Make money when you transfer a prescription

  

CVS

 Sunday, Jan 25th - Saturday, Jan 31st

25.00 when you transfer your prescription

http://cvs.shoplocal.com/cvs/Default.aspx?action=browsepagesingle&storeid=2434934&rapid=650667&pagenumber=16

Walgreens

25.00 just bring in your prescription bottle

http://walgreens.shoplocal.com/walgreens/default.aspx?action=entry&pretailerid=-99389&siteid=434&storeid=2431309

Check with each store for more info.

Not sure if you need a coupon 

you can find it onein this weeks flyer

Pizza for .25 depends on the kick off

Papa Johns

http://www.papajohns.com/countdown/register.html

 Register here for your chance to receive a large 1-topping pizza for just 25 cents if the opening kickoff of the Big Game is returned for a touchdown. It's all part of Papa John's Countdown to Kickoff — kicking off a yearlong celebration of your favorite pizza's 25th Anniversary!

F R E E B I E S

Freebies 

http://instoresnow.walmart.com/enhancedrendercontent_ektid65100.aspx

http://freesample.totalcereal.com/TotalCranCrunch/Default.aspx?source=454

http://switchtonutrish.com/

Expired Coupons help Military Families Overseas

Do not throw your old or unuse coupon away!

You can help a military family

Expired coupons are accepted.  We recommend not sending any coupons older than 2 months expired on the date of shipment. Our program serves military families by assisting you to forward "manufacturer's coupons" to overseas military bases

2 Months Max! 

http://ocpnet.org/

http://ocpnet.org/mailing_coupons.htmYou could probably send one Sunday's coupons in a regular envelope with a single stamp.

The base in Ikego, Japan, currently needs the most help.

Chick-Fil-A

Chick-fil-A

January 1

 between 10:30 am and 6 pm

  with any purchase you get a coupon for a free chicken biscuit while supplies last. Please check the list of participating states for this offer on the Chick-fil-A website and of course it's while supplies last.

Calendar for only $6.00 has 30.00 worth of coupons

http://www.chick-fil-a.com/breakfast/

http://www.chick-fil-a.com/?#home

Keep an eye for  a new Chick-fil-A openning near you.

http://www.chick-fil-a.com/#insidersopenings

My CVS Deal

This is what I got at CVS this morning

My CVS opens at 7am 

I had $17.? to spend from ECB

I only paid under $4.00 cash

I recieved 2 of the $5.00 off $15.00 and was able to use it in one transaction.

These are on sale Sunday and Monday and you get ECB back on each

$6.00 - Rightguard Professional Strength Deodorant (limit 5)
$2.99 - Listerine Mouthwash (limit 5)
$2.59 - Halls Naturals (limit 1)
$3.99 - Excedrin Express Gels (limit 1) (used $2/1 coupon here)
$5.99 - Zipfizz Energy mix (limit 1)
$5.99 - Sally Hansen Lacquer Shine nail color (limit 2) (used CVS Beauty Book coupon $3/2 Sally Hansen nail color)
$6.99 - L'Oreal HIP eye shadow (limit 2)
$4.99 - Zantac 150 (limit 1) (used $1.00 coupon from newspaper insert)

$9.99-Alteril (limit 1)

 

FREE Shipping ---December 18

Some merchants that will be offering free shipping on Thursday, December 18 with guaranteed delivery in time for Christmas

http://www.freeshippingday.com/

Great Blogs

I came across this Great Blogs and wanted to share it with someone.

Frugal Upstate
http://frugalupstate.blogspot.com/
She is giving away two Walmart gift cards
500.00 ends 12-15
100.00 ends 12-6

This is another one of my favorites blogs
Centsible Sawyer
http://www.thecentsiblesawyer.blogspot.com/
She is giving away two gift cards
not sure when it ends??
100.00 Walmart Gift Card
15.00 Subway Gift Card

Refer a friend for a freebie

Einstein



Refer a friend to the Einstein Bros E-Club and you will receive a coupon for a free breakfast or lunch sandwich. As soon as you friend signs up for the club BOTH of you will receive the coupon for free sandwich, no purchase necessary.
I think it expires this weekend???
http://einsteinbros.tortus.com/refer.html

Restaurant.com

Feed It Forward™ will donate $30 million in free restaurant gift certificates – over 30 days – and allow you to treat friends, family, and colleagues —anyone deserving—to savings on a great meal out. When you Feed It Forward™, you have the opportunity, every day for 30 days, to enrich lives by giving the gift of meals and memories. Now until Christmas, you simply choose whom to give to, and we take care of the rest. Each person that receives a gift through the giving site can help Feed it Forward™, by giving free restaurant gift certificates to others.

