DEKA Athletics at 375 Pharr Road in Buckhead is moving to the Around Lenox shopping center next month. The store is having a tent sale with discounts starting at 50 percent off. DEKA carries workout clothes and shoes for women. Hours are Monday through Friday 9:30am to 6pm, and 10am to 6pm Saturday. The store is closed on Sunday. (404)869-9600.
Global Living is closing. The Buckhead furniture and home decor store has marked all merchandise down 20 percent and some items are discounted as much as 70 percent of of original prices. Global Living is located at 3106 early street behind the Buckhead Theater. Hours are Monday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday 10am to 6pm and 11am to 4pm Sunday The store is closed Tuesday and Wednesday.
The High Museum of Art is running a half price special Thursday nights from 4pm to 8pm.
Neutrogena has a rebate offer that ends Sunday, July 18th.
If you buy Neutrogena Clinical day cream, night cream or eye cream there is a rebate for your entire purchase price.
Clinical is Neutrogena’s new high priced skin care line that retails for around $40.00. The rebate is not good on the starter kit. Print the rebate form at Neutrogenaclinical.com and $5.00 off coupons at Neutrogena.com under the special offers section. A cash register receipt and UPC code from the package are required to get the rebate check.
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I confess, I’m a little lazy about doing rebates. My intentions are good but offers often expire before I get them mailed out. The last one I did was a high dollar one for Olay products, and the next one I’m doing is for Neutrogena Clinical. I bought it today, saved the receipt and UPC code, printed out the rebate form and I promise, I am mailing it tomorrow. It’s too good a deal not to: if you buy a Neutrogena Clinical eye or face product by July 18th, NeutrogenaClinical.com is offering a rebate on your entire purchase price. A receipt and UPC code are required, and the rebate is not available for the starter kit. There are also $5.00 off coupons for Neutrogena Clinic products on neutrogena.com. I paid $35 dollars for it, used a $5.00 off coupon and hope to get back $35.00 (and have fewer fine lines and wrinkles 
Here are some other Friday Freebies:n
On Saturday, July 17th there will be a Small Business Expo at the Mall of Georgia that’s sponsored by the U.S. Small Business Administration and SCORE, a non profit that helps small businesses in metro Atlanta. The Expo runs from 10am to 5pm.
Register for a free hearing screening at hearingisliving.com. The Better Hearing Institute reports close to six million people in the U-S between the ages of 18 and 44 have suffered hearing loss. The free screenings will take place at various locations through September.
Stevi B’s Pizza is holding a free giveaway on August 19th. The first 100 customers at the restaurant after 6pm will get a surprise specialty pizza to go.
The Webkins Road Trip continues through Saturday July 17th. The final location is at the Learning Express store at 7300 Northpoint Parkway. Kids can play games and win prizes from 11am to 5pm.
On August 24th kids can make a UFO at the Lowe’s Build and Grow Workshop. Make reservations at Lowesbuildandgrow.com
Enfamil is offering a free diaper bag, formula and coupons for new moms. According the registration form at Enfamil.com the giveaway is worth $250.00.
Thanks to Atlanta On the Cheap, Field Trips with Sue and ThriftyTiff.com for Friday Freebies tips. To contribute an idea send an email to vhoff@11alive.comor contact Valuesval on twitter
Have a great weekend!
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Heading out to watch the Peachtree Road Race? On July 4th the McDonald’s at 2929 Peachtree (along the race route) is giving away free smoothies.
This weekend is also the first weekend of the month. That means Bank of America cardholders get free admission to the Atlanta History Center, the High Museum of Art, and Milleniumgate.
On Monday, July 5th participating Arby’s restaurants are giving away free Junior Deluxe Roast Beef sandwiches. A drink purchase is required.
July 9th is Cow Appreciation Day at Chick-fil-a. Customers who are dressed as cows get a free meal. Downloadable paper cutout costumes are available at cowappreciationday.com.
Free Family Fun Camp continues at Bass Pro Shop. The Family Fun camp is Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday and Sunday from Noon to 6pm through July 11th.
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The fourth Saturday of the month is Family Fun day at Centennial Olympic Park. On June 26th the theme is The Great Outdoors, then on July 24th the theme is All Star Sports. Family Fun Day features free performances, games and crafts.
On Saturday, June 26th The Mall of Georgia’s Movies Under The Stars features Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs. Musical entertainment before the free movie begins at 6:30 pm.
IKEA has free meals for kids from now until July7 5th. No adult purchase is necessary. IKEA serves breakfast, lunch and dinner with a Swedish theme.
