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There are so many great finds at TJ Maxx, that it's hard to try to pick just a few! I've bought all sorts of things for the whole family, here. One way that I have pretty consistently saved a lot of money is by bringing lunch (and snacks -- I do like to graze) and sometimes even dinner . . . to work. If I'm going to carry all that food on the subway or bus, I like to transport my victuals in a colorful, happy lunch bag. I've bought some cute, inexpensive lunch bags from TJ Maxx. They also have a lot of colorful, nice brand name cookware!!
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Their official web site --
Official website for TJ Maxx a designer and brand name clothing retail company. No sales. No gimmicks. Just brand name and designer fashions for you, your family and . . .
Sunday, January 27, 2013
Bed Bath & Beyond
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Again, I want to thank you all for your great e-mails and enthusiastic feedback!! It's so wonderful to share this info with you!! Here is another gem from a friend! She mentioned that you can get a 20% coupon just by signing up for their e-mail newsletter. Let me just say that, during this cold spell, we're especially enjoying some flannel sheets we bought at Bed Bath & Beyond !! Also, for my fellow bargain hunters, you can find some marked down products right near the rest rooms. I don't know if they still have any winter holiday products left in the store but if they do, you know you'll be able to get amazing deals on them. We have some cute tree ornaments that I purchased from Bed Bath & Beyond around this time of year.
Copyright 2013 Mavis Fowler-Williams Some rights reserved.
Here's info from their official web site --
www.bedbathandbeyond.com
Official website for Bed Bath & Beyond. Browse our wedding and gift registry, shop for college or by department with categories such as seasonal, bedding, kitchen and ...
Again, I want to thank you all for your great e-mails and enthusiastic feedback!! It's so wonderful to share this info with you!! Here is another gem from a friend! She mentioned that you can get a 20% coupon just by signing up for their e-mail newsletter. Let me just say that, during this cold spell, we're especially enjoying some flannel sheets we bought at Bed Bath & Beyond !! Also, for my fellow bargain hunters, you can find some marked down products right near the rest rooms. I don't know if they still have any winter holiday products left in the store but if they do, you know you'll be able to get amazing deals on them. We have some cute tree ornaments that I purchased from Bed Bath & Beyond around this time of year.
Copyright 2013 Mavis Fowler-Williams Some rights reserved.
Here's info from their official web site --
www.bedbathandbeyond.com
Official website for Bed Bath & Beyond. Browse our wedding and gift registry, shop for college or by department with categories such as seasonal, bedding, kitchen and ...
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Winter Restaurant Week Jan. 14 - Feb. 8
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I want to thank Everyone for your great comments and helpful e-mails!! No MaveSaves could ever be complete without mentioning Restaurant Week (which I have to admit I enjoy more during the summer than during the Winter, but honestly, great food at a bargain is always a delightful experience!!)
So, I'm going to share my friend's suggestions about this Restaurant Week! She liked Park Avenue Winter and Nobu. Fantastic choices -- I love Park Avenue Winter, too! She did what I tend to do too, during Restaurant Week -- have lunch rather than dinner. Yes, of course the dinner portions are larger but so is the price you pay! Her last point was that she orders hot water with honey as a less expensive (FREE) and healthy alternative to many other hot drinks offered at these fine restaurants.
For more info. about Restaurant Week go to --
http://www.nycgo.com/restaurantweek
I want to thank Everyone for your great comments and helpful e-mails!! No MaveSaves could ever be complete without mentioning Restaurant Week (which I have to admit I enjoy more during the summer than during the Winter, but honestly, great food at a bargain is always a delightful experience!!)
So, I'm going to share my friend's suggestions about this Restaurant Week! She liked Park Avenue Winter and Nobu. Fantastic choices -- I love Park Avenue Winter, too! She did what I tend to do too, during Restaurant Week -- have lunch rather than dinner. Yes, of course the dinner portions are larger but so is the price you pay! Her last point was that she orders hot water with honey as a less expensive (FREE) and healthy alternative to many other hot drinks offered at these fine restaurants.
For more info. about Restaurant Week go to --
http://www.nycgo.com/restaurantweek
Gift Receipts, Gift Receipts, Gift Receipts (particularly at Barnes & Noble)
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We all end up going to birthday parties and other celebrations where you just can't show up empty-handed and you don't want to!! If you do buy something special, it's still safer to make sure you get a gift receipt! Of course, this makes exchanging your gift for something else easier for the lucky celebrant!
