I was tagged by Extreme Couponing to share seven things about myself. I haven’t ever really shared anything about myself on this blog so it’s time to get personal :)
These are the rules for tagging…
1) Link back to the person who tagged you and share the rules on your blog
2) Share 7 facts about yourself
3) Tag seven people and list their links in your post
4) Tell those 7 people by commenting on their blog!
1. I believe in Jesus Christ, and know Him to be my only hope for salvation, and I hope and pray that my children might also say that one day.
2. I am a stay at home mom with three kids ages 3 and under (two came together).
3. My Husband thinks I’m crazy and has no understanding of the amount that we save every week.
4. My older girls learned to use scissors by pretending to cut coupons. They called it that not me…
5. Winter has started where we live and being born and raised in FL I’m cold, all the time. (We live in SC but I promise it’s cold outside)
6. My best friend is my Husband, even though he doesn’t get my hobby.
7. One of my biggest goals in life is to more hospitable, now I just have to get the house clean.
That was a lot harder than it looked…
I’m now to tag 7 other sites, so many that I know of have already been tagged, so I am picking the 7 most recent sites that came to Southern Savers. I guess I should list above, that I love following the traffic links in my site stats to see all the blogs that you guys have!
http://www.g8rfmly.blogspot.com/ (Though I am a proud FSU grad)
http://flhomeblog.blogspot.com/
http://www.thecoupongame.blogspot.com/
http://monroeice.blogspot.com/
http://www.thethriftymama.com/ (a blogging buddy)
http://www.funandfrugal.com/ (a great site I want to live in your city!)
http://goodorfreedeals.blogspot.com/
Free samples of Mineral Make Up, you can request certain products!
Get a free e-book version of Jumble Pie a full length novel
Bear Naked Fruit & Nut Granola sample
Get a free mini Magic Eraser for leaving a comment
John Freida Luxurious Volume Hair Care sample
Jergens Naturals Daily Moisturizers get of a 3 pack sample
Heading to the Mall this weekend? There are lots of coupons to take with you and deals to know about!
Old Navy
Saturday Oct 25th and Sunday Oct 26th
Old Navy is hosting a Halloween party at every store. They will be giving away candy and FREE t-shirts (in the form of a certificate for any graphic tee) to kids under 13 who come in costume on Saturday while supplies last.
Macy’s
20% off entire purchase printable coupon off regular, sale or clearance items — good through Sunday 10/26.
Enter zipcode then click in the bottom left.
Bath & Body Works
Antibacterial Soaps are currently 5 for $15!! Stock up and use these coupons for other free items:
Free Wallflowers or Scentport Pluggable Set with any purchase printable exp Nov 23
Free 2oz Signature Collection Lotion your choice with any purchase printable exp Nov 5
(both of these will work on even little $1 purchases!!)
Free Black Amethyst or other Signature Collection product of your choice (up to $12 value) with any $10 purchase printable – exp Oct 31
Free True Blue Spa or Aromatherapy item of your choice (up to $15 value) with any $10 purchase printable – exp Nov 2
Free Signature Collection item of your choice (up to $12 value) with any $10 purchase printable – exp Nov 2
Live near a store that is just opening??
Free item of your choice (up to $13 value) with any $10 purchase in a US store opening in October or November 2008 printable – exp Nov 30, 2008
Look in the November 2008 issue of Better Homes & Gardens:
$10 off any $30 purchase – exp Nov 30, 2008
Victoria’s Secret
$5 off $20, $10 off $50, $15 off $75 or $25 off $100 printable
$10 off any Bra and get a FREE panty printable
Free Secret Garden Body Scrub with any purchase printable
JC Penney’s
20% off almost everything printable Good Sunday 10/26 – Monday 10/27
Petco
$5 off $25 purchase printable, good Oct 23-26th
Cellfire upgraded their site today and while it looks great and will be easier to use… there are a few glitches. If you had any coupons loaded that you planned on using this week they are no longer saved to your card so go back on and reload. Also a lot of the coupons that were available aren’t there now so…. well…. yeah wishing I had gone shopping yesterday. I contacted Customer Support and was told that they are just gone and that was about all they said, so don’t go expecting to save without checking your coupons first.
On a good note though they do have 2 free items that you can load and the Cottonelle coupon and Goldfish coupon for this week are still there (just reload them).