The Georgia Aquarium now offers free admission on your birthday. Proof in the form of a valid I.D. or birth certificate is required. 
For tooth grinders, Plackers has a free sample of disposable night guards you can order plackers.com. Shipping and handling is $2.99.
Check It Out Reading is a summer reading program offered jointly by the Atlanta Hawks and Thrashers. Kids who register and read five books by get a free ticket to both a Hawks and Thrashers game. (From fieldtripswithsue.com)
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The My Gym Buckhead location is having a Day of Deals on Thursday, June 24th from 1pm to 5pm.
My Gym will offer discounts on classes and birthday parties and will be running other specials as well. Parents can learn more about the classes while kids play in the gym. My Gym is located at 267 West Wieuca Rd. NE, Suite 101, Atlanta, GA 30342
Scoutmob.com has the following deals this week:
Monday: 50% off TAP (Midtown) -
Tuesday: 50% off Wasabi (Castleberry Hill) -�
Wednesday: 50% off Carroll Street Cafe (Cabbagetown)- Thursday: 50% off Coldbrew’s Sports Bar & Grill (Roswell)- Friday: 50% off Demure Clothing (Westside)
Amazon.com has Forbes, Popular Science, Popular Mechanics and others on sale. Some are as low as $4.99 for a one year subscription but subscribers much cancel the subscription after one year or it will automatically be renewed.
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Here a few ideas from Sunday’s What’s on Sale Segment. 
Add your own below!
Finding discounts on golf can be challenging. Halfoffdepot.com currently has a deal at the Charlie Yates Golf Course at Eastlake for $13.50. Diningperks.com offers gift certificates for 50 percent off golf at the Stone Mountain and Indian Creek courses. These deals are for Atlanta but both have varied offers for different cities and offer some great deals!
Big Lots:
Char-Broil Grill $99
Tool Chest 59.99
K and G Superstore
Men’s Designer Suits $79.99
Dockers $19.99
$$Hot Deal$$ Sears:
Spend $50 on Men’s apparel; get $50 Come Back Cash. Come Back Cash is Sears store credit and customers must fill out a mail in rebate form.
Pike Nursery:
Annual Red Tag Sale with some items marked down 70 percent.
Also, select plants and shrubs on sale, buy two get one free.
Tools and home improvement supplies also make good Father’s Day gifts. Home Depot and Lowe’s promise to match each other’s prices as long as you bring in a sale flier that indicates the competitor’s price.
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Restaurant.com is having an 80 percent off Sale. Use Code: FLAG. Most restaurants have minimum purchase rules and charge a gratuity on the full amount of the gift certificate.
The Children’s Place is having a Five Dollar Days sale. Kids’ shorts t-shirts and tank tops for $5.00.
Womanwithin.com is having a 40 percent off sale. The store features plus sized women’s clothing as well as shoes and accessories.
Big Lots: Flip and Jazz video cameras for $25 while supplies last. No rain checks.
Whole Foods Market is having a Fill the Grill Sale. $20 for 8 burgers, buns, cheese, Pasta Salad for 8 and a watermelon.
Spring Showhouse Final Day. Admission for $10.00 with this 11alive.com coupon
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A Gwinnett county mom has come up with a new product designed to ease fears about chemicals used in plastic baby bottles and children’s cups.
Ghazaleh Coulter has two small children and another one on the way. She didn’t want to worry about chemicals in plastic baby bottles so she came up with the CuteSip cup system.
CuteSip is a dishwasher safe stainless steel bottle system with interchangeable lids that include nipples for newborns as well as transitional sippy cups and sport bottles.
The bottles are $17.95 each but Coulter says they are less expensive because they last for years. “You can buy two stylish bottles and put them in your diaper bag and you can just change the tops as the baby grows. The bottles last for a very long time, it’s not like the plastic sippy cups that smell after a while or get scratched or lost,” she said.
CuteSip bottles can be purchased at cutesip.com. The infant version is also featured on thegreenhalf.com.
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Free Swimming: Chastain Park Athletic Club’s swimming pool is open to the public for free Monday through Friday from 10am to 12:30 pm. After that, admission is $2.00 for kids and $4.00 for adults until 5pm.
Piedmont Park Pool is free to the public from 3 to 5pm Monday through Friday.
IKEA stores are serving free breakfast Saturday May 29th through Monday May 31st. One small breakfast per customer.
