Without the promise of sweets, mouths would never have the patience to stay open during dentist's appointments or closed during beekeeping demonstrations. Keep mouths copacetic with today's Groupon: for $7, you get $14 worth of butter toffee at Dhondalicious.

Wielding her grandmother's cast-iron skillet, Dhonda and her team of confection crafters use high-quality ingredients to hand make each bundle of butter toffee. Customers can surprise their Valentines or first-grade math teachers with one of more than six ever-evolving flavors, such as caramel cashew, almond-butter toffee, or peanut-butter pretzel sea salt ($5/0.25 lb.), which marries a duo of classic afterschool snacks around a toffee crux. Taste buds reminisce about summer wrestling matches with bears after biting into Campfire Treats ($5/0.25 lb.), a candy infused with feathery marshmallow and crunchy graham crackers. Diners can also turn mouths away from milk chocolate with an experimental Dhondalicious flavor, including white-chocolate cream-cheese peppermint ($5/0.25 lb.), which offers a cool finish on a caramelized sugar treat.

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A trip to the paintball field is the only way to treat an itchy trigger finger, outside of expensive rash creams or firing a water gun carved from a cactus. Scratch the itch for vengeance with today's Groupon to True Paintball Adventure Park. Choose from the following options:

• For $15, you get a paintball package for one (a $31 value)
• For $60, you get a paintball package for four (a $124 value)
• For $120, you get a paintball package for eight (a $248 value)
  
  

Packages include the following for each player:

• Field admission
• Paintball marker with hopper and air tank
• Mask
• Unlimited air fills
• 200 paintballs
  
  

True Paintball Adventure Park outfits its guests to become splattering soldiers with high-quality rental gear before letting teams loose upon a variety of fields designed for every play style. Both lone wolves and packs can gear up with a full set of armaments and then deploy to any of the chosen fields. The outdoor tactical field is a maze of wood buildings and paint-drenched cars, while the hyperball field is a post-apocalyptic wasteland where discarded tires are both the main building material and the local currency. The indoor tactical field is made more tense thanks to its claustrophobic conflict zones and multi-level buildings. Giant inflatable barricades dot the regulation speedball field, where teams with dreams of the pros can feel free to empty hopper after hopper of paintballs into the crossfire and occasionally onto teammates that require emergency fashion makeovers.

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Although they warm bodies like a roaring fire, blankets won't distract with loud crackling during a movie marathon or ruin picnics by popping corn off the cob. Acquire a versatile source of warmth with today's Groupon: for $35, you get $70 worth of handmade plush blankets from Minky Couture.

Minky Couture's soft blankets wrap tots and adults in a rainbow of colors that stay bright even after a trip through the washing machine. The teal satin lining of a Daisy Duke blanket ($70 for a 36"x30") warms kids' toes beneath a carpet of pink and yellow flowers, and the leopard-print Kami fitted crib sheet ($50) helps bassinets keep out the cold or camouflage their occupants during day care field trips to the Serengeti. Adults can curl up with a suspenseful section of the tax code under a Sarah Diamond blanket's subtle red damask design ($135 for a 50"x60") or prop up Marla's brown paisley pillow ($25) at the end of the living room divan. Shoppers may also opt to customize their piece with up to 10 characters of embroidery ($15), such as a child's name, a loved one's initials, or a blanket fort's street address.

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Desert dwellers prize the camel for having the endurance to conquer the sands and the eyelashes to conquer their hearts. Stock your beauty reserves with today's Groupon to Casabella Salon & Spa in Meridian. Choose between the following options:

• For $60, you get a full set of eyelash extensions (a $125 value).
• For $85, you get an eyelash extension package (a $175 total value) that includes:
  • A full set of eyelash extensions (a $125 value)
  • A follow-up fill set (a $50 value)

Casabella’s experienced cosmetologists beautify peepers with faux-mink lash extensions by Minkys. Applied one by one to existing lashes, the finely fluted extensions add lushness and volume without sacrificing a natural look or dipping lashes in Miracle Gro. During the 2.5-hour application process, patrons lay back on a heated salon bed where they can listen to music and take quick sips of a complimentary glass of wine, coffee, tea, or soda before applications. Depending on the client’s propensity for settling arguments with eskimo-kiss fights, the extensions can adorn eyelids for up to eight weeks, and clients who opt for refills can also return to have lashes replenished once in a 90-minute session.

