Monday, August 2, 2010

Back to school items at best prices

Mojo Savings (which BTW is a FANTASTIC deals blog) posted another Best of Back to School deals post, but I particularly like this one as it is organized by school item rather than by store-so you can see the best deals for each item easily. I love that!! CHeck out that post here.

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Pampers GIfts to Grow: New 10 point code

There is a new Pampers Gifts to Grow code: AUG2010FACEBOOK out worth 10 points.

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FREE kids meals at IHOP all month! (August 2010)

This is awesome! For the entire month of August, Kids eat Free at IHOP with each Adult entree purchased (from 4-10 pm). Here are the details:

For more information please visit http://www.ihop.com/kef/index.html

Thanks eeendeavors.


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FREE classic photo book from Picaboo (for new customers)

I LOVE photo books, and the number of free ones I got for Christmas last year was insane. It was the main thing that got me into this frugal/thrifty blog thing. So, I am excited to tell you that Picaboo (which I have used before) has a GREAT deal currently for first time customers.

Picaboo is offering a FREE Classic Photo Book! Just Use coupon code FREEBK from now until August 31st!!
These make excellent, well loved gifts!

So, go here to get started and make sure you use coupon code FREEBK at checkout.

Thanks She Saved.



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FREE Glasses for school kids from Target?!

I am not verified that this is works, but my friend, Jen, on Facebook just posted the following:

For anyone who has kids in classes, Target will give them one pair of glasses for FREE! We just ordered some for (our son) and they're great looking frames. The lenses are free too! You can't beat free!

She also posted just now that to get them you just have to do the following:
Just call Target Optical for an appointment. Just bring in a prescription and it is totally free! For $25 you can get a year warranty, but it's optional.

So far I have not kids that need glasses, but I am pretty sure that will not last long...I will have to look into this. No clue if this is nation wide so just call your Target and see if they participate in this!!



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Sunday, August 1, 2010

Another fantastic back to school round up

I found another Back to School deals round up that is great!! Check out the one that Stockpiling Moms did. It is fantastic-you can see their post here. LOVE to have this list all in one place!

Thanks you for all the work for this list Stockpiling Moms.

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Backe to school supplies rouund up...

I am going back to school shopping this week for the kids school supplies, and I was going to put together a list of all the great deals around (so I could go to Walmart and price match all of them). However, I saw that Hip2Save has already posted a great round up of the back to school supplies on sale all over. Please go check out her post here to see all the best school supply prices.

Thanks Hip2Save for the fantastic post!

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Saturday, July 31, 2010

Saturday Service: Getting in your junior high and high school volunteer hours

There is a service requirement that goes along with many local junior high and high schools as part of their graduation requirements. I know this is the case in other areas as well, and since we go back to school in about a week and a half here, I thought I would throw out a few ideas of service for the kids to do for their service requirement. Here are some of the thing I thought of:
  • Look around your neighborhood for people that might need help-can you mow a lawn, watch a neighbors kids, help clean a house? If you see a need, offer to help fill it (for free). 
  • Ask local schools if they need any help with their activities-ask at your school (they likely have lists of things going on you can volunteer for) or contact local elementary schools and ask what they have you could volunteer for. I am PTO president at my kids' school and we always use kids to help run things like our carnival and other activities-it helps us get enough volunteers and helps the kids get their hours in.
  • Check at local churches for volunteer opportunities.
  • Talk to local charitable organizations (Red Cross, JDRF, etc) and see what volunteer opportunities they may have.
  • Local theaters often need volunteers to act as ushers.
There are so many places you can help if you just look around and find them. And let's be honest, who is going to turn away FREE help? Offer to serve people and they are likely to accept. Now I must admit here that I am one of those people that has a hard time accepting help, but when a kid in my neighborhood called and said "I need to get some volunteer service hours in for school within the next month, could I come help you clean around the house or watch your kids sometime?"  I let her come help out!

What other ways can these kids find volunteer opportunities?  Please leave comments if you have more ideas.


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City Deals HOT and NEW Paintball and Spa deals...

Citydeals.com has a couple "Hot New Deals" going on right now that I really like and must tell you about! Right now you can get a $20 gift certificate for Paintball Addicts for only $9.00!!! Check out that deal here. The other deal is a $30 gift certificate for Balanz Salon Spa for only $13.00. Check that out here. Check them out soon before they are gone!!

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Free sample from Origins

If you go like Origins on Facebook here, then click on the “GinZing” tab, you can sign up to get a FREE Sample of Origins GinZing Eye Cream to help brighten and depuff. You can also send your friend a sample

Thanks Combat Clippers.

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