But, you may not have considered another potential benefit! For example, at Barnes & Noble, if you have your receipt, you can only return a product if you do so within 14 days of your purchase. However, if you have a gift receipt, you will have up to 60 days to return the book, Nook or whatever you purchased at B & N. This might make you consider always asking for a gift receipt . . . I'm just saying!!
BTW, isn't the Nook the most inexpensive tablet around for what it can do?
Copyright 2013 Mavis Fowler-Williams Some rights reserved.
Go to www.barnesandnoble.com for info. regarding their locations, etc.
We all end up going to birthday parties and other celebrations where you just can't show up empty-handed and you don't want to!! If you do buy something special, it's still safer to make sure you get a gift receipt! Of course, this makes exchanging your gift for something else easier for the lucky celebrant!
But, you may not have considered another potential benefit! For example, at Barnes & Noble, if you have your receipt, you can only return a product if you do so within 14 days of your purchase. However, if you have a gift receipt, you will have up to 60 days to return the book, Nook or whatever you purchased at B & N. This might make you consider always asking for a gift receipt . . . I'm just saying!!
BTW, isn't the Nook the most inexpensive tablet around for what it can do?
Copyright 2013 Mavis Fowler-Williams Some rights reserved.
Go to www.barnesandnoble.com for info. regarding their locations, etc.
The National Museum of the American Indian -- NY
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Hi Everyone,
This is one of many free museums in the City that you should visit! I found it to be an interesting, relatively short museum viewing!
Copyright 2013 Mavis Fowler-Williams Some rights reserved.
From the National Museum web site --
The National Museum of the American Indian–New York is located within the historic Alexander Hamilton U.S. Custom House. The museum’s permanent and temporary exhibitions—as well as a range of public programs, including music and dance performances, films, and symposia—explore the diversity of the Native people of the Americas.
Subway
4 & 5 trains to Bowling Green
1 train to Rector Street
R train to Whitehall Street
J & Z trains to Broad Street
2 & 3 trains to Wall Street
Bus
M5, M15, and M20.
See the NY MTA for maps and service updates for subways and buses.
Drop-Off & Parking
Buses may drop off groups at State Street or Whitehall Street. There is no parking at the museum. There are several parking garages located nearby. Click here for current parking options.
For adult group tours, or to address special visit requests, call 212-514-3758 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting212-514-3758 FREE end_of_the_skype_highlighting or email NMAI-NY@si.edu. For school group tours, call 212-514-3705 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting 212-514-3705 FREE end_of_the_skype_highlighting. For more information about tours, see NY Group Visits and Tours.
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Coat Room & Lockers
The Second Floor Coat Room has small lockers for public use. Private coat storage is provided for school groups visiting the museum.
Hi Everyone,
This is one of many free museums in the City that you should visit! I found it to be an interesting, relatively short museum viewing!
Copyright 2013 Mavis Fowler-Williams Some rights reserved.
From the National Museum web site --
The National Museum of the American Indian–New York is located within the historic Alexander Hamilton U.S. Custom House. The museum’s permanent and temporary exhibitions—as well as a range of public programs, including music and dance performances, films, and symposia—explore the diversity of the Native people of the Americas.
Hours & Admission
The museum is open 10 AM–5 PM daily, Thursdays to 8 PM; closed December 25. Admission is free. Floor plans are available for download and printing.Getting Here
The National Museum of the American Indian–New York, is located on the south side of Bowling Green, in lower Manhattan, adjacent to the northeast corner of Battery Park.Subway
4 & 5 trains to Bowling Green
1 train to Rector Street
R train to Whitehall Street
J & Z trains to Broad Street
2 & 3 trains to Wall Street
Bus
M5, M15, and M20.
See the NY MTA for maps and service updates for subways and buses.
Drop-Off & Parking
Buses may drop off groups at State Street or Whitehall Street. There is no parking at the museum. There are several parking garages located nearby. Click here for current parking options.
