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Tuesday, October 9, 2012
How I get free Christmas Cash $5 at a time!!
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! http://www.swagbucks.com/refer/Mommyxs4
Monday, October 8, 2012
Calendar Cheaper than a White Board!
Twenty Minutes for a Dry Erase Calendar that matches my home!
My husband has started to call me Martha. But I don't really care. I have four little ones and way to many things to remember. A big white board is ugly and I would want to hide it. A cheap large frame from Walmart and some paint samples. I was standing in the paint section for 5 minutes until an employee came and asked me if I needed any help. Yes, can I pretty please take more than a few paint samples? I felt so bad taking a ton of them so I asked permission. He said I could take 200 if I wanted them. So I took 40 just to be safe. 10 of each color. A 97 cent dry erase marker. Though now I know I need a fine tip next time.
Sunday, October 7, 2012
$1.00 off Lipton Recipe Secrets! Only 27 cents!!
I use the Onion soup mix with my roast in the crockpot!
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I hate buying boxes of oatmeal. They cost so much for so little oatmeal. We go through a box in less than 2 mornings. I am also not a fan of making oatmeal thats not from a box in the morning when we all seem to be so rushed while getting ready for school. So I spend about 10 minutes and make my own packets.
What I use- the biggest container of Quick Oats that I can find
ziplock baggies (I actually save mine to reuse them again for the next batch of oatmeal, they are all dry ingredients and the same ingredients are going in them again.)
sugar
light brown sugar
chocolate chips
raisins
cinnamon
I put 1/2 cups of oats into ziplock bags until the oats are gone. The half cups bags are used for the varsity and to be split in half for the junior varsity who don't eat as much yet.
1 teaspoon of sugar into all bags, 1 teaspoon brown sugar into all bags
My sons like chocolate oatmeal, I myself do not, I put 2 teaspoons chocolate chips into some bags
I put 2 teaspoons of raisins into some bags
The rest of the bags get a sprinkle of cinnamon
I put all the baggies into a basket that is kept at kid level in the pantry so they can grab and go in the mornings. I add 3/4 cup of water and put in the microwave for 1 minute. I then add about 1/4 cup of cold milk after its out of the microwave to cool it down and they can eat immediately. It ends up being the perfect consistency for my kids.
Saturday, October 6, 2012
Let the Kids stay up Past their Bedtime!!
Let the Kids stay up Past their Bedtime!!
I know in my house no one ever wants to go to bed! Even Mommy and Daddy are night owls. The kids are thirsty and need to go potty. They suddenly are starving and can't find something they want to sleep with. Bedtime with four can be a long process. So we have started a system in our house for bedtime Monday-Thursday. One night for each child to stay up 15 minutes past their bedtime and get to stay up with Mommy and Daddy! To earn this reward you have to go to bed on all other nights on time and when we tuck you in the first time! I didn't want them to use this time for tv time so it's not long enough to watch a show, most of the time it's actually just spent reading! Each week they have the same night. Friday and Saturday we don't really stick to a bedtime and Sunday they all go to bed at the same time so Mommy can get ready for the week ahead.
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