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The review has been compensated in the form of a Best Buy gift card and/or received the products and services at a reduced rate or free.

 

Father’s Day is coming up and Best Buy is a great place to find gifts for all kinds of dads.  Whether he loves to entertain friends in the man cave, crazy about the newest gadgets, a fit dad, or the dad that just loves to create picture and video memories.  Best Buy has all kinds of gifts for all kinds of dads: http://bit.ly/Gift_Center.  My dad and my husband both fit in the the Gizmo Guru category.

The Gizmo Guru: gifts for the dad that always wants to take his tech to the next level with the latest and greatest, always connected, at home and on the go.

I just know my hubby would love the Logitech Harmony Smart wireless keyboard.  He loves getting rid of the wires.  He likes his desk to be neat.  He wants as much stuff packed into his tech devices as he can get. Sure you can use this keyboard with your computer but you can also connect it wirelessly to up to 8 devices and is compatible with 225,000 different devices.  Control your Xbox, your Apple tv, your smart phone, and more with this keyboard.

 

So what else does Best Buy suggest for the Gizmo Guru? Check out this list!

Gizmo Guru:

Lenovo Yoga 2 2-in-1 Touch-Screen Laptop

Amazon Fire TV

SoundTrue Headphons

Bose SoundTouch 20 Wi-Fi Music System

Nest Thermostat

Samsung Galaxy Note 3

GoPro HERO3+ Black Edition Action Camcorder.

mophie space pack

iPad Air with wifi + 4G LTE

1817061 – iPad Air Ultrathin Keyboard Folio Carbon

Xbox One Console

Xbox One Wireless Controller

Nikon D5300 DSLR Camera with 18-55mm VR Lens.

Logitech Harmony Wireless Smart Keyboard

PlayStation 4 console

PS4 Wireless Controller

Bose SoundLink Mobile III Speaker & Cover

Bose QuietComfort 20i Acoustic Noise Cancelling Earbud Headphones

Bose SoundLink Mini Bluetooth Speaker & Travel Bag

Samsung Protective Wallet Case for Samsung Galaxy S 5

mophie juicepack powerstation XL

Microsoft Surface Type Cover 2

HP Officejet 6600 Wireless e-All-In-One Printer

SanDisk Ultra Dual 32GB USB 2.0/Micro USB Flash Drive

Samsonite Premium Thin & Light Laptop Case

Targus Metro Rolling Laptop Case

Philips Hue Starter Kit

Breaking Bad Complete Series Blu-ray

$50 iTunes Card

LG 60″ Class LED 1080p 240Hz Smart 3D HDTV

The selection of gifts is enough to intrigue.  If you need even more reasons to choose Best Buy for Father’s Day gifts how about their low-price guarantee: http://bit.ly/LPGBBY <—check out the link to see how to use this offer.  They also have free shipping on qualified orders: http://bit.ly/FreeShipBBY

So what category does the dad in your life fall into?  Entertainer, Gizmo Guro, Fit Fanatic, or Memory Maker?  What is your favorite gift choice from the category?  Click the banner below to see all the gifts.

Don’t miss the Best Buy Father’s Day twitter parties:

Tuesday June 5th and 7pm  CST AND Wednesday June 11 at 11 am CST

Prizes include Best Buy gift cards and other prizes

Hashtag to use: #GreatestDad

Who to follow: @BestBuy

I will receive a  Best Buy gift card  for this post.  

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I”ll be honest, I don’t always do a mother’s or father’s day gift guide.  Only when I truly have some neat gift ideas come down the pipe. Well I’m going to be doing a father’s day gift guide this year.  It started today and runs until Father’s day June 15.  If you would like your product to be included in the LuvSavingMoney.com Father’s Day gift guide email Angie: angwith4 at gmail dot com.  Feel free to check out my media kit in my menu bar above.

Here are the participating companies so far but I’d love to add yours too!

–Shavemob

–Survive Monthly

–Viatek Zmart Remote

–Pimsleur Spanish I

–NYNE

—Best Buy

–Cogito Watches

more to come!

**This post does contain some referral links and some affiliate links**

I’m a planner.  I’m already getting ideas for things to do and places to go for our family vacation in August.  It’s a good thing though because planning ahead can save you a lot of money if you plan on eating out on vacation…or anytime really.   It’s fun to dine out in a restaurant but for a family, it can get expensive.  It’s a treat for us to all go to a sit down restaurant but that doesn’t mean we can’t still save a few dollars while doing it.

Here are some sites I actually use to help get deals on dining out for our family.

