Review & Giveaway: Spend less with Oony & Win a Kindle Touch E-Reader (CD: 20/02/2015)

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Let’s face it, January is tough. If you’re yet to have that conversation with your partner about reining in your spending, it’s only a matter of time. We’re now at the stage where we’re popping fuel and food shops on our credit cards and waiting for the relative calm of February.

It’s no wonder that voucher & money-saving sites have taken off, especially given our very British appetite for a sale. You only have to google “Black Friday” or log on to Facebook on the morning of a Next sale, to see just how much we love saving our pennies.

Like tons of Brits, I’m a member of tons of Facebook Groups run by fellow bargain hunters. Yet as these rely on people sharing the deals as they see them, I’m often late to the party and miss the good stuff. As sharing is caring and all that, I have something pretty cool to share…

… I give you Oony.co.uk!

Simply put, Oony helps people spend less on all kinds of products and services. Their goal is to help users get the lowest price, no matter if they are buying just a few groceries at the supermarket, some clothes, or a new fridge. Most of the offers are either voucher codes or deals, which people can find either by brand or store, or by searching for a specific product. They don’t sell products, but rather provide the tools to save, and point users in the right direction.

First things first, this is an easy site to navigate. If you have a specific shop in mind, you can head straight to the Top Stores tab at the top of the screen to see if they have a deal. This is populated as and when the deals happen to ensure you’re always the first-in-the-know. There are literally hundreds of stores to choose from.

Alternatively, if you’re a technology fiend or perfume addict, there’s a handy category page to drill down into what is important to you. Don’t have the time to search? Just bung your product into the search box and hit go.

If voucher codes are more your thing, there’s a handy live feed that allows you click straight through to the store in question. Right now there’s over 2000 vouchers for almost 500 stores up for grabs. Throw in the deals on offer, and that’s a staggering 13,611 deals and vouchers uploaded this week!

I’m also loving the blog what is a radical departure from the usual affiliate blog. Rather than showcase lookbook after lookbook to tempt you into splashing the cash, they’ve really focused on money-saving. There are detailed posts on everything from Tax-Free Shopping to how to travel light and stick within your baggage allowance, there’s nothing that escapes the money-saving treatment.

I’d urge you all to sign up to the newsletter and follow them on the various social media outlets below. The next time your mum asks for Dior Addict for her birthday, or your husband starts pestering you for a new bridge camera, or your kids outgrow their shoes - you need only do a quick search to save yourself a few pounds!

Social Network pages are:
Blog: http://oony.co.uk/blog
Twitter: http://twitter.com/oony

*** GIVEAWAY ***

To celebrate the launch of Oony here in the UK, they’ve given me a shiny new Kindle to give away to one of you!

This is one of the new gen Kindle’s with touch screen technology, and that reads like real paper with no screen glare. It also has a whopping 1GHz processor for even faster page turns and uninterrupted reading, with double the storage capacity of the old Kindle. It also has much-coveted built in Wi-Fi to browse, buy and read all from one device. To see it up close and personal, take a look here on Amazon.

Want it? Get entering below then!

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Terms and Conditions
    • Please note, by entering this competition, you are consenting to me providing Oony with your email address for the purposes of signing up to the newsletter. For more information on how this information will be used - see Oony’s T&Cs here.
    • Signing up to the newsletter is the only mandatory entry requirement - the rest of the options within the raffecopter only improve your chances of winning so just complete as many as you feel like.
    • UK entrants only – you must be over 18 too (sorry)
    • The winner will be contacted by email and must respond within 7 days of having been emailed (I’ll try all known avenues to contact them) or a new winner will be drawn
    • When the giveaway is closed, Rafflecopter will select the winner completely at random
    • The winners name will be published on this site
    • There is no cash alternative

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GIVEAWAY: Win a Pair of Tickets to The Baby and Toddler Show: Bluewater 10th - 12th Oct 2014 (CD: 1/10/2014)

