Join a warehouse club for free

You can get a free 60-day membership to BJ’s if you click here and activate your membership in a store before July 6.

I’m planning to piggy-back with a friend: She’ll sign up now, we’ll shop together, and when her trial membership expires at the end of June, I’ll activate mine and bring her shopping with me.

We’ll each spend enough that I think BJ’s will be glad we came. Best of all, there’s no premium pricing added on (sometimes trial members pay an extra surcharge of 5 percent or so).

For more tips on getting good deals in these stores, click here. And look for a feature about warehouse clubs—what you should buy and what's not worth the money—coming soon in ShopSmart.