A meal with friends soothes the soul, much like a mother's hug or a movie about brave dogs learning to read. Enjoy a feel-good feast with today's Groupon: for $5, you get $10 worth of diner fare at Monroe Street Diner, open for breakfast and lunch.

Monroe Street Diner charms its visitors, including former presidential candidate Bob Dole, with an atmosphere built around comforting kitsch as well as a menu of all-day breakfasts, meaty sandwiches, and burgers. A colorful array of more than 60 clocks donated by loyal customers peppers the walls, allowing diners to accurately referee ham-and-cheese-omelet-eating contests ($6.55) or beat a personal best while packing away steak with three eggs, home fries, and toast ($5.15). Fluffy buttermilk pancakes ($4.55) add a touch of syrupy sweetness to meals, and thick bacon cheeseburgers ($6.85) and tangy turkey reubens ($5.75) lay the foundation for a hearty lunch. Monroe Street Diner hearkens back to the glory days of dinerdom with ‘50s-themed meals such as the valens' favorite ($6.05)—spaghetti and meat sauce—while kids chow down on creamy grilled cheeses sided with fries ($4.35).

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Tinted windows prevent bright sunlight from damaging your car's upholstery and pale moonlight from making you fall in love with your steering column. Avoid glares with today's Groupon to Total Image Window Tinting. Choose between the following options:

• For $80, you get window tinting for a two-door car (a $160 value).
• For $95, you get window tinting for a four-door car (a $190 value).
  
  

For more than 15 years, the technicians at Total Image have coated car windows with thin tints to protect interior upholstery and belongings without jeopardizing drivers' clear views of road signs and provocative bumper stickers. The shaded films also repel UV rays to shield passengers from excessive heat and skin damage. The team works Monday–Friday and asks that customers schedule their visits up to one week in advance, as appointment times are subject to availability and temporal paradoxes.

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Mattress stuffings have evolved by leaps and bounds—from straw and goose feathers to space-age memory foam and digital goose feathers. Enjoy the innovations in sleeping technology with today’s Groupon: for $25, you get $100 toward a mattress set at Perrysburg Mattress.

Perrysburg Mattress’s staff of helpful bed buffs aims to enhance reveries with a collection of name-brand mattresses that can accommodate many particular sleeping styles. Patrons can outfit empty guest rooms with a Smart Choice Shelley plush mattress ($219+) or replace their own current bed or stone slab with a plush yet firm Villa Bellagio mattress ($799+). The Smart Choice Jaquette plush mattress ($499+) shepherds sheep-counting customers to sleep, gently hoisting them atop comfort foams and fibers bolstered by a spine-supporting VertiCoil Premier Innerspring. Perrysburg Mattress sales associates stroll through the bedtime-focused confines to aid customers in selecting their ideal mattress by offering brand and model comparisons, helpful selection tips, and testimonials from seasoned throw pillows.

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Like choosing paint swatches with an impatient spouse, teeth whitening replaces pale pistachio, bavarian cream, and summer peach with simple buckets of white. Simplify your shades with today’s Groupon: for $29, you get a home teeth-whitening kit from Premium Home Whitening (a $158 value).

Premium Home Whitening's kits take trips to the dentist out of smile-brightening equations with FDA-approved gels blanching choppers up to five shades. After a quick brush and floss, patrons drop their mold-and-bite trays into heated water until the plastic becomes as pliable as the lasagna noodles floating beneath them. Ductile tooth helmets press against the upper and lower ridges, custom molding to enamel outlines. After a conservative squirting of USA-made carbamide-peroxide gel, patients insert their impressions into the mouth while clutching the micro LED light between their lips. Sessions last about 30–60 minutes, depending on tooth tolerance, and should take place once or twice daily while watching TV, reading a book, or challenging the cat to competitive staring contests. Gel supplies furnish about seven to nine treatments.

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Creativity can strike at any moment, whether you're near a canvas and brushes or beside a slumbering strongman and many rolls of toilet paper. Learn to recognize opportune moments with today's Groupon.

The Deal

$39 for a three-hour couples landscape-painting class on February 18 (an $80 value)
$29 for a three-hour floral-painting class for one on February 25 (a $60 value)
$29 for a three-hour cloudscape-painting class for one on March 10 (a $60 value)
$29 for a three-hour landscape-painting class for one on March 24 (a $60 value)
$29 for a three-hour floral-painting class for one on April 14 (a $60 value)
$29 for a three-hour landscape-painting class for one on April 28 (a $60 value)

• Semi-private instruction with professional artist
• Classes run from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday
• Students can bring snacks and drinks
• Hot water available, with tea and hot chocolate provided
• All supplies included

Bountiful Arts

At Bountiful Arts, artistic minds of all ages and abilities gather beneath rustic wooden beams to perfect their gifts through practice and guidance from passionate instructors. Drawing and painting classes cater to both kids and adults and are limited to small groups to ensure each student is given individualized attention and equal space on the class holiday card. Specialty classes delve into artistic technique with advanced lessons on color theory and perspective, with private tutelage available to help fine-tune composition skills or overall mastery of oils, acrylics, watercolors, and pastels.

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When a crowd gathers around you on the dance floor, it means you either possess awe-inspiring moves or are slowly transforming into a black hole. Become a dance star with today's Groupon to Paulette’s Studio of Dance. Choose between the following options:

• For $10, you get entry for two to a Valentine’s dance party with a live band on Sunday, February 12, from 5 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. (a $20 value).
• For $15, you get a ballroom or Latin group dance class for two (a $30 value).

The two-stepping tutors at Paulette’s Studio of Dance instruct prospective performers of varying dance disciplines during one-hour boogie sessions and also organize social events where dancers can show off their rhythmic mastery. Romance arrives early on Sunday, February 12, when the Valentine's-themed dance party kicks off with a half-hour group lesson from 5 p.m. to 5:30 p.m., allowing guests to orient their bodies to the gravitational pull of the dance floor and any nearby magnets, before the 16-piece orchestra serenades eardrums with the sounds of big band, swing, cha-cha, and waltz. Attendees are also welcome to bring along snacks or beverages to fuel the festivities and enjoy throughout the night and are welcome to come solo or with a friend, as the event encourages melodic mingling between singles.

For aspiring dancers in need of more than just a refresher course, ballroom-dance and Latin classes teach social dance styles such as salsa, rumba, cha-cha, and foxtrot and put polish on social-dancing basics, helping wallflowers bloom into high-powered waltzing machines at weddings and events. Ballroom dance adds two different dances to toe-tappers’ trick bags each hour, and Latin dance concentrates on spicy south-of-the-border sounds and shimmies. Check the schedule here.

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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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A neglected face will rebel by scowling during your wedding vows or sprouting a five o'clock shadow at precisely four. Soothe volatile visages with today's Groupon: for $37, you get a Valentine's Day–themed aromatherapy facial at Refresh Center for Wellness & Cosmetic Therapy (a $75 value).

The licensed aestheticians at Refresh Center for Wellness & Cosmetic Therapy nurture complexions back to radiant health with aromatic botanical skin tonics. To begin, a lavender steam treatment calms the face by opening pores, dissolving anxiety, and obscuring approaching in-laws in clouds of fragrant vapor. Gentle hands then swab skin clear of excess oil with a pH-balancing rose-water toner, and buff away dull, dead tissue with a natural strawberry scrub. Congested skin finds physical and spiritual clarity via an organic Ayurvedic chocolate mask, reconnecting with its dewy, youthful self by embracing an ensuing moisturizer. The treatment closes with pampering service for the hands, using a strawberry-yogurt salve to soften rough skin without busting its diet.

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