Living better, spending less.
I accidentally saw this offer today while searching Swagbucks, when a small box opened up on the bottom of my screen. Get 700 Swagbucks when you buy a certain $2.99 game at Big Fish Games. I would normally never buy a $3 Halloween game, but since 450 Swagbucks can be redeemed for $5 at Amazon… [...]
October made me feel very warm and posty (HA!) but November apparently sapped all my will to write. I think I was probably anticipating Thanksgiving, and more importantly, Black Friday, so I stopped thinking of topics to write about in favor of perusing advance ad scans and the like. They say it takes three weeks [...]
I got an email from Groupon this afternoon, letting me know that they were going to start sending out deals for Lexington soon. I am currently subscribed to the Louisville list, and while I don’t live in either one of those cities, I’m closer to Lexington in a geographical and emotional sort of way. ;) [...]
Staples has a good deal on paper right now. Buy: 2 10-packs of 500-sheet reams of HammerMill Copy Plus Letter Sized Paper ($24.99 ea) (item 122374-QJ) 1 “filler” (a cheap item intended to boost the total over $50. I bought cap erasers for $.79 because I was in a huge hurry and couldn’t think of anything [...]
Sign up at Gluten Free Circle to receive free gluten-free product samples and coupons mailed to you. As much as I like getting free samples, especially with only a small amount of initial time invested, I’ll leave this one for the people who need it. :) Enjoy!
Advance has an interesting deal right now, 1/25 – 127. If you spend $100 (online), you’ll get a coupon by email for $50 off your next purchase of $50 or more. Free shipping applies to all orders $75 or more. I think the beauty of this one is that theoretically, you’d be getting free stuff [...]
Big Lots has a 20% off coupon available right now. It’s good through January 31. Get the coupon! Big Lots sells furniture, and we have been sorely tempted to buy a new couch there when these coupons have been released in the past. It’s probably good that we don’t have a truck to get one [...]
Last night, we went out to dinner at Chili’s. We hardly ever go there but I had read at slickdeals that they’re doing a promotion for two meals, an appetizer and dessert for $20. That’s a pretty good price for a meal like that, so we thought we’d go. Once we got in there, though, [...]
Big Lots has Surf and All on sale this week for 2/$5. (All 2X, 50 oz or All 3X, 32 oz or Surf 3 lbs 12 oz.) That’s actually a pretty decent price on its own. But! Take the Big Lots sale paper to Wal-Mart or Target and price-match the Big Lots sale, and then [...]
I just placed another order with Magazines.com and that reminded me that I should write a few words about buying magazines cheaply through that site. They had lots of magazines for less than the normal retail prices, and they’re always running special promotions, so it’s a generally good place to buy your magazines from. It’s [...]
When I became a stay-at-home-mom, I promised I could save our family money by shopping sales and maybe even using a few coupons. I had no idea what I was getting into. These days, I am on a first-name basis with the cashiers at the local drugstores, I haven't paid for toothpaste or shampoo in over a year and I spend my free time here, helping others do the same. So please, make yourself at home while you learn how to save, and when to spend!