it?

I have to admit that most of the purchases that my husband and I make are in grocery stores, pet stores and retail stores. We have increased our online shopping over the last couple of years, but the majority of our spending is done in person.

One of the reasons that we’ve started to increase our online shopping is because it’s convenient. Heck, I can shop in my PJ’s at 1 a.m. if I want! I suppose I could head out to the local 24 hour Walmart and do the same, but I think I’d end up more than a little embarrassed.

Other than convenience, I like shopping online because I can often find better prices at online stores. Let’s face it, online stores don’t have the overhead that retail stores do so they can afford to offer items at lower prices.

Sounds good doesn’t it?

Now if you want to be a real Savvy shopper you should check out Dealighted.com. The site indexes deals posted by people on sites like slickdeals, fatwallet and several other popular deal sites. Once the posted deals are indexed the Dealighted engine goes through them and figures out which deals are hot.

So when you’ve decided to you want to shop for an item online you can simply go to Dealighted and type the item you’re interested in into the search box at the top of the page and the results page will listed the best deals for that item. No more searching through site after site to find the best prices. Dealighted.com does it all for you.

For example, if you wanted to shop for a new pair of shoes you’d type the term Shoes in the search box and the result page would bring up the current list of shoe deals. You could also narrow down your search by searching for a specific type or brand of product such as Nike Running Shoes.

Perhaps you’re interested in purchasing a new digital camera? The Canon EOS 400D is a great camera for someone that wants to step up their photography by starting out with an entry level digital SLR. Just click on compare prices and search through the directory for your camera or click on one of the handy icons near the top of each page that show some of the hottest items being searched for at Dealighted.com.

The icons to the top right of each page are for those interested in checking out camera, HDTV’s, iPods, Laptops and Camrecorders. If that’s what you’re interested in purchasing just click the icon of your choice and you’ll be able to quickly find the hottest deals!

I like the site because you can just visit the main page regularly to see what the newest hot deals are, so even if you don’t have a specific product in mind you can keep an eye out for great deals and perhaps find something that you or your family needs right on the front page.

Dealighted.com also has a daily freebie offers section. You can get to it simply by searching for Free or by clicking on the link Free Stuff that’s directly under the search box.

There’s hundreds of free items to browse through. Some of the listings are of the buy one get on free type and others are offers for one free product or a sample item.

Likewise if you’d prefer to shop for items and have them shipped free of charge you can do a search for free shipping and all the deals that also offer free shipping will come up on the results page. I’m sure you could narrow your search by typing in a product name and free shipping as well.

Actually there are many ways to search for great deals on items. You could click on a tag in the Deal Search Cloud, click on the Only Hot Deals button, look through the deal forum threads, search for deals by specific deal forums or use the search boxes. I love sites that let you navigate or search for what you want in several ways as I’m sure each visitor to the site will have their own particular preference.

It looks like Dealighted.com has their own forum as well. There aren’t very many messages there yet as it looks like it might have just opened up recently, but you could take a look there for deals or perhaps even post your own finds if you’d like to share.

I think anyone who shops online occasionally would be smart to bookmark this site and check it out the next time they’re searching for a great deal. It’s all about saving money.

Oh and if you do visit Dealighted.com be sure to check out their deals by email newsletter. You’ll never miss a great deal if you subscribe!





Lost Posts and Travel Deals

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I lost a post. Earlier today I started writing a post about how we’re finally getting our DLP TV fixed. It actually ended up being kind of a rant about the company that we had purchased the TV from in the first place.

I was almost done the post, but then I noticed the time. Chris and I each had an appointment with our family doctor. So I saved the post and shut down the laptop. Unfortunately when I logged back into WP I couldn’t find the post. Grrrr.

I haven’t lost a post for a long time. I wonder what the heck happened. Certainly I was writing it for long enough that WordPress should have backed it up automatically.

Oh well. The moment is gone, and I’m sure it wasn’t the most interesting post.

I do have a couple of Travelocity deals for any of you that might be planning a trip in the future though!

NOTE: The first On the Spot deal expires today so if $46 one way airfares sounds good to you take advantage of this offer!

and then there’s this deal which offers a great price for round trip airfare. You’ve got until April 4th to take advantage of this one.

Enjoy!

Oh BTW I did find that other post. I’d meant to write it on this blog, but I guess I accidentally started it on one of my other blogs! Oops! I guess I’m still recovering from the flu. Yeah … that’s it … blame it on the flu.