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We’ve been Baby and Toddler Show regulars ever since I fell pregnant with Lil Man. I’m obsessive about hunting down new products and brands before anyone else, and love sharing my hauls with you all. The facilities are always fab with quiet spaces for breastfeeding away from the melee of the main exhibition, learning-through-play areas for inquisitive little ones, and tons of demonstrations, seminars and workshops to get you feeling confident on every step of your parenting journey - whether it’s your first time around, or second or even third.
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The result is a shopping environment that caters perfectly for stressed out parents by providing everything you need to help deal with toddler meltdowns and newborn accidents. There’s even a well kitted out changing area for quick and stress-free bum changes!
This October we’ll be lugging the kids along to check out all the latest from my favourite brands. I’m pretty sure Dexter will be taking Buzz, Woody and Jesse along for the train ride (he’s Toy Story obsessed…), and Heidi will have plenty of smiles for all the stallholders. Craig will take along that all important credit card, and I’ll be chatting up everyone I see in order to scope out the very best deals on all manner of baby essentials.
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Brands set to be exhibiting this year include Britax, Bugaboo, Uppa Baby & Cosatto and you’re guaranteed best prices on buggies, car seats and furniture from all the top brands. For a full list of exhibitors, click here.
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As Heidi is now 5 months, we’ll be checking out all the highchairs and feeding accessories on offer, as well as refreshing her wardrobe with some pretty dresses now she’s ready to ditch the baby grows. As I see Bloom are there again, it’s the perfect opportunity to get up close and personal with their Fresco highchair, and I can’t wait to get browsing The Great Little Emporium and Jelly Rolls for those dinky outfits…

*** GIVEAWAY ***

If you fancy joining me this year (obviously you don’t have to come with me, I wouldn’t inflict that torture on my worst enemy) I have a pair of tickets to giveaway! This will entitle you to a full day’s entry to the show on the day that suits you best. Kids go free and your mum, dad, partner (or whoever you suspect will delve deepest into their pockets to spoil your little one) will win free entry too! This will save you £20 so you can spend it on something adorable!
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Entry is via Rafflecopter so best of luck!
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a Rafflecopter giveaway

T&C’s – a.k.a – the boring bit!
    • Only 1 option is mandatory (leave me a comment) – the rest only improve your chances of winning so just complete as many as you feel like
    • UK entrants only – you must be over 18 too (sorry)
    • The winners will be contacted by email and must respond within 1 week of having been emailed (I’ll try all known avenues to contact them) or a new winner will be drawn
    • When the giveaway is closed, Rafflecopter will select the winner completely at random
    • The winners name will be published on this site

Win competitions at ThePrizeFinder.com


Love Sales? Look no further…

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Okay, we all love sales. In fact, we’re ridiculous enough to queue for them, stay up late for them or even fight over them - Yep I’ve seen grown women fight over a pack of baby vests in Next…

To be honest, I’m poking fun at something I’m guilty of. I’m a mum, so therefore sale shopping makes utter sense.

Actually… sale shopping no matter who you are, is a pretty educated move.

I’m a member of tons of Facebook Groups run by fellow bargain hunters, but as these rely on people sharing, loads of great deals are often missed. As sharing is caring and all that, I have something pretty cool to share… A site that aggregates sales from across the web into a live stream - LoveSales.com

You can personalise your feed to include all your favourite brands from Reiss, to All Saints to Joules so ALL sales will appear in your stream. I’m not just talking a notification of a Debenhams Blue Cross sale either, it identifies great deals on individual items reduced between 25% to 75% and these will appear in your feed also.

Alongside your own feed, you can also check out all sales from every brand Love Sales track by clicking on the Latest Sales icon. You can them drill down further by selecting to view by male and female sales, or by brand (alphabetically).

Even better..? If you find a full-price pair of shoes or little black dress you can’t live without whilst browsing the web, you can download a button to your toolbar that allows you to save them to a Love Sales list. Love Sales will then track them for you and alert you the instant they go on Sale!

If you’re interested in a particularly expensive pair of heels and you husband has flat out vetoed you spending the rent money on them, you can even fiddle with your Price Drop Alerts to notify you when it drops by any amount or by 20% / 30% / 50% or specify your own target price!

Love Sales is even SmartPhone friendly. Okay you can’t use your Love Sales button, but the guys at LoveSales HQ have made it ridiculously easy to add a product to you Love Sales list:

  1. Go to a product you want to add to your List on your mobile device
  2. Click the ‘Share’ button
  3. Then click the ‘Email’ option
  4. A new Email will appear with the web address (URL) of the product in the body of the email
  5. Don’t make any changes to the content of the email. All you need to do is send it to the following email address: addthis@lovesales.com
  6. The product will then be automatically added to your Love Sales List and they’ll will continuously track it for you and alert you if it drops in price or goes on Sale!

To find out more about how it works, click here. For more fashion & beauty news, as well as #SalesoftheDay news and access to special checkout codes, you can also follow @lovesalesdotcom on Twitter, Facebook, Pinterest or G+.

The best bit? Love Sales is totally free and to sign up only takes 30 seconds. For extreme shopaholics it might even help save your relationship or ensure you don’t get your electricity cut-off (although I can’t guarantee it!).

Don’t all thank me at once!

 

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