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Show up at the Clinique counter in any Macy’s and leave with a Free 14-day supply of Clinique Super City Block Sunscreen after you get a free clinique consultation.
Clinique wants to help you get ready for summer with a FREE gift! Come in to Macy’s for a consultation & leave with a 14-day supply of Super City Block sunscreen. Soak up the sun while keeping your skin happy – who’s coming with me?
Check out the Macy’s Facebook page for more information.
This Thursday, April 26, 2012 hop on over to your local Carvel ice cream store between 3 – 7pm and get a free Jr. ice cream cone. The freebie is part of their grand re-opening celebrating their ‘new look same taste’.
According to their website, all ingredients in Carvel products are kosher. Furthermore, all Carvel products available in supermarkets have been manufactured in a kosher certified facility. If you would like to know if your local Carvel store is kosher certified, please call the store directly and inquire if they hold a current certificate.
Locate your local Carvel Store here.
Here’s something you won’t see here too often, in an effort to be more environmentally friendly, Pep Boys is giving away a free $99 Greenworks lawnmower when you bring in your old gas mower. This trade in offer is part of a settlement agreement Pep Boys made with the EPA back in 2010.
If you don’t want the free $99 mower , you can trade up to a 20″ 12 amp mower for $75 which would otherwise retail for $249 or a 20″ 24V mower for $150 that without the trade-in would retail at $299. The mower you trade-in must work and you will have to empty the gas tank before you bring it to Pep Boys.
How about a new environmentally friendly lawnmower for this mother’s day? : )
I just added a new folder to my iPhone which I labelled, Kosher Guides. In it I have all of the Kosher Certification Apps, which happen to be FREE. You can download any or all of these apps onto your iPhone or iPad: cRc Kosher (Chicago Rabinical Council), OU Kosher, OU Passover, OK VegGuide, OK Kosher Food Guide. These apps are available for the iPhone and iPad.
In the cRc Kosher App, you can look up products by category -beverages, foods, fruits and vegetables, liquor and even a slurpee section. The cRc Kosher app also has a Recommended Agencies page where they provide the symbol of all Recommended or ‘kosher’ kosher certifications in the US and all around the world. This is probably one of the best features from all of these free apps since if you are in a store and see a symbol you don’t know, you can just quickly check your iPhone to see if its on their list. If its on the list you know its an acceptable certification. I find a lot of products from Trader Joe’s where I don’t recognize the Kosher certification and once I research it, it turns out to be fine.
The OU Kosher App allows you to search to see if a particular product is Kosher, provides Kosher Alerts on products that have lost certification as well as lists all the newly certified products. A Website and Kosher Hotline number are also included for additional questions right at your fingertips. I’ve called the OU Kosher Hotline number of times (especially before Passover ) and they are quick to respond and very helpful. The OU has a separate OU Passover app you can download which is a tremendous help around Pesach time listing all their products that are and are not kosher for passover.
OK GuidesThe OK Kosher Food Guide lists all of their certified products and includes an OK Passover guide in it. The OK Vegetable Guide is a separate app, created to help the Kosher consumer learn the most thorough methods of cleaning and checking vegetables for insect infestation teaching methods that were originally developed for the mashgichim in OK restaurants who wash and check large amounts of produce without compromising Torah standards. Due to popular demand these guidelines are now available to the Kosher consumer in app form and online at OK.org site.
These are some really helpful apps, from some exceptional companies, especially at Passover time and all FREE! Download them all now and let me know how you like them!
For more free apps, check out these 16 free fitness & weight-loss apps.
This Tuesday, March 20, 2012 marks the first day of Spring! For those of us in the NY area, we’ve been enjoying summer-like weather the last few days. Lets hope it keeps up so that the kids can play outside while we get our Passover work done!
To mark the first official day of spring, Rita’s Italian Ice is giving away Free Ice’s all day. Last year they gave away 1.2 million FREE ices!
Most Rita’s outlets are Kosher but you can call yours just to be sure. Here is a list of all Rita Italian Ice stores in the u.s.a.
