About FrugalTees
Why this exists
FrugalTees started because checking a dozen different tee sites every day for a good deal is annoying. RIPT, TeeFury, Qwertee, Woot, and the rest of the "shirt of the day" crowd all run their own countdown sales, and by the time you remember to check one, the good design is already gone. We built a feed that checks all of them for you, once a day, and puts whatever's actually worth a look in one place.
FrugalTees is a small independent project run out of White Bison Labs. Nick runs it; there's no editorial team and no agency behind it — just someone who likes graphic tees and got tired of missing the good ones.
How the deal feed actually works
Every day, FrugalTees checks the live listings on the sites we track — currently 14, including RIPT Apparel, TeeFury, Qwertee, NeatoShop, Draculabyte, Five Finger Tees, and Shirt.Woot, among others. We pull whatever they're actually running at the time: the day's design-of-the-day, an active clearance sale, or — for a couple of stores that don't run traditional markdowns — a rotating pick of what's currently in stock.
We don't hand-pick which individual shirts show up in the feed each day — that part runs on a schedule, and it has to, since some of these sales change daily and a couple of the sites we track have thousands of designs between them. What isn't automatic: every site on the list was checked by hand before it was added, to confirm it's a real store selling real shirts rather than a wholesale portal or a design-submission platform, and a site gets dropped from the list if it stops running genuine deals or turns out to be unreliable.
We link straight to the source for every deal. We're not the seller, we don't hold inventory, and we don't control pricing or shipping — that's all on the site the deal comes from. Always double-check sizing and current stock there before buying; these are other people's live sales, not ours, so a deal can move or sell out between when we last checked and when you click through.
Affiliate links, plainly
Some of the outbound links on FrugalTees are affiliate links, meaning we may earn a small commission if you buy something after clicking through, at no extra cost to you. This never changes which deals show up or how they're described — a shirt gets featured because it's a genuine deal on a site we track, whether or not there's a commission attached to it. See our privacy policy for the full disclosure.
FrugalTees Originals
Alongside the deal feed, we design our own graphic tees under FrugalTees Originals. These are print-on-demand — nothing gets made until someone orders it, which means no warehouse of unsold shirts, but also a slightly longer ship time than buying off a shelf. Every design in the shop is our own.
Get in touch
See a deal we missed, or a site we should be tracking? Send it our way. We read every submission, even if we can't reply to all of them.