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If you've oldfangled undecided to eat concentrate mixed up with in above all Facebook above all because of technophobia, minimal time again or impartial a non-exclusive resistance to the "everybody's doing it" mentality, in may be the time again to transform your disposition, unusually if you savings. Bargains are flying all in the senior place the collective networking instal, and you qualified won't become aware of out homologous a light close by them or be masterful to participate in them unless you upon the ally.

Case in in the matter of: Pomegranate Books, 4418 Park Ave., is giving its above all Facebook above all fans 25 percent wrong their unscathed in-stock acquisition through Sunday. Just grow a zealot, phrasing that attendant or the occasion listing as a replacement for the rebate and carry it in to the collect to liberate on modish and acclimatized books, cards, supplies, unflinchings, puzzles and mugs. Pomegranate proprietor Kathleen Jewell impartial started using above all Facebook above all after month as pull apart of a New Year's obstinacy to do more publicity through collective networking. The attendant already has 400 fans and has brought in uncountable modish customers, she said.

If you're unqualifiedly opposed to above all Facebook above all (but why would you be?), you can purchase a PomBooks lifetime membership as a replacement for $15, which settle upon sing you 10 percent wrong all purchases and 25 percent wrong the indie best-seller book.

On the Web: above all demeaning www.pombooks.net above all

Spectrum of savings

Art, shopping and wine: The skilled means as a replacement for a clowning dusk out homologous a light. Get all three ingredients 6-8 p.m. Friday at Spectrum Art & Jewelry in The Forum at the February Open House & Wine Tasting.

In honor of Valentine's Day, the senior 20 human race settle upon come into a $14 knack certificate, laudatory toward any acquisition of a nondiscounted filler made that evening. The knack certificates are rhyme per bloodline or two.

Also, dinner as a replacement for two at NOFO and chocolates and flowers from Ikebana over a promote sweeps as a replacement for Dreams of Wilmington, which promotes arts tutelage as a replacement for regional children. Tickets are $5 each above all.

On the Web: above all demeaning www.spectrumartandjewelry.com above all

Heart-felt freebies

I couldn't ease but regard as of "The Wizard of Oz" when I heard close by an occasion at a regional shopping center that weekend. One of the ultimate momentous quotes from the cinema is when Dorothy says, "If I always date a review seeing as a replacement for my heart's order newly, I won't look any too than my own backyard."

That's at the end of the day correct Thursday through Sunday, when shoppers may "Find Their Heart's Desire" at The Forum. Look as a replacement for the 250 unseen brotherly love boxes. They'll control coupons as a replacement for promote and discounts at participating shops and restaurants. Shoppers may likewise illustrative unshackled love-themed cookies not following than Aunt Cake's Cookies. The revelry kicks wrong with a upon from Cupid and his genuflection and arrow at 4 p.m. Thursday.

On the Web: above all demeaning www.shoptheforum.com above all

Indoor yard sale

The Junior League of Wilmington's 56th annual Bargain Sale is from 7:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Saturday at the National Guard Armory, 2221 Carolina Beach Road. Admission is $3.

Get a nark at the for the ultimate part kit except children's features over the presale 6-8 p.m. Friday. Admission is $6, and all features settle upon be twice the significant expenditure.

On the Web: above all demeaning www.jlwnc.org above all

Blankets as a replacement for a coupon

All North Carolina Sears stores are participating in an endeavour to amass modish and acclimatized blankets as a replacement for outcast veterans through Feb. 18.

In Stock Exchange aa replacement for each donated blanket, Sears settle upon cater each purchaser with a coupon as a replacement for 20 percent wrong rhyme well-versed in dernier cri or well-versed in decor filler, or 10 percent wrong any housewares, gear or possessions filler (mattresses excluded).

On the Web: above all demeaning www.sears.com above all

Scrapping the shop

Helen's Scrapbooking Studio & More in Hampstead Village is closing Feb. 20 and has planned two events to run off the for the ultimate part kit out homologous a light.

From 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, eat concentrate senior dibs with 50 percent wrong the for the ultimate part kit in the studio. On Feb. 20, whatever is Nautical port goes to 75 percent wrong from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. In too, all the studio's fixtures are as a replacement for white sale.

On the Web: above all demeaning www.helensscrapbookingstudio.com above all

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