Upcoming Chick-fil-A Giveaway: Free spicy chicken biscuit

Starting on December 27, Chick-fil-A will offer a free Chick-fil-A Spicy Chicken biscuit to customers who make a reservation via this link. Deal ends January 10. Deal found on dealnews.com.

Free Natural Cut Fries w/ sea salt at Wendys

Free $5 Starbucks Card

Free $3 MP3s at Amazon

http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html/ref=pe_125470_17696550_pe_promo/?docId=1000634471

Upcoming at Starbucks: Buy 1 holiday drink, get 1 free

Starting November 18 from 2 pm until 5 pm local time at participating Starbucks locations, all holiday drinks are buy one, get one free. It's among the best offers we've seen from Starbucks this year. This deal will be valid every day from 2 pm until 5 pm local time until November 21. This deal was found thanks to dealnews.com.

Free Sample @ Cold Stone Creamery

Free Orange 'n Creme Frutista Freeze from Taco Bell

At participating Taco Bell locations, get a free Orange 'n Creme Frutista Freeze via this printable coupon. This coupon is valid until November 25 or until 500,000 online coupons are redeemed. (If the online limit is reached, any unredeemed coupons will be void at that point.) Deal found at dealnews.com.

Burger King: Free 12-oz. Seattle's Best Coffee on Friday mornings

Each Friday in November during breakfast hours, participating Burger King locations offer a free Seattle's Best 12-oz. Coffee with no purchase required. Click here to find your nearest Burger King restaurant. Deal found at dealnews.com.

Half Price Book coupons

HPB has some deals for the week of November 8.

Free 8x10 Canvas Photo

From Becky Hallenbeck:

I found out about a website called canvaspeople.com. You can get an 8x10 canvas photo for free. You can pay more and get larger sizes. They also offer 50% off the second one. I think this is a great deal. Could use it for Christmas gift for grandparents or something like that. You also have to pay shipping.

Cheap cheesesteaks

Check out this quite good offer from Penn Station for cheap 8-inch cheesesteaks: $2.99 through November 14.

Free Sierra Mist @ Wal-Mart on Saturday

Click can for information

Restaurant.com 90% off extended

Restaurant.com has extended the 90%-off sale, supposedly ending today. See yesterday's post for the link.

90% off Restaurant.com

Steve Harms passes along a rare 90%-off deal at Restaurant.com. $25 Restaurant gift certificates for $1 via coupon code “WOW.” There are other money denominations available as well, although they all require a minimum purchase.

Note that up to 80%-off deals are fairly common, but not the 90%.

Free Cold Stone Creamery on Thursday

Restaurant.com 80% off again

As you faithful readers will know, Restaurant.com frequently has deals on their gift certificates. Through Wed. (9/22), use the code SHARE to receive 80% off. Need restaurant ideas? The nearby Andy's Mediterranean Grille is there, as is Caminetto Bistro in the Kingsgate Marriott and many more (151 in the Cinci area).

Groupon for food truck

Today's Groupon is for Cafe de Wheels, one of Cinci's food trucks. I've not tried Cafe de Wheels yet, but the menu looks good and I hear good reports about it. You pay $6 for a $12 certificate for the truck.

IHOP free meals

IHOP has a new email club, which apparently gives you 3 free meals (1 for signing up, 1 on your birthday, 1 on your sign-up anniversary). Some places on the web are reporting there will be additional deals as well. Note that the link above is on Facebook, so you'll need to be a member in order to sign up; if you're not on Facebook, you can find the deal here.

Free museum tickets

Michelle Witt passes along this offer for free museum tickets. Note that this is only for Saturday, 9/25, "Museum Day." It appears that tickets may be good for only 2 people, so check the details. But several area museums are participating (and don't forget to check Dayton, Lexington, etc.).

New thrift store

Mandy Buckland shares this news: "This week I discovered the best thrift store I have ever been to in Cincinnati. St. Vincent de Paul on Beechmont in Mt. Washington (a few minutes past the Lunken Airport exit on Beechmont) . It is definitely not as big as Village Discount Outlet, but it is in a central location of several very affluent neighborhoods. The store is really clean, everything is sorted by size (they even have a petite skirt section and a very nice maternity section)... everything is nice (maybe not a specific taste or style, but in great or new condition). Maybe I was just there on a good day, but I was so impressed. All of their clothing is $4.49, but they run daily sales that are 25% and 50% off as well as a tag color that is $.99. They also have a house wares and small furniture section. The staff was very friendly and helpful and told me to tell all my friends about their store, so I am just following orders!"

Labor Day deals

A couple of deals, one to feed your mind and one to feed your tummy.

Half Price Books is having a 20% off sale this weekend (9/2-9/6). Of course, this is especially good when combined with their clearance prices, which range from $1 to $3. There are 2 Cinci locations, plus 1 in Florence (a newish one).

