Unfortunately this deal appears to be dead now.

I just noticed on Slickdeals.net that DiscountMags.com has a special on 2 year subscriptions to Saveur Magazine (18 issues) and Parenting: The Early Years.

I then went to several cash back sites and found that by using your Cashbaq.com account, you can get 8% cash back.

If you don’t have an account, sign up for one, and get a $5 sign-up bonus, making your subscription better than free!

For Saveur Magazine, add the 2 year subscription to your account (after you click through the Cashbaq.com link) and check out. Enter code 3745.

For Parenting: The Early Years, add the 2 year subscription to your account and check out. Enter code 5936 during the checkout process.

I have three magazine subscriptions through DiscountMags.com and haven’t had any problems.

Amazon.com has more $5 magazine subscriptions, available from December 6 – 12:

Cosmopolitan
Country Living
Esquire
Good Housekeeping
Harper’s Bazaar
House Beautiful
Marie Claire
Popular Mechanics
Redbook
Seventeen
Smart Money
Town & Country
Veranda

These are one-year subscriptions that you can give as gifts, renew your own subscription(s) or subscribe for the first time. Learn more at Amazon.com.

Through December 1, you can subscribe to, renew or gift any of these magazines through Amazon.com for only $5.00 each:

Real Simple
Sports Illustrated Kids
Smart Money
PEOPLE StyleWatch
Popular Science
Travel + Leisure
Food & Wine
House Beautiful
Cosmopolitan
Southern Living

Go to Amazon.com to order

This is dead…

ANOTHER UPDATE! Ebay.com has the Leapster 2 as their deal of the day (11/30) for $24.99 + free shipping!

Use Ebates.com to get 2% cash back (and the $5 if you are new to Ebates).

Go directly to ebay, or here’s how to do it to get the Ebates cash back:

1. Go to Ebates.com and sign in (or sign up).
2. Select Ebay from their stores to initiate the 2% cash back.
3. Click on the “Daily deals” graphic.

Quantities are limited, so this deal may go quickly!

This deal is over – UPDATE 11/27 – not sure how long this one will last, but just saw this on Amazon.com: LeapFrog Leapster 2 Special Edition Star Wars Gift Pack – $35

PLEASE NOTE: I have seen a HUGE interest in this post lately…probably from search engines. My original post was for a deal I got at Kohls on November 14. This was not originally intended to be a Black Friday deal post. I read some leaked deals and thought there would be some Black Friday deals coming up for the Leapster 2, but as Dadof2 points out in the comments area, my information is not correct. This deal is now dead.

UPDATE: The Toys R Us Black Friday Ad shows the Leapster 2 system will be available for $29.99. So if you took advantage of any of the gift card deals this week, you could use it toward the purchase of the system. Not a huge savings over the Kohl’s price (if you get the free shipping), but definitely another option!

UPDATE 2: I just saw it will be $29.99 at Kohl’s too on Black Friday. If you have a % off coupon or if the online coupons still work, that will be a really good deal!

Get a pink or green Leapster 2 system for around $31 + tax & shipping at Kohls.com (or less if you use Ebates.com)! And, if you have a Kohl’s credit card, you can get free shipping!

I have been collecting Leapster games as I find deals on them, but started thinking I might have to use some Amazon.com gift cards from Swagbucks searches to buy it for $49.99 if I couldn’t get the system on sale by mid-December. Fortunately today I found a pretty decent deal for the system mentioned on Slickdeals.  I don’t know if this is the best deal (maybe there will be some on Black Friday), but it’s by far the best deal I have seen in the past two months that I have been watching the price.

Here’s how to get it:

1. Go to Ebates.com and get 4% cash back (if you haven’t signed up for Ebates.com before, you can get an additional $5 sign-up bonus!) – this wasn’t mentioned on Slickdeals, but something I always do to get a little money back.

2. Search for Kohls.com and click through to the site

3. Search for Leapster – you should get a page that shows the Leapster L-Max. Look to the right of that page for the “more to consider” column and you’ll see the two Leapster 2 options (for some reason they don’t show up in the results). Click on the Leapster color you want.

4. Add the item to your shopping bag (the price should change to $44.79 once in your cart)

5. Go through the checkout process.

6. Use code: NOVKC30 to get 30% off

7. Use code: FREE4MVC for free shipping (if you have a Kohl’s credit card)

My total was around $33 after tax, plus I’ll receive 4% back from Ebates.

