Saving Money the Amazon Way

I am spending an increasing amount of time on Amazon and I thought it might be helpful to start sharing the savings, which can be quite substantial as I come across them. I am thinking of maybe doing a "Daily Deals" type of post as many of the savings on Amazon change daily. This would allow people to subscribe to the post and get it via email every day if they choose. Please leave a comment to this post telling me if you would like me to set-up a way to put up all the deals I come across and whether you would want to receive them or just check my blog for them. So, without further ado (drumroll) here is the first ever LifeOnAmazon Money Saving Deals Post:

COUPON CODES:

Code -- Description(Click to view)-- Expiration

OBERSALE $15 off $39 Oh Boy! Oberto, Lowrey's, or Smokcraft products 6/30/08

KETTLE45 40% off on Kettle Chips 6/30/08

SKIPPY13 25% off Skippy Peanut Butter 6/30/08

LIPTON21 Save $10 on $29 or More of Lipton Tea 6/30/08

Jn8Falle Save 20% on Select Fallene Sun Care Products 6/30/08

JUNEBAR8 $10 Instant Savings on Cliff, Odwall, Luna, Larabar and More 6/30/08

JOLYCORN $5 Instant Savings on Jolly Time Popcorn 6/30/08

WILYWONK $15 Instant Savings on Select Nestle and Wonka Candy 6/30/08

JUNE8NEU Save 20% on Neutrogena Sun Care Products 6/30/08

GENISOY6 Save up to 40% on Genisoy Soy Crisps 6/30/08

STEAZ222 $10 Instant Savings on Steaz Energy Drink 6/30/08

CARTE555 Tassimo Carte Noire Coffee: Buy Two, Save 50% 6/30/08

ZENZENI5 ZenSoy Beverages: Buy Two, Save $15 6/30/08

JUNE8GSK $10 Instant Savings Aquafresh, Gly-Oxide, Oasis, Polident... 6/30/08

WISK0608 $15 Instant Savings on Wisk or Snuggle 6/30/08

JUN8MEDE $3 Instant Savings on Mederma 6/30/08

Smoked Salmon makes a great Father's Day gift
SEABEAR8 $10 Instant Savings on SeaBear Smoked Salmon 6/30/08

TODAY'S DEALS THAT I HAVE COME ACROSS WITH NO COUPON REQUIRED

Pro-Grade 13-Piece Hex Wrench Bit Socket Set - Metric 81% OFF

Rapid Home Travel Charger with Ic Chip for Blackberry 94% OFF

Crocs Beach Clog 33% OFF

Movado Men's Luno Watch #0605635 50% OFF

14k Yellow and White Gold Crossover Hoop Earrings 77% OFF

DeWalt 37 Piece Screwdriving and Nutdriving Set 58% OFF

Franco Sarto Women's Pension Platform Ankle Boot 69% OFF

Led Zepplin Complete Studio Recordings [BOX SET] 40% OFF

The Long Road to Freedom: An Anthology of Black Music [BOX SET] 50% OFF

Bob Dylan - Greatest Hits, Vol. 1-3 50% OFF

Frank Sinatra A Voice in Time: 1939-1952 [BOX SET] 50% OFF

Ok, well that is a quick list of savings I came across on Amazon today. I can certainly expand and develop this feature if people find it helpful. Have a great day!

EMAHTSKCBLVDT!!!

EMAHTSKCBLVDT!!! The Red Wine has been flowing freely here tonight and the mood is merry. I can't wait for Amazon to roll out the wine sales. I am really putting in my research this evening to land the Wine Buyer Position mentioned in the article. I will keep it short and sweet tonight as the video sums up the mood here at LifeOnAmazon Headquarters far better then I can (I do find it strange I have continued to play this over and over with such joy... I wonder if I will find it so entertaining in the morning). Anyhow, I am having fun right now and I would love your company via a comment. I hope your evening is as fun as mine. EMAHTSKCBLVDT!!!

