Just heard a commercial on KJOY about McDonald's coupons at YourLI.com. You can download them directly by going to http://yourli.com/promotion/promotion.php?id=1834§ion=listing&option_promotion=2 or you can go to YourLI.com to find McDonalds locations on Long Island.
Just found Boston Market has a $2.00 off coupon on their site. You need to spend $10 to get the $2 off. It's not really a 20% off coupon but it's still pretty good.
link: http://www.bostonmarket.com/restaurant?page=coupons
For awhile I was skeptical about these half-price gift certificate deals. It never made any sense to me how any third party company is benefiting from this.
If you're not familiar with the term or practice, here's how it works. I go to www.restaurant.com (a lot), on this site you can search for restaurants in your zip or town. All the restaurants listed offer savings in some was shape or form. For example, as you can see from the screen shot above 105 Harbor in Cold Spring Harbor allows you to buy $25 gift certificate for $10. That's not a bad deal. The fine print (under the add to cart button) says you must spend $45 though and it can only be used for Dinner, can't be redeemed on Holidays, Specials (I guess that means daily specials) and prix fix menu. Hmm... now it's a little less attractive. This place (in particular) is more on the expensive side. So that $25 might pay for one person in my family.
It's a great concept, all parties involved seem to benefit. The restaurant has now obtained you as a new customer, you saved some money and the website (in this scenario) restaurant.com gladly took your money and made the sale.
I've found other websites, operated and maintained locally... with not so strict rules. For instance Newsday offers a service now just like this. They advertise it on the paper and in their website. It's normally a bid ad at the top of their website. On KJOY (98.3) I always hear the DJ's talking about how it works and focusing on one restaurant at a time. It's always nice to hear the reviews then read about them (in my opinion). You can view them all by visiting http://lirg.longislanddeals.com/index.php.
The great thing (that I and many of my friends have found) is that the places on longislanddeals and newsday don't have a minimum requirement. Last week we went to the Dockside Cafe in Babylon. The half price deal cost us $25 from KJOY and our bill came out to $58 for the two of us (with drinks). So really it only cost $33 for the two of us to have a nice (adult/no kid) night out. I'd say that was a good deal! By the way, if you go to the Dock Side Cafe try the linguine with white clam sauce.
I was just on one of my favorite websites (www.lifamilies.com) and found a post about a free cup of coffee from 7-eleven.
Newsday had an article back in December about KB Toy's filing Bankruptcy (click here to read their story). Today we took a quick trip over to Sunrise Mall to find they are closing this store also. EVERYTHING MUST GO, now is your time to snag some great deals and goodies to store away for later times.
We picked up 20 coloring books for under $5. Not all were great or very well known names, but they were new, not colored in and certainly will entertain my kids for hours days. We also picked up a some Simpsons figures and WWF WWE figures, as well as an Elmo chair. All for under $15.
For additional KB Toys locations, check out their website @ www.kbtoys.com.
It has really become so expensive to live on Long Island. With the state of the economy the way that it is everyone is looking for ways to save money. Coupons, sales or deals people aren't spending money like we used to. Well at least I can say so for my family.
This blog was brought to life over a few water cooler conversations with some co-workers. Everyone is always sending emails and sharing information of recent store closings, who's got the best sales, what amazing deal they found on-line, etc. It is my goal to share that information on this blog.
Why? That's simple, I'm hoping that you share this blog with your friends and that eventually people start sharing deals that they've found. Imagine a community for Long Island Coupons, Deals and Savings. Well that's why I'm putting spare time into this blog.
That's all for now. If you'd like to contribute to this blog with deals or coupons that you've found on Long Island, email me at licouponnut@gmail.com.