Qdoba has a deal for Monday, 9/6, only: $5.99 for an entree and regular drink all day long, no coupon necessary. This is good at the 3 area locations (Blue Ash, Deerfield and Florence).

Rent a maid

Thanks to Michelle Witt for passing along this deal: $15.00 buys you $100 worth of Molly Maid services. But then husbands miss the joy of running the vacuum!

Cincinnati Museum Center for free

Each summer the Cincinnati Museum Center (which includes natural history, Cincinnati history and children's museums) has free Friday events. And this year, you can also get access to the traveling exhibit America I AM. There are two left for this summer, 8/27 and 9/17. While the museums are free from 4:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m., you still must pay for parking. Thanks to Lisa Profitt for mentioning this event!

Restaurant.com deals

Kristin Bird supplies a new coupon code for Restaurant.com (this link takes you to Cincinnati listings, but you might want to adjust the mile radius) to save 80% on their dining certificates. The code CLEARANCE ends August 31.

Esther Price... CHOCOLATE!

So if you're not already subscribed to Groupon.com for the Cincinnati area, you might want to sign up today. Now. 5 minutes ago. Today's deal is $20 worth of Esther Price chocolates (at either Cincinnati-area store) for $10.

The coupon does expire on October 1, but I see no reason not to celebrate Valentine's Day a few months early. Or Christmas. Or Thanksgiving. Even Hanukkah. And didn't Ramadan just begin? (Although I guess that would mean you have to eat the chocolate at night...)

You do have to sign up to get this deal, and you'll then receive daily emails (Monday through Friday) with coupon offers. Call me crazy, but that's a small price to pay for chocolate...

Restaurant.com

You can save 80% at Restaurant.com by entering the word big at checkout. You can get a $25 gift certificate for $2. It says the offer ends Monday 8/16 so act fast.

Cheap symphony tickets

The Cincinnati Symphony is offering some $10 tickets -- see here for more info.

Free fries

Thanks to Jodi Marshall for passing along an opportunity: free Penn Station fries (which my 3-year-old declares to be the world's best) on Wednesday, 8/18. See here for the info.

Free sticky notes

Thanks to Steve Harms, we can all get some free sticky notes! Hooray!

Free Shakespeare

Thanks to Josh Avery for pointing to this: the Cincinnati Shakespeare Company offers free performances via Shakespeare in the Park! There's still time to catch a performance of either Hamlet or A Midsummer Night's Dream.

Free Qdoba food

This Friday, 7/30, Qdoba is celebrating its (their?) anniversary with buy-one-get-one-free entrees at the 3 area locations. No coupon necessary. See info here, or Qdoba's menu here.

Half Price Books coupons

Half Price Books has some coupons for next week (week of 7/12).

Also, they have a great kids' reading program for the summer in which kids earn free gift certificates after reading (or being read to) for at least 15 minutes each day for 5 consecutive days.

Finally, the Florence location has 50% off all clearance books this weekend. And when we were last there, they had a good bit of clearance material.

Cheap(er) cheesecake

So apparently 7/30 is "national cheesecake day" (sounds to me like a holiday our culture really needs). Cheesecake Factory will be offering "any slice" for "half price" -- currently, I don't see many details, but I'm guessing it will be restricted to dine-in customers. (But hey, have an appetizer and get some cheesecake.)

Also, if you become a Cheesecake Factory fan on Facebook, you get a personal invitation to "preview day" on 7/29, with which you can purchase a slice of cheesecake for $1.50. I'm not sure, but I'm thinking this beats the "any slice, half price" deal.

See the info -- and "like" Cheesecake Factory -- on its Facebook page.

Qdoba summer deals

Qdoba has some decent summer deals, including free kid's meals on Friday evenings. There are now 3 Cinci-area locations.

20% off @ Cold Stone Creamery

Click here for a coupon for 20% off any Cold Stone Creamery purchase through the end of June.

http://images.eonline.com/static/on/shows/20_years_of_e/docs/E!Anniversary_Coldstone_coupon.pdf

Free Coffee at Dunkin' Donuts

The best part is that it's free and tastes better than the motor oil from Coffee Emporium.

It's Free Coffee Mondays in March!

Visit your local Dunkin' every Monday this month for your Free Medium Hot or Iced Coffee. Visit www.dunkindonuts.com for the location nearest you.


Offer valid on 3/8, 3/15, 3/22 and 3/29 at participating Dunkin' Donuts locations in the Cincinnati, OH area only.

Price and participation may vary. Plus applicable tax. Limited time offer. No substitutes. One per person per visit.

Luvs Jumbo Packages for $3.70 shipped

Click here for details

Thanks to Marianne Brown

Free Chick-fil-A Sandwich