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SwagBucks News!

Swagbucks.com is launching a few very exciting features this month!!!!

One of them is the new toolbar that is not only compatible with Safari, Firefox and IE but also has lots of quick links to all aspects of Swag Nation, as well as fun add-on’s like games and email notifiers. And on top of all of this you can log into your Swag account and track your SB’s all from the toolbar!

And to make this new toolbar more exciting this month they are releasing a special Swag Code exclusively through the toolbar (through the new messaging function) EVERY DAY of Sept!!! Providing the opportunity to redeem 30 free bucks this month. The only way to get these codes is by having the toolbar!!!

I'm super excited about this function!

Here’s the link to where it is available for download http://swagbucks.com/?cmd=sb-plugins

And if you have not signed up for swagbucks YET now's your time! Go to Swagbucks.com and sign up. You will get 3 bucks for signing up and two for this code (everydime1) that is only good for my readers who have not signed up yet! The code is active now and expires on 9/12/09.

That's 5 free for signing up and then the free bucks for the new toolbar and you will be on your way to earning your first gift card!!!!


For those of you who don't know what Swagbucks.com is here is a short write up on it!


Swag Bucks is a search engine that randomly rewards you with points just for doing searches on their search engine. It's SO EASY!

The average person gets between 1-3 points per day just for doing searches.
What's so great about that you ask? When you have scored 45 points, you can cash in for a $5.00 Amazon gift card!!! Or a $10.00 Barnes & Noble e-Gift Card for just 115 Swagbucks! Just for using their search engine! They have a tool bar that makes it EASY to search from your browser so you don't have to long into their site every time you want to search for something. And there are dozens of other great prizes to choose from also.

And what makes this program even SWEETER if you have a blog or who have lots of friends who use the Internet, you will also want to check out their referral program. For every person who signs up with your referral code you can earn up to 100 matching Swag Bucks! Did you hear that! 100 FREE Swabucks that you didn't have to do anything but refer your friend to get!!! I LOVE THAT! (That alone is worth over 2 $5.00 Amazon.com gift cards!!!)

I've have been using Swag Bucks for quiet some time and have been having GREAT success with it! I have earned $130.00 in gift cards and am on my way to more!!! How cool is that! Share

CouponChief.com

Trying to find a great one stop/has it all place to find online coupons?

If your going to shop online you might as well get a discount of some sort right!
I have a great place for you to check out! It's called CouponChief.com.

They have over 40,000 coupons for over 8000 stores!!! Your SURELY to find a coupon for whatever your need is! The coupons are set up so you can easily find what you are looking for in a snap! You can search by store or just search types of coupons!

They also have a cool feature that I haven't seen before on a coupon code website, you can get PAID when someone uses a coupon that you have found and uploaded to their site. When they use the coupon you get 2% of the sale!!! WOW! I would say that pays to share for SURE!

Next time your in need of a coupon code head on over to CouponChief.com and SAVE some money! Share

Nicoles Savings Advantage

If you register here for their $1.95 - 1 month trial of their savings program they'll send you a free Complimentary $25 Target Gift Card + Sign up now and get a Bonus Free $25 Starbucks Gift card!!! If you decide to remain a member after the trial period they will bill you $9.95 per month. If you find that you don't like the program you can cancel at anytime with NO obligation and still get the FREE $25 Target Gift Card + Bonus Free $25 Starbucks Gift card!

It takes about 2 months from signing up to receive your gift card in the mail.

You will receive your membership information in the mail and then a day or 2 later you will get the gift card request form. You need to fill it out and mail it back in. Once they receive the form it will take 2 months to process and then your free gift card should be on its way! Pretty cool! Share

Swagbucks introduces Paypal!

I just got news that starting today Swagbucks is going to offer $5 PayPal in the Swag Store!!! How cool is that!

I am super excited about it!

Here is what Swagbucks says:
"We understand that these are tough economic times, and for those things that Amazon codes can't assist with (i.e. car payments, gas bills, phone bills, etc..etc.), the Swag Bucks PayPal option can. We hope that you will take advantage of this great new offer, and if you think your readers would enjoy it this new prize option, please do share it with them!"

