Watch out for budgetary red shells this spring.

Typically, coupon sites traffic in hair removal, little-known restaurants and spa miscellany we don’t need, but we couldn’t help noticing an unusually intriguing spread of offers today, including dinner at a top-notch Williamsburg eatery, go kart racing, insurance-claims help, and furniture from a film prop store that sounds pretty cool. (more…)

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Despite the obvious irony of paying half a month’s rent for a phone when you’re pushing broke, most of us these days can’t walk a block without our iPhone or Android telling us the way. But for the cash-strapped, having a smart phone can actually be… smart. You may know about targeted money-saving apps for things like happy hours, cab sharing and Exercise TV. But what about apps for savings and savings period? Well, there are a bunch of free ones for that too. Some are mobile offshoots of old couponing friends, others are new kids you should get to know fast. (more…)

Do Groupon, ScoutMob, KGB Deals and the other sites still not quite fill your need for group discounts in New York? This week brings the launch a new site of a slightly different tilt: MindBodyGreen focuses on flash sales for healthy, organic, green or otherwise crunchy offerings from spas, restaurants and the like. The introductory offers today include a 10-person Pilates session at Body Tonic in Park Slope and $10 off GustOrganics, the city’s first and only certified organic restaurant (located near Union Square). Co-founder Jason Wachob (a DUMBO resident) says the site will focus on “everything from vegan/organic restaurants, to yoga and Pilates studios, to events and more.”

We just came across this limited-time deal from a very Groupon-like coupon site called KGB Deals (no espionage involved, we’re pretty sure). The deal’s for two tickets to a crossover Brooklyn Philharmonic concert and Brooklyn Museum exhibit on Sunday, May 16. The event is called Music Off the Walls, and you’ll hear a Philharmonic chamber ensemble, pianist and electric guitarist play music composed in the last decade, about the art installation Extended Family, whose works are also from the last decade. $14 (regularly $30) will get you and a guest museum admission, along with tickets to a 1 p.m. guided tour of the exhibit and to the 2 p.m. concert. The deal on KGB ends Friday, May 7 at midnight, or until the 88 remaining coupons are gone. Buy the coupon here.

Watch out Groupon!

If you can’t seem to get enough offers for cheap teeth whitening and brow waxings at salons you’ve never heard of, then you’ll be thrilled that there’s a new “social” deal site in town. Gilt Groupe (friend!) has just unveiled a new NYC-centric site designed to compete with Groupon (um, never mind!). Gilt, for those who don’t know—and lots of you probably shouldn’t—has twice daily “sample” sales on designer clothes and accessories, at noon and 9 every day. (Warning: it can get addictive, because alongside the $350 Tory Burch dresses are $22 earrings from indie designers.) Even though the main Gilt site tends to have schmancy offerings, so far Gilt City‘s deals aren’t all that different from the ones we’re used to seeing from similar sites: yesterday they had discounts on a three-course meal at a restaurant on the Upper East Side, a wine class, a spa treatment and some frozen yogurt. Email us when it’s 90 percent off everything at the Apple store!

[via Racked]

Here’s your chance to leave the gym TV screen and have your butt kicked into shape somewhere more interesting. Groupon has a deal today for Brooklyn Bridge Boot Camp, the inter-borough workout where you squat, run, crunch, dip and butt-lift your way across the Brooklyn Bridge, all to “get in shape while you enjoy the view”—even if the view’s all you enjoy while crawling back on all fours. The Groupon deal gets you five of the bridge-crossing workouts for $45, half the regular $90 rate. The hour-long sessions happen weekday mornings, but there are a few on weekends and evenings. Here’s the Groupon coupon and the Boot Camp site for schedules and more details.

We don’t totally understand this Groupon thing, but we just got a blast from the new coupon site that they have a deal today on a hardcore workout called Bootcamp Republic, where torture specialists including this guy (yes sir!) abuse you in Prospect Park or McCarren Park. The Groupon deal gets you three classes for $30. Normally, six classes of bootcamp cost $250, and if you want to stay for all six weeks you have to cover the second half. Anyway, it sounds sorta promising: Bootcamp Republic has a perfect five-star rating on Yelp (even though reviewers might be too indimidated to indicate otherwise.) Here’s a link to the Groupon deal and the Brooklyn class schedule.