Amazon's unique “buy a box of freebies, then get credit on those items” campaign got a shot in the arm this month with two new drink boxes to choose from. Like before, each sample boxes comes with 5-15 sample-sized products. They'll cost anywhere from $4.99 – $19.99, but they're “free” since you get the same amount of Amazon credit to buy similar items. So if you buy the Crest sample box for $4.99, you'd get $4.99 Amazon credit to buy full-sized versions of the Crest items.

Here's what they seem to be currently offering. If you see a price in the widget, then Amazon has that sample box in stock!

Current Amazon Sample Boxes

• Crest 3D White Sample Box – $4.99 with full credit on these products
• Household Essentials Sample Box – $14.99 with full credit on these products
• Luxury Women's Beauty Box – $19.99 with full credit on these products
• Luxury Men's Grooming Box – $19.99 with full credit on these products
• Men's Grooming Sample Box – $9.99 with full credit on these products
• Nutrition & Wellness Sample Box – $14.99 with full credit on these products
• Glanbia Sample Box – $7.99 with full credit on these products
• K-Cups Coffee Sample Box – $7.99 with full credit on these products
• Dog Food and Treats Sample Box – $11.99 with full credit on these products

Past Amazon Sample Boxes

• New Year New You Sample Box – 14 or more items for $14.99 with full credit on these products
• Mr. Olympia Sample Box – 8 or more items for $9.99 with full credit on these products
• Refreshing Drinks Sample Box – 8 or more items for $9.99 with full credit on these products
• Beverage Drinks Sample Box – 7 or more items for $9.99 with full credit on these products
• Beauty Sample Box – $11.99 with full credit on these products
• Men's Grooming Sample Box – $9.99 with full credit on their products.
• Optimum Nutrition and BSN Sample Box – $7.99 with full credit on these 10 nutrition products
• Luxury Beauty Box – $19.99 with $19.99 credit on these products
• Suds Sample Box – $7.99 with full credit on these products
• Protein Bar Sample Box – $9.99 with full credit on these products
• Snack Bar Sample Box – $4.99 with full credit on these products

If you were planning to buy any of these items in the future, it makes sense to treat yourself today with a little sample box!

If you're picking up a new summer book on Amazon, use code PRIMEBOOKS17 to score $5 off a $15+ book purchase! The code is valid through 7/12/17 at 11:59pm PT and only applies to physical books, not digital ebooks.

You don't normally see Amazon book coupons! In honor of this rare offer, I'm going to step out of my comfort zone of sci-fi and history. Instead, I'll pick a random book to purchase!

Uh-oh, I think this one's written in French. Boy, this sure did backfire.

Amazon's 3rd Prime Day is today, July 11, and it is stacked with sales and deals for Prime members! Like previous years, they're marking down all sorts of random items, like most of their own tech devices, including Amazon Echo, Alexa, Kindles, and Fire tablets.

Aside from that, it seems like a million things are on sale, but many of the items are only on sale for a limited amount of time. However, with deals being posted every 5 minutes, chances are you can find something you need on sale for a steep discount.

I'm seeing 9998 on sale right now, so I won't be trying to highlight every deal I find. But if you have some time and want to get a little gift shopping out of the way (for others or yourself! 🙂 ), I'd definitely look around and see if there are any deals that piques your interest.

My main computer went the way of the Dodo on Monday and one of the only things keeping me calm during all the troubleshooting and realizing it was dead was my fidget spinner. I'm sure if you have kids (congrats on the offspring!) or watched the news lately (oh, you poor soul…), then you've seen these toys. I'm the kind of guy who is always tossing a baseball around, so when I saw them on sale at my corner deli a few weeks ago, I picked one up.

Turns out Newegg is selling packs of 5 fidget spinners for only $9.99 with free shipping! That's only $2 a pop, which is 0.33% of what it's going to cost to fix my computer! 😫

A lot of sites and articles say these help with ADHD, ADD, etc. I have no idea about any of that. All I can say is that since getting mine, I've stopped throwing a baseball around indoors or spinning my expensive phone while reading or watching TV. They're just fun, mindless toys to play with!

One of the latest scripts I've built is to search the Internet for active car rental promo codes and discounts! It uses the car rental companies own feeds to update with every sale, promotion, and coupon code available. As the codes expire, the script will automatically remove them and update with new ones!

Currently, I have deal feeds for the following car rentals set up.

• Alamo Rent A Car
• Avis Rent A Car
• Budget Rent a Car
• Dollar Rent A Car
• Enterprise-Rent-A-Car
• Fox Rent A Car
• Hertz
• National Car Rental
• Payless Car Rental
• Thrifty Rent-A-Car
• Zipcar

Here's a taste of how the car rental pod looks. Let me know if you have any questions or ideas for the next coupon pod I should build!