New members sign up here and use this registration code CASHISKING when you sign up and you will be get 5 Swag Bucks to start out!

The code expires on July 6th at 12pm PST. Share

Great SwagCode for Signing up!

Swagbucks.com is launching a few very exciting features / components this week, and to celebrate these releases on Tuesday, they have offered to le me give you a 6 Swag Buck registration code (3 for signing up, 3 from the code) for those of you who have not yet to come on board!!!! So exciting! I can't wait for some of the things they are doing!

To get your 6 Swagbucks to start you off go here and enter the code: SAVINGMONEYCODE (case sensitive). It will become active at 12:01am PST on TUESDAY 6/9, and expire the 16th at 11:59pm PST.

To redeem this code, you will have to sign up and get a Swag Bucks account. And then all you need to do is log in to your account, click on the black box on the right of your screen which posts your current Swag Bucks, and redeem the code by typing it into the SwagCode box on the left side of your screen.

Below is a sneak peak of whats to come and in addition to these things they will be running a number of "Swag Code" hunts on the Facebook, Blog and Twitter pages, and offering a limited time, special gift with every purchase of selected items in the Swag Store.

Spread the word!

Tuesday:

Video Game Section Expansion: We will be adding 1000's of new and used titles to the video game section of the Swag Store, and offering a special sale on many of these titles!

Wednesday:

Shop&Earn Favorites: This great new feature gives you the ability to choose your 'Favorite' stores in our shop&earn mall, and receive updates on new coupons that originate from these retailers. So not only will you get Swag Bucks for your purchases, you will be notified immediately when a great deals becomes available!

Thursday:

Swagbucks.com 2.5 Launch: Swagbucks.com 2.5 is the next evolution of the Swag Bucks homepage. It will feature a new cleaner look, with easier navigation & quick links and a few new special elements - we think its pretty snazzy :)

Swag Bucks Widget: The ultimate referral / promotional tool. The widget will be 300px by 301px, and will feature a search box, prize images, swag code alerts, and a referral tab The widget allows you to generate referrals through the registration tab, and through those who do a search & win through the widget on your page. The widget is simple html code that you copy and paste on your blog or social network profile! If you ever wanted a search box that generates referrals on your blog, this is how you get it!

For those of you who don't know what Swagbucks.com is here is a short write up on it!

Swag Bucks is a search engine that randomly rewards you with points just for doing searches on their search engine. It's SO EASY!

The average person gets between 1-3 points per day just for doing searches.
What's so great about that you ask? When you have scored 45 points, you can cash in for a $5.00 Amazon gift card!!! Or a $10.00 Barnes & Noble e-Gift Card for just 115 Swagbucks! Just for using their search engine! They have a tool bar that makes it EASY to search from your browser so you don't have to long into their site every time you want to search for something. And there are dozens of other great prizes to choose from also.

And what makes this program even SWEETER if you have a blog or who have lots of friends who use the Internet, you will also want to check out their referral program. For every person who signs up with your referral code you can earn up to 100 matching Swag Bucks! Did you hear that! 100 FREE Swabucks that you didn't have to do anything but refer your friend to get!!! I LOVE THAT! (That alone is worth over 2 $5.00 Amazon.com gift cards!!!)

Since I've have been using Swag Bucks the last few months and having GREAT success with it! I have earned $90 in gift cards and am on my way to more!!! How cool is that! Share

PineCone Research Panel

I have been a member of the PineCone Research Panel for quite some time now and
love the ease of it! Its a great way to get paid a few dollars to state your opinion! I have
made a few dollars off it and love it! Right now if your a male they have openings for you
to join! These spots go fast and are not always available to join so take advantage of it now
and sign up! Share

Free $25.00 Gift card to Starbucks offer!

Nicole's Savings Advantage is an exclusive club that gives members access to special shopping discounts.



If you register here for their $1.95 - 1 month trial they'll send you a free $25 Starbucks gift card!! (It was a Target but they just changed it!) If you decide to remain a member after the trial period they will bill you $9.95 per month. If you find that you don't like the program you can cancel at anytime with NO obligation and still get the FREE $25 Starbucks gift card!

It takes about 2 months from signing up to receive your gift card in the mail.

