$5 off any printed book(s) purchase of $15 or more on Amazon

The second seasonal Amazon book deal has dropped!  Take $5.00 off any printed book(s) on Amazon.com when you enter the promo code GIFTBOOK at checkout.  

Details and restrictions are here.

• Excludes eBooks and Audiobooks, book rentals and gift cards.
• The promotion is valid for a limited time, on orders placed between 12/2/16 at 12:01am EST and 12/5/16 at 02:59am EST
• Offer only applies to books sold and shipped by Amazon.com.
• Limit one promotional code per customer and account.
• Items must be purchased in a single order and shipped at the same speed to a single address.

Lots of ways to go on this one.  Unlike previous years, where the offer was a percentage off on one book only, this year, you may buy multiple books, as long as they add up to $15 or more and you use the promo code, you'll get a $5 total discount on your purchase.

As in previous years, here are a few suggestions.  Since you can purchase more than one book, I'll include books under $15.00.

Children's Books, Toys and Boxed Sets:

• If you've got a little girl who is an American Girl doll fan, this promo code will work on one of these American Girl Mini-Doll and book combos.
• Similarly, if you've got a child who's a LEGO fan, this promo code will work on these LEGO Activity Books with FREE LEGO Mini-Figures
• Children's Chanukah books
• Harry Potter Paperback Box Set $44.99
• The Hunger Games Trilogy Boxed Set  $31.02
• Diary of a Wimpy Kid (books 1-4), $31.88
• National Geographic Kids books (some of these include FREE stickers)
• Magnetic Play Set books
• Various Melissa & Doug toys that are in the Book section, i.e.:
  • M&D Butterfly Friends Wooden Bead Set, $9.99
  • M &D Rainbow Stamp Pad, $5.99
  • M & D Let's Play House! Grocery Cans, $9.99
  • M & D Multi Color Abacus, $9.98

Popular and Coffee Table Books:

• Books that made it to this year's NY Times Best Seller List
• National Geographic books
• Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them: The Original Screenplay, by J.K. Rowling, $14.99
• Humans of New York by Brandon Stanton, $17.99
• What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions by Randall Munroe $14.59
• Other coffee table books

Kosher Cookbooks:

• The Gefilte Manifesto: New Recipes for Old World Jewish Foods, by Jeffrey Yoskowitz and Liz Alpern, $23.48
• Something Sweet: Desserts, Baked Goods, and Treats for Every Occasion, by Miriam Pascal, $22.46 
• The Silver Platter: Simple to Spectacular Wholesome, Family-Friendly Recipes $27.73
• Le Marais: A Rare Steakhouse - Well Done, $25.45
• Secret Restaurant Recipes From the World’s Top Kosher Restaurants by Leah Schapira and Victoria Dwek, $31.99 
• Jerusalem, A Cookbook, $20.99
• Spice and Spirit: The Complete Kosher Jewish Cookbook, $35.95 
• Everyday Secret Restaurant Recipes: From Your Favorite Kosher Cafes, Takeouts & Restaurants,  by Leah Schapira and Victoria Dwek, $33.28
• Kosher by Design: Picture Perfect Food for the Holidays & Every Day $34.99 
• The Bais Yaakov Cookbook $36.99
• A Taste of Pesach: Trusted Favorites, Simple Preparation, Magnificent Results $27.09
• and other classic kosher cookbooks as great options

Jewish books:

• The Gemarah Card, by Rabbi Yitzhak Frank, $4.95
• Hakirah: The Flatbush Journal of Jewish Law and Thought (various volumes, one of my husband's absolute favorites)
• The Artscroll Family Haggadah, $2.49 (when you buy 7 of them, it's like you're getting 2 for free)
• The Artscroll Family Megillas Esther, $2.49 (when you buy 7 of them, it's like you're getting 2 for free)
• The Living Torah, by Rabbi Aryeh Kaplan,  $36.00
• Stone Edition Chumash,  $41.34
• The Artscroll Children's Siddur $18.99
• Sefer HaChinuch $25.99 
• Machzor: Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, $65.99
• The Mishkan, $54.99
• Other various Artscroll titles

Reference Books:

• Every home should own the Oxford English Dictionary $25.97
• Large selection of interesting reference books

Classics:

• William Shakespeare:  The Complete Works, $28.65 
• Lectures on Shakespeare by W.H. Auden, $29.62
• Democracy in America by Toqueville, $23.28
• Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith $15.22
• The Prince by Nicola Machiavelli $16.04
• Essays by Michel de Montaigne $12.79
• Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens $9.99
• Crime and Punishment by  Fyodor Dostoevsky $16.98
• Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain $13.49
• Free to Choose by Milton Friedman $11.06
• Crusade in Europe by  Dwight Eisenhower, $34.59 
• Walden by  Henry David Thoreau, $22.80
• The Worldly Philosophers by  Robert Heilbroner, $10.78
• The Ascent of Money by  Niall Ferguson $12.97
• Lectures on Physics by  Richard Feynman $164.95
• Carnage and Culture by Victor Davis Hanson $12.42
• Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Gibbon, $133.00

Make sure it's the books(s) you select is one sold by Amazon (you can filter for it by checking off Prime shipping in the options on the left side).

