Freebies

Free DVD: http://www.responsibilityproject.com/guide/

Free Hypoallergenic Pillowcase: Zyzal is offering a free hypoallergenic Pillowcase when you call 1-888-669-9992. The call is all automated. You will need to press 1, then 1 again, (possibly 1 one more time), and then enter your shipping information. US only.

Free Car Rental: Now through March 31st you can get a free weekend car rental through Hertz!! Use code PC#127595 when making a reservation for any economy or full size car. One free rental per month. (You will still have to pay for gas and any insurance if needed).

Have a wonderful day,

Where'd the time go???

I started working out with my s-i-l at the local ymca starting the beginning of the year. She and my m-i-l work out of their house babysitting so the best time for her to go to the y was just before she would be picking up the kids from school in the afternoon. Since I don't work a full time job, I said that'd be fine. Little did I know that splitting my day up like that would take a lot of adjusting!! Plus I was sick with the flu for a solid week - it was horrible. I prolly went through 3 boxes of tissues!! But this middle of the day thing has messed me all up!!

I do enjoy working out again. And yesterday we started a routine in the pool. I use to be on the swim team back in HS and I have always been a swimmer. I've always tried to have a pool or a lake near where I live. Since I've lived here in IN it's been very hard to get to water and I've really missed it. But boy am I out of shape in the pool. I remember back in HS before school we had to swim a mile - this is before school - and then during school we had another time in the pool, so I use to swim a lot then. Then after HS I didn't swim as much but I did do a lot of other physical activtities - lots and lots of hiking (I lived in the desert and we use to hike the hills around them) and I worked construction for many years. I was (key word: was) in good shape. No longer am I in anywhere near good shape. I've gained about 25lbs in the last 10-12 yrs and although I'm tall and most would say not super fat, I haven't been comfortable with myself in a long time! So this whole working out thing is a super thing - other than I have got to figure out how to manage my time much better!!! My shopping has suffered!!! And now we just got tons of snow and I have no food in the house - my DH is gonna be soooo mad! :-)

Have a blessed day!!

Long Time But I'm Still Saving Money!!

Here's the picture from Thanksgiving but I don't think I'll have a picture of all the stuff from the Dec 21 & 22nd shopping! CVS was giving away the store! On the Thanksgiving Day shopping trips I bought all this for under $4 dollars! I got tons of candy for a Christmas gift that I was making for friends and family. The candy bars are for my MIL and there's also a baby's 1st Christmas ornament. A fish aquarium (really cool - I think Rain will love!) Lip stick, razor, Dove facial cleaner, cookies, contact cleaner, and 2 pretty purses with lotions attached. I think I did pretty good that day.

Then today (& yesterday) I bought tons of stuff for pennies on the dollars PLUS they gave me tons of ECB's back. An ECB is CVS money that you can use at CVS just like money, so if they have an item like they did this Sunday & Monday for LOreal make-up for 6.99 with an 6.99 ECB printing and I happen to have a $2 off coupon - it's like they are paying me to take their make-up off their hands!! I say sure, no problem. I got tons of stuff for next to nothing.

I hope you all have been reading up on how to do your deals and steals - workin' the system with either IHeartCVS.com or SouthernSavers.com (or even CouponMom.com). They are all great help in making CVS work for you. Just do a little reading and start out with small items and work your way up.

Normally CVS is an expensive little store but if you know how to shop there you can really make out!!

May you all have a blessed Christmas!

Huge Giveaway on The Centsible Sawyer

$500 Yes, you are reading that right, can you believe it?!?!?!? $500 Who couldn't use $500 dollars right about now? Even if Christmas wasn't just 2 weeks away - oh my gosh, it's only two weeks away folks!!

Anyways go on over and check out Denise's site - I'm not sure when it's over but prolly soon!! It's over on Monday the 15th so you have time!! She has some great ideas for helping you save money!

Cool (easy) rebate coming up!!

CVS will be having some really good deals the week of the 21st thru the 27th and if you can get two newspapers this weekend (& possibly for the next little bit at least) you can get work on getting something really cool: A bonus coupon book from P&G worth $120!! It has tons of coupons in the booklet they will send you - most are worth $1 and over. You have to buy $50 worth of products during a month and a half and there's lots of different products in the list of items that qualify as P&G products.

