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One year of Grubhub+ for free

Yum! Amazon Prime members can unlock unlimited $0 food delivery fees with one year of Grubhub+ for free (normally $9.99/month) by visiting amazon.com/grubhub. Terms apply.

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PLEASE  CLICK OUR AMAZON PRIME DAY LINK HERE FOR SPECIALS FOR JULY 12TH AND 13TH.

As all of our readers know, we have advertisers on our website. For many years, we avoided promoting our advertisers to convey the message that we do these daily posts for the “love” of sharing our story, not making money. Over the past few years, the costs for maintaining our site have catapulted.

When this transpired, after updating our site from Blogger to WordPress we realized there would be additional costs of making the changes. We added several advertisers to help offset some of these costs. In part, this has been accomplished, but we have a long way to go to ramp up our revenue.

Three-month free trial of Audible

Starting June 21st, our readers (trial-eligible Prime members) can sign up for an extended three-month free trial of Audible, including three free titles.

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The post we share today is NOT the wave of things to come. However, promoting Amazon’s Prime Day may become an annual undertaking. The reason we chose to do this today was twofold:
  1. We could generate a little more revenue to offset some of the added costs of maintaining our site and some of the losses we’ve incurred as a result of the pandemic
  2. Our readers, YOU, can save money in the process.

Thus, these promotions we’re posting today were sent directly to us from Amazon, permitting us to promote their annual Prime Da sale on July 12 and 13th. If you were considering becoming a Prime Member, which we have been for many years, we could enjoy many benefits. We particularly like the free shipping to our US mailing service address, streaming many fantastic TV series and movies we can watch on Prime Video at no additional charge, free music, many monthly free Kindle books, and great prices on endless products and services.

Today and tomorrow are their annual Prime Day sale which includes excellent prices on many products, some we may have been considering purchasing. Soon, we’ll be ordering a box of supplies sent to us from our mailing service, most of which we purchased on Amazon including whatever additional purchases we make today and tomorrow.

Endless benefits for our readers

Additional benefits include free Prime Gaming games, Rx savings, Prime Try Before You Buy, Prime Reading, Amazon Photos, exclusive deals and more.

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PLEASE  CLICK OUR AMAZON PRIME DAY LINK HERE FOR SPECIALS FOR JULY 12TH AND 13TH.

As it turns out, Amazon will be opening a warehouse here in South Africa in 2023. We are excited to hear this news. We’ve been using local Takealot, a good company that will remain influential in the country. But, the opening of Amazon to South Africa brings thousands of jobs and tax revenue to this country which is desperately needed, and huge savings for us when purchasing products.

Some steaming shows require additional fees, but they are lower at Amazon than we’ve found anywhere. For example, we wanted to watch a series on PBS, Sanditon, which our friend Dawn suggested and also The Gilded Age, recommended  by my sister Julie. Amazon offered a two-month subscription to PBS Masterpiece for both series for US $.99 and ZAR 16.99 per month. We can watch both of these two series with multiple seasons by the time the two months end. I made a note on our (free) Cozi Family Organizer calendar to cancel the subscription a few days before the end of the two months.

Prime Day deals are live now.

Check out the amazing Prime Day deals – live now! Pick out your favorite items in advance and start letting your followers know how they can take advantage of their Prime memberships!

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PLEASE  CLICK OUR AMAZON PRIME DAY LINK HERE FOR SPECIALS FOR JULY 12TH AND 13TH.

Right now, many other streaming services are offered on this two-month basis for this great price. It may not be a massive saving from the usual monthly fee of US $5.99, ZAR 102.81, but all these small savings add up. We take advantage of as many savings as we can.

If you aren’t interested in any of this, please know this will not become a regular feature of our site. After today, we’ll go back to our daily stories and photos with little to no mention of our advertisers. We only ask our readers, if you are considering becoming a Prime member or purchasing products and services, please click these links on our site or the Amazon link on the right side of our page.

Thank you to all of our readers who use our links. You do not pay any extra costs for using our travel links and Amazon. You enjoy the same benefits we glean from using them ourselves. And, thanks to all of our readers, whether you use our links or not. We are grateful for every one of YOU!!!

Have a fabulous day!

PLEASE  CLICK OUR AMAZON PRIME DAY LINK HERE FOR SPECIALS FOR JULY 12TH AND 13TH.

Photo from one year ago today, July 12, 2021:

It was wonderful to spend time with my son Greg and daughter-in-law Camille on the dinner cruise on Lake Minnetonka. For more, please click here.