Monday, February 28, 2011

More FREE stuff for you!


Like Shout Color Catcher on Facebook and get a FREE sample.

Get 3 Redbox movie rentals for $1 at Groupon

Don’t forget tomorrow (March 1st) is FREE Pancake Day at IHOP

FREE Tylenol Precise Creams and Back & Body Patches at Walgreens this week (via Moneysaving Mom):
Tylenol Precise Creams and Back & Body Patches are on sale Buy One, Get One 50% Off, making them two for $5.98. Use the $6/2 coupon from the 1/9 SmartSource insert to get these FREE.  

FREE Excedrin at Target this week (via  Common Sense With Money):
Excedrin Extra Strength Express Gels 20 ct $3.59
Use $0.75/1 Excedrin 2/27/2011 SS Insert (exp 4/16/2011) or
Use $1/1 Excedrin Extra Strength 20 ct+
PLUS Use $3/1 Excedrin Extra Strength 20 ct+ Target Coupon
FREE after coupons.

FREE eBook: St Patrick’s Day Recipes and Crafts (via The Frugal Girls) 



Sunday, February 27, 2011

AAA, Travel, and Apps


Are you a member of AAA?  You can get a lot more out of your membership than just roadside assistance!

Log in at AAA.com/ebooks and download FREE digital editions of the AA TourBook  Guides.   Formats are available for Kindle, Nook, iPad/iPhone, and all smart phones equipped with an e-reader app.   Several cities are available now, including Las Vegas, Los Angeles, San Diego, Orlando and Honolulu. More are due to be added later this year. 

If you are planning a trip, stop by your local AAA office and get FREE maps, TourBook Guides and Discount books.  Also check out their TripTik travel planner online. I recently used it to map my summer road trip. It’s FREE and includes maps, driving directions, distances, hotels, attractions, and more!

At  AAA.com/discounts you can find member discounts on shopping, dining,  entertainment, and services. Make the most of your AAA membership.  It’s good for more than dead battery rescues!

Go here to learn about AAA mobile apps. There are three apps available for iPhones: discounts, Roadside Assistance and TripTik. Only a Discounts app is available for Androids.  All the apps are FREE!



Speaking of apps, I found this article on the AAA website.  Some of the apps are FREE and some are cheap. Some of these look like they’d be handy on our road trip. I did a little browsing of them and ended up downloading a few. The Cheap Gas app, however, did not get good reviews.  I instead downloaded GasBuddy for FREE at the recommendation here.
 
Since we are on the subject of travel, I just wanted to remind you about Groupon and Living Social.(btw, there are FREE apps for these services, too!) I use these deal sites often to save money on services, entertainment and recreation. Did you know you can sign up to receive daily emails from other cities, too? Since I am doing a fair amount of traveling this year, I have signed up for some of the cities I will be visiting. Hopefully, a dining or attraction deal will show up that I can use to save money on my vacation. When my trip is over, I’ll just go to my account page and remove the email alerts for those cities.

Saturday, February 26, 2011

FREE STUFF! Something for Everybody!!

Sea World:  All credentialed K-12 teachers in San Diego County, Orange County, and L.A. County can receive a FREE Annual Pass to use through 12/31/11! Click here.

More teacher and homeschooler discounts at The Frugal Girls

Disneyland/Disney World Military Discounts. Click here.

Sign up at Mamapedia and get daily deals alerts. It's similar to Groupon and Living Social, and a portion of your purchase goes to the school of your choice.

FREE Pancakes and celebrity wake up call Tuesday here

Restaurant.com discount code: DINE Get 80% off!


FREE eBook: Copycat Restaurant Recipes

FREE eBook Time Management 101


You don't need a  Kindle to read Kindle books. You can read them on your PC, iPhone, iPad, Blackberry or Android. There are many Kindle books you can download for FREE. Just go to Amazon.com and search for "Free Kindle Books" in the Kindle Store.


3 FREE issues of Food and Wine Magazine courtesy of Pepcid.

Moneywise Moms has some links for Filing your Federal Income Taxes for FREE.

FREE Miracle Whip Sample


BOGO Chipotle Burrito after you watch a short video on Facebook.

FREE Cheez-It sample on Facebook. 

FREE Korean BBQ item with purchase of another entree at Pei Wei at Facebook.

Like MiO flavored water on Facebook and get a FREE sample. 

10 FREE electronic songs from iTunes on Facebook.

Like Panda Express on Facebook and get a FREE Golden Treasure Shrimp coupon on March 9th.

Participating Chick-fil-A restaurants will be giving away FREE medium waffle potato fries on 3/4/11 from 2 to 4 PM.

Got little kids? FREE full-length episodes of Disney Jr.episodes here.

Amazon Prime now includes FREE video streaming!! If you are a paying member of Amazon Prime, not only do you get FREE shipping, but you can stream video for FREE. If your Amazon Prime is a free trial membership, it will not work.

2 mini photo books for $4.99 shipped from SeeHere with code minibook-4. The books each have 24 pages, are softbound, and are tiny--just 2 ¾” x 3 7/8” Offer expires March 2nd.

COUPONS:
Megamind $5 off coupon.
Old Navy $5/$25
$10 off Bambi Diamond Edition when you log in to your Disney Movie Reward Account
Einstein Bros. Bagels coupons.

Humorous, yet frugal, post on how to make your own powdered laundry soap. I'm not sure if this works in HE machines.

