Enter MERIDA here
Disney Movie Rewards in your magic code box for 15 free points!
Sunday, February 24, 2013
Monday, February 4, 2013
Thursday, January 24, 2013
Free 1 year subscription to Better Homes and Gardens Magazine!
Go here to claim your free 12 month subscription! They will ask you to choose more magazines after but I always click no. Before I chose BHG it gave me a selection of Fitness Magazine also. So depending on what you enter as your career is what you get to pick from. Good luck!
Free Subscription to Lego Club Magazine or Lego Club Jr!
We get both of these magazines at our house and the boys love them! My oldest son gets Lego Club and my yougest son get the Jr so if you have 2 lego lovers you can get more than one to the same address! The older magazine always has poster that they love and the Jr always has free maps that the boys love to make new things with all of their Legos! Let me know when they arrive!
Free Sample of Valspar paint at Lowe's! Great for Pinterest Projects!
Go here and like their facebook page!
Friday, January 18, 2013
Another Free Magazine Subscription!!
We received another free magazine subscription today in the mail. They are always a nice surprise because they take about 8 weeks to start after you sign up for them so I always forget about them. Today's arrival was Teen Vogue.
Current free monthly subscriptions
Teen Vogue- 10 year old daughter
Lego Club- 8 year old son
Lego Club Jr- 4 year old son (yes they will send more than one subscription to the same house if you have more than one Lego lover. I entered my younger sons age and he received the Jr. I didn't know they had a jr and he loves it)
Maxim- husband
Baseball digest- husband/ 8 yr old son
Baby talk- 6 year old daughter
I had a few cooking magazines but they are already over. Watch the blog for new chances to get free mag subscriptions.
Current free monthly subscriptions
Teen Vogue- 10 year old daughter
Lego Club- 8 year old son
Lego Club Jr- 4 year old son (yes they will send more than one subscription to the same house if you have more than one Lego lover. I entered my younger sons age and he received the Jr. I didn't know they had a jr and he loves it)
Maxim- husband
Baseball digest- husband/ 8 yr old son
Baby talk- 6 year old daughter
I had a few cooking magazines but they are already over. Watch the blog for new chances to get free mag subscriptions.
Thursday, January 17, 2013
New Swagcode!
New Swagcode on the Facebook page! It's good until 4pm EST and worth 6!
If you haven't signed up for Swagbucks do that here!!
Sign up for Swagbucks here!!
After you sign up then go to their facebook page and fine the code on their status! Super easy!
Swagbucks Facebook Page!
Enter to try and win a Pizza Family Pack from Papa John's KC!
Go here and like their facebook page Papa John's Pizza Kansas City! This is my families favorite place to order pizza! Be sure to sign up on their website also if you do order from them to get points when you do order. They add up quickly and have promotional days when pizzas are lower points!
How I lost 5lbs this week!
Here are a few of the things that I did to lose 5lbs with my first week on Weight Watchers. I mentioned this on facebook and got a mailbox full of how so I thought I would just make a blog entry with links to make it easier and all in once place. I didn't actually join. I don't have a ton to lose either. I'm not a fitness expert or under the supervision of a doctor. I'm just a mommy that wants to lose 15 lbs before I get pregnant again. I have never been over weight in my life. I've had four children and lose the weight pretty fast and easy, I think because I always breast fed. It's always been pretty easy for me to stay around a size 6 without a ton of effort. Until I decided to become a surrogate! In April of 2011 I decided to become a surrogate and found my intended mother and have been with her trying for almost 2 years now. In a year and a half I've gained 38 pounds from fertility drugs. Though I will be honest and once I started gaining, I think I literally gained 20 pounds in the first 3 months, I was feeling gross and frustrated and I got a mind set of who cares I'm going to get pregnant and fat anyway which is not a good mindset to have ever. I have done 8 rounds of in vitro fertilization in the last year and a half. I started all of my meds 3 days ago to try for the ninth time and I'm hoping that I don't gain back these 5 that I just lost! I had about 15 pounds to lose remaining a few days before I knew I was starting my meds again for the next cycle when I decided I wanted to try weight watchers again. After I had my 4th child I had my last 15 lbs to lose and I did weight watchers then also and lost it all and kept it off. For me writing down what I eat and actually having to look at the nutritional facts side of the box of food really helps me. I don't want to write down that I had 5 oreos with milk when the kids did for a snack so I haven't eaten much junk in the last week. I don't think that my husband or the kids are really a fan of this change in eating habits because I haven't brought any junk into the house because I don't want to get the urge. So the family all together have been eating healthier. We haven't eaten out at all.
