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My favorite dog grooming tool is on sale! The Furminator

August 23, 2009 by Tricia

I just discovered that my favorite dog grooming tool is on sale. It’s called the Furminator and I’ve been using it for over a year and a half on my Labrador Retriever Midnight.

As you can see the Furminator is on sale for a very low price right now. When I bought mine -about a year and a half ago I paid $60 for it. Currently the large FURminator deShedding Tool is listed at 59.95, but right now you can get almost $43 off the price! Yes that’s right – it’s only $16.99!

The Furminator deshedding tool has been designed to reduce shedding better than any brush, comb, or rake. This tool works effectively for all shedding breeds of dogs and cats, both long- and short-haired.

What I like about the FURminator deShedding Tool is that it’s meant to be used as a way to thin and detangle the undercoat on dogs and cats, while leaving the top coat intact.

The undercoat of fur on dogs and cats tends to be the major source of shedding and the allergies and cleanliness problems that come with it. It’s said that using the Furminator will decrease shedding by 60 to 80% for about four to six weeks! I’ve found this to be true. A few good grooming sessions when my dog starts to shed and TaDa she sheds a whole lot less over the next month or so.

I have to admit that the tool looks a little brutal – but I’ve never had a problem when using it with my dog. She sits patiently as I run the Furminator through her fur and seems to enjoy being groomed. The tool itself utilizes a unique 4-inch stainless-steel edge that grabs loose undercoat hair and quickly and easily removes it, without damaging the topcoat.

Like most good grooming tools it helps to bring out your pets natural oils and leaves a shiny and healthy topcoat. Many of my readers have commented how shiny my dogs coat is and I think I have The FURminator (and her diet) to thank for that!

Another item that I use when I’m grooming my dog are a rubber grooming tool called the Zoom Groom For Dogs which helps to groom loose hairs, stimulate the dogs skin so it produces natural oils to help create a shiny coat AND it’s also a great tool to use when giving your dog a shampoo!

I often finish a grooming session by spritzing my dog with Miracle Coat Spray-On Leave – In Conditioner & Lusterizer for Dogs. It contains vitamin E and Tea Tree Oil for her skin and makes her smell great!

Other great Pet Products that you might be interested in:

  • Furminator – Waterless deShedding Shampoo & Conditioner for Dogs & Cats
  • FURminator deShedding Tool with FURejector
  • PediPaws Pet Nail Trimmer
  • Conair Nail Clipper
  • Bags on Board Biodegradable Bag Refill for Dispensers, 120 Bags
  • Merial Frontline Plus Flea and Tick Control for Cats and Kittens
  • Tidy Cats Breeze Cats Litter Pad, 4-Count Refill, (Pack of 10)
  • Merial Frontline Plus Flea and Tick Control for Dogs and Puppies
  • Tidy Cats Breeze Cats Litter Pellet, 3.5-Pound Units (Pack of 6)
  • North States Superyard XT Gate Play Yard
  • Advantage Once-A-Month Topical Flea Treatment for Cats

Have you used the FURminator or any of these other products when grooming or caring for your cat or do? What do you think of the FURminator and the rest of the products I’ve mentioned?





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Black Friday and Cyber Monday deals!

November 27, 2008 by Tricia

Happy Thanksgiving to all of my American friends and readers! I hope that you are enjoying this day and are having a great meal! I’m sure many of you are stuffed full of turkey! (mmmm Turkey!)

I got an email last night from eCost and they are having some amazing Black Friday sales! I mean, how would you like to get a Nintendo Wii for only $99? See what I mean by amazing deals? That Wii would make a great Christmas gift wouldn’t it, and at that price it wouldn’t break your budget either!

Here’s what the eCOST newsletter said:

Shop eCOST.com for outrageous Black Friday and Cyber Monday offers. eCost has one Nintendo Wii available at $99 on Black Friday between 2AM EST to 4AM EST. On Cyber Monday the Navigon 2100 will be available at $29*, Look for the Outrageous Deal Icon to get that Deal in Bargain Countdown.

*Please note that the Nintendo Wii ($99) and Navigon ($29) are available in limited quantity.

Oh and don’t think that you have to live in the US to take advantage of these amazing deals. eCOST ships worldwide!

Here are some direct links to some of eCost’s Outrageous bargains!

eCOST.com Holiday Gift Guide- Ideas to help you get the right gift at the lowest prices
Offer Ends: 11/28/08

Hot Deals

Nextar 7″ Digital Photo Frame – Black ( N7-202 ) $29 (Save $60)
Offer Ends: 11/28/08

Samsung T220 22″ Widescreen LCD Monitor ( LS22TWHSUV/ZA ) $189.99 (Save $50)
Offer Ends: 11/28/08

Westinghouse 26″ LCD HDTV w/DVD and Dual HDMI ( SK-26H590D ) $299 (Save $80)
Offer Ends: 11/28/08

Telesteps 12.5ft Telescoping Ladder – ( 1205 ) $79. (Save $170)
Offer Ends: 11/28/08