Visitor Services
Visitor Services desks on the Second Floor in the Great Hall provide information on daily tours, programs, and screenings. Public tours for families and adult groups are given daily, Monday through Friday, at 1 & 3 PM, and Sundays at 3 PM.For adult group tours, or to address special visit requests, call 212-514-3758 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting
212-514-3758 FREE end_of_the_skype_highlighting or email NMAI-NY@si.edu. For school group tours, call 212-514-3705 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting 212-514-3705 FREE end_of_the_skype_highlighting. For more information about tours, see NY Group Visits and Tours.Accessibility
The National Museum of the American Indian–New York is accessible to people with disabilities. Groups and those with special needs are asked to use the ground floor entrance to the museum. All exhibitions are wheelchair accessible. Wheelchairs are available free of charge on the ground floor of the museum, and may be obtained on request from the security staff. Additional accessibility services can be provided at no cost, with 2 weeks advance notice. To request accessibility services or for specific accessibility questions, call 212-514-3758 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting212-514-3758 FREE end_of_the_skype_highlighting or email NMAI-NY@si.eduSecurity
Check the Smithsonian website for the latest on security procedures at Smithsonian museums.Coat Room & Lockers
The Second Floor Coat Room has small lockers for public use. Private coat storage is provided for school groups visiting the museum.
Sledding Hills Suggestions from mommypoppins.com
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Hi Everyone,
You may not be able to make it to WinterJam today in Central Park (although there's still time . . . they're in the Bandshell until 3 PM). But, if you want to consider sledding on your own time, here are some sledding hills. I don't know if you subscribe to MommyPoppins.com but here is some of their latest info. regarding sledding hills. I really like seeing their daily blasts!! This is just a portion of what's in their e-mail today.
Copyright 2013 Mavis Fowler-Williams Some rights reserved.
From mommypoppins.com today ----
As I write this, the snow is still falling and there's already an inch or so on the ground. So I'm hoping we're all going to wake up with enough white stuff for sledding, snowmen and maybe even urban cross-country skiing.
Many of my favorite memories from growing up in NYC involve snow days. The outdoor parking lot on my corner would plow all the snow into one corner, making our own private sledding hill. We would use garbage can lids or pieces of cardboard to sled down this very short, but very steep hill. We also liked to tunnel in between the parked cars to create forts.
Ah, but times have changed. My street urchin days are over and now we use real sleds and real hills to go sledding. Here are some of the best places to go sledding in New York City, as recommended by my family and our readers. Feel free to add your favorites in the comments.
Central Park Sledding
By far the most popular sledding hill in Manhattan is Pilgrim Hill in Central Park. Just north of the 72nd St. entrance at Fifth Avenue. Pilgrim Hill is a steep slope with a gentle end for lots of speed and not too rough of a ride. When Pilgrim Hill is too crowded, head to Cedar Hill between 76th and 79th Streets just south of the Metropolitan Museum of Art or hit the hill next to the Conservatory Garden by 106th Street and Fifth Avenue.
Riverside Park Sledding
Riverside Park is less crowded and has many different hills. The one near Hippo Playground at 91st Street is extremely popular.
Inwood Hill Park
This uptown park has perhaps the best and least known sledding hill in Manhattan.
More Manhattan Sledding A reader also recommends 91st Street between Second and Third Avenues, a steep street that's permanently closed to traffic and very popular with neighborhood kids.
Prospect Park Sledding
There's a great sledding hill right inside the park at 9th Street and Prospect Park West. Brooklynites also love the sledding hills all around the Nethermead, a great field that feels like you're in the middle of the woods.
Fort Greene Park Sledding
Fort Greene Park is like a mini-Central Park and has four hills, including one gentler one. Don't be tempted to sled down the stairs. It looks smooth, but people have been injured.
Brooklyn Heights Sledding A reader recommends the dog run at the end of Orange Street.
Queens Sledding
Forest Park: The popular spot is the golf course where, technically, sledding is not allowed because it's deemed unsafe by the Parks Department. But it's the fact that it's steep that makes it so popular. There's also a hill in Forest Park at the Mary Whalen Playground at 79th Street and Park Lane. Readers have also recommended Juniper Valley Park at 75th Street and Lower Highland Park.
Bronx Sledding:
People like to sled at Ewen Park because it has stairs for climbing back up the hill. Its long steep hill is considered one of the best sledding hills in the city, but sledders have to bail at the bottom before hitting the hay bales the Parks Department puts up to keep people from going out into the street.
Van Cortlandt Park has nice gentle hills for little kids. Also, Crotona Park at Fulton Avenue around 174th Street
Staten Island Sledding:
Clove Lake Park is the official sledding spot on Staten Island, but kids love Dead Man's Hill in Silver Lake Park.
Where do you like to sled? Let us know in the comments below.
Find more seasonal fun in our Winter Activity Guide.
Hi Everyone,
You may not be able to make it to WinterJam today in Central Park (although there's still time . . . they're in the Bandshell until 3 PM). But, if you want to consider sledding on your own time, here are some sledding hills. I don't know if you subscribe to MommyPoppins.com but here is some of their latest info. regarding sledding hills. I really like seeing their daily blasts!! This is just a portion of what's in their e-mail today.