A few things that I have tried to do in the last week. I will also say that I have not been hungry at all this week.
Workout!! It only happened once :) But once is better than none. I am going to try and workout at least twice this week but really want to make it to 3 times.
Drink Water-I drink a tall glass as soon as I wake up and right before I go to bed and right before every time I eat. I also only drink water throughout the day. I have been addicted to diet Pepsi for a very long time but I cut that out a few months ago and think that helped with some of the previous weight loss. When we do eat out I do splurge and get a diet pepsi but it never comes into the house. I told myself that I didn't want any liquid calories or use any points on drinks but I have a weekness for my Keurig. Though I was very happy to find out that my favorite coffee cafe caramel is only 2 points! On day 4 I needed a coffee so bad and 2 points was well worth it. I did only have one more cup the rest of the week. I will try this week to also limit myself to 2 cups. Once pregnant I will cut it out all together. I made the cinnamon apple water that's been going around pinterest. That might have helped but I really have no clue at all if it did. I drank that for the first 4 days but then ran out of apples. You just keep a pitcher of water in the fridge with a cinnamon stick and a cut up apple, you can refill the water for 2 days and leave the same apple and cinnamon stick in the pitcher.
Eat Breakfast like a King, lunch like a Prince, and dinner like a Begger- I really tried to do this because I am such an evening eater. By the end of the week though I have been waking up hungry and eating within a half hour of waking up and eating a big healthy breakfast. I do eat a lot through out the day. I love that there are a lot of zero point foods, most veggies, so that I can snack throughout the day. I found a new favorite snack and made literally 4 batches of it this week. It's the cowboy caviar or I've also seen it called cowbay crack that has also been floating around pinterest. Here is the link to the recipe I used.
I can just eat it by the spoonful or I did get some sweet potato chips to scoop it with too. Some days I used the extra 4 points to add the chips and some days I didn't. My entire family also helped me eat the 4 batches this week too. I also tried to eat most of my carbs by the early afternoon and not into the evenings.
Not Eat Junk- Didn't happen. I tried to eat healthy for the week and on day 5 my lovely husband made cinnamon rolls at 9pm because "that was the only sweet thing in the house" and I broke down and had one. I thought it was an accomplishment because normally I would've eaten two.
Use all of my Points-They give you a number of points that you are allowed to use every day. Use them. You will lose weight and when you get into a new set of tens in your weight your points will go down. This happened to me. I lost 5 pounds and now starting today I have once less point to eat this week. You also get 35 extra points to use during the week. Maybe if you have a bad day and go over or have a special occasion or dinner out. I did not use my extra points this first week. Some weight watcher lovers say use them all some don't. I am on a quick timeline with starting the meds again so I wanted to lose as much as I could this week so I chose not to use my extra 35 points for the week.
Here are the websites that I use for my Points
Finding out how many points you are allowed
This is also a good blog for recipes
A list of food that already has the points calculated
A site to enter the information from the nutritional facts to get your points
Some people have special forms that you can print out and use. I didn't do this. I have a spiral notebook that sits on my counter and I write down what I eat. I have all of the websites saved on different internet pages on my phone so I can find them quick. I keep a list of things that I eat over and over again with a point value for each.
A few of the things that I ate over the last week.