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A healthy glow boosts one's confidence and takes the pressure off of glow-in-the dark business suits. Show off your radiance with today's Groupon: for $49, you get a chocolate mask facial at Sherri Lynn Esthetics (a $125 value). Customers may add on an additional 15-minute service—such as a hydrating foot mask with warm booties—for $12 each.

Aesthetician Sherri Lynn calls upon 10 years of complexion-revamping experience as she treats vexed visages to rejuvenating facial treatments. During the 90-minute chocolate mask facial, skin basks in a blend of antioxidant-rich ingredients such as açaí berries, resveratrol, and cocoa. The mask’s potent combination of polyphenols bolsters epidermal elasticity by stimulating collagen production and shooing away crows that try to plant their prickly feet on skin. Rich aromas of cocoa waft through the air as the treatment works to suppress inflammation and imbue skin with a renewed ability to repair itself. Newly polished faces emerge from their appointments sporting skin that feels as silky smooth as a beach ball in a mohair sweater.

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When their batteries are about to die, watches run erratically, slow down, and eventually make instinctual journeys to their final resting places beneath Big Ben. Keep time from running out with today's Groupon to Precision Time. This Groupon is valid only in Idaho. Choose between the following options:

• For $19, you get $40 worth of watches and watch-repair services.
• For $39, you get $80 toward any Sottomarino watch.

For more than two decades, Hugo Fraga and his family have restored and fine-tuned the intricacies of customers' timepieces in Precision Time's convenient mall stores. In addition to replacing batteries and manicuring the hands of more than seven million watches, the millisecond specialists carry a full spectrum of watches and wristbands by designers including Swiss Military, Invicta, and Casio. A collection of Sottomarino timepieces ($39–$599) bestows wearers with craftsmanship infused with contemporary and traditional flair, and a collection of London Underground watches ($36) pairs classic and modern styling typical in across-the-pond fashion.

Precision Time sizes bands ($14.99) and offers a five-year service plan that includes water-resistance testing as well as battery and gasket replacement ($26.99). Band and case cleaning ($10), battery replacement ($11.99), and minor repairs ($9.99) help salvage timepieces that have gotten into scrapes with job-stealing cell phones.

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Fresh flowers spruce up Valentine's Day dates easier than making your own candy or paying your nephew to dress as a Cupid-themed living statue. Arm yourself with amorous bouquets with today’s Groupon: for $20, you get $40 worth of flowers and gifts from FTD. FTD offers same-day delivery in most areas for orders placed by 2 p.m. in the recipient’s time zone. Service or shipping fees vary widely based on order and delivery dates but typically range from $15.99 to $29.99. For detailed instructions on how to redeem your FTD Groupon, click here.

FTD steeps rooms in the fresh scents of spring with hundreds of thoughtful bouquets delivered by artisan florists or sheathed in gold organza and shipped in an award-winning gift box. Yield to Cupid’s arrow and persistent text messages by presenting a loved one with an FTD-exclusive Sweethearts bouquet, a heart-hued collection of red roses and burgundy mini carnations elegantly interspersed with sprigs of greenery in an etched glass vase ($44.99–$64.99). Or follow a more polychromatic path with the My Everything Valentine's Day bouquet, an unexpected marriage of deep-red roses and white Asiatic lilies ($29.99–$59.99). Red roses and pink lilies spring forth from a sculpted red vase in the Lasting Romance bouquet ($69.99–$94.99), and a spray of 12 long-stemmed roses ($49.99; $59.99 with vase) stands firmly on stems that measure around 16 inches without heels. FTD backs each floral arrangement with a satisfaction guarantee, which pledges that flowers and plants will remain fresh and keep their bedrooms tidy for at least seven days.

Those looking beyond the bloom can peruse FTD’s gift galleria, which encompasses a smorgasbord of specialty gifts, including jewelry and chocolates. Live plants, such as orchids ($39.99+) or miniature roses ($19.99+), outlive their clipped comrades with a simple regimen of watering and pruning, and silk floral displays brighten up sunless corners and survive solely on nightly bedtime stories.

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