You will receive your membership information in the mail and then a day or 2 later you will get the gift card request form. You need to fill it out and mail it back in. Once they receive the form it will take 2 months to process and then your free gift card should be on its way! Pretty cool! Share

Swagbucks

So how are you doing with Swagbucks? Are you earning your Bucks
and redeeming them for great gift cards?

I have earned so many bucks I have been able to redeem $65.00
worth of Gift Cards! That's totally cool! That's $65.00 I wouldn't of
had, if it wasn't for Swagbucks! And I am waiting for a few more points
to redeem a Target $20.00 card!

So how are you doing?

Have you signed up yet to be get these great benefits???? It's easy to use
and you are rewarded for using their search engine!
So hurry up and check it out, don't let it go for another day! Share

Town Hall for Hope

Yesterday I had to run out to the post office and I happen to catch Dave Ramsey's show on and he was talking about the Town Hall for Hope Event. I had TOTALLY forgotten about it, I had heard way back about it and my prego brain lost it somewhere... :-) Anyways, I hope you can either get to watch the event live on Fox Business channel on TV this evening or maybe even still attend the event in your area if they still have seats available! It is a FREE Event!

Here a little message from the site:

Town Hall for Hope

What is Town Hall for Hope?

"Town Hall for Hope is your opportunity to sit down with people in your community for a nationwide town hall meeting led by Dave Ramsey. Thousands of venues across the country will host the event, broadcasting Dave's live presentation. In the opening half hour, Dave will offer straight talk about the economy, recession, foreclosures and more. He'll carefully explain where we've come from, where we are now, and what we should be doing with our money during this time. Then, Dave will spend an hour answering your questions live!

We'll take questions by phone, email, Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and more! Check out our Get Involved page to see all the ways in which you can join in the conversation! And remember, this is a free event!"

"Connect with families across the nation for a truly radical message: HOPE.
Tired of hearing the fear, doom and gloom that’s filling the airwaves? Join Dave Ramsey for a nationwide town hall meeting and discover what’s happening with the economy, how we got here, and where we’re going. Plus, Dave will answer your questions live throughout the event!
Join us for this free event April 23 at 8:00 p.m. EDT in one of the thousands of venues across the country as we stand together to reignite the fire of hope! Learn more. "


I was excited to see that our Fox Business channel will have it on live at 7 pm so I have it set to record! Share

Sign up with Swagbucks! Free Code

I am sure you have heard HOW MUCH I LOVE Swag Bucks!!!

Swag Bucks is a search engine that randomly rewards you with points just for doing searches on their search engine. It's SO EASY!

The average person gets between 1-3 points per day just for doing searches.
What's so great about that you ask? When you have scored 45 points, you can cash in for a $5.00 Amazon gift card!!! Or a $10.00 Barnes & Noble e-Gift Card for just 115 Swagbucks! Just for using their search engine! They have a tool bar that makes it EASY to search from your browser so you don't have to long into their site every time you want to search for something.

And there are dozens of other great prizes to choose from also. I personally have LOVED the Amazon.com cards as I have been able to start buying my baby cloth diapers and once that's done hope to start on Christmas gifts!!!!

And what makes this program even SWEETER if you have a blog or who have lots of friends who use the Internet, you will also want to check out their referral program. For every person who signs up with your referral code you can earn up to 100 matching Swag Bucks! Did you hear that! 100 FREE Swabucks that you didn't have to do anything but refer your friend to get!!! I LOVE THAT! (That alone is worth over 2 $5.00 Amazon.com gift cards!!!)

Since I've have been using Swag Bucks the last few months and having GREAT success with it, I'm SO excited to be able to tell you that Swag Bucks is letting me give out a free code worth Swag Bucks to the first 500 readers here who redeem it.

The code is "NICHOLESCODE" (It is case senstive).It is worth 2 bucks for non members (so you will start out with 5), and will expire on Tuesday at Midnight PST!

To redeem this code, you will have to sign up and get a Swag Bucks account, go here to sign up if you don't have one already.

And then all you need to do is log in to your account, click on the black box on the right of your screen which posts your current Swag Bucks, and redeem the code by typing it into the SwagCode box on the left side of your screen.

