Best Thing Ever: Groupon

So we've all heard of Groupon, right? I've become a little obsessed with Groupon, if we're honest. While I couldn't seem to get into Gilt or Ideeli or any of those fancy clothes shopping sites, there was a time earlier this year when I bought a Groupon almost every week. Oh, alright, almost every day.

It works like this. Every morning, you're emailed a new deal; it could be half off a pedicure, or fifty bucks of tapas for thirty, or a ten-dollar ride to the airport. There are something like 80 cities featured, and in addition to checking out the Groupon for San Francisco, I always browse the ones for San Diego (because my parents live there), Los Angeles, (because it's near-ish), New York (because we're there often seeing Sean's family), and any other cities I'm planning on visiting in the next couple of months (you'll often find a good hotel deal.) You've got a day to buy the Groupon---providing enough other people buy it to fulfill the minimum, which usuallly always happens---and, most of the time, a year to use it.

I've bought Groupons for massages, cupcakes, language courses, wine, brunch cruises, flower deliveries, ski tickets, airport shuttles, and lots and lots and lots of pizza. Sometimes a week will go by without me wanting to buy the Groupon; sometimes I'll buy three in a row. I even got my mother into it and she bought a Groupon for the dentist. If you like to score a deal (and trust me, I like nothing more), have a look and see what you think. I guess my only regret is that I didn't think of this first.