I love Dogs and I’ve found a great site for dog lovers

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I adore my puppy. She’s become my new muse. I’ve spent an awful lot of time over the last three month researching everything dog.

Whenever I become interested in something I tend to do a lot of research on the subject. I go to the library and borrow books, I search the internet for more information on the topic and I also tend to talk to others that are also interested in the same topic. Often I read so much that I end up creating a website to not only discuss my latest intense interest, but also to create a place for others so that they can quickly learn all the things that I’ve learned on one site. I certainly did this when I became interested in reptiles! I’ve got two huge reptile related websites as some of you probably already know.

I haven’t gotten to the “make a website” stage yet and I may not this time round, but you never know. What I have been doing is visiting a number of dog and Labrador Retriever related websites, joining dog forums and reading up on dogs in general.

You might remember that my puppy was quite sick when we got her. I had to learn as much as I could in order to try to make her better. She’s doing a lot better these days. She’s still got some problems, but over all she’s doing quite well. I thank the many great sites that I discovered for helping me help her recover from her many ailments.

One of the sites that I came across along the way is the I-Love-Dogs.com website. If you’re thinking of getting your first dog or getting another doggy companion you can spend some time on the site reading the pros and cons of various dog breeds and of course looking at the many dog pictures that proud owners are more than happy to post.

I-Love-Dogs.com is a major dog portal where you can talk to other dog owners, discuss dogs in general on the forums, talk about your dogs health or behavioral problems or share some tips that have worked for you and your dog companion.

Along with the extensive dog forums you’ll find sections with dog games, lists of great dog names, free stuff for your dog, recipes for home made dog food, articles about dogs and dog training and many other great dog related categories. Heck you can even shop for supplies for your dog too.

If you are a dog owner you should take a moment to visit the I-Love-Dogs.com website. I’m sure you’ll find something there of interest and you’ll probably learn something new too.

A great Toronto search engine

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I’ve found a great site to search for all things Toronto for those of you who live or who are visiting this great city. The site is called Toronto Major League Search and it’s easy and handy to use.

Say you need a cab and can’t remember the number for the cab company that you normally use, just go to Toronto Major League search and type in taxi or the name of the cab company and a results page will come up. You’ll likely be able to find the cab company that you’re searching for with a simple search such as this.

When you do a search you can also specify a location. For example I live in a part of the Toronto known as The Danforth so I did a search for Restaurants and I wrote The Danforth in the location area. This brought up about 6 pages of restaurant results. The various restaurant locations were shown on a medium sized Google map with the restaurant listings to the right of the Google map.

I did find that I got better results with my searches when I was more specific. For example I decided to search for Greek restaurants on Danforth Ave and more of the restaurant results seems to be on Danforth.

I do like that the site is tied in with Google maps. It’s nice to be able to see where something that you’ve searched for its located. It will save a lot of time in deciding which location to give my business to if I can pick one out easily that’s close to where I am.

Just like most search engines you can search for pretty much anything. give it a try and see if you find Toronto Major League Search helpful too.

Oh and if you know of a great business that should be listed on the site you can submit it using the link at the bottom of each page.

Donate your car to Car Angel

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I was just saying on my other blog My World that I think Chris and I will be getting a new car in the spring or early summer. Our car is 12 years old! It’s still in pretty good shape and barely has any rust (nothing noticeable) and drives well … but I think maybe we should start looking for a new car before the old one begins acting up.

I don’t think we’d get much money for trading in our old car. I could be wrong, but considering it’s age I doubt it. Too bad there isn’t a branch of Car Angel here in Canada or we’d consider perhaps donating our car.

If you are in the US and perhaps have a car that you don’t use or one that you’re thinking of replacing you should think about donating it to Car Angel. It’s like donating to charity. When people choose to donate car, boats, trailers, RV’s or other vehicles to Car Angel they use the money they’ve raised to make videos for kids and teens, and assist single mothers, the homeless, orphans and other worth while causes.

I know it’s probably a little unusual to think about donating a car to charity but people donate money all the time to worthwhile causes and a vehicle donation is just like donating money. The folks at Car Angel will even arrange to have your car picked up and they’ll do the paper work so that you’ll get an IRS tax deduction too.

As I said earlier Car Angel makes videos for kids and teens and they’ve given away over 2.4 million videos so far. Here’s an example of one of their videos:

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