FANTASTIC DEAL: Buy Tarte Foundation for $13.99 shipped, get Olay Pro-X Advanced Cleansing System FREE! NO STRINGS!

Buy this Tarte Amazonian Clay Smoothing Balm Makeup Buildable Foundation for $13.99 with free shipping from Shnoop and enter promo code FREEOLAY at checkout, and you will end up scoring this Olay Pro-X Advanced Cleansing System for FREE!  You don't even need to add it to your cart; once you enter the promo code, it will add it for you. WOW!

This is a limited offer; first 1,800 users only, and when it's gone, it's gone.

Spend $32.99 on Amazon Anytime Gift Cards, get $36.00 in value

This deal is a little hard core. but if you are going to spend or gift at least $30.00 on Amazon in the next few months or so (and really, who isn't?), there's really no reason not to to do this.  Basically, you're spending $32.99 and getting $36.00 back in value. 

Amazon is now giving you a $2.00 account credit for loading at least $10.00 on an Amazon Anytime Gift Card.  The $2.00 credit expires on 3/31/17.  You must load the $10.00 on the Anytime Gift Card before 12/31/16.

An Amazon Anytime Gift Card is basically a gift card that you order with zero value.  You load the value on at a later time. 

Here's how you can score a $6.00 account credit on a 3-pack of Anytime Gift Cards.

1. Buy a three pack of Amazon Anytime Gift Cards for $2.99.  You're spending the $2.99 on the gift cards themselves; there is no value currently assigned to any of them.


2. When they arrive, load them up for $10.00 each via this link.


3. Get a (3 x $2.00 =) $6.00 credit on your account. 

So you've spent $32.99, and received $30.00 in gift cards plus a $6.00 credit.  

Anytime Gift Cards are not reloadable. You can receive the $2.00 credit one time only per Anytime Gift Card, but as far as I can see, there is no limit to how many Anytime Gift Cards you can buy and load, so if you need to buy a bunch of $10.00 Amazon Gift Cards as holiday gifts, this is a good way to do it!

Details of the $2.00 account credit are here. 

Women's leather gloves with genuine rabbit fur trim for only $9.99 on Amazon (fully lined, 4 sizes, 3 colors, no quantity limits)

I'm not quite sure how they are able to do this at this price, but Amazon has got these Alpine Swiss women's leather gloves with genuine rabbit fur cuffs for $9.99 with free Prime/SuperSaver shipping and free returns.  They are fully lined with thermal insulated lining and they come in sizes S-XL and in three colors, black, brown and red.  No quantity limits.  

These make a fantastic Chanukah gift, and believe me, with that genuine rabbit fur, they will be convinced that you spent way more!  

Today 12/4/16 only: 10% off Target gift cards (up to $300 per account)

Just as they did last year, today,12/4/16, get up to $300 in Target gift cards for 10% off.   These Target gift cards can be used starting tomorrow (12/5/15).   Quantities limited, no rainchecks, $300 in gift cards max per household.

Why is this so awesome?  It's just math. First of all, this beats the RedCard discount of 5%.  Secondly, you are going to save 10% off anything and everything that you purchase at Target right out of the gate.  That means that anything that you save after that (coupons, Cartwheel, gift card offers, etc.) is just icing on top of the frosting on top of the cake.   This is one of those no-brainer ways to save money with very little thought and virtually no-cost (but you do have to lay out $270). 

(Target ran this promotion last year, and we maxed out on and went for the full $300, which I then turned into about 2 months worth of groceries.)

Please note, if you use your RedCard to purchase Target gift cards, you won't get an additional 5% off.  Also, you can't use Target gift cards to purchase Target gift cards.

Got a little LEGO fans at home? Get $5 off your $15 purchase of of LEGO Activity Books with FREE LEGO Mini-Figures on Amazon

Here's another way to use that awesome Amazon book promo code on toys-book sets for your kids. 

Got a LEGO fan at home? Get $5.00 off your $15.00 purchase of these LEGO Activity Book with FREE LEGO Mini-Figures on Amazon when you enter promo code GIFTBOOK at checkout.

Make sure that the LEGO activity books that you are buying include a LEGO mini-figure (not all do) and make sure that they are sold and shipped by Amazon in order to qualify for the promotion.