Here Come the Birthday Freebies!

My Gmail box is a little bit fuller now. With one week to go before my birthday, the freebies are starting to appear. Today I printed the following:

      Free Rooty Tooty Fresh & Fruity from IHOP
      Free Dip Trio or Brownie Sundae from On the Border
      Free bowl of noodles at Noodles and Company

Speaking of my birthday, I'm asking for only one thing this year. My family is participating in a food packing event to help feed hungry people in Tanzania, Haiti and San Diego County. We are fundraising to help cover the cost for the food and shipping.  Please check out my other blog for more info.

Here's a pic of the freebies that came in the mail this week.
Guess what Tuesday is?? FREE Pancake Day at IHOP.


I get daily deal alerts from Groupon and Living Social, and use Yelp and Foursquare on my iPhone when I'm away from home and need to find a quick deal on dining or entertainment. I have signed up for other cities now, keeping an eye out for deals I can use on my road trip this summer. Here's another Deal Site I signed up for today. Mamapedia Sweet Deals offers you incredible discounts on family-friendly products and services in your local area.  Plus, when you purchase a Sweet Deal, 5% of your purchase goes to the school of your choice. Check out Mamapedia Sweet Deals here.

My ridiculous TV is amazing. I can Tweet and Facebook from it, stream music and movies from Netflix, Amazon and Rhapsody, check Yahoo news headlines and weather. The best thing about it though is the incredible picture quality! I had a couple of gal pals over last night and we watched Avatar on Blu-ray. We all kept commenting on the beautiful picture, which almost looked 3-D. The other day I watched some Star Trek Original Series on DVD. Even though I have the plain DVDs, not the remastered set or Blu-ray, it was TOS as I have never seen it before. The picture quality was amazing, and it didn't hurt that I chose an episode that had Captain Kirk shirtless for a good portion of it! ;-)  I'm very happy with my purchase. I think I made good use of my Costco AMEX rebate.

Wednesday, February 16, 2011

oooh..free stuff!

Get a FREE digital download of the January/February issue of Ingredient magazine, a magazine for kids curious about food. I got mine. It's a very nice 24 page .pdf

Become a fan of Origins on Facebook and you'll be able to request a FREE sample of Origins Plantscription Anti-Aging Serum!

Request your Breathe Right FREE Sample here! 

FREE Yoplait Yogurt coupon.

FREE Maggi Soup Sample

FREE sample from Tea Chef.


Send a FREE box of Quaker Oatmeal Squares to up to 10 of your pals!

Get a FREE sample of Taster's Choice when you text NTC to 70734. Please note that you will receive a reply text prompting you to fill out your shipping information.

Walgreens is offering a FREE Classic Photo Book now thru Thursday, February 17th! Use code FAVORITEBOOK2 at checkout.

Yesterday I got my Covergirl NatureLuxe Silk Foundation in the mail. I think I just requested that!  Some of them come so fast, and others take several weeks. I also got a couple of magazines, but I can't remember which were free and which were dirt cheap. Oh, and I got my first order of FREE stickers from Get Glue and had a fun photo shoot with my Space Cow, Eugene. :-)
You can see more silly Eugene pics here

This is how it's done!

My husband and my eldest have sensitive teeth, but the dentist-recommended toothpaste for them costs $15 per tube!

Last year I asked them both to try some over-the-counter sensitive toothpastes, and I haven't heard any complaints. (Lesson: don't be a brand snob) Sensitive toothpaste can cost more than regular, so when I see a deal I stock up. And what a deal this week at CVS! They paid me to buy toothpaste!

Colgate Sensitive was on sale for $3.79 for a large 6 oz tube. There were coupons for $1 off in the 2/11 Smartsource insert and CVS is giving a$3.70 back in ECBs (limit 2).

I also had $2 ECBs from a previous transaction and my Bag Tag, so I spent $4.17 OOP and got $7.58 ECBs!
I hope this works as well for them as the ProClinical I got a deal on last time!

Sunday, February 13, 2011

Deals, Freebies and My Ridiculous TV

Thanks to Blog Mommas for adding this blog to their directory! You can visit them here

Use your American Express card to get 5 free songs at iTunes.

BOGO  when you print this ad and take it to IHOP on Valentine's Day.

You can currently get 1000 Free Rollover minutes with AT&T when you text YES to 11113020!

Self magazine for $3.99/year. Go here and use SELF as the promo code at checkout.

Here are my freebies from last week:


What did you get?




Head on over to my other blog to read about my ridiculous TV buying experience. I was feeling pretty ashamed that I hadn't put alot of time into researching TVs and sales, but with my Costco American Express rebate check I suppose I did OK.

While you're there, you may want to read last weeks post about my friend, Jen. Jen's house burned down last Monday and she lost everything to the fire. I've set up a donation site to help her with immediate needs, here. You can read all about the ordeal and how people have helped her on the blog. Links to subsequent posts are on the right. Thanks!

Friday, February 4, 2011

Awesome CVS trip

Just a quick post from my quick trip to CVS today.

10 yoplait yogurt @ .69
3 Ragu sauce @ 3/$5
2 cheez-Its @2/$6 (2 ECB back)
3 bags Gold Emblem Pretzels @.66
1/2 gal. Milk
@ 1.59

ST = $21.47
CVS Q $4/$20
MQ $1/10 Yoplait
MQ $1/2 Ragu
$10 ECB

OOP = $5.47
Got 2 ECB back