FREEBIE GIVEAWAY!

Another Freebie Giveaway is in the works.

I've got an envelope of goodies, so far are some coupons, subway free item coupon, free coke zero coupon, and who knows what else I'll find as I clean my desk!

Just send me a comment with your best deal you've gotten this week, and you're entered!

Check out the rest of the blog too!

Congratulations are in order?

My daughter got married ten days ago!

Why am I telling you this now you may ask?

Because I just found out myself.

You see.......she came into our office and said, "Mommy, I got married 10 days ago and me and my husband are going on a trip for three weeks."

She says all of this in a princess nightgown she calls her "dress", a gold headband crown, and disney princess backpack. In case you haven't figured out.....she's 5. But married apparently.

Our conversation went something like this........

Me: Really, three weeks, that's an awfully long time, can I come with you?

Her: Sure mommy!

Me: You got married?

Her: Yep

Me: What's your husband's name?

Her: Eric Antonio

Me: Eric Antonio? You mean like Eric Estrada?

Her: Yep mommy - that's his name!

Whew! Glad to know she's got his name down. At least his first name, that is!

FREE School Supplies at Staples!

Next week will be AWESOME for school supplies at Staples.

Here's the list of items that are free:

Staples Manual Pencil Sharpener - Limit 3 per customer

2 Pocket Paper Folders (prong or not) - Limit 10 per customer

Pencil Cap erasers - 12 pk - Limit 3 per customer

Here's the list of 25 cent items:

Staples 4 pk of glue sticks - Limit 3 per customer (this is cheaper than Walmart's 24 cents for a 2 pack!)

Staples 3 hole punch - Limit 3 per customer

Binders - Simply brand Plastic 1/2 inch and 1 inch binders (they have cool colors in these) - Limit 8 per customer

Here's the list of 5 cent items:

Pencil case - slider brand - Limit 2 per customer

Now here's the best part.......if you have a Staples teacher reward card you can get 25 of each of the items, including the FREE ones!

So here's a challenge for next week - donate some school supplies!

There are drop barrels lots of places for school supplies - or just take them to a neighborhood school, or a homeschool meeting or event in your town.

Post a comment, and we'll see how much good we can do together!

Free 1.50 Yoplait Printable Coupons

We love these yogurts! Hit the back button after it prints and you can print two coupons.


http://www.yoplait.com/products_yoplaitkids.aspx

Gymnastics or Cheerleading?

I'm currently debating which would be better for my 5 year old.

Cheerleading is closer to the home, but Gymnastics is cheaper.

Gymnastics doesn't include cheerleading, but cheerleading probably includes gymnastics.

So, I'm asking the readers what they are voting for. Send me your comments. Thanks!

Cascade Free Sample

Cascade has a new product out that is called all in one.

Get a free sample here.


http://instoresnow.walmart.com/enhancedrendercontent_ektid49156.aspx

General Mills Program for Free Goodies

General Mills has a new program called Pssst.....

They may send you products or coupons for products to try. They ask you to tell your friends and family about them and to pass along coupons and samples to your friends and family.


http://pssst.generalmills.com/join2.php

Sounds like fun!

Free 5.00 Gift Card to Starbucks

Complete this short survey for a 5.00 gift card to Starbucks.


http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?s...9OuokdIQ_3d_3d

Free Diapers and 10.00!

If you have a baby/toddler who wear size 4 diapers. You can call and get in on this study.

They send you free diapers and you use them in exchange for filling out a survey. When they call you, you read the answers to the survey to them and then they send you a check for 10.00.


GIRLS: 1-888-342-7372 ext. 646
BOYS: 1-888-342-7372 ext. 634

What an awesome deal!

Free Movie Rental Today

If you have a redbox movie rental place, you can get a free rental today by entering the code

JK4HM5 at the promo code spot.

It is valid until midnight tonight, and you can keep the movie until 7 pm tomorrow. (In some area's it's 9 pm) They have started getting more kids movies now, so if you have little ones, it's a free new movie.

Twisted Frosty at Wendy's

Enter for your chance to WIN A YEAR OF FREE Twisted Frostys

http://www.frosty.com/index.tbapp

Then, play the instant-win game to see if you'll win one of the 10,000 free Twisted Frostys instantly!

Even if you don't win, you still get a 1.00 coupon off a twisted frosty.

How much are these things anyway?

TGI Friday's Free Snacks Coupon

Awesome sweepstakes entry!

TGI Friday's is having a sweepstakes, and just for entering you get a coupon for 3.00 off any ONE frozen snack.

They are on sale a lot for 2.50 or 3.00, so that means FREE Friday's snacks!


http://www.tgifridays.com/SweepstakesContent/AwesomeBBQSweeps.aspx?fromHome

FREEBIE GIVEAWAY!

So....... I'm hoping to build my reader base, and to do so, I'm going to offer a FREEBIE!

Who doesn't love freebies? Everyone does, let's be honest here.

So, this freebie, which will consist of things unknown - (by you, not by me!) will start now - whenever you read this, I suppose, and will end August 29th at 10 am.

To enter this freebie contest, you just need to enter a comment on the blog about your favorite thing on the blog, and what you would like to see on the blog. (This blog, that is)




Okay, okay fine. I know the suspense is getting to you. So I'll give you some hints as to what's in this freebie. It has to do with what I enjoy doing, or not doing as the case may be!

Enter away!!!

Speedy Rewards

Sign up for a Speedy Rewards Card, and they'll mail you a card pre-loaded with 8500 points - enough for a $10 gas card!