When I read the fine details I couldn't tell if you had to buy the $50 worth of P&G products all on one receipt (which wouldn't have been so great but somewhat doable at CVS) but I emailed them and they were very nice and emailed me back and said No, it doesn't have to be on one receipt!! So save those receipts dated from 12/14/2008 and 1/31/2009!!

Go to: http://www.pgeverydaysolutions.com/pgeds/en_US/jsp/EDS_Page.jsp?pageID=Year-of-Savings for all the details and a list of the products and the rebate form that you have to mail in with your receipt(s).

Some of their products that qualify:

• Febreze
• Old Spice
• Secret
• Charmin
• Luvs
• Pampers
• Puffs
• Duracell
• Camay
• Ivory
• Olay
• Zest
• CoverGirl
• Always
• Tampax
• Dawn
• Joy
• Head & Shoulders
• Pantene
• Herbal Essences
• Clairol
• Bounty
• Mr Clean
• Swiffer
• Cheer
• Era
• Gain
• Tide
• Gillette

Okay, I know that you are gonna go shopping sometime in the next week or two and I'm sure that most of the products on the list are things you usually buy anyways, so keep your receipts!

Have a blessed day - sorry I've been slack lately!!!

e-coupons I think I love you!!

Okay so yesterday I had to go up to Fort Wayne and I've been doing some shopping while I'm up there cas they have some stores up there that we don't have in our little ole hick town here. And I saw my first negative amount on the cash register!! Holy Cow that is an awesome site!!! It was minus 31 cents - I hadn't planned on a negative amount so wasn't prepared for it and I just grabbed DH's favorite candy bar to get back over to postive! I paid 23 cents!!

The only “bad” thing was is that the store I went to (Kroger/Scott) is split up into two different stores - the pharamacy stuff (shampoo, body soap/ wash) is in a different building so I could have gotten a way better deal but I’m not complaining!! For both "trips" I got:

• 2 Reddi Wips
• 2 GG Vegs
• 2 Cottenelle TPs
• block of cheese
• candy bar
• 2 Olay Ribbons body washes (the second "store") 55 cents

all this stuff for 78 cents!! (I could have gotten it all minus the candy for I think 24 cents, tax is sometimes hard to figure. )

this is the trip stash:

Go to SouthernSavers and she'll tell you all about Kroger stores and all about e-coupons that you "load" onto your Kroger card. You can totally save big time and "double dip" so to speak like I did. You get overage this way by using your paper coupons with the e-coupons. Have a blessed day!

Help for Couponing and Shopping!

This site has got lots of info and this link below has lots of different stores listed out for you - one may be near you!! It's a great resource for finding different blogs that will teach you how to get the best deal at your particular store. (Or you can click the image to go to the home page.)

My closest stores are: Marsh, Lances, Aldi's, & Wal-Mart. Oh and now we have a Meijers Store here in town - got love the competion for (against?) Wal-Mart!! - Meijers doubles coupons so I'll go there before I go to Wally World now! Meijers prices are in line with Wal-Marts. Also I go to Fort Wayne every once in a while, there's a Kroger up there and I can check Southern Savers for what deals to pick up while I'm there! Food for Free!! Gotta love that!

http://www.becentsable.net/Default.aspx?pageId=331691 - This has the "local" stores in the list (Aldi, Marsh, Kroger, Meijer, Fry's, Jewel-Osco, etc).

http://www.becentsable.net/Default.aspx?pageId=331690 - This has the "national" stores (CVS, Walmart, Target, etc) on this list.

Have a wonderful day!

My Fav's for Marsh:
http://bargainbriana.com/category/marsh/
http://ingoodcents.blogspot.com/search/label/Marsh

My Fav's for Meijer:
http://ingoodcents.blogspot.com/search/label/Meijer
http://bargainbriana.com/category/meijer/
http://www.thecheapsk8mom.com/search/label/Grocery%20Gathering

My Fav's for Kroger:
http://ingoodcents.blogspot.com/search/label/Kroger
http://www.southernsavers.com/category/kroger/
http://www.thriftyandchicmom.com/search/label/Kroger

My Fav's for WalMart:
http://thecentsiblesawyer.blogspot.com/search/label/Walmart%20Deals
http://www.dealseekingmom.com/category/walmart-deals/

All around Fav's: http://www.thecheapsk8mom.com/