Lowe’s Build and Grow Kids’ clinic at 10 a.m. this Saturday is a wood race car project. Sign up at Lowe’s build and grow.com
Panola Mountain State Park in Stockbridge is having a kids fishing festival on Saturday May 29th from 9am to 2pm. There will be fishing instructions, tree climbing workshops and archery. Bring your own rod and bait. Parking is $5.00 (From fieldtripswithsue.com)
Sonic restaurants have free ice cream cones for kids who are finishing prekindergarten through grade 5 on Saturday May 29th. A coupon on pathtocollege529.com is required.
And Marthastewart.com has free downloadable clip art you can use to make stickers for gifts, photos, kitchen pantry items, party placecards and more. All you need is your computer and a few supplies from any office supply store.
From Viewer Karen Duke: Kids can bowl one free game per day at Oasis Bowl in Buford and Loganville. Sign up at www.oasisbowl.com
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IKEA is offering free breakfast for metro Atlanta moms on Mother’s Day.
Participating T.C.B.Y. stores will have free scoops of frozen yogurt for moms, and Smokey Bones restaurant has free meals for mom with a meal purchase by another member of her party.
Pottery Barn Kids has a Mother’s Day craft event at 2pm. Kids can make tissue paper flowers for their moms.
A new consignment store in Buckhead is seeking high quality gently used clothing for children. Rhubarb and Custard is located at 3625 Roswell Road. It’s open Monday through Saturday. The store has a Drop and Dash feature where consignors can drop off the clothing they want to sell rather than wait till the owner goes through the items to determine which will be accepted.
Thegreenhalf.com has $20 gift certificates to the popular Psycho Sisters Consignment store for $10.00
On Mother’s Day use the code MOM2010 to get 20 percent off a purchase of $50.00 at childrensplace.com. Many items are on sale for $5.00. The offer is not available in The Children’s Place retail stores. (From the Neverpayretailagain.net blog)
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Atlanta has a new source for discounted designer clothing. Nordstrom Rack opened Thursday, April 22nd at the Buckhead Station Shopping Center. It’s located at One Buckhead Loop, Atanta, GA 30326. It’s in the same shopping center that’s home to a great TJ Maxx store that features The Runway, a special section with high end couture bargains.
Just a mile away, Filene’s Basement has a 30 percent off sale that ends Monday, April 26th. Filene’s also carries discounted designer and mid-priced clothing.
Also on sale this week: H&M stores are offering a 20 percent discount on your entire kids clothing purchase when you donate gently used children’s clothing. The promotion runs through April 28th.
Restaurant.com has $25 gift certificates on sale for $2. The checkout code is MEAL.
SCAD Style 2010 begins Monday April 26th. There are dozens of events that are free and open to the public, including lectures on vintage fashion, knitting, crafts and decorating.
Lowe’s Earth Day sale continues through Monday April 26th. Vegetable and Herb plants and seeds are Buy One Get One Free.
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On Sunday April 18th, participating Target stores are giving away FREE reusable shopping bags. A purchase may be required. (How about a pack of gum?)
Scotia Salon in Roswell is having a Cut-A-Thon Sunday April 18th from 12 to 5 pm to benefit the Foster Care Support Foundation. Wet haircuts are $10.00. Scotia is located at 1055 Canton Street, Suite 120, Roswell, GA 30075. (770) 645-0811
Oxxo Dry Cleaners in Buckhead will offer a 60 percent off coupon on Scoutmob.com this week. The store is located at 3165 Peachtree Road, Suite C, Atlanta, GA 30305 (404) 660-0023
Other Scoutmob deals this week:
Monday: 50% off Luckie Food Lounge (Downtown) -
Tuesday: 50% off Fuze Burger (Midtown)
Wednesday: 50% off Tavern 99 (Buckhead
Thursday: 60% off OXXO Cleaners (Buckhead)
Friday: 50% off The Village Jerk (East Atlanta)
Global Freight Liquidations in Norcross has a new shipment from a local warehouse club store. The stock includes baby items and clothing. Global Freight Liquidations has changed the pricing on its clothing: men’s and women’s clothing that retails for $50 or less is all priced at $6.95, kids’ clothing is $4.95.
Thursday, April 22nd is Earth Day. Customers who bring a container from their current facial care products will receive a full size facial cleanser FREE at participating Origins counters in local department stores. For details go to Origins Facebook page.
April 17-24th is National Park Week. and entrance fees are being waived in National Parks across the U.S. In metro Atlanta the Chattahoochee National Recreation area is normally $3.00 but it is free this week.
