Burger King has a deal on its original chicken sandwiches: Buy one, get one free.
The BOGO deal is not good on specialty sandwiches.
It’s valid through Jan 16.
Dec 142010
Sep 122010
Congratulations to all those who sent in their cheap tips as part of the Parenthood DVD contest. If you missed this contest, start working on your cheap tips now because we have another DVD contest coming up.
Here are our winners and their cheap tips:
Katiuska Carrazana of Miami:
- Best happy hour: Friday’s at Happy Wine, 5792 SW 8th St., Miami.
Andy Cohn of Miami:
- BIG 105.9 has weekly dining deals. On Wednesdays at 9 a.m. they have Pauly’s Picks, where you get a $100 gift certificate for $50. For good restaurants, you have to be quick. On Thursdays they have Doc’s Deals, a $50 certificate for $25. They also have WIOD Deals.
Ruth Hara of Miami:
- Best cheap date: any guy in Miami — ’cause they’re cheap!
- Best cheap place to take your kid: the library — and maybe they’ll learn something.
- Best cheap hotel: Travelodge (locally, any hotel west of I-95).
- Best cheap eats: Steak n’ Shake (half-off shakes 2 to 4 p.m. weekdays).
- Best thrift shop: Douglas Gardens in Miami, Red White & Blue in Hialeah and North Miami.
- Best cheap fun: sightseeing on the MetroMover, which is free.
- Additional cheap tip: sign up on all the lists.
Grecia Morales of Miami-Dade:
- Best cheap health tip: Baptist Children’s Hospital and Baptist Health South Florida offer a great variety of free or very low cost speeches and conferences about interesting topics.
Ella Pedre of Miami:
- Best cheap date: Free movie screenings during the week.
- Best cheap happy hour: The Bar in Coral Gables. Ladies drink free between 5:30 and 7:30
- Best cheap place to take your kid: Miami Children’s Museum on Target’s free night and several museums have specific days that have free admission.
- Best cheap hotel: I like to stay at La Quinta. It is cheap, clean and the fresh waffles for breakfast are great.
- Best cheap eats: McDonald’s 49-cent hamburgers and 59-cent cheeseburgers Wednesday and Sundays, Subway’s $5 foot long or you can check out the culinary schools. You get great food by students that could end up being the next top chefs.
- Best thrift shop: Every Wednesday is “Wacky Wednesday” at the Salvation Army Family Stores in Miami-Dade and Broward. All clothing is 50 percent off.
- Best cheap fun: Our county parks offer great amenities for free! Hopefully, they will not start charging for parking. Our libraries offer great movies to borrow for free.
- Best cheap beauty salon services: La Belle Beauty Academy offers cheap services from their students. You can check out other beauty schools and see if they do, too!
Stephanie Beck:
- The best DATE, HAPPY HOUR and EATS are all combined at Morton’s Steak House in West Palm Beach (and other South Florida locations, though hours may vary). The setting is elegant and impressive and conducive to conversation (DATE), the HAPPY HOUR is all night in the bar offering inexpensive drinks, wine and beer, and the EATS are delicious and $5 each! You can make it dinner easily since they offer a delicious salad, mini burgers and filet sandwiches and gorgonzola french fries … yummy!
Andrea Knafo, Broward mother of three:
- Free summer family movies at Regal Cinemas.
- Free programs at Broward County Libraries and Nova Southeastern University library.
- KidsBowlFree.com.
- Freebies for kids who get As on their report cards, including a free hamburger at Char Hut, tokens at Kabooms in Davie and tokens at ChuckECheese.
- Birthday freebies, including free play on your birthday and a $10 coupon for signing up for Boomers Kids Club.
Karen Usry of Hollywood:
- My best cheap date is in Hollywood. Stroll along the Broadwalk and people watch. Stop for a slice of pizza at Roccos and listen to the live music on most nights (I love Wednesdays), then end the night with a scoop from Ben and Jerry’s. Oh. and some smooching on the sand.
Honorable mention goes to Susan Moss, organizer of the Labyrinth Café folk music series in Fort Lauderdale, one of our favorite cheap music opportunities.
Do you have a great cheap tip we didn’t mention? Leave a comment here, and stay tuned for our next DVD contest.
Aug 312010
It’s time for another contest!
We have several copies of the DVD of Season 1 of the NBC TV series “Parenthood” to give away. This DVD was just released today, Aug. 31.
Here’s the description of the show:
Parenthood introduces us to the very large, very colorful and imperfect Braverman family. Single mother Sarah and her two children Amber and Drew moving back home with her parents Zeek and Camille. Sarah’s sister and complete antithesis, Julia, is a successful corporate attorney trying to juggle work and motherhood, alongside her stay-at-home husband, Joel. Executive producers are Ron Howard and Ron Grazer.
To enter our contest, we’re looking for a cheap tip in one of these categories:
- Best cheap date
- Best cheap happy hour
- Best cheap place to take your kid
- Best cheap hotel
- Best cheap eats
- Best thrift shop
- Best cheap fun
- Or, come up with your own “best cheap” tip in a category we haven’t thought of.
Your “best cheap” thing must be in Miami-Dade, Broward, Palm Beach or Monroe county.
Here are the rest of the rules:
- To enter, subscribe to our daily feed from Miami FL on the Cheap, Fort Lauderdale on the Cheap or Palm Beach on the Cheap and send an email with your full name and snail mail address to miami27@miamiflonthecheap.com. If you’re already a subscriber, just send us an email with your full name and snail mail address. Be sure to provide the email address under which you subscribed. ENTRIES WITHOUT SNAIL MAIL ADDRESSES WILL BE DISQUALIFIED.
- Put DVD CONTEST in the subject line.
- Deadline to enter is midnight Eastern time Wednesday, Sept. 8.
- Contestants must be 13 or older.
- One entry per person.
- Winners must be residents of South Florida.
- The winners will be chosen at random from all valid entries.
Mar 102009
And now, the official Cities on the Cheap contest, South Florida-style.
To celebrate the national launch of Cities on the Cheap blogs, we’re giving away a few books about money by South Florida authors, plus a few Webkinz just because they’re cute and my brother sells them.
To enter the contest, add a comment to this post with your favorite On the Cheap tip for South Florida. It could be an upcoming free event, a place you like to visit that’s always free or cheap, an ongoing discount, a favorite happy hour, the best place for a cheap dinner, a favorite discount shopping site — you get the picture.
All valid posts from my five Florida sites will be entered into a random drawing, and the winners can choose their prizes.
We’re giving away three books, two music CDs and two Webkinz.:
1) Dave Barry’s Money Secrets Like: Why Is There a Giant Eyeball on the Dollar?
2) Suze Orman’s 2009 Action Plan: Keeping Your Money Safe and Sound.
3) Lucky You, by Carl Hiaasen, a novel about a lottery winner.
4) Meet Me In Margaritaville: The Ultimate Collection, Jimmy Buffett CD
5) Introducing Spam All-Stars CD.
6) Webkinz Bullfrog.
7) Webkinz Clydesdale.
If your tip is from Broward, Palm Beach, Miami-Dade or elsewhere in Florida, you can enter your comment at one of these sites:
Fort Lauderdale on the Cheap
Palm Beach on the Cheap
Miami FL on the Cheap
Florida on the Cheap
The contest is open through midnight Eastern time Friday, March 20. Contestants must be over 13, and those between 13 and 18 need their parents’ permission to enter. Entrants must provide a valid email address, and winners will be notified by email. Only those entries that include a cheap tip will be entered in the drawing. Comments are moderated, so will not appear immediately.