Cowboy caviar, Greek yogurt, for breakfast I eat 3 egg whites split between 2 sandwiches. I use the whole grain flat breads that you split in half with tomatos and a piece of turkey bacon for each sandwich. This is 9 points for my breakfast for these 2 sandwiches. That is a lot but again I'm trying to train myself to eat breakfast and not at night. I normally eat one and save the other and eat it about an hour later. Bananas, carrots, celery. Smart ones-I got a good deal a few weeks ago they were on sale 12/$10 and I had a coupon for $5 off 12. Lean Cuisine salad kits, these are brand new to the freezer section and they are pricey. Price Chopper had select Lean Cuisine on sale for 1.49 last week. When price matching at Walmart there is no select it is all Lean Cuisine and I had 16 coupons for $1 off Lean Cuisine salad kits. So I stocked up. You just add lettuce and its a really good lunch. Baked fish, tilapia. We had baked chicken a few nights this week. A couple of evenings my husband was working and I don't generally make a huge meal for just the kids and I so I ate smaller dinners of a salad and a greek yogurt and made the kids an easy dinner for them of kid food.
Hope this answers some of your questions!
Monday, January 14, 2013
New Coupon App!! Get extra cash back to you paypal account for shopping!!
Ibotta is a new coupon app that I use! It's super easy and it pays you directly into your Paypal account. You can cash out once you get to $5!
Once you’ve redeemed offers totaling $5 or more, Ibotta lets you transfer your earnings directly to your PayPal account. Choose "Withdraw Cash" from the main menu of the app, then select "Get My Cash" to link Ibotta to your PayPal account.
Walmart Freebie!
In Sunday's paper 1/13 Smart Source there is a $3/1 Poise Items Coupon
Walmart has Poise Feminine wash/towelettes, or fresheners for $2.97
$0.03 Money Maker!
CVS Couponing Week of 1/13
CVS Couponing for the Week of 1/13
This is not everything advertised for the week. Just what I think are some of the best deals to be matched with coupons.
-Valentine Heart Candy $0.13 each when you buy 6
Sale buy 2 get 1 free, Use 3 Nestle Valentine Heart buy 1 get 1 coupons (you will need 2 computers because it has a max print of 2 per computer)
Total paid $0.79 for 6 or $0.13 each
-Almay Intense i-color shadow, liner or mascara-sale $5.99 Buy 1 get $3 ecbs
Use $3/1 Almay cosmetics cvs coupon from the coupon machine. Free after ecbs and coupon
Always go to the coupon machine as soon as you walk in!
-Buy $30 in participating products and get $10 CVS cash card back
Here's my favorite scenario
Buy 5 Tide or Gain for $5.94
Buy 1 Dawn for $0.99 (this is to get it over $30)
Total of $30.69
Use $4 off $20 purchase that is emailed to you when you register your card at cvs.com
Use 5 $1.50/1 Tide from the 12/30 P&G (You will have to do 2 transactions because this coupon has a limit of 4 per transaction, your cash card will come after the second transaction.)
Pay $19.19 get $10 back
-Kellogg's Corn Flakes 2/$4
Use $1/2 Kellogg's Corn Flakes $1/2 Kellogg's Corn Flake Coupon.
Get $1/1 with Ibotta (this is an app on your smart phone, I have not blogged about this yet but will tonight. I just used it for the first time last week. You find an item that you will buy at the store and do a few things that take no time at all and you then get money back once you scan your receipt after you purchased it! You then cash out your money.)
Sign up for Ibotta here: Sign up for Ibotta Here!!
Sign up for Ibotta here: Sign up for Ibotta Here!!
Total 2/$2 after coupon and Ibotta
-Receive $5 ecbs when you buy 1 Gilette or Venus Razor 1 ct
Buy 1 Gilette Razor $6.99
use $3/1 Venus Razor from Parade 12/16/12
Pay $3.99 get $5 ecbs back $1.01 Money Maker
-Kleenex 184 ct, lotion, ultrasoft, cool touch or slim pack 30-75 ct 2/$3
Use 2 $0.50 off from SS 1/13
With $0.50 Ibotta
Sign up for Ibotta Here!!
Sign up for Ibotta Here!!