http://www-ws21.restaurant.com/FeedItForward/Default.aspx

or

http://www.restaurant.com/

CVS Black Friday

Black Friday Great Freebies

http://www.black-friday.net/cvs-ad-scan.html

Register your card. Check you email for a coupon for 5.00 off 30.00

Use you coupons

These are some different ways of looking at The CVS deals

http://cyrialbowl.blogspot.com/2008/11/cvs-deals-thurs-fri-sat-only.html

http://www.livingasmom.com/2008/11/cvs-black-fridays-deals.html

http://mamastoolbox.blogspot.com/2008/11/just-for-kicks.html

http://noplaceidratherbe.blogspot.com/2008/11/cvs-thanksgiving-deals.html

GREAT DEALS

There are a lot of Friends and Family sales going on starting today.

http://slickdeals.net/

http://www.gottadeal.com/Archive

http://www.gottadeal.com/

http://www.fatwallet.com/forums/

http://www.fatwallet.com/forums/today.php

http://www.bargainist.com/

These sites Above have great information about deals and more.They are updated daily.

Great site if you are doing the CVS and Walgreens deals

http://mommysnacks.blogspot.com/

http://www.moneysavingmom.com/

Restaurant.com has a new 80% off code SURPRISE available.

$25 gift certificates for $10 making a $25 gift certificate $2.

$10 certificates for select restaurants for $3, making them 60 cents each.

Check the restrictions for the certificates before you purchase.

http://www.restaurant.com/

We have tried this company and it worked for us.

FREE FOOD VOTING

FREE ICE CREAM

http://www.benjerry.com/features/i_voted/

Free star shape donuts

http://www.krispykreme.com

FREE COFFEE

http://www.starbucks.com/

Free Chicken
no location in TX

http://www.shanesribshack.com/vote.html

Best Deals/Stockpiling

BEST TIME TO BUY AND WHAT ITEMS TO BUY

JANUARY - Historically, Quaker has hot deals on cereal/all items. We see Pepsi/Tostitos go on sale mid-January (again, rebates abound for these). Other items of note this time of year are chili, side dishes, anything for hearty/warm meals.
• Post-Holiday Sales
• White Sales
• Sports and Weight Loss Equipment
• Computers
• Winter Apparel and Accessories
· Organizers, Rubbermaid totes, shelf organizers, planners, filing cabinets

FEBRUARY – many of the same food items as January
• Electronics
• Floor Coverings
• Housewares
• Furniture
• Candy and Chocolates

MARCH - Frozen food month. You'll find many stores are offering free freezers or fill-a-bag deals. Between March and April, look for spring cleaning deals, so many cleaner items will be on sale. With Easter, looks for eggs, ham, Kraft products to cycle into good sales. Paper products like towels, napkins, plates are starting to come on strong. Beverage items.
• Spring Apparel and Accessories
• Winter Sports Equipment
• Gardening Supplies
• Luggage


APRIL –
• Spring Apparel and Accessories
• Coats and Hats
• Paint
• Wallpaper
• Jewish Foods and Eggs

MAY - get ready for summer! Here come loads of deals on BBQ sauce, frozen veggies, baked beans, and condiments of all kinds, summer-time meats (ribs, hotdogs, and ground beef). Also with all the holidays, look for tons of paper goods that match the holiday and pick them up after clearance. These deals generally continue through September!
• White Sale - Linens and Towels
• Spring Cleaning Supplies
• Auto Maintenance
• Home Maintenance
• Sodas & Bottled Water, Hotdogs, Hamburger Meat, Condiments, Paper & Plastic plates & cups
* Raid/Off bug repellents and sunscreens

JUNE –
• Summer Apparel and Accessories
• Pianos
• Television Sets
• Building Materials and Hardware
• Dairy Products

JULY –
• Air Conditioners
• Summer Sports Equipment
• Sportswear
• Craft Supplies
• Sodas, Hot dogs, Hamburger Meat, Condiments
* Loss leader school supplies start now through the end of August

AUGUST –
• White Sale - Linen and Towels
• BBQ and Patio Equipment
• Back to School Supplies
• Bathing Suits
• Fresh Fish and Vegetables
• Breakfast foods (Cold cereal-Juice-Waffles-etc)
• Cold lunch items for in lunch boxes

SEPTEMBER - back to school; time to fill up on snacks! Pudding cups, Capri suns, fruit snacks, cereal sales start up hard again, peanut butter/jelly. Also, like clockwork, there will be Prego coupons in August, and plan on getting lots and using them in a hurry before they expire in September when the spaghetti sauce goes on sale. Sauce wars between Ragu and Prego this month. Campbell’s soups will go on as well and there will be coupons in the end of August for these as well. Lunch ables are on sale this time of year, too.
• Back to School Supplies and Apparel
• Gardening Supplies
• Housewares
• Bicycles
• Canned Goods