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You may have heard about the recent controversy that started when Tennesse mom Torry Hansen returned her 7 year old boy Justin to Moscow with a note indicating the boy was psychotic and she no longer wanted to parent him. The case has prompted Russia to come startlingly close to suspending its adoption program in the U.S.
Our family was one of the approximately 1600 who travelled to Russia in 2009 to adopt a child. Since today has been designated We Are The Truth Adoption Blogger Day by the Joint Council on International Children’s Services, I want to share our incredible experience, our beautiful and wonderful 3 year old boy,
and the devastating future more than 700 thousand not-so-fortunate Russian orphans face.
My husband Derrick and I did months of research before committing to adopt from Russia. We needed to find the right adoption agency for us and to do our homework about the medical and psychological conditions children who have been institutionalized face. In August 2009 we started mountain ranges of paperwork in hopes of adopting a little brother for our biological son and completing our family. Then, we waited, read and Googled.
Those of us in the adoption community normally throw around acronyms like RAD and FAS and book titles like Beyond Consequences and the Connected Child like they are every day household terms, because to most of us, they are. We are well aware children who have spent years in institutions are at risk for a multitude of problems, but also that many of them thrive and even excel when in the right environment. Derrick and I learned the first 6 months or even year could be a difficult adjustment for our family, and I met dozens of adoptive families in person and online who had plenty of advice. Experiences varied but there were no regrets. Most adoptive parents I know are familiar with adoption risks and how to best deal with problems that may occur. That’s our responsibility to our new child and existing family.
7 months later we received a set of photos 
and medical documents for Jhenya, a 2 year old boy who was relinquished at birth and had spent his entire short life in Baby House 2 in Chita, Siberia, a far away place where anti-government rebels called Decembrists had been exiled in 1825. He looked a little scary in some of the photos, had a blank stare in others, was playing with 
a few toys in others.
We prepared for the possibility our healthy looking son-to-be might not be healthy. We had his medical records carefully analyzed by a team of Russian adoption medical experts. We read the books on the attachment issues children face who have been ignored and neglected and how not being held or comforted can change a baby’s brain chemistry permanently. We read how children with Reactive Attachment Disorder can be violent, can lack the capacity to love, but also can be absolutely fine with help. Children can be amazing survivors.
We made two trips to Moscow and Siberia to visit the orphanage. Jhenya was incredibly adorable, even though he wore funny Eastern European girls clothes, sometimes practically rags.
We were in love with him at first glimpse. 
He, on the other hand, was scared of the American strangers though he loved our laptop, cellphones and snacks. He loved his caregivers and called them all Mama: Mama Nina, Mama Katia, etc. He was very happy in his orphanage because he knew no other life. After all, he was two.
We brought a terrified, wide eyed toddler home from Russia on May 23rd, 2009. We did the best we could with what are known as “Attachment Parenting” techniques: cocooning the family at home, limiting visitors, just playing and bonding. There was lots of hugging, kissing and affection and James Christian, (whom we still call Jhenya, his Russian name) slept in our bed at night, clinging to me for dear life. We loved him instantly and he very soon clung to us not just for safety and sustenance but because he loved us too. In about a month we felt like a normal family of four.
The adjustment period can be long and difficult with a post-institutionalized child. I consider ours short and relatively painless: sleep problems, a few tantrums, lots of touching, grabbing and experimenting with everything from appliances to makeup to dog food. ( Orphanages offer very little stimulation, very choices, and few glimpses of what the outside world is really like. ) It’s not unlike having a newborn and lots of patience is required.
Jhenya is a beautiful, bright, funny, healthy and adorable boy. 
He is loving and sweet, shy with strangers, eager to learn and full of smiles and giggles. His English is good and improving all the time. His mistakes are always so cute: “I need the help!”, “May I have a milk”, “I need paper toilet” etc. He and his brother Nicholas,5 are the loves of our lives and our family would not be the same without him. So far, we are a very fortunate family in that we did not have to dig into our arsenal of attachment therapy books or seek help for behavior, socialization or learning problems. Are we home free? Absolutely not. We are in our forties with two small children; the next 20 years will be fraught with challenges. Jhenya knows he is adopted but doesn’t fully understand. What will happen when he really understands his birth mother gave him up and kept his three older siblings? Scary stuff. But we’re in. Whatever the future holds, Jhenya and Nicholas are our sons. 