Copyright 2013 Mavis Fowler-Williams Some rights reserved.
From mommypoppins.com today ----
Best Sledding Hills in New York City
Jan 25 2013
As I write this, the snow is still falling and there's already an inch or so on the ground. So I'm hoping we're all going to wake up with enough white stuff for sledding, snowmen and maybe even urban cross-country skiing.Many of my favorite memories from growing up in NYC involve snow days. The outdoor parking lot on my corner would plow all the snow into one corner, making our own private sledding hill. We would use garbage can lids or pieces of cardboard to sled down this very short, but very steep hill. We also liked to tunnel in between the parked cars to create forts.
Ah, but times have changed. My street urchin days are over and now we use real sleds and real hills to go sledding. Here are some of the best places to go sledding in New York City, as recommended by my family and our readers. Feel free to add your favorites in the comments.
Central Park Sledding
By far the most popular sledding hill in Manhattan is Pilgrim Hill in Central Park. Just north of the 72nd St. entrance at Fifth Avenue. Pilgrim Hill is a steep slope with a gentle end for lots of speed and not too rough of a ride. When Pilgrim Hill is too crowded, head to Cedar Hill between 76th and 79th Streets just south of the Metropolitan Museum of Art or hit the hill next to the Conservatory Garden by 106th Street and Fifth Avenue.
Riverside Park Sledding
Riverside Park is less crowded and has many different hills. The one near Hippo Playground at 91st Street is extremely popular.
Inwood Hill Park
This uptown park has perhaps the best and least known sledding hill in Manhattan.
More Manhattan Sledding A reader also recommends 91st Street between Second and Third Avenues, a steep street that's permanently closed to traffic and very popular with neighborhood kids.
Prospect Park Sledding
There's a great sledding hill right inside the park at 9th Street and Prospect Park West. Brooklynites also love the sledding hills all around the Nethermead, a great field that feels like you're in the middle of the woods.
Fort Greene Park Sledding
Fort Greene Park is like a mini-Central Park and has four hills, including one gentler one. Don't be tempted to sled down the stairs. It looks smooth, but people have been injured.
Brooklyn Heights Sledding A reader recommends the dog run at the end of Orange Street.
Queens Sledding
Forest Park: The popular spot is the golf course where, technically, sledding is not allowed because it's deemed unsafe by the Parks Department. But it's the fact that it's steep that makes it so popular. There's also a hill in Forest Park at the Mary Whalen Playground at 79th Street and Park Lane. Readers have also recommended Juniper Valley Park at 75th Street and Lower Highland Park.
Bronx Sledding:
People like to sled at Ewen Park because it has stairs for climbing back up the hill. Its long steep hill is considered one of the best sledding hills in the city, but sledders have to bail at the bottom before hitting the hay bales the Parks Department puts up to keep people from going out into the street.
Van Cortlandt Park has nice gentle hills for little kids. Also, Crotona Park at Fulton Avenue around 174th Street
Staten Island Sledding:
Clove Lake Park is the official sledding spot on Staten Island, but kids love Dead Man's Hill in Silver Lake Park.
Where do you like to sled? Let us know in the comments below.
Find more seasonal fun in our Winter Activity Guide.
Friday, January 25, 2013
Book Off
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I just stumbled upon this goldmine for really inexpensive DVDs, books, comic books and Manga! It just so happened to be right next to another place where the bargains abound -- Jack's 99 Cents Store, but more about that chain in another Post! There are books and DVDs for $3. DVDs of recent movies which I thought were a bargain at $6 are now $5 per DVD!!
Copyright 2013 Mavis Fowler-Williams Some rights reserved.
From the Bookoff web site --
I just stumbled upon this goldmine for really inexpensive DVDs, books, comic books and Manga! It just so happened to be right next to another place where the bargains abound -- Jack's 99 Cents Store, but more about that chain in another Post! There are books and DVDs for $3. DVDs of recent movies which I thought were a bargain at $6 are now $5 per DVD!!
Copyright 2013 Mavis Fowler-Williams Some rights reserved.
From the Bookoff web site --
| Store name | BOOKOFF 49 W 45th NY |
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| Information | Website for USA stores is here. |
| Business hours | 10:00 - 20:00 |
| Telephone number | (+1) 212-685-1410 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting (+1) 212-685-1410 FREE end_of_the_skype_highlighting |
| Address | 49 West 45th Street New York, NY 10036 USA |
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