Journal Sentinel Sunday Deals – May 31, 2009
One of the best deals around Milwaukee is the home delivery of the Sunday Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. You can easily recoup the cost of the paper with using a few of the coupons from the paper. Each week we’ll post some of the best deals we think we saw in the most recent Sunday paper. We know value is in the eye of the beholder, so we’d love to see you submit a comment with the best values you think are advertised in the Sunday paper.
Although the paper was loaded with various sales today, two items caught our eye.
First, in the main section of the paper there was a half page ad for Skippy Peanut Butter on page 17A. The ad includes a coupon to save 50 cents off any one Skippy Peanut Butter product 15 oz. or larger. This manufacturers coupon expires August 23, 2009. (On a side note, we found it interesting that Skippy would purchase a half page ad for a coupon in the main section. So we did a brief Google search, asking “do sales of peanut butter go up in a recession?” We found an article, which points out in the 1989-1991 recession, Jiff Peanut Butter raised marketing and support during the recession and their sales went up 57%! Perhaps peanut butter is a recession resistant food?)
Second, page 7H of the Entree section has a nice four week calendar to guide gardeners throughout June. Gardening is a growing trend as more people try to minimize their grocery bills. This calendar is helpful to keep your plants and yard in top shape and save you time and money. Also, for those of you who are interested in the costs versus benefits of planting a garden, check out JD Roth’s Get Rich Slowly blog where he covers his Garden Project.
Restaurant.com Gift Certificate Giveaway Results
Our Restaurant.com gift certificate giveaway ended today, and we’re happy to announce the winners:
- flip18 (new email list subscriber)
- Cheri (existing email list subscriber)
- Jenna (new Twitter follower)
- Tedju (existing Twitter follower)
- David (Twitter user who retweeted about this promotion)
Each of the winners will receive a $25 Restaurant.com gift certificate to the restaurant of their choice.
If you weren’t one of the winners, you can still purchase Restaurant.com gift certificates at 80% off through Sunday. See our post from earlier in the week for more details.
We had a lot of fun with this promotion, and look forward to doing future giveaways like this for our readers.
The Wizard of Oz in Milwaukee – Buy One Get One Free Tickets
The Wizard of Oz is coming to the Milwaukee Theatre next weekend, and we have a special Buy One Get One Free deal on tickets! This special promotion is available for all four performances of the Wizard of Oz. No special coupon code or password is required. Just visit Ticketmaster to take advantage of this deal.
Show times are as follows:
- Friday, June 5th - 8:00 P.M.
- Saturday, June 6th – 2:00 P.M. and 8:00 P.M.
- Sunday, June 7th – 1:00 P.M.
Regular ticket prices for this classic family musical are $47 and $35. With this offer, you can get 2 tickets for $47 or $35! Special student discount tickets are also available for $17 (although the buy one get one free special is not available on these seats).
Update on Brewers Win, You Win Promotion
***Update 5/31*** The Brewers swept the Reds, so tickets for this promotion are $18 off – only $10!!
For each game the Brewers win in May, fans can save $1 on a Loge Outfield ticket to any game in the Brewers vs. Colorado Rockies series in June. Loge Outfield tickets are regularly $28. As of May 28th the Brewers have 15 victories this month, so these tickets are guaranteed to be $13 at the most.
The Brew Crew has three more games left this month, so if they sweep the Reds this weekend, tickets for this promotion would be only $10.
All tickets go on sale on June 1st at 9am CST at brewers.com/winwin.
Game times are as follows:
Tuesday, June 9th at 7:05 pm
Wednesday, June 10th at 7:05 pm
Thursday, June 11th at 1:05pm
If you do make it to one of these promotions, don’t forget the Brewers carry-in policy and the designated driver program to help you save even more money!
For all of our posts on Brewers promotions, click here.
Specials at Forty Restaurants During Downtown Dining Week
Milwaukee’s Downtown Dining Week is underway. The week long promotion features lunch and dinner specials at forty different downtown restaurants. For $10 at lunch and $20 at dinner, diners are treated to a three course meal featuring an appetizer, main course, and dessert.