American Girl Mini-Doll Book Sets for (around) $10.00 on Amazon (with promo code)

If you've got a little girl, daughter, niece, granddaughter, etc., who is an American Girl fan, but spending $100 or more on a full-sized American Girl doll isn't in the budget this year, here's an idea: buy any American Girl Mini-Doll and Book Combos that's over $15.00 and use the promo code GIFTBOOK to save $5.00 on your purchase.  You'll end up with an American Girl 6" Mini-Doll and Book for around $10.00! 

Remember, the purchase MUST be $15 or more in order to qualify for the $5.00 discount.  What a WONDERFUL Chanukah gift!

TODAY 12/2/16 ONLY: 40% off and FREE shipping sitewide at Ties.com; grab your Chanukah ties (make fantastic gifts) today before the sale ends!

Sorry for the late posting!  Get a whopping 40% off and free shipping sitewide on Ties.com, today, 12/2/16 only when you enter the promo code BREAKTHEINTERNET at checkout.  Hurry!  Ties, bowties, cufflinks, tiebars, everything!

And now, you can be the coolest kid at shul! LOL.

Ties.com has got this awesome Dreidel, Dreidel, Dreidel tie for Chanukah.   I especially like it because the dreidels are small and tasteful, but once you take a closer look and see what they are, they'll bring a smile and (probably a laugh) to your face.  The Dreidel Dreidel Dreidel tie is on sale for $17.50, but enter promo code BREAKTHEINTERNET and that price drops by 40% to $10.50.

Check out the tie racks and/or these menorah ties as well!  (This awesome discount goes away tonight, so get your order in before Shabbos.)

BOGO on suits, sportscoats, dress shirts, ties and more at Jos. A. Banks, with FREE sitewide shipping

These select items are a true BOGO (buy-one-get-one-FREE) at Jos. A. Banks, and shipping is free throughout the site with no minimum.

Sunbeam Mixmaster 220-Watt Hand Mixer with storage bag, $16.09 with free shipping

Sunbeam has got the Sunbeam Mixmaster 220-Watt Hand Mixer with Retractable Cord and Storage Bag in white for only $16.09 with free shipping.  No promo code needed. the discount drops off in your cart. 

Description:  You can rely on the Sunbeam® Mixmaster® Hand Mixer to mix you through everyday tasks with a powerful 220-watt motor and 6 speeds. The Burst of Power® button provides extra mixing-muscle in just a single a touch. This mixer can help you prepare your recipes quickly and easily. Work in the kitchen does not seem like work at all with the Sunbeam® Mixmaster® Hand Mixer with retractable cord storage.

• 220-watt motor
• 6 variable speeds
• Burst of Power® button
• Retractable cord storage
• Beater eject
• Heel and bowl rest
• Includes 2 chrome beaters, dough hooks and soft, zipper-storage case
• 1-year limited warranty

Dremel 162-piece Rotary Tool Accessory Kit for $10.00 at Home Depot

Home Depot has got this Dremel 162-piece Rotary Tool Accessory Kit for Cutting, Sanding, Polishing, Grinding and Cleaning for $10.00 with free in-store pickup.  For use with Dremel rotary tools only.

Description: The Dremel Rotary Tool Accessory Kit is ideal for cutting, grinding, polishing, sanding, cleaning and more. It features an EZ Lock mandrel, EZ Lock cut-off wheels and handy collet fan. It also includes reusable storage bins and lift-out trays for easy organization of the included bits. sanding bands, sandpaper discs, polishing compound, felt polishing wheels, aluminum oxide grinding stones, silicon carbide grinding stone, mandrels, wire brush and wrench complete the 162-piece kit.

PRICE DROP: 221-piece K’nex Education Intro to Simple Machines: Wheels, Axles, & Inclined Planes Set (ages 8+) for $15.92 on Amazon

Amazon has got the 221-piece K’nex Education Intro to Simple Machines: Wheels, Axles, and Inclined Planes Set (ages 8+) for just $15.92 with free Prime/SuperSaver shipping.  It got 4.7 out of 5 stars over 37 customer reviews.  This is yet another great STEM toy (Science, Technologoy, Engineering, Mathematic) idea for Chanukah at a fantastic price.  Kids can build 7 different full-functioning replicas of real-life machines. 

PRICE DROP: 207-piece K’nex Education Intro to Structures: Bridges Set (grades 3-5) for $16.06 on Amazon

Got a little budding engineer at home?

Amazon has got the 207-piece K’nex Education Intro to Structures: Bridges Set (grades 3-5) for just $16.06 with free Prime/SuperSaver shipping.  It got 4.5 out of 5 stars over 97 customer reviews.  This is a great STEM toy (Science, Technologoy, Engineering, Mathematic) idea for Chanukah.  Kids can build 13 different full-functioning replicas of real-life bridges. 