Amazon.com Offers Pizza Delivery & Takes Over Government.

That's the headline I want to see. As I settle into my life on Amazon I have started compiling a list of services that I need implemeted, and the sooner the better. Now keep in mind my goal is to be able to manage my entire life on one site thus freeing up years of my lifetime from being gobbled up by mundane trips to the store and sitting in traffic. Consider this post one giant "Jeffquest" (see previous post for definition). I look forward to reading these headlines:



Amazon.com You've Got Mail!
I need to be able to communicate. How do you think AOL, MSN and YAHOO all became such big portals? FREE EMAIL ACCOUNTS! @amail is cooler than gmail or you could just start giving out @amazon.com accounts, talk about free advertising and keeping "top of mind awareness," which will lead to the next headline...

Make Amazon.com Your Homepage
Once you roll-out email, everyone can make Amazon their home page and now you are rolling (in even more profits). Give me some personalization features/widgets so when I go to Amazon.com alongside the Deals of The Day I can see my local weather, how many emails I have, To Do list (buy more stuff from Amazon), and watch Amazon's stock keep rising.

Amazon1 Now Available
OK, call it whatever you want, but this is 2008, so email alone doesn't cut it, I need a communication suite that includes email, instant messaging, phone with features (voicemail, caller id etc...), basically slapping Skype onto Amazon, but I think you can build it yourself cheaper than buying them. Just imagine those servers humming at Christmas with everyone communicating and fulfilling all those gift lists.

Amazon Social in Beta
Now that everyone is communicating via Amazon we need some self expression. Just imagine the money you will make off the "Keeping up with The Joneses" mentality. "Look at that picture of Bill on his Amazon Blog showing off his new 46 inch lcd tv." a quick search with a tap, tap, tap on the keyboard and "congrads your purchase of the Sony Bravia 52 inch 1080 lcd is complete."

Now browse the internet with the Amazon Browser
The browser is the new desktop so I need the "A" up in the top left corner of my browser window asap.

Amazon announces Satellite launch and Broadband Service
The media seems to think Jeff Bezos wants to get into space travel. I think it is a front and they are really working on launching a satellite to offer worldwide Wi-Fi access with time-travel quality speeds.

Amazon Domains with Web Hosting Now Live
You have already built the cloud (Amazon S3) and Web Developers obviously love it. Let's roll out an interface the rest of us can use and add Domain Registration so you can show GoDaddy "Who's Their Daddy!"

Amazon Rolls Out Nationwide Pizza Delivery
Now that I live on Amazon.com I don't want to be bothered with the Domino's or Pizza Hut websites. I will take my Pizza in the shape of an A! Nothing supports long amounts of time spent online like pizza, make that Amazon Pizza!

Amazon Travel Will Get You There
I am a big fan of Priceline, but only until Amazon rolls out its version of Travel efficiency and savings. Now that you have taken over my life and I have all this extra time and money on my hands I want to travel. This industry was made for you and it has already gone all digital, so you don't even have to lead that revolution. Just let me start traveling and saving the Amazon way, and you will have time to get the platform perfected so you can launch your space travel offerings on it!

Amazon Auto Ready For Test Drive
You went from the Segway to a Space Ship, neither of which work for me right now. I know you have an Electric Car in you with built in Wi-Fi, Kindle dock etc..

Amazon Now Insures Your Covered
Send that Aflac Duck and Green Geico Gecko to the deadpool. OK, please no emails, I mean the companies to the deadpool, and Amazon can be credited with allowing the imprisoned animals to be safely released in the wild.

Amazon Homes Is Good For The Environment
Hey I am just the messenger on this one, the Justice Department made the ruling. You could donate a portion of each transaction's profit to saving your namesake from further destruction.

Amazon Banking Makes "Cents"
You already have Payment Services but let's go full scale bank, your founder was an Investment Banker! This is another sector that has already gone digital, so I just need you to fill out all the proper paperwork with the government and I can set-up my Free Checking With Amazon account and order my new Amazon.com Debit Card.