Enjoy your first taste of spring!
The creative people from The Bold Edge have provided us with some Free Placecards for your Passover table. How cool is that! The placecards are in the form of a template that you can download onto your computer, customize and print out (on good cardstock paper). Fold them and use to decorate your seder & yom tov tablescape. Combine these free placecards with your home-made bag of makkos, some I-can’t-believe-its-Passover desserts, or any of these Passover recipes and you’re a full-fledged ballabuste!
Wishing you all a Chag Kasher V’Sameach – Happy & Healthy Passover.
Protecting Your Child – Essential Tools For The Most Important Conversation You Can Have With Your ChildrenOhel has free educational brochures & DVDs for parents. The DVD is called, Unwanted Touch by Dr. David Pelcovitz & David Mandel and the brochures are “How To Talk To Your Children About Personal Safety” & “How To Talk To Your Children About Trauma & Tragedy”. You can order these FREE materials from the Ohel Website here. These materials were funded by Ohel’s Cherish The Child Initiative.
These materials are FREE & in my opinion as a parent and MSW (social worker), are a must have in every home. Read and watch these materials, learn how to talk to your children about difficult issues that must be addressed and add a higher level of protection to each child in our communities.
OHEL Children’s Home and Family Services was established in 1969,is to protect and strengthen individuals and families by meeting the diverse social service needs of the community through programs of excellence. OHEL serves communities in New York City, the surrounding Boroughs, Northern New Jersey, Southern Florida and worldwide on the web. OHEL is driven to constantly supersede all professional and regulatory standards. Leveraging OHEL’s experience and reputation, we seek to proactively identify community social challenges by pioneering new programs that elevate the lives of individuals and families every day. For more about OHEL Services visit their website here.
Here’s a really nice freebie for Valentine’s Day, that famous American holiday where people give cards, flowers, chocolate (and now ice cream) to the ones they love. You can get a free Ben & Jerry’s AmeriCone Dream ice cream this Tuesday, Valentine’s Day, February 14, 2012. Just go to your local Ben & Jerry’s scoop shop between 5pm – 8pm and you’ll get this ice cream freebie - no coupon necessary.
AmeriCone Dream is vanilla ice cream with fudge-covered waffle cone pieces and a caramel swirl. Find a Ben & Jerry’s store near you here.
Win a $500 Amazon Gift Card & Support a Wonderful YeshivaYeshiva Chofetz Chaim / Kollel Ner Dovid is giving away a $500 Amazon.com gift card – and you can win it! All you have to do is enter their raffle HERE . There is NO COST to enter the raffle.
Not only is the raffle free but when you refer a friend to enter the raffle you get extra entries into the raffle, increasing your chances of winning a free $500 Amazon Gift card. Here’s how it works:
Imagine all the useful things you can buy from Amazon with this gift card: clothes, electronics, home appliances, a Kindle with tons of eBooks, diapers, food – you name it, Amazon’s got it and often on sale!
So enter the Yeshiva Chofetz Chaim / Kollel Ner Dovid raffle now and don’t forget to refer your friends!
Free Tax ServicesYou know the old adage, ‘there are two things in life you can’t avoid – death & taxes‘? How about changing it to, ‘there are two things you can’t avoid: Passover & Taxes“ they always are at the same time of the year and always require a lot of preparation!
Get ahead and save a ton of money on your taxes by taking advantage of any one of these free tax servics. (Pesach saving posts are coming soon…)
TurboTax is offering a free online Federal Tax edition. This year’s version has been brought up to date with the latest tax laws.
You can get your taxes done for free at one of more than 3,000 Walmart tax service in-store kiosks by either H&R Block or Jackson-Hewitt Tax Service. They use the 1040EZ to file.
From now until February 29th, H&R Block will be offering free preparation of 1040EZ forms at some participating 250 Wal-Mart stores.
Jackson-Hewitt will provide free prep of the 1040EZ during the tax season at about 2,800 Wal-Mart stores.
To find a Wal-Mart store tax prep kiosk near you by, enter your zip code here.
