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Glendale Area

Goldstar

Featured Bargain Find

Discount Theater & Events

Los Angeles

GoldStar sells prime entertainment venue tickets for nearly half off. The average savings on tickets runs around 50% and there is a service fee which ranges from $3.50-$7.00 per ticket, but still you’ll save at least 40% on theater tickets.

Happy Eyes

Featured Bargain Find

Designer Eyeware/ Prescription Glasses

Glendale

Happy Eyes is a gem of a store that has had the same prices on standard ophthalmic frames since they opened in 1992. Single vision lens with frames start at $39.95 complete. Bifocals start at $59.95 complete and at Happy Eyes you can get transitions lens starting at $85.00 and up. Happy Eyes has a large selection to choose from for the entire family, kids too!

VikenY.com

Featured Bargain Find

Web Design & Development

Pasadena

When you want the best in web design and development, consultation, and website management , Vik is the way to go. He is thorough, incorporates advanced concepts, is familiar with all programming and works with you to design the best site for your specific business. Very reasonable for the level of expertise he provides.

Encore Nouveau Boutique

Valley bargainistas have a “new on the scene” women’s resale boutique, Encore Nouveau. Not quite your typical resale boutique, this cute, cutting edge, fun boutique is filled with a well edited of women’s designer resale, vintage and new designer samples at 40%-80% off the original retail.

Across the street from It’s a Wrap, you won’t find the upper crust of designers. Just stylin quality fashion designer duds at super affordable pricing.

Glendale Youth Alliance

Landscaping/Yard Maintenance

Glendale

Started in 1994, the Glendale Youth Alliance (GYA) provides job seeking skills and employment preparedness training for Glendale’s youth ages 14-24. They have several programs that provide mentored employment to youth and they’ll quote prices before starting work. Brush clearance, light office duties, hauling, landscaping, and more at pricing that is 25%-50% below.

Hughes Estate Sales

If you like to treasure hunt for furniture, great buys on upscale stylish home furnishings will surprise you at the Hughes Estate Sale in Altadena. Savings here are 50% -75% off market or retail prices. If you get on their mailing list they’ll notify of estates sales they do from San Diego to Ventura. But, it’s at their monthly warehouse sales that they sell furniture that’s been pulled from storage units or estates that didn’t have time to arrange a formal sale. And the prices are so low ….their stupid!

Iconic Movers

As we go through the stages of moving, we are juggling everything, planning, sorting and packing. Moving is stressful. Planning and organization are key to smooth move. Finding a moving company that takes care of our antiques is super important to us. In the past we have suffered a lot of damaged by careless movers. We look for companies that have more than enough blankets and bubble wrap to wrap our treasures.

We found one!

Jack Winter…Our Roving Auto Inspector

Auto Inspection

Los Angeles

Shopping for a good used car takes some research and a good mechanic. After doing the initial homework on the car ourselves, including web search, consumer reports buying guide and a test drive, we call in our favorite roving mechanic, Jack Winters, to inspect the car.

Jill Seidner Interior Design

Interior Design

Beverly Hills

Design mistakes are costly and many of us with no sense of design or color often stay in dull, unorganized, boring rooms and homes just because we are afraid to take the plunge and make a mistake we’ll hate even more.

Jorge Garcia Furniture Restoration

Furniture Restoration

Pasadena,

When we wanted to restore our antique furniture, only one re finisher totally understood our concept of restoration. Jorge Garcia works out of a small warehouse in Pasadena and specializes in antique polishing, restoration, refinishing as well as caning, rushing and carving. Jorge Garcia is especially good at matching wood tones and repairs. He does terrific work, gives accurate and fair estimates and is easy to deal with.

Only Helpful Books

The entrepreneurial spirit to make our lives better is one of the first reactions in a down economy. That entrepreneurial spirit is captured in a new La Crescenta bookstore, Only Helpful Books.

Owner, Golem is on of those enthusiastic, out of the box thinkers that saw a hole in the book-retailing marketplace and filled it with hard to find books, publishers overstock, closeouts and discontinued titles with saving of 10%-75% off publisher’s list price.