Hope your week is starting well! Thanks so much for checking out my KTAR.com video this week! I hope you’ll keep “living life better for less” every single day and like Alicia’s Deals on Facebook, follow me on Twitter and join the Alicia’s Deals e-mail list. I’m working hard to find the best deals and freebies around every single day and share them with you. If you missed the video, you can watch it below!
Now is the time of year that many of us think of buying gift cards for our family and friends. Many businesses want you to buy their gift cards so that they guarantee your holiday shopping dollar goes to them. If you think about buying gift cards for yourself for places you’re already shopping (and treating them like cash), you’ll be able to maximize the gift card bonuses for yourself!
If Chili’s is your favorite place to eat, head over here to get a FREE $10 bonus card when you purchase $50 in gift cards (and enjoy free shipping). The bonus card will be good January 1st-February 10th.
Groupon has some excellent gift card bonus deals going on right now too. Head over here to buy select $25 gift cards and get $5 in Groupon bucks! They have gift cards available to Whole Foods, Barnes and Noble, Toys r Us, Sears, Sephora, Kmart, Bass Pro Shops, Red Robin, AMC Theaters, and other really fun places. If you buy gift cards before you shop, you’ll have all kinds of Groupon bucks ready for your next deal!
A clean car is a beautiful thing and right now you can score HALF OFF gift cards to Clean Freak car washes all over town. They never expire and you can buy them for yourself! Some locations (like mine on 90th Street and Via Linda) have $3 express drive-through washes. Figure that you got half off your gift card, that’s like spending $1.50 a wash. You get a free vacuum at the end too! Spend $25 and get a $50 gift card. Figure that’s over 16 express washes!
Through Tuesday, December 9th, you can head into your closest Fry’s location and score 4X fuel points when you buy gift cards (and enter your Fry’s VIP card). That means for every $100 you spend on gift cards, you’ll get 400 fuel points, good for $.40 off up to 35 gallons of gas (with quick math that’s up to a $14 value). We’re putting in new floors in our family room and I found the tile I love at Lowe’s. I got a price on the material I need, then drove to Fry’s and bought Lowe’s gift cards for the amount. I went back and paid Lowe’s with the gift cards. The extra step let me earn well over 10,000 fuel points, that’s hundreds of dollars worth of gas! It was so nice to fill up the other day and pay $1.55/gallon with my fuel points! If you have a project coming up, it just might pay to buy Fry’s gift cards first. You should even earn your credit card rewards (if you have them) when you buy the gift cards at Fry’s!
If you love Fox Restaurant Concepts, head over here to get a $20 bonus card when you buy $100 in gift cards (you can also get the bonus at their restaurants). If you eat at The Henry, Olive and Ivy, Sauce, True Food, Juby True, North, Flower Child, or any of their other delicious restaurants, you may want to buy gift cards for yourself before you go and enjoy the $20 bonus!
Enjoy the deals and remember, if you use your head a little bit, you can save A TON!