One percent of Russian adoptions in the U.S. are “disrupted”, which usually means being placed with another U.S. family, not put on a plane back to Moscow. But there are more than 50 thousand happy, thriving Russian children in the U.S. whose adoptive families love and cherish them. Some have issues. Many of us parents and our biological children have issues too.
To me, it is Dickensonian that there still exists a system where children are given up due to poverty and alcoholism and remain in spartan orphanages where there is medical care but often inadequate nutrition and little or no love. Seeing the orphans and their homes is heartbreaking, yet I also feel drawn to them. There are too many orphans for Russia to adequately take care of. They need us. And the 3000 American families waiting to adopt from Russia, with their eyes wide open about what to expect, need those kids.
I thank Russia for our son and for his loving nature despite his rough start. I hope and pray Russian adoption will continue for parents who are committed, prepared and realistic.
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Parents of kids who have been bitten by the Master’s bug can take them for free golf instruction.
Participating PGA Tour Superstores have free golf clinics every Wednesday and Friday at 5:30 pm for kids 6 years old and older. In metro Atlanta, there are locations in Kennesaw, Duluth and Roswell. Call individual stores for more information and to register.
Georgia State Parks also have affordable golf for kids. The Highland Walk course at Victoria Bryant State Park has Junior Golf Clinics on April 10th, May 1st and May 8th from 3 to 5 pm. Clubs are provided. The clinic is $10.00.
The Main Street Hair Salon in Alpharetta is offering free conditioning treatments for a limited time. (Blow dry not included) Call for an appointment. (770) 343-8311
Oprah.com has a free book download. Chapters one and two of David Bach’s book, Start Over and Finish Rich are currently available. Look for Chapter three next month.
April 15th is Tax Day. To ease the pain, participating Maggie Moo’s Ice Cream locations are handing out free slices of Ice Cream Pizza. The concoction resembles pizza but is made out of ice cream. There is a location in Atlanta at 4468 Chamblee Dunwoody Road.
Home Depot has a Do It Herself Workshop on April 15th. Women can learn how to paint using Martha Stewart’s line of paints.
Atlanta.momslikeme.com is hosting a Free Play Date at Kangazoom inflatable play place in Smyrna April 15th. RSVP on Atlanta.momslikeme.com.
Pollen got you down? Mention 11 Alive Ways to Save on any Friday and get a FREE exterior wash at America’s Finest Car Care, 1528 Browns Bridge Road, Gainesville, GA.
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Having avoided crime reporting like the plague throughout my reporting career, I had never been inside the Atlanta Police Department’s Property Control Unit until Thursday. It is a warehouse ( in an undisclosed location) packed with televisions, computers, clothing, cell phones, tools and thousands of other items that have been stolen or are being held as evidence in pending court cases. There were even a few ATM’s!
Some of the items are later claimed by their rightful owners but thousands of others are auctioned off on propertyroom.com, a website started by a former police officer in 1999. The site, which is based in California, features items from thousands of law enforcement agencies across the U.S.
Propertyroom.com is similar to EBay but the payment system is different. Those who bid must register a credit card number first and the high bidder’s credit card is automatically billed. The website keeps a portion of the proceeds and returns the rest to the law enforcement agency.
Browsing through the site, I saw some pretty amazing deals on jewelry in particular as well as electronics and tools. But I also felt a little bad; I mean, most of this stuff was stolen from people who, for whatever reason, never got it back. It reminds me of the old “it fell of a truck” type of sale we used to see before internet sales became popular. Still, buying on propertyroom.com is perfectly legal; a judge has to approve each sale. And Lt. Van Hobbs, who oversees the unit, tells me Georgia law prohibits donating evidence items to charity (like the thousands of kids’ bikes stolen each year.)
The stolen property is sold at auction only after it has been in the property unit for 90 days and all attempts to contact the rightful owner have been exhausted, including a public notice in a local newspaper.
Each listing on propertyroom.com indicates the condition of the item. Some fine jewelry pieces even have appraisals. Sales are final in most cases.
Hobbs said if a crime victim spots their own stolen property on propertyroom.com and can prove it, it will be returned to them. The website also has a section where people can register the serial numbers of their computer, television and other household items. That way if their items are stolen and later end up on propertyroom.com the company will match up the serial numbers and return them to the original owner.
I wonder if many of the crime victims whose property is on the site got their insurance money and moved on?
Anyway, buying stolen property is legal and can be a bargain. (Buyer beware obviously) It is a bit icky, perhaps, but I’m tempted to browse and check it out. Before the story airs at 11pm.
What do you think?
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