Navigon 5100 GPS Navigator w/ FREE Real-Time Traffic (10000130) $89 (Save $70)
Offer Ends: 11/28/08

HP Evo D510 2.0GHz Intel Pentium 4 Desktop PC ( 470057-015 ) $149 (Save 50%)
Offer Ends: 11/28/08

Black Friday Deals. Outrageous offers! iPod for $45
Offer Ends: 11/28/08

Cyber Monday Deals. Outrageous Offers! GPS for $49
Offer Ends: 11/28/08

Platinum Premium: Get Free Shipping on next 4 orders & exclusive offers
Offer Ends: 11/28/08

Ongoing Offers:

Rebate Center eCost: Search Hundreds of Rebates by Manufacturer Name or Product Category

Bargain Countdown eCost: Limited Time offers at rock bottom prices
Dates: Ongoing. Items change hourly

Free Shipping eCost: Free Shipping and Exclusive Offers with Platinum Premium Membership
Dates: Ongoing Promotion

I don’t think I’ve ever put so many sales links in one post before … but they just have some great deals. I couldn’t help it! Besides, wouldn’t you rather shop online rather than staying up all night waiting outside a store waiting for it to open in the morning to get at all those big sales. I mean, you can shop and get bargains while in the comfort of your home. Forget the crowds!

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Shopping for the holidays and sticking to a budget

November 24, 2008 by Tricia

Does it seem like time is flying by faster than normal or is it just me? This month has gone by so quickly I can hardly believe that we’re near the end of November already. Before we know it Christmas will be here!

I often procrastinate when it comes to doing my Christmas shopping. This year I’m determined to get it all done before the 24th! I hope I can do it! I mean, I have a history of doing ALL of my Christmas shopping on the 24th! LOL So to get it done well before that date it’s going to be a challenge.

Another challenge this year will be finding quality gifts, yet spending as little as possible. No, I’m not cheap. I generally give nice gifts, however, this year we have virtually no spare cash.

We don’t have Black Friday here in Canada, so I can’t count on a major sales day before Christmas to help me keep my gift budget low, so my plan is to keep a close eye on Online stores and watch for items I’m interested in to go on sale.

Online stores like Buy.com often offer Free Shipping on select items or items in certain categories, so if I do end up doing some of my shopping online I’ll be watching out for free shipping deals as that will also save quite a bit of money.

I’ve also bookmarked buy.com’s Holiday Superstore and I’ve been checking it every couple of days to see if they have any deals on items that I might want to give to friends or relatives as gifts. A lot of the items in that section are not only on sale for great prices, but they also come with free shipping as well! Now that’s a deal.

Have you already started shopping for the holidays? Are you watching your gift budget carefully this year?

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Free or premium business cards and other print products 25% off with promotional code

May 5, 2008 by Tricia

A few days ago I was introduced to a site where you can purchase quality custom-printed products such as business cards, letterhead, postcards, personal and greeting cards, checks, envelopes, labels and more.

The site is called GigglePrint and as you can see it has a long list of products that would come in handy for everyone from a small business owner, an entrepreneur or to a person who simply wants personalized stationary to use for the family newsletter.

GigglePrint would have come in really handy for me when I had my own small business. I used to be a trade jeweler and naturally I needed items such as business cards to promote my business. I also needed a variety of rubber stamps for my invoices. Did I mention that you can have rubber stamps made at Giggleprint?

Not only does GigglePrint offer a selection of pre-designed premium business cards, stationary, note cards, invitations, announcements, gift tags and other accessories, but you can also choose to custom design any of these items simply by uploading an image to the site to be used on the product of your choice.

Items such as their premium business cards start off at the price of 250 cards for $19.99.

GigglePrint also has a selection of free products. You can create and customize free business cards, free personal checks and free business checks. What better way to try out a service than to start out with free products and then perhaps select one of their high quality premium items on your next order?

Considering that I’m pretty much a full time blogger these days and I’d also like to promote my photography I picked out one of their free business card designs and began creating a card for one of my sites.

Unfortunately I soon discovered that GigglePrint only delivers to locations within the United States. Hopefully they’ll think about expanding their delivery locations to areas within North America such as Canada as I’m sure they would gain a number of new customers.

If I had been able to order my free business cards I would have only had to pay for shipping.

The site is easy to use. Just navigate through their product menu to find the item your interested in and then follow the directions in order to customize your business card, check, stationary or other product. You can choose the type of font you’d like to use on many of the premium products and as I said before you can personalize their products by adding your business logo, a digital photo or another type of image to your custom item.

If you’re interested in promoting your business or need personalized stationary, letterhead or even invitations take a moment to visit the site. I’d love to hear if you liked the selection and if you found it easy to customize the item you decided to order.

Oh and right now GigglePrint is having a special. If you use this source code GPWF80 when you make an order you’ll get 25% off the price! That 25% off is for all products on the site. Sounds like a great deal to me!

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Dealighted helps you find the best deals online

April 24, 2008 by Tricia

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!

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