Walmart Free Samples

Walmart Free Samples

This is a website worth bookmarking as it changes week to week.

They offer samples of everything from meds, baby and personal products to pet food samples.

Start sending them to your family members and they will enjoy treats in the mail!

~~Migraine Excedrin FREE~~

~~Migraine Excedrin FREE~~

Go here, answer one simple question (choose anything other than Excedrin) and fill in your information to have a coupon for a FREE bottle of Excedrin mailed to you.

UPDATE:  Mine came in  the mail 2/22/2010!

(My thanks to swvasavesmoney.blogspot.com and midatlanticdealssteals.blogspot.com)

Free Dog Leash from Snapfish

Free Dog Leash from Snapfish

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Cookie and I just ordered a dog leash with her picture alll over it from Snapfish.

It was totally FREE including free shipping!

Go to http://www.snapfish.com/ and sign up for a new photo account.  Upload your dog's phot and instead of opting for the 20 free prints, apply the credit towards the $19.99 dog leash.  For that matter you might be able to choose something of the same or even less value.

Right now and through 2/19 you can get free shipping form Snapfish when you use the code PRESDAY at checkout.

One tip- use a Visa Credit card when you go to pay as Paypal has trouble charging you a balance of zero!

Stay tuned for a picture I will post when ours arrives....meanwhile here is the picture we chose to use.

~~Dollar General Roses $1 and balloons?~~

~~Dollar General Roses $1 and balloons?~~

Note:  The flowers seen above are not the actual ones from Dollar General!

Our local Dollar General is carrying pre-wrapped fresh roses of various colors for $1 each!  Buy a dozen and make your own arrangement!  They also have chocolate roses!

Click here for the Dollar General Valentine Flyer

Word has it that they are doing this in all their stores and some even have helium balloons.  So now, even if you find yourself strapped for cash this Valentine's Day- you can still get something!

~~Outback Steakhouse Nationwide Valentine Deal~~

~~Outback Steakhouse ~~
Free  $10 certificate & Mp3

This is a national Valentine’s Day Special! It is available from Friday 2/12 thru Sunday 2/14 and there is no minimum purchase to receive the $10 off coupon & free Tim McGraw download.

Someone mentioned that you might just go in fr sesset or an appetizer and you will still ge the deal!

Please note the $10 off certificate is good for a future order when 2 entrees are purchased, anytime between February 15th & March 31st, 2010.


(My thanks to Thrifty Northwest Mom and http://www.couponingtodisney.com/)

Save money and pack lunch!

Save money and pack lunch!

Even buying an adult lunch in a school cafeteria adds up. At approximately $2.50 a day and you  have spent $50 a month on low quality food.   Save that money and buy some steaks!

Here you see my lunch. Healthy including steam carrot s and brown rice, but I know that first day of the week I might need something salty, sweet, or pure candy so I am taking along a little sampling of snacks for the desk drawer. 

You can save money by keeping snacks like this in your desk drawer. Sized just right they also save $$$ as the going rate is at least .60 from a vending machine and these cost .25.

See where doing the Math and planning ahead can save you money?  Run to the store and take your coupons.  Stock up when there are good deals!

Bring your own drink too. You can see I have two, one with water and one sweet tea. I might even bring a can of coke which would sell for $1.25...but of course I got them for dirt cheap on sale. Some folks even keep a variety of drinks in the back of the car in a cooler. One post on a blog mentioned a gallon of spring water in a cooler for bottle refills.

So what ways can you think of to save on lunch?

Ways to Reduce Your Electricity Bill NOW!

Ways to Reduce Your Electricity Bill NOW!

Turn off all electronics that have a face/clock

I unplug the microwave all of the time now. I found that I have to leave the answering machine plugged in though I could live without it!  Anything that has a light takes energy all of the tie and in many cases you can turn off a bunch of things with a power strip.  For instance, I think my Wii is plugged in all of the time along with the chargers and TV...most all of those have a little light that stays on.  I could save more energy by putting them all on a power strip and turn them off when not using.  Supposedly the power strip itself might use energy, but I guess it remains trapped in the device and not constantly using if it is turned off. 

I tried turning off our TVs with th strips but then I come home and wonder why the remote does not work.  Takes me a while to remember I turned them off.  Even harder for my husband.  I guess we have to make new habits.  I prefer to keep them on until I get back on my energy saving kick!

Unplug the spare/garage refrig.
Nature provided us with refrigeration in the Fall/Winter. Gas grills do wonders as a winter refig. For the summer we could plan ahead and add ice to a cooler-keep outside in the shade on the porch. Our root cellar/basement also provides some cooling for beverages till peak summer months. I keep just a few sodas in the refig and restock every night.

Unload and unplug garage extra freezer (even though it is Energy Star rated)

In preparation for Summer- we bought enough light blocking shades for the front three windows and two sides. Turns out they also help keep Winter drafts out.  This may have been my biggest money saver so far!

Took out all my electric candles from the windows.  I replaced them over the 2009 holiday and they are now dawn to dusk so I feel a little better about it.  I don't really know if they cost that much to keep.

Waited till I had a full load before washing. Instead of one set of sheets I wait till the next laundry week and add the two sets together for one load. I have an energy efficient front load with newer dryer as well.

Manage clothes drying time. Run it back to back and never let it get cold. Use the outside line for clothes hanging. Even dried once by the wood furnace!  I got a basic rope line at the dollar store which I could run in the basement.

We already had a digital programmable thermostat (we use oil so it really does not help on our electric-maybe yours) and even though it was Winter (about the same temps as last year) we keep the thermostat at 70 degrees. We set it to turn real low overnight-rise in temp about 30 minutes before we wake and on for about an hour then off till 30 minutes before home then back off overnight.  The trick is to stay on the programmed settings- often with school snow days I was home and chilly-so I bumped it up a few notches.  I used more.  We probably used more oil than normal during the Winter 2009-10 season.

My April 2009 electric bill is $79.71 And it would have been about $160 compared with the same time the previous year without these changes.

I should slide that extra 80 into my savings and start a vacation ledger!