I just got an email from Sam's Club letting me know that their 2010 Spring Tastes and Tips event is this week. Friday April 30, Saturday May 1, and Sunday May 2 from 11:30 am-5:30 pm they will be sampling food and products as well as giving "great ideas and solutions to simplify your life." I do not know if this is national or just in Omaha, but based on their website, I would guess national. Call your local store to make sure they are participating before you head out just for this!

Today's Omaha Groupon is $39 for One Half-Hour Discovery Flight with Advanced Air Incorporated ($78 Value). The location is actually in Council Bluffs, but we all know that is close by and this looks awesome!!

As with all the deals, make sure you check out the fine print before purchasing. To sign up for Groupons, click on my referral link here (this does NOT commit you to buying any deal-you choose what you buy) and to see the Omaha page, including today's deal, click here.

Not sure what Groupons is? Then click here to read all about it!

This looks SWEET!! Today's Salt Lake City Groupon is $49 for a Sunset Hummer Safari Tour from Moab Adventure Center ($88 Value).

As with all the deals, make sure you check out the fine print before purchasing. To sign up for Groupons, click on my referral link here (this does NOT commit you to buying any deal-you choose what you buy) and to see the Salt Lake City page, including today's deal, click here.

Not sure what Groupons is? Then click here to read all about it!

Exciting things coming here on the blog!!

You may not know this, but I LOVE to travel.  I happen to be the worlds unluckiest traveler when it comes to flying or driving (someday I will share some of my stories-the favorite in my family is when we went to Greece-that was something!). In spite of my terrible luck, I still love traveling, and have been lucky enough to live in and travel to MANY great destinations!!

So, I am going to start a "Tuesdays Travels" series where I pick a popular destination (or one I know about) and give you the insider tricks I know (or can learn) about free things and deals in that city/travel destination. I will be asking readers to give input for their cities.

This Tuesday will focus on one of my favorite places to visit: New York City-if you have any tips and tricks for New York, please message me on Facebook or email them to me (beckeesdeals@gmail.com ) and I will include them (giving you credit of course) in the first Tuesday Travel!
 
Any requests for future cities or destinations for me to focus on?!  Requests can me sent on email, Facebook, or left as a comment on this post! Cannot wait to hear from you all!!

It is (finally) that time of year when the Farmer's Markets are starting to pop up all over! Please take some time to find where a Farmer's Market is near you (in Omaha). See the List compiled in today's Omaha World Herald by clicking here.

If you are not from Nebraska, you may not realize that we are the Home of Arbor Day (which is this weekend by the way). Well, I would be a terrible Nebraskan if I was mentioning all these things going on around this weekend and I left out the fact that the annual Arbor Day festival is going on in Nebraska City Friday, Saturday and Sunday! For more information please see the Nebraska City website here.

Now, to make myself a full-fledged Nebraskan I guess I will have to make my way to that festival one of these years! :)

Another thing I learned in today's Omaha World Herald in the Living section was that there is an upcoming FREE admission Day at Lauritzen Gardens. It will be on May 7 in Celebration of National Public Gardens Day. Wes (my husband) has still never been there in the 6 years we have lived here, so I hope he has that day off and I can finally show him this beautiful, uniquely Omaha garden!!

I have heard about free comic book day, and a friend asked me the other day why I had not posted about it on my blog and the truth is that I did not really know who around town was participating in it or what to tell you about it. Luckily I am a dedicated Omaha World Herald subscriber and reader and today they had a small article about it in the Midlands section, as well as an ad from Krypton Comics about it in the "Go" section.

So here is the 411. The first Saturday in May of each year, comic book stores across North America (and evidently all around the world) give away comic books for FREE to anyone that comes into their store. That is THIS SATURDAY May 1!! Wowsa!

There is a website, reecomicbookday.com all about it. Go check that out. There is a store locator on the left side of the sites main page where you can find local shops. FYI-participations and rules can evidently vary from store to store. There are 6 shops in the Omaha area participating, so one is bound to be near by.

I mentioned that there was an ad in the Omaha World Herald for Krypton Comics, and I wanted to specifically talk about them because they have some cool stuff going on there in conjunction with their free comic book giveaway. From 10am-6pm Ray Park (aka Darth Maul) will be there! (Autographs are for a fee). Cynthia Martin, who is a local comic book artist will also be there as well as many other local artists. Should be pretty awesome, so you may want to go check that out!

I do not have pets, so I am terrible at keeping up on the pet deals and freebies out there! Luckily, Mojo Savings is great at it! Please go read their Pet Deals Round Up here.

Do you participate in My Coke Rewards? If so, you will want to enter 5 Diet COke codes before ths Sunday May 2nd and you will get 20 extra points! I am about to go enter m 5 now! :)