Participating restaurants this year include:
- Bayou
- Benihana
- Bistro 333
- Buca di Beppo
- Butch’s Old Casino Steak House
- Byron’s Beer Garden & Bistro
- Cafe Calatrava
- Cafe at the Pfister
- Capone’s Grotto
- Charro Restaurante
- Coquette Cafe
- Eagan’s On Water
- Fratello’s Waterfront Restaurant
- Hotel Metro Bar & Cafe
- JC’s Pub & Grill
- Joey Buona’s Restaurant
- Karl Ratzsch’s
- Kil@wat
- Libiamo
- Louise’s
- Mason Street Grill
- Milwaukee Ale House
- Milwaukee ChopHouse
- Mi-Key’s
- Mo’s Irish Pub
- Motor at the Harley-Davidson Museum
- Osteria del Mondo
- Palms Bistro & Bar
- Rip Tide Seafood Bar & Grill
- Riverfront Pizzeria
- Rock Bottom Restaurant & Brewery
- Rustico
- Sake Tumi
- Swig
- Third Ward Cafe
- Tulip
- Umami Moto
- Vecchio Bar & Grille
- Water Buffalo
- Zarletti
Downtown Dining Week runs through June 4th. Complete details of the promotion, including menus for each of the particpating restaurants, can be found on the Downtown Dining Week website.
Milwaukee Brewers Facebook Promotion
The Milwaukee Brewers recently posted a promotion for their followers on Facebook.
Get Terrace Box or Field Outfield Box seats for the Brewers vs. Colorado Rockies Series (June 9, 10 or 11) for HALF PRICE! Terrace Box normally retails for $20 a ticket and Field Outfield Box retail for $38 a ticket.
When you purchase tickets from brewers.com, enter the word “FACEBOOK” in the coupon code box to take advantage of this special offer. This offer is valid through midnight on Sunday, May 31, 2009 only.
To follow the Brewers on Facebook, click here.
If you are considering going to the Colorado Rockies Series, you may also be interested in the Brewers Win, You Win promotion. For each Brewers victory in May fans receive $1 off a Loge Outfield ticket (regularly $28). See our previous post on the Brewers Win, You Win promotion for more information.
Free Restaurant.com Gift Certificates from Milwaukee Consumer!
We have a great promotion that we’re excited to announce. Milwaukee Consumer is giving away 5 - $25 gift certificates from Restaurant.com to our readers! The only thing you have to do to enter the drawing is to either follow us on Twitter, or sign up for our email list (enter your email address at the bottom of this post). If you’re already following us on Twitter or on our email list, don’t sweat it…we’ll have special drawings for those two groups too. We’ll also have a special drawing for Twitter users who retweet about this deal to let other Twitter users know about it. If you want to double or triple your chances of winning, you can sign up for the email list and follow us on Twitter and retweet on Twitter!
Here is the fine print. Everyone is eligible. If you sign up for either our mailing list or to follow us on Twitter today, tomorrow, or until 6:00 P.M. on Saturday, you’ll be entered into those two drawings. If you retweet our post on Twitter, you’ll be entered in that drawing. If you’re already following us on Twitter or on our mailing list, you’re already in those drawings. Be cool…don’t sign up under multiple emails or Twitter accounts. Like we mentioned above, if you want to enter more than once, just sign up for emails, follow us on Twitter, and retweet. We don’t sell email addresses or do anything bad with them. We’ll just deliver an email once a day highlighting our posts of the day. You can unsubscribe anytime. We’ll draw names on Saturday night and notify the winners. The winners will have until Sunday night to let us know which restaurant they want the gift certificate from. You can only win once, so if your name is drawn twice we’ll pick again.
To recap, we’ll give away a free $25 Restaurant.com gift certificate to the following groups:
- New email list subscribers
- Existing email list subscribers
- New Twitter followers
- Existing Twitter followers
- Twitter users who retweet about this promotion
The purpose of this promotion is to have some fun and to get the word out about the Milwaukee Consumer website!
If you want to take advantage of the 80% off sale that Restaurant.com is having now, check out our post from earlier in the week.