OCTOBER - Stock up on holiday foods – Stove Top, turkey, instant mashed potatoes, broth, cranberries, marshmallow, ice cream, pie shells, whipped cream, pudding. Look for great Kraft deals again this time of year. Piggyback those Kraft coupons when you can. Crackers are a biggie - going on for $1 or less a box. Lots of extra deals like $ off cheese WYB crackers. The real kicker is the after Christmas food deals! Save your coupons because pie fixings, fried onion, broth and canned green beans will be on deep discount. I got those onions for .50 a can, normally almost $4. These generally continue through December.
• Cars
• Houses
• Fishing Equipment
• Crystal, Silver, and Glassware
• Candy
· Baking/candy-making items (choc chips, sprinkles, vanilla, corn syrup, nuts, etc)

NOVEMBER -
• Winter Apparel and Accessories
• Quilts and Blankets
• Heating Devices
• Turkey, Sweet Potatoes
• Canned goods (soup, chicken broth, condensed milk, veggies etc)
• Baking goods

DECEMBER –
• Toys
• Gift Items
• Party ware
• Post-Holiday Sales
• Party Foods, Baking Goods, and Various Meat
• Canned goods (broth, soups, etc)


Year-round after a holiday, you can always pick up cheap cookie dough and any food related to a holiday.

Continual sales are candy, popcorn, chips, anything snacky, cereal (heavier in the fall/winter, but still around in the spring).
Frozen food sales seem to centralize on a brand and the switch brands the next month. I think the manufacturers buy slot time for sales. So last month, Stouffer's was on sale hard, now lean cuisine is. Save the entire frozen coupon and then keep checking back for the brand of the month.

Frozen pizzas go on sale in the fall and then again the spring; not often in the summer because people don't want to turn their ovens on in the summer.

By all means, this isn't everything that you can get on sale, but if you follow the cycle and stock up (I never buy BBQ sauce in the winter), then you can get where you have enough on hand and only need to refill when the items are in season. The result is that you spend less and less with each successful cycle

(THIS iNFORMATIONS ALL COMES FROM ANOTHER SITE)

STOCKPILING

http://www.hotcouponworld.com/forums/stockpiling-101/8628-building-your-stockpile-stockpiling-101-a.html

http://www.hotcouponworld.com/forums/stockpiling-101/

A great way to help Military famlies with expired coupons

Overseas Coupon Program

HELP MILITARY FAMILIES BY SENDING YOUR EXPIRED COUPONS TO HELP THEM

Military commissaries overseas accept manufacturer cents-off coupons for up to six months past their printed expiration dates. That means that coupons that are useless to you can still save oversea military families some money.

http://www.ocpnet.org/

Click on Overseas base list

According to Becky who is in charge of OCPNET says.

The base in Ikego, Japan, currently needs the most help.

USMC Community Services
ATTN: 5PSVC
PSC 561, Box 1867
FPO AP 96310-1867

One Sunday's coupons in a regular envelope uses a single stamp.

Donation size?

There is no minimum. You'll find that those pesky little pieces of paper add up fast! The average Sunday newspaper contains approximately $125 worth of coupons. Even the smallest donation, when combined with the donations of other individuals, will make a difference in the lives of many military families serving our country overseas.

Expired Coupons?

2 Months Max! Yes expired coupons are accepted. We recommend not sending any coupons older than 2 months expired on the date of shipment. They can use them for a couple of months after that but remember that the volunteers at the base must process the coupons once they arrive and get them out to be used. We also need to leave enough time for them to have the families sort through them and find the ones they want for use.

Clip the Coupons

By clipping the coupons, you save the volunteers at the base valuable time. Most organizations are short of needed volunteers. You also save yourself a lot of additional postage since most of the coupon circulars are wasted paper.

What type of Coupons?

“Manufacturer’s Coupons” are the coupons of choice since they are accepted at any store.

What type of coupons NOT to send?

Do not send Assistance Vouchers, Food Stamps, or any other assistance items. Store coupons, those only good at the store named are useless on a military base overseas. The stores there are the BX/PX or the Commissary. (See below) Do not send restaurant coupons.

Sort the Coupons

Most bases have 2 stores. One is called the “Commissary” which is a grocery store and the other is the PX or BX which is a department store. We therefore ask you to sort the coupons into “food” and “non-food” bundles so that they can more easily be placed in the correct venue once they arrive at the base. If a base wants additional sorting they will let you know.