If you don’t have cellfire yet and are a Kroger shopper, go here and enter your phone information to get started. Once you get it set up you won’t use your phone for anything (in terms of Kroger) and they will never text you or use your phone information. You will load coupons straight to your Kroger card just like Shortcuts and P&G. You can load other coupons that do use your cell phone to redeem, in areas like Atlanta there are lots of coupons for various stores.
Let me know if you have questions or problems with Cellfire, I have been in touch with folks from the company and they are very open to feedback.
I guess we are so behind here we are on the wrong day still… I just realized that it is not Monday. So imagine the title as Tuesday’s Freebies.
Great Coupons
Buy One Get One Free Glade Scented Candle Holder printable
-.30/1 Domino Sugar printable
-.25/1 Domino Powdered Sugar or Brown Sugar printable
-$1.25 off Reynold’s Parchment Paper printable
-$1/2 or -$2/4 Progresso soups printable (exp 4 days after printing so print right before shopping)
-$1/2 Hunt’s Tomato Products printable
-$1 off Pillsbury Crescent Rolls printable (should make them free when on sale)
Free Stuff
Free Sample of Folgers Coffee
Garneir Nutritioniste Ultra Lift Deep Wrinkle Treatment.
Free sample of Prilosec OTC
Marvel Comic book featuring Spiderman and the Fantastic 4 sponsored by the US government (you really) to battle underage drinking. You can get as many as you want for free, 25 or more comes with a free poster too.
A Free sample of Zarbee’s All natural Childrens Cough syrup.
Free samples for parents with a new baby or one on the way.
Get a sample of Nicoderm CQ and a $7 off coupon.
Starting tomorrow 10/22 if any player on either team steals a base during the World Series every person in America gets a free taco.
If a base is stolen in games 1-4 get your free taco on Tuesday Oct. 28th.
If stolen during games 5-7 get your taco on Monday Nov. 3rd.
Maybe it will happen both times so we all get 2 free tacos. No matter the number of bases stolen during each set of games you only get 1 taco. If it does happen I’ll try to remind you… Need more info click on the Taco Bell logo above.
Since these don’t work the same was a real coupons I’m including them separately from the lists. Go here and sign up if you haven’t already, and load coupons to any card you have registered and then when you buy that product get the money back into your U promise account. This is a great program for helping you save more. Normally you would get maybe .05 cents with each item and now you get $1 or more.
$1 back with Huggies (CVS or Rite Aid next week)
$1.50 back with Huggies Supreme
$1 back with Motrin (CVS or Walgreens)
Others for regular purchases
$1 back with Charmin
$1 back wyb 3 Bird’s Eye Veges
$1 back wyb 3 Cabot Cheese
Buy 3 Aquafina Flavorsplash Get the full value of 1 back
and more…
A tip for Upromise: You don’t actually have to have any kids to sign up! You can sign up and leave the beneficiary blank and then when a kid comes enter the name and birthday. You can also sign up for any relatives or friends and save for them and you can swtich who you are saving for at any point!! We signed up probably a year before our first two were born and had over $250 saved before we even knew they were coming. Now after 4years + we have over $1800.
Sometimes there are just moments where you have to say something…
All the local grocery stores are pushing “Feed a family of 4 for $10” meals in theirs ads lately, I feel for the people who think these are deals. The most recent one I saw was in the Food Lion ad for a spaghetti dinner. I can make that same dinner for about $3.07 and that’s including buying a salad (which wasn’t part of their deal).
Spaghetti (recent money maker at Publix) +.40
Hamburger 3/4 lb (on sale $1.99lb) $1.47
Spaghetti Sauce (Ragu recently on sale) – .50
Can of diced tomatoes (we add to our sauce) – Free (Muir Glen products w/coupon)
Rolls (Pillsbury) – Free
Salad bagged – $1.50
Total: $3.07 and it would probably feed 5 so that’s .61 cents per person!!
When it comes to advertising I actually have a lot of pet peeves so I’ll just stop there for today.
We have been so busy the past few weeks, sorry if your mailbox has been lacking fun things.
1. Get a free Sample of Tide Total Care
2. Free Dove Therapy Shampoo and Conditioner sample
3. A coupon for a free tube of Advantage for dogs.
4. Free Kotex sample kit, with liners, pads and tampons.
5. A sample of Benefiber drink mix (pour into a bottle of water).
6. Free issue of Sherman’s Travel Magazine. (No credit card required – when invoice comes either ignore or write cancel, they have great low budget travel listings)
7. John Frieda Luxurious Volume Hair care sample.
8. Free sample of Goodnights underpants (for kids).
9. Playtex Sport free sample.