$0.75 each for 2
Friday, January 11, 2013
Free Full Size Suave Professionals Moroccan Infusion! First 50,000!
Be one of the first 50,000! Like their facebook page. It is working a little slow. This actually started yesterday and I didn't post because I could never get through. I only post what I am actually able to get myself. I just finally got it to work!!
Thursday, January 10, 2013
Free Tickets to Broken City with Mark Wahlberg and Russell Crowe! Select cities, KC Plaza included!
I love free Date Nights!!
Hurry and RSVP for free tickets to Broken City in select cities. I just got tickets for the hubby and I for the Plaza on Tuesday evening!
Tuesday, January 8, 2013
How I get Free Christmas Cash $5 at a Time!! (updated)
My Favorite Way to buy Christmas presents!!
Swagbucks!!!!
Here is a link for Swagbucks!
Friends often ask what is my favorite way to get free things. Swagbucks! I use all of my Swagbucks and spend them 450 at a time for Amazon gift cards. 450 swagbucks gets me a $5 Amazon giftcard. I then save all of them until about November/early December and use them for Christmas shopping. Amazon has all kinds of deals all the time but especially before Christmas! Last year I bought my children books, American girl dolls and books, remote control cars, art supply sets, legos, and stocking stuffers to name a few. I will do the same this year. I did also buy my youngest son golf clubs for his birthday using my Amazon gift cards. I try not to use them but if I'm buying something from Amazon I will use them. I have also purchased a gift card for my father in law from Home Depot with my swagbucks. There are all kinds of things you can spend them on. I have only ever used them on the giftcards. You can start now and still have plenty of time to get Christmas cash!
A few things that I do daily on Swagbucks. These literally take 10 seconds. The Daily Poll, it's one question, you get one swagbuck. Then I do the NOSO, which is no obligiation special offer, I click through 5 or 6 of them on see next offer or skip until I get the screen to collect my 2 swagbucks. Then I do a search. It takes about 5 to 10 searches for it to give me any swagbucks. I will get as many as 50, though normally it's around 10, every once in a while you will get a big jackpot though. There are also swag codes that you can enter. Swagbucks puts codes in their blog and around the site. I will start posting where to find them on my blog going forward. They are really easy but you are not allowed to share the actually code. You can watch tv on the site to earn. Just click on the earn tab and start earning. I was a little bit overwhelmed when I first started on the site and some of my friends that are now on it say the same thing, but the more you are on it the easier it is. Trust me just do a few of the same things everyday to earn and then try something additional every once in while. Its worth it when you can knock out half of your Christmas list for free!
It is amazing how quickly they add up. They also now allow 2 accounts per computer. So of course my hubby has his own account so we get twice as many. Right now my account sits at 316, his account is at 332. So you can see that they normally stay pretty close to each other because I use both of them daily. So I will be getting $10 more for Amazon from them this week when they each hit 450!
Here is the link again! Join Swagbucks Here!!
Here is the update! I have a lot of new followers on the blog and this was one of my first original posts so most haven't seen it. There is also a new Swagcode that just came out so I thought I'd reshare with a current code. You are not allow to share or publish swagcodes so I'll let you know where to find it. It's on the Swagbucks fb page. Next to the picture of the Lion. All codes are case sensitive. It's worth 7 points until 10:30am pst. If you are new to Swagbucks when you sign up you should start with 30 in your account.
Swagbucks on Facebook
Here is the update! I have a lot of new followers on the blog and this was one of my first original posts so most haven't seen it. There is also a new Swagcode that just came out so I thought I'd reshare with a current code. You are not allow to share or publish swagcodes so I'll let you know where to find it. It's on the Swagbucks fb page. Next to the picture of the Lion. All codes are case sensitive. It's worth 7 points until 10:30am pst. If you are new to Swagbucks when you sign up you should start with 30 in your account.