How to package the coupons?

Use baggies, envelopes, etc., to contain the different categories -- whatever will keep them separated during shipment

(Do not use rubber bands, paper clips, and similar methods of keeping the coupons sorted as they do not work and will come apart in shipping).

Be sure to label the bundles!

What's "Food" and what's not?

Here's my rule of thumb: It's food if it can be eaten by humans, is usually eaten by humans and provides calories. For example, dog & cat food would be "Non-Food," but Ensure or Slim-Fast would be "Food." Vitamins would be non-food.

Tally the coupons

Add up the face value dollar amount for the coupons. Be sure to keep the “food” totals separate from the “non-food” amounts.

If you do not wish to total the coupons you may weigh them. If you choose this method we will give you current average credit. This amount will usually not be as much as if you total them yourself.

"Buy one, get one free" offers usually have a maximum value printed on them. If not, make your best guess.

Buy something, get something by mail offers (e.g., get a stuffed bear for purchasing boxes of Sudafed products) count for zero, but please send them anyway! (These things make nice, inexpensive Christmas gifts for the children.)

"Why total coupons? That's an awful lot of work..."

* So that we may place a value on the work that you do.
* These totals also make you eligible for OCP Awards (Note: awards program currently on hold for evaluation, but remember we could restart it at any time.
* Additionally, this assists OCP HQ in tracking which bases may need to receive more
coupons

FREEBIES

FREE STUFF

Free Breakfast and sale at IKEA

http://info.ikea-usa.com/seizethedays

Ways to stretch your money

http://www.stretcher.com/index.cfm

BIG Lots

http://www.biglots.com/coupon/buzzclubcoupon.aspx

Organic

http://www.projectorganiceating.com/coupons/

http://www.organicgrocerydeals.com/forums

Keeping track of what you are spending with the envelope system
but save what you don't spend

http://simplemom.net/envelope-system

FREE Cold Stone ice cream/Wendy Taste Tour coming to Austin

FREE ice cream and family fun. On September 25th from 5:00 - 8:00PM, guests will be treated to a 3 oz. serving of Jack or Emily's Creation. All donations will benefit the Make-A-Wish Foundation.

http://www.coldstonecreamery.com/promotions.html

WENDY'S
1.00 coupon
http://www.wendys.com/news/signUp.jsp
Wendy's - The Great Taste Tour Regents coming to Austin
Setp 2,2008
Plaza 6th & Colorado

http://www.wendys.com/news_and_offers/great_taste_tour.jsp

JACK IN THE BOX/SONIC

jack in the box
Between 2pm and 4pm

is having 1/2 price Smoothies

Regular price 2.99-3.99
http://www.jackinthebox.com/index2.php

Sonic
has been running their 1/2 price drinks and slush for all while now

http://www.sonicdrivein.com/

RANDALLS

My Saturday Grocery Deal

If you buy five participating items you get 5.00 off your total at Randalls until 9-16
2 Cheeros for 2.50 each
3 Hamburger helpers 1.99 each
Total
10.99
-.75 coupon off of 3 H.Helper
-1.00 coupon off of 2 cereals
______________________
4.25 paid total

I also notice that post cereal is 1.99
I will be looking for coupons and head back out to Randalls.

http://www.randalls.com/

SENIORS AND SCHOLARSHIIPS

IF YOU HAVE A SENIOR IN HIGH SCHOOL,HERE IS SOME INFORMATION ON SCHOLARSHIPS

"The myth is that you have to have an amazing GPA or SAT score to win a merit-based scholarship," says Ben Kaplan, founder of

http://scholarshipcoach.com/ and author of "How to Go to College Almost for Free." "That thinking takes people out of the running."Students who are otherwise gifted can win money from nonacademic scholarships, such as essay contests, community service scholarships and awards based on artistic or athletic skill.

To find these smaller scholarships, which often offer better odds to entrants, tap your local resources.

Tips for applying for scholarships
Multi-apply. "One mistake people make is that they apply for one or two scholarships and stop," says Kaplan, who applied for three dozen scholarships and won around two dozen for his Harvard education. "Once you've applied to one or two, 60 percent of the work has already been done to apply for 10."

READ MORE ABOUT SCHOLARSHIPS

http://www.bankrate.com/brm/news/financial_literacy/Sept07_college_scholarships_a1.asp?caret=58b

Utilize National Scholarship Databases

http://www.fastweb.com/

http://apps.collegeboard.com/cbsearch_ss/welcome.jsp

http://www.scholarships.com/

If anyone knows of other Scholarships,Please share them with me.
*there is a list of scholarships on my blog below