Amazon.com Tackles Budget Deficit
"Government is too big and too important to be left to the politicians". Chester Bowles
This is the final piece, the destiny of your highly efficient model of execution. You can bring the government back to the people. Wipe out all of the waste. Local governements could create Amazon Wish-Lists based on their needs. I would receive an Amazon Mail message whenever something was up for vote and put in my yay or nay. Senators could actually spend time in the places they represent and just log into Amazon.com and see what money has been allocated to their projects, their approval rating etc... All government travel would have to go thru Amazon Travel and expenses paid with The Amazon Card which we could all review. You would take care of calculating and collecting taxes. Imagine all those users on Amazon.com with their tax refund blinking on screen. A groundswell of support would start to build for "President Bezos." Budget Deficit? Not on your watch!

Thanks to a bookseller, I will have achieved Nirvana, taking care of every mundane detail of life by simply entering in my user name and password on Amazon.com

SEATTLE, WE HAVE A PROBLEM

Toilet Paper. On this my first day of a year long adventure to live off the land that is Amazon.com, the first thing I searched for was toilet paper. I am happy to report that they have a wide range of options and I am favoring the Seventh Generation 48 pack for $47.99
I always try to go with the environmentally friendly option and it even states in the description that I will be "making the world a safer place for this and the next seven generations." I guess the eighth generation is screwed or its assumed everyone will use a bidet by then. (Breaking News: I just did a search and oui! there is a large selection of bidet's available! Amazoning!).

JEFFQUEST: OK, well since this is the first one I guess I should define a Jeffquest. It is basically a request for a service or item that I find missing from Amazon and since we all know from experience that the only way to get something done is by going to the top I will call these Jeffquest's (note: Jeff Bezos is the founder and CEO of Amazon). Anyhow, my first Jeffquest came to me as I checked out the toilet paper options. I am mathematically challenged and one thing I really enjoy at my grocery store is they now include on the display price a breakdown of what you are paying per ounce/pound or in the case of toilet paper per sheet. This makes it easier for me to evaluate the prices when looking at an item that comes in various sizes and prices. I would think this would be pretty easy to implement especially compared to space travel, so let's get it done.

OK, I can wipe that off my list, now on to food. Although, as I think about it, my brain was once again in "ass backwards" mode as what good is toilet paper if you have not eaten. Unfortunately, I don't live in Seattle so I can't use the new AmazonFresh service. I can't wait for them to roll this out to everyone, basically it will remove the need to ever go the grocery store, although I see no mention of scratch off lotto tickets or free cookies from the bakery. Same day delivery of fresh fruits, vegetables, frozen food etc... in a temperature controlled tote sounds good to me. Hey Seattlites, if you have used this service please let me know in the comments your opinion/experience.

Luckily, the regular Amazon site has a well stocked non-perishable grocery section which even includes milk, Organic Horizon Milk which evidently doesn't have to be refrigerated until opened, though I do get nervous when I see it on sale. I can easily survive even thrive off of the offerings here, cereals, canned food, organic food, coffee and tea. I am curious to see what condition my beloved Harvest Cheddar Sun Chips and Hershey's Special Dark Chocolate will arrive in. Laundry soap, shampoo, household cleaner's are all covered.

I am off to a good start and can see food and personal hygiene products are not going to be an issue so consider that part of my life now off-loaded to Amazon.com for the next year. No more trips to the grocery store for this guy. I am going to miss the free cookies from the bakery, and getting updates from one of the checker's on her amazingly eventful life and whoa! wait a minute tell me Amazon has girl scout cookies....search says.....NO! Search again....NO! I have to go a year without girl scout cookies? My god man, you can "unbox" a full movie to me in a matter of minutes or deliver a 15,000 watt generator to my front door, but you don't have girl scout cookies? JEFFQUEST!!!