Daily Deal Sites – There are a number of daily deal sites that offer discounted offers for restaurants, bakeries, coffee shops, and more.  If you haven’t used these sites before, the idea is you can get a service or product deeply discounted in your area.  You might get an offer that you pay $20 for $40 worth of food or $15 for a 45 minute massage that might normally cost $30, etc.  Select the area you want the deal in.  If you find something you like purchase it for the discounted price.  Then you either have to print out the certificate and present it when you go or some allow you to just show a digital proof of purchase via an app.  Here are some of those site:

Groupon, probably one of the most popular ones.  It’s not just for food though you can find products, experiences, travel, and tickets as well.

LivingSocial.com similar to Groupon.  Both let you select your area (or the area you’re in at the time) to find deals.

Great Eats has coupons available for different restaurants in your area

Gift Card buying sites — There are sites that buy and sell unwanted gift cards.  Maybe someone gives you a Sears gift card and you don’t have a Sears anywhere near you.  Well you can buy these gift cards for a discounted price, this includes restaurant gift cards.  It’s usually not a huge discount. For example, you might be able to get a $50 Olive Garden gift card for $45 on one of these sites.  I’ve bought and sold gift cards from a few of these sites. They verify the gift cards and usually have free shipping both ways. Here’s a few of those sites that I’ve actually used:

Gift Card Granny

CardCash.com (used to be PlasticJungle.com)

Restaurant.com – This one is in a category itself.  You can buy a Restaurant.com gift certificate or credits on the site then use it to buy discounts at local restaurants.

Restaurant websites – You can also check out specific restaurant websites some off things like birthday clubs that get you anything from a free meal, free dessert, or coupon for your birthday while others offer incentives and coupons for signing up for their email.  Here are some restaurants that do just that (I’ll try to update as I find more)

Chilis restaurants – email club (you get coupon for free chips and salso, queso, or guac when you sign up)

Orange Julius –

EatnPark – their email sign up says “save over $40 a year with exclusive coupons (PS they also do free kids meals from time to time) they also have a coupon tab right at the top of the site

Darden Family Restaurants (Olive Garden, Longhorn Steakhouse, Bahama Breeze, etc) the have an eclub that says you’ll be the first to know about specials, events and more

Denny’s Restaurants have tons of offers on their site.  If you sign up for their “Denny’s Rewards” it says you’ll immediately start getting money saving rewards and promotions.  They also have a birthday special for a FREE Grand Slam breakfast, and a kids eat free night.

Panera Bread has their “MyPanera” reward card.  You can check it online to see what surprise rewards they put in your account.  Sometimes it’s a free bakery items, sometimes it’s  a coupon, sometimes it’s  a free drink.  They also do birthday offers.

Dunkin Donuts has their DD Perks it says if you pay with a registerd DD Perks card or DD gift card you earn 5 points for every dollar spent. You also get a free drink when you sign up and for your birthday.  It also says members only rewards loaded right to your card.

If you are a site owner and you had been using Feedburner for your email subscriptions then you know that Feedburner has been acting a bit shady as of late.  Tell you you have way less subscribers then you actually do, not giving you accurate stats, etc.  So you’ve decided to take the jump and move to a different email service.  I don’t claim to be an expert on this stuff but I found out that moving your entire feedburner subscriber list is actually a lot easier than I thought.

I decided to make the move to mailchimp.  I wasn’t sure how to move everything and was going through copying and manually adding each subscriber.  I had 913 email subscribers so needless to say that was a daunting task at the time.  Then someone said “hey fool, just use the csv file” Ok maybe they didn’t say it just like that but when I saw how easy it was I did feel like a fool.  So I’m here to show you so you don’t have to try to do what I tried to do.

Log into Feedburner and click on the feed you want to transfer to the new mail service.  The click on the “Publicize” tab at the top. Then click on the Email subscriptions link

 

 

Then scroll down and you will see a blue link at the bottom that says “Export CSV” just under that link once you click on it.

 

Click the blue “CSV” link and it will download your entire feedburner subscriber list.  Then you’ll go to your new email service.  Mine is Mailchimp so that’s the example I’ll use to show you.

Once your new account with your email service is set up you can import your feedburner subscriber list with the csv file you just downloaded.  For Mail chimp you just choose “Lists” in your menu.  If you’ve already created a list name for your emails just use the drop down box and choose “import” If you hadn’t you’ll need to created  name for your email list.

 

Once you click on the import link you’ll be taken to a page that looks like this:

 

Choose the “Import from a CSV or TXT File” box in the upper left hand corner.  When you click that box it will take you to a field to browse your computer and upload your CSV file you downloaded from feed burner. Once you found the file click the upload button and that’s it.  Seriously.  If you have a lot of email subscribers it might take a few minutes for it to upload all your subscribers.  There is also a tick box you can check before uploading so it will automatically detect any duplicate email addresses if you had already added some to your list or had signs up to your new account before you got the list uploaded.  It’s that easy.