• CLASSIC PIECES – K’NEX Education’s Intro to Structures Bridges Set consists of 207 classic pieces, including rods, stems, and connectors. Kids can attach these parts to one another in different ways, allowing them to create a variety of fully functioning bridge models. The snap-fit pieces stick together securely and can be easily reassembled into other creations.
• REAL-WORLD STRUCTURES – Build 13 fully-functioning replicas of real-life bridges. These models help educate builders about bridge infrastructure by demonstrating key bridge types, such as truss, arch, cantilever, beam, suspension, movable/bascule, and cable-stayed. Building instructions and a teacher’s guide on a CD are included, providing the information needed to build one’s understanding of scientific, technical, and design concepts.
• CONVENIENT STORAGE –Keep all K’NEX parts in one easy-to-access place. Enjoy hassle-free cleanup and storage, as this building set comes with a convenient portable storage tray with a snap-on lid.
• VERSATILE – K’NEX Education’s Intro to Structures Bridges Set is designed to enhance kids’ imaginations through the creative assembly of K’NEX pieces. Aside from the 13 bridges they can build, the set can also be used to create buildings, houses, and towers. This toy is ideal for kids from grades 3 to 5, and 2 to 3 people can work on each set.
• STEAMagination™: It’s the connection of STEAM (science, technology, engineering, arts & math) with a child’s natural curiosity and creativity and it powers the fun of each and every K’NEX building set. Building with K’NEX puts children on a path towards a fundamental understanding of STEAM/STEM subjects.
• LESSON PLANS AND EXPERIMENTS: All K’NEX Education sets come with either a comprehensive guide for teachers or an experiment guide for student-led learning. All lesson plans and experiment guides are written by expert educators and feature hands-on, inquiry-based projects that engage students in today’s busy classroom.
• ALIGNED TO NATIONAL STANDARDS: K’NEX Education teacher guides and experiment guides are aligned to national educational standards, including ITEEA, NSES, NCTM, NGSS and Common Core.
• REAL WORLD LEARNING: Study after study reveals that students have more success learning STEM subjects through activities related to the real world rather than reading about abstract concepts in textbooks. K’NEX Education sets allow students to build replicas of real-world machines and contraptions and through the lesson plans and experiments, gain a concrete understanding of the principles that make them work. 

People magazine for 1 year, 50 issues, for $34.99 (70 cents per issue)

Get a 1-year (50 issues) subscription to People magazine from DiscountMags for only $34.99 (70 cents per issue) when purchase it through this link and enter promo code DAILYCHEAPSKATE at checkout. 

There is never any auto-renewal on DiscountMags, so you can buy from them safely.  This promotion is good for new subscriptions, gift subscriptions, and renewals (and makes a great holiday gift!).  

Steve Madden Fleece-Lined Leggings (3 textures) for $4.99 with free shipping

GearXS has got these Steve Madden Ultra-Comfort fleece-lined black leggings in sizes S/M/L for $4.99 each with free shipping. They come in three textures:  solid, ribbed and cable.

• 95% Polyester 5% Spandex
• Comfortable stretch fabric that retains shape
• Form fitting, ankle length
• Elastic waistband stretches to fit

Description
Every woman needs some high quality leggings, but most of the time the leggings are too thin to keep you warm. Well, worry no more ladies. These Steve Madden Ultra Comfort Fleece Lined Leggings will keep you warm and looking stylish at the same time. These leggings are perfect for layering or wearing with a long shirt and a fun pair of boots. 

Size chart:

• Small: 4-6 
• Medium: 8-10 
• Large: 12-14

Yamaha Soprano Recorder for $4.99-$7.70 at Amazon

I played the recorder in 4th grade, so this deal made me feel all warm & fuzzy.  Amazon has got the Yamaha Soprano Recorder in various models and colros for between $4.99 to $7.70.  These recorders received 4.7 out of 5 stars over 863 customer reviews. 

Amopé Pedi Perfect Nail Care System for $16.65 with free shipping

Amazon has got the Amopé Pedi Perfect Nail Care System for $16.65 with free shipping (no Prime membership necessary)..

• The Amope Nail System is the perfect and effortless way to keep your toe nails and finger nails shiny and natural looking
• Battery operated with 1 AA battery (included). To power the device, REMOVE & DISCARD the red plastic film from the base of the product where batteries are housed
• Kit includes 3 different insert heads that easily attach for a simple 3 step system: fill, buff, and shine nails effortlessly.
• Ergonomic design for use on both toenails and fingernails
• Two Speed Setting to get a precise Amop Manicure & Pedicure

Compare:  Walmart, $29.88, Kohl's $36.99 and Best Buy, $39.99.

MyCokeRewards members, get a $10 Amazon gift card for 170 MCR points

MyCoke Rewards members get a FREE $10 Amazon gift card with a 170 MCR point redemption (limit 1 per member).  These $10 gift cards normally go for about 700 MCR points, do this is a nice boost, and I'm sure that gift card will come in handy for holiday gift buying.