We have a Speedy Rewards Card and it's GREAT! You put it in before you put in your credit card and you get a discount of 3 cents per gallon.

Many times they offer an incentive where if you purchase a 50.00 gift card, you'll get 1000 bonus points. So we go in and get the gift card, get 1000 points, go use our reward card to get 3 cents off and then put in our gift card instead of the credit card. Then you get points for the gas you are buying as well.

It's great!

Tonight I went to a homeschool educator open house at Science Central. It's a local science museum (they call it that) that is a fun and educational place to take your kids and family.

They talked up this years event like it was going to be a great open house with lots of people there. This year they charged 2.00, and they said it was because they were having real appetizers and drinks there, not just stale cookies like in years past.

I was sooooooo looking forward to this, as I have never been to this before and was hoping for a wealth of information from many places I hadn't discovered and was going to learn a lot.

I got there 20 minutes early to make sure I got a parking spot, otherwise you have to park over in the park, and I didn't want to have to walk by myself that late, because I was anticipating being there a til 8 when it ended.

Boy was I in for a reality check!

Some of the places never showed up! And they were big ones - like the children's zoo! Hello - great place to get business people! Anyway, there were only two floors open - the main floor - with 7 booths, and then the basement. The main floor had the 4-H booth, which I was happy to see because it had examples of the packets that the kids can do. I have been reading a lot about it, and was wondering what these things consisted of - was it going to be over her head, how much work was this actually going to be - etc. Anyway, it's going to be a great tool for science for her and each packet builds onto other packets that she can use when she gets older.

The next booth I went to only had one option for her grade level, but the person there said that the FWAHS (Fort Wayne Area Home School) group has their own science fair and they have many Kindergarteners there every year. Awesome!

I skipped one about the Lego League, she's too young for it, and I don't need to clutter my mind with that info right now!

Barnes and Noble was there though! They had a sign up for teachers and they give you a 20% off card right away! Woo Hoo! Savings! Gotta love that! They also had a bunch of information and book lists that we could take, and a paper that showed all about the teacher programs they were going to have coming up. I really liked this booth - they seemed genuinely interested in the homeschoolers and were sooo happy that we were there. A lot of times I feel I get an insincere comment from people when they find out we are homeschooling. But these two ladies were very nice!

Next was the History Museum. How lame am I, I didn't even know we had one! I'll have to read about that - they offer free tours to homeschoolers!

Next was the Embassy - this lady was not so happy to be there. She had a file folder out and was working on something when I came up. She even said to me - "Oh sorry, I'm just multi-tasking - might as well get something done, right!" I was thinking maybe if she put a little effort into what she was promoting, she would actually be getting something done! Anyway - they offer something that's underwritten by somebody, but she was far to busy multitasking to go into detail. I really thought they would have been promoting their upcoming shows they have, or programs they have - like festival of trees, etc. Oh well, on to the next thing.

Oh - this was PBS! I was in a line of 4 people, and almost passed by and was just going to grab info, and I am sooooooo glad I waited! It was Susie Pierce! I just heard of her at my first HEART (Home Educators Applying Rightous Truth) meeting two weeks ago. She knows her stuff, and is funny too! Anyway - so she tells me that they have a website with over 4000 lesson plans. HELLO! Awesome! That little tidbit of info was certainly worth the 3 minutes I stood in line!

And now to downstairs.... First booth was Botanical Gardens - the guy there looked nervous and I didn't want to ask anymore questions than the lady in front of me did, because he looked uncomfortable as it was. I would have loved to have seen an example of their kits that you can go in and use.

Next booth was the zoo. - They didn't show - Bad zoo, bad bad zoo.

And then the library - woo hoo - lots more info here! That and cute little book erasers that the princess will LOVE! I got a new schedule for September and found out a lot more information on the programs that are offered. It was nice to know how happy the library is to have homeschoolers around. They gear many of their programs to homeschoolers, and for this, and the fact that the Princess gets so excited when she holds her very OWN library card, I pay my enourmous fines without complaining........too much.

Next was a water treatment something. I listened for a minute, took an activity kit and some information, and will have to read that later. I wasn't sure if he was selling some water kit or what, so I just wanted to get out of there.

Then I went to the America on the move booth. This lady had a ton of information out - but was very brief with her discussion. Basically, go to the website and you'll get info. Okay by me.

Ah....and next the Philharmonic. They had two people there and they have one program for homeschoolers. It's not a program, just a listening thing. And then they have a program for 5th graders - again, not a program, just a chance to hear them, but since we aren't in a school, we have to call and make arrangements to go. I think the guy I talked to may have just been there as extra, because the other guy that was there was giving a lot more information. Maybe I just missed out.

And then onto the science central booths. They showed some things that you could do at Science Central, and then there was something about NASA in a side room, and calling and asking for permission. Maybe someone will fill me in on that. They had some free science books, but they looked pretty outdated and too old for the Princess, so I passed.

Oh, and onto the appetizers - they made me laugh. They had granola bars they broke in half on a plate with some hershey cookies. I'm wondering if they bought those from the vending machine? And they had a bowl of popcorn, some wheat thins, and carrot sticks and celery.

They gave us an evaluation form, and I spent quite a long time filling it out. I made several suggestions of who to have for next time. There are so many groups that have programs for homeschoolers, it would be nice to have them all in one place.

Okay, enough about my evening.

I'll post some good savings deals for you soon!

Why I've decided to do this.......

I'm designing this blog to be about our world - our family, our friends, homeschooling, saving money, our faith, and our need to make a difference in the world.

Join me on this daily journey of learning, and maybe I can help others as I help myself.