Kohl’s Credit Card

I have found Kohl’s to be overpriced except when they have a sale. But because their items are marked up quite a bit, many of their 50-75% off sale items are really only 25-50% off other retailers’ prices, so you have to comparison shop to make sure you’re getting the best deal. I did discover that having a Kohl’s credit card has its rewards… like the free shipping on the Leapster 2 and occasionally higher discounts during sales. I don’t like signing up for retailer credit cards, but this is one that has been worth it.

Leapster Game Deals

Look in Parenting and Parents magazines for a $5 off Leapster games coupon and use it at Target on the Black Friday sales to get games for $10! There were also some $4 printable coupons, but they appear to be gone now. If you have them, keep them handy for the Target sale.

You can currently get Ni-Hao Kai Lan and Star Wars for $10 at Walmart and Target after using the $5 coupon. This pricing may end today (Sat. 11/14), but I’m not sure.

I stopped by Walgreens to get Photo Stamps ($6.11 each) and found two in the photo department (more on my experience creating stamps can be found toward the end of this post). I also picked up a Petquarium with two fish ($1.69) and 15 packages of stickers for my daughter’s birthday party favor bags ($0.30 each).

I then went to another Walgreens to kill some time before my daughter got out of camp and found that the pool and summer/seasonal items were 75% off! They were just starting to mark everything so when I checked out, the prices rang up incorrectly. Once that was straightened out, I was able to use the 15% off coupon to purchase a bunch of toys.

Spent: $15.08
Saved: $54.29

I got:

20″ Swim Ring – $0.49
Water Squirter – $0.49
Float Lounge – $3.18
Table Top Ping Pong game – $1.27 (because I need another distraction at work)
Dive Sticks – $0.84
Floating Bubble Chair – $2.12
Kid’s Baseball Glove and Ball (pink) – $1.27
Slalom Pool Hoops – $4.41

Photo Stamps
I purchased two boxes and went through the process of ordering stamps when I got home. Here’s what I did:

1) Installed the CD and found you really don’t need it. They would have been better off using gift cards you can scratch off.
2) Went to UPromise and searched for Photostamps.com. Clicked the link in case and read the fine print – no $8 is credited unless you spend money. I noted the free shipping code.
3) Uploaded a photo at Photostamps.com and designed the stamp.
4) Entered the code from the Photostamps CD package and the free shipping code from UPromise.
5) Checked out – no credit card required!

I tried again with my second box. I realized that the first box included the shipping & handling charges (I missed the “free shipping” mention on the front of the box) so I had a credit of $2.99 from using the free s&h code. I got a bit confused because the site shows the s&h options unless you enter the free code from UPromise, and I thought I was going to be charged for it.

I read through the comments at Common Sense with Money and Mercedes said that people are getting the $8 credited to their UPromise accounts. We’ll see if it comes through. Someone else suggested going through MyPoints, which would be a great alternative if they’ll really credit 1000 points to the account!

The Coupon High left a comment on on this previous post that you can also get $8 cash back through Coupon Cactus. You need $10 in your account to get the cash back, so you’d need to do two boxes of Photo Stamps.

This deal seems way too good to be true so I’m not going to count on getting cash back without spending any money in the transaction, but it doesn’t hurt to try.

Here’s the breakdown:
$6.11 x 2 packages + $1.01 (tax on two boxes) = $13.23/40 stamps = ~$0.33 per stamp (a savings of ~ $0.11 per stamp)

You can download the entire MP3 album of 150 Fun Songs For Kids by Countdown Kids for only $0.99 on Amazon.com! The songs are sung by children, and you can listen to the previews on Amazon.com before you purchase the album. I plan to put these songs on my iPod for car trips with my daughter.

You must first install the Amazon.com MP3 Downloader, and then purchase the MP3 download. You’ll want to download the album when you plan to be online for a little while since 150 songs takes some time to download.

Purchase the album.

The Wisconsin Cheeseman is having a 75% off sale on gift baskets, starting at $6.24 + shipping. If you order more than $50 worth of gift baskets, use 8C5off50 or 8131AF50 to get an additional $5 off. You can also order the same gift baskets through Amazon.com with the same shipping charges.

75% off sale at HickoryFarms.com. First go to Ebates and sign up (if you haven’t already) or log in. Then search for Hickory Farms and click on the link. You will get 4% cash back on your order. The link will take you to the Hickory Farms Website. Click on the 75% off graphic and use the source code clipper to get an additional 15% off. Shipping is $5.99 to Dallas (may vary by location), but with prices like these, it may be worth it.