Swagbucks on Facebook
Monday, January 7, 2013
7 Free Samples!! Tide Pods, Unstoppables, Pantene
7 Free Samples all in one place!
Go here and click on samples. Check all of the boxes on the top of the page and scroll down to the bottom. There seems to be a glitch on the page. It doesn't show the whole page at the bottom. I had to hit tab to get to the next question for the last few asking about heartburn. If you choose yes then you will get a Prilosec sample as well.
Go Here
Free Cabinet Latch Starter Kit!
A Safe Home is a Happy Home!
Free Cabinet Latch Starter Kit from Home Made Simple!
Free Redbox Code!!! Expires tomorrow
Free Redbox Code!!
Text Pandora to 727272, you will get a free code that expires 1/8
2 Sample pack of Finish Quantum Dishwasher Detergent!
I hate doing dishes but I'll enjoy doing 2 loads for free! Go like their facebook page and get a free 2 pack sample.
Free Starbucks!! Free Tall Blonde Roast Coffee!
ONE FREE CUP FOR YOU. ONE FOR A FRIEND.
Go here and like their facebook page and click get started
https://www.facebook.com/Starbucks/app_268300089962996
Sunday, January 6, 2013
Who wants a debt free Christmas for 2013? Here is how to start Saving Now!
Are you paying off Christmas that happened a few weeks ago?
Start saving now for next Christmas! This is a super easy plan that I have seen floating around for a few days. I am going to start blogging about how I start now and get a lot of my 4 children's and a lot of my families Christmas presents for free using reward and points systems but before I start to post those I thought this one would be good to post about saving cash.
Here is my first week of saving....
This is how that one dollar turns into $1,378.00!!
Let me know if you will be participating!
Saturday, January 5, 2013
Free Movie Ticket with purchase of 2 boxes of Cereal!
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To receive your free movie ticket, enter two codes from any two specially
marked boxes of General Mills cereal. Print your free movie ticket certificate
and take it to a participating theater to receive one free movie admission*!
I already checked and AMC is included!
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Friday, January 4, 2013
A few Moneymakers at Walmart
A few moneymaker freebies at Walmart this week
Reach Floss $.97, 3 cent moneymaker with this $1 off coupon, you can print 2 per computer
Bic Cristal Pens $.97, 3 cent moneymaker with this $1 off coupon, you can print 2 per computer
Total saved couponing since 1/1/13 $88.89
CVS couponing for 1/6!
There will be some good freebies at CVS starting Sunday! This is a great trip for first time couponers because you don't need any coupons that are already on hand. All coupons are printable or coming out in this Sunday's paper.
This will be my trip
* Stayfree Products, buy one get one free all stay free products
Use B1G1 Stayfree Products from Smart Source 1/6
2 Free packages
At CVS if something is on sale b1g1 with a b1g1 coupon you get 2 free products
Plus this coupon will say 4 of the same coupon can be used in the same transaction so that means you get 8 free packages
* Bayer A1CNow Self Check Monitoring System $9.99
Buy 1 Select Bayer glucose monitoring system get $9.99 in ecb's back
While free is great I typically do not get a product like this because I have no use for it, however with a coupon you are getting a $7.00 money maker!
So you are paying 2.99 to get 9.99 in return
* Good'n Natural energy bar, .99 cents
Free bar coupon in Sunday's paper
* Culturelle Probiotic $10, get $10 ecb's back
Free after ecb's
* Special K Cereal 2/$5, get $1 ecb back
Use 2 $.70 off one Kellogg's Special K Cereal
2 boxes of Special K for $2.60
* Clear Scalp & Hair Beauty Therapy Total Care Nourishing Shampoo 3 oz. trial size
Free with coupon
I never pay out of pocket at CVS, I use my ecbs (extra care bucks from week to week). I also break up transactions. So for the trip above I will use ecbs from last week and use them to pay for the stayfree products, bayer monitoring system and clear scalp therapy. I will get 9.99 ecbs from that trasaction to then use to get the culturelle probiotic, good'n natural bars and special k cereal.
This year I want to keep track of how much I save couponing so I am keeping a running total at the bottom of each coupon blog! Total saved since 1/1/2013 $60.20!
Thursday, January 3, 2013
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