🍦DQ Free Cone Day 🌸 Como Flower Show ☕ Coffee Shops with Play Areas ⭐ NEW Freebies & Deals


Welcome to the Wednesday Newsletter. I'm sitting here looking out at the snow banks and wondering if the close-to-70-degree weather this weekend will melt it all.

If you missed Monday's newsletter you can still see it here for more about the Works Museum and the free admission Museum of American Art.

It's been a month filled with lists here from the big City Wide Garage Sale List to the Easter Egg Hunt List, Maple Syrup Events list and now the latest new list below. If there's anything that you would like to see researched and shared in a list, let me know!

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Minnesota Coffee Shops with Play Areas

If you're looking to get out of the house to enjoy a good cup of coffee and want your kid to have fun at the same time, check out one of Minnesota's local coffee shops that include a play area for kids.

These fun spots offer lots of different creative play options for kids with some climbing, sports and other active play activities at some locations. There are both straight up coffee shops that include free play areas for kids and more dedicated play spaces that charge a fee.

We've created a list of fun options around the metro and out to Jordan and Sartell. Let us know of any that we've missed!


DQ Free Cone Day (+ Free Rita's Italian Ice)

Tomorrow, March 19th, is Free Cone Day at DQ, which means free ice cream for everyone!

Anticipating the arrival of Spring, Dairy Queen is celebrating tomorrow by offering one FREE small vanilla cone per person at participating non-mall locations.

And the following day, March 20th, if you live near one of the 2 Minnesota locations, you can get FREE Rita's Italian Ice to celebrate the official 1st day of spring.


Como Spring Flower Show

Step inside the Sunken Garden at the Marjorie McNeely Conservatory at Como Park and experience the beauty of the Spring Flower Show!

The show is inspired by the myths of Persephone and her garden. Expect to see the influence of pomegranates and poppies on colors throughout the garden with creams, reds, and accents of darker hues. Tall foxgloves and stocky snapdragons will bring structure to the design and complement Narcissus poeticus daffodils.

The first half of the show runs March 20th through April 26th, and May 1st – June 7th 2026


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Get the details for these deals and more on the Current Great Deals Page.

Let's again start out with the food freebies and deals today.

As a reminder of current app games to play for free food (or other prizes) the Casey's Rewards instant win game runs through April 7th and there are current games in both the Burger King and Wendy's apps, but the Wendy's one is ONLY if you make a purchase (booooo).

As part of the Subaru Loves the Earth® initiative, 11 local Minnesota Subaru dealerships are partnering with the Arbor Day Foundation to offer FREE 2-4 foot trees that are ready to be planted.

Purchase one Sunnie Snack at a Hy-Vee near you and they will reimburse you up to $3.99 via Venmo or PayPal.

Schedule a time at Cabela's for a FREE 4x6 photo with the Easter Bunny for your whole family or just the kids. There's also a free giveaway of a bass Easter egg with prize. There are NOT a lot of time slots left!

Another reminder that with gas prices rising, remember you can always access these printable/textable Holiday Gas coupons for $.20 off per gallon. There are new food coupons at the same link including $1 off a lunch sandwich or taquito and others.

For shopping deals:

Macy's has a BIG Barbie Flash Sale TODAY ONLY 3/18 with prices 40% to 50% off on dolls, playsets, kids clothes and more.

Kate Spade Outlet has up to 70% or MORE off select styles PLUS you get an extra 10% off automatically at checkout and some items have another 25% off on top of that!

At Bath & Body Works TODAY ONLY 3/18, pay only $1.95 for all car fragrance refills and $2.95 for hanging fragrance diffusers.

This week Campbell's Chunk Soup is on sale 3 for $5 at both Target and Amazon.

Kohl's has lots of slippers under $5 (originally up to $26) included in their clearance sale.

Check out the deals page for more deals and freebies!


Click on any photo to see where we found it!

(You can also see them all HERE.)


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