EASY!!!

Hurry!

Be on your way to earning great prizes!!! Share

My $5.00 Starbucks Treat!

I LOVE this site! I use them to do all my searches for things on the World Wide Web
and I just had enough points to redeem them for a $5.00 STARBUCKS gift card!
WOOHOO! A nice treat! Can't wait to get the card and get a nice cuppa java!!!!!

Have you signed up yet? It's easy and awesome!

Go here to sign up. Share

Beeyoutiful!

You've heard of Beeyoutiful products right?

I love their super mom vitamins. And am considering getting their Bee Immune
since I have seemed to have such problems with allergies!

Go check them out!

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Year End Spending Tally

Can you BELIEVE this????

I have keep track of EVERY penny spent on grocery's and household items over the last year and here is the end tally of what I spent, saved, and made!

Retail was a total of $12,948.44- I saved a total of $11,205.76 and made a total of $1,569.22 to spend a total of $221.05!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I also have a total of $51.53 in CVS and Walgreens money to start this new year off with! Not bad!

This is to a new year of savings!

And if you want to check out the spreadsheet I have designed to keep track of all this go here.

Total CVS SAVINGS:	$7,962.64
Total Retail:	$8,084.81
Total after Sales:	$5,496.04
Total Paid OOP:	$122.17
ECB's Left:	$24.61

Total Walgreens SAVINGS:	$2,602.26
Total Retail:	$2,797.06
Total after Sales:	$1919.91
Total Paid OOP:	$194.80
RR & Gift Card	$26.92

YTD 2008 SAVINGS TOTALS

2008 YTD Retail Grocery's:	$12,948.44
2008 YTD Manf. coupons used:	$5,065.38
2008 YTD $ spent on coupons:	$47.59
2008 YTD OOP Grocery spending:	$1,742.68
2008 Money Made On Selling Stock Pile Items:	$1,354.74
2008 Rebate Checks:	$214.48
2008 YTD OOP Grocery After Rebates & Selling:	$221.05

	Retail	After Sales	After Rebates and Selling
Monthly Average	$1079.04	$145.22	$18.42
Weekly Average	$249.01	$33.51	$4.24
Daily Average	$35.48	$4.90	$0.62

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SwagBucks.com

Have you signed up with SwagBucks yet? There is great potential of earning AWESOME gift cards! Got an old cell or MP3Player? Turn it in for gift cards! You can gain swagbucks by just SEARCHING the net! Whooohooo! :-D

Check it out and see what you can earn! Share

Home Studio's Etsy Shop

SO CUTE!!!!!!!!


I wanted to share with you this adorable little pendant I got for my niece for Christmas off Etsy!


They are called Tile Pendants. They are homemade and so cool!
I love it and hope my niece likes it to!



Check out all her work at Home Studio's Etsy Shop.


My next fave is this butterfly one! Share

Ideal Bite

Ideal Bite offers bite-sized ideas for light green living.
Sign up now – it's free! Share

Starbucks....

Yes, I love Starbucks.. Its my treat for being so frugal! LOL


I am still frugal there most times.. Ordering the reg coffee over ice
and asking for a pump of mocha... its the same as a Mocha iced coffee only
cheaper.... :-) I love it. But yesterday I was in town and hadn't had breakfast
or lunch yet.. and thought I should go try that new drink at Starbucks that's
suppose to be like a shake. I have a gift card from my brother from my bday!


Oh boy Oh BOY OH BOY!



The Banana Chocolate Vivanno was SO GOOD! It was PERFECT for a meal! And it
actually TASTED healthy! lol


Banana Chocolate Freshly prepared with a whole banana, bittersweet cocoa, 2% milk and our own proprietary whey protein & fiber powder and ice. Share

Savvy Source

This Savvy Quiz Sponsored By

kids' educational toys & games for math & reading skills

Check out this great tool for parents to figure out where your children (kiddos between the age of 2-6) are developmentally! Its a tool by Savvy Source (http://www.savvysource.com/).

Then based on results of this quiz, they will then recommend books and toys and free activities for their child that are developmentally appropriate. How cool is that?

Check it out and tell me what ya think! :-)

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