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health and beauty Tap, Shop, Save Three easy apps offer great student savings By Emma Pitnick For my birthday, my grandmother usually sends me $200. This year, however, she sent me $100, for which I was grateful, but it was not enough to buy the For Love & Lemons dress that I’d had my eye on for six months. The dress cost $230. Instead of trying to scrounge up the other $130, I waited. Lo and behold, after only a few weeks, UNi- DAYS sent me an email with a special code for 60 percent off anything at For Love & Lemons, a Los Angeles-based retailer. I couldn’t believe it. My dream dress now cost $100—exactly what I had. This is how I shop. I’ve rarely paid full price for anything in more than a year. There must be a catch, right? Think again! I use three free, easy apps that help me get everything from discounts to completely free clothing and cool gadgets: UNiDAYS, Shopkick and Shopular. These apps will permanently change the way you shop for anything, ever. Photo by Maddy Rieks Purse bought with a matching faux fur scarf from ASOS through UNiDAYS. Scarf purchased at 50 percent off. Makeup: Clinique - $50 savings from Shopular. Dress: Forever 21 - $15 savings From Shopular. Purse: Asos-$40 savings from UNiDAYS. Socks: Urban Outfitters - $10 savings from UNiDAYS. Shoes: Public Desire-$12 savings from UNiDAYS. 16
UNiDAYS: UNiDAYS is created just for students. It is the “Shop more, spend less” app that gives you great discounts online and in stores. Just verify that you are currently a student—you will need a school email or school ID—and you’ll be instantly dropped into a boatload of discount codes. Most of them are for clothing brands such as Urban Outfitters, American Apparel and Jack Wills. But there are also discount codes for a range of other companies. These include Ray-Ban sunglasses, Dylan’s Candy Bar and Casetify phone cases. Just log onto your account, copy the code, go to the website and shop away. One of my best deals through this app was getting 40 percent off at For Love & Lemons, which saved me $190 on another important dress—my prom dress. Shopkick: Shopkick rewards users with free gift cards for the shopping they already do. Shopkick has more than 15 million users who have earned more than $60 million in gift cards. This program has tons of uses. The app locates where you are, programs itself to all of the stores near you that participate with Shopkick, (for me it’s places like Target, Wegmans and Marshalls), and hooks you up with coupons for those stores. But there’s more: when you open the app upon entering one of the stores, it gives you points called kicks. (Yes, just for walking in.) You can also get kicks from scrolling through ads or from scanning featured items on the app that they have in the store. It’s like an instantly rewarding scavenger hunt. Once you save enough points, you can choose from one of almost 50 different free rewards, ranging from gift cards, to donations to charity, to products such as headphones or a Vespa scooter. To date, I have almost 6,000 points. That’s pretty good because I have more than enough points to get $25 in gift cards and donate to a charity. In the past, I’ve earned a $30 Aerie gift card and donated to the American Red Cross. While I am nowhere near winning a Vespa, which costs 1.8 million kicks, I gain points and get free gift cards all the time. What’s the best part about all of this? It’s 100 percent free. You’re literally getting paid to shop. Shopular: Shopular is similar to both UNiDAYS and Shopkick in that it helps you save money while you shop. What makes Shopular different, however, is that it takes over 100 stores, many in the area, and gives you a range of weekly ads, promo codes and mark-down items. Even better, these offers are updated every single day. You can also pick out your favorite stores, and it will send you an alert with their deals. The best coupon I have used so far on Shopular was for Macy’s. I bought a Clinique beauty product, a foundation costing just $27, and received a free eight-piece makeup set worth almost $100. Most of the clothing stores Shopular promotes are big brands such as Abercrombie & Fitch, Bath & Body Works and Forever 21. Shopular also has tons of deals for restaurants, craft stores, pet stores and even drug stores. *** Shopping is and will probably always be my favorite hobby. Teachers scold me for being on my phone during class but always end up laughing because they realize I’m not texting, but shopping online. How could I not constantly try to shop with all of these amazing apps giving me the chance to save hundreds of dollars every day? Without these apps, I would feel so lost. Soon, you will too. Stop reading, and get saving. spring 2016 | 17
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