I am glad to report that today there is a National Groupon deal for RedBox where you can get 3 movie rentals for only $1!!

To get this deals first, Go join Groupon through my referral link here, then go see that deal here. Fantastic!!!

Thanks Frugal Living and Having Fun!

Friends-You will want to get in on this and quick! According to their own websites description,

"itsThoughtful is a vibrant social shopping community focused on gift shopping. Its a forum for people to share and discover the most popular, creative, thoughtful, unusual, funny, unique (we can add more adjectives but you get the idea) gift ideas in the world.
Its the new way to shop, share and discover great gifts for your loved ones."

I find the idea rather interesting! AND, If I get 15 people to join this website before 12/15 using my Referral Link, I will get a $25 Amazon Gift Card! AND the great part is that if you join then you too can send out your referral link to your friends and earn your own Amazon Gift Code!

So PLEASE Sign up (use your junk mail email) using my referral link!

After I hit my 15 referrals, I would be happy to change the referral link in this post to someone else's referral link and help you get your 15 referrals as well. So, after you sign up, leave your referral link in a comment here and I will change the referral link in this post after my 15 is reached!

Wes and I figured out yesterday that I have won about 40+ blog giveaways/sweepstakes since February, about 30 of those are since August. I have been asked many times how I win so many giveaways, so I will tell you!

What I do to win so many giveaways:

1. I enter a lot of blog giveaways daily.
2. I occasionally enter a company sweepstakes.

How do I choose what to enter?


Here are my daily steps:

1. Everyday (well most days), I open the daily email from Tight Wad in Utah and I go to the daily "LOW entry Giveaways ending today" post. (25 or so of the blog giveaways I have won have come from that daily list)

2. If I have time that day, I go through and enter them all. (Well, I used to enter them all, but now that I have won so many I guess I am getting a bit picky and I do not enter the ones I know I do not want or need. However, that being said, sometimes I DO enter the ones I do not want/need because I have a specific purpose in mind for it in case I won it! For example, I do not drink coffee, but I would enter a coffee related giveaway because I know a lot of people that would love that as a gift!)

3. I do many of the "extra entry options" too so I stack my cards in my favor. Most blog giveaways offer a mandatory entry that you must do as your first entry in the giveaway drawing. (If that entry is too complex, I skip entering the giveaway all together-unless it is something I REALLY want) After the mandatory entry, many blogs offer additional bonus entries usually involving following their blog in various ways (through GFC-Google Friend Connect, Facebook, Twitter, daily emails, etc). I use my "junk" email to follow blogs so my real personal email does not get crammed full of blog emails daily. So-if you have not already-set up a separate email account for all your blog sign ups and for any sweepstakes or company emails you sign up for. In my gmail I even have it set up so my "junk" emails are automatically forwarded to a folder in my personal email so I only have to open ONE email to check both accounts!

4. If a giveaway has more than 200 entries already, I don't enter (unless it is something I really want to win). Seriously! I rarely enter giveaways with more than 200 entries and I rarely enter company sweepstakes. However, if I can enter something quickly and easily, I will enter it!

Basically...

I just play the odds-enter LOW entry giveaways. Do the bonus entries, and hopefully once in a while you will catch a break and get lucky!

And for those that are wondering, yes, some of the things I win are small and may not seem worth the entry, but hey-I love to win ANYTHING! And I have won some really nice things!! So, just to give you an idea, here are some of the things I have won:

• $50 Amazon gift card, multiple $10-$25 Amazon gift cards
• 4-5 different books
• 3 CSN Gift codes (ranging from $20-$70 in value)
• Knives
• Skin Care
• A Bushel of Strawberry Milanos
• An Annie Chun's Dinner Party
• Many Photo books, prints and gift codes
• A beautiful Personalized 11x14 print about my baby girl
• Baby birth announcements to use when this baby is born
• Soft Lips, Chapsticks, and Carmex gift packs
• 3 nursing covers
• an isABelt for my daughter
• a $20 virtual Visa card
• a Nuts About Granola Gift Card
• A $25 Applied Labels credit
• A UPrinting Vinyl Banner
• Tickler Tags
• A Smarty Rents 3 month Membership
• A Breyers Prize Package
•  $25 Gift Card to Quality Candy/King Leo
• A Snikkidy Package
• A Noodles & Company giveaway (lots of free food on that one!!)
• A Blush Candle (smells SOOOO good.)
• A Costco Gift pack including Supersized boxes of Nature Valley Bars and Simply Fruit Rolls and a $25.00 Costco Gift card
• A Pre Paid Phone Card

So, You can see some prizes are bigger than others, but I guarantee I loved and appreciated winning each and every one! 

I hope these little "winning" tips can help you win some fun stuff! Please let me know if you win blog giveaways! I LOVE to hear about your success stories-whether they be in winning a prize, scoring a deal or whatever!!!

Now-go enter some giveaways-you can start with the ones I have going on-see the box on the right side of the blog for the current giveaways-they all have LOW entries right now!

For this Christmas season, CityDeals in SLC is offering 25 deals of Christmas. Today is day 10 and the offer is a personal favorite! It is for 50% off one of my favorite food spots from my youth, Iceberg!! AND you can get an additional 10% off on this deal if you enter code BERG at checkout! But the deal ends at midnight so jump on it quick!

You can see that deal here. And go check out all their great deals here.

I used Random.org to generate a winner in the $25 Dave & Buster's Power Card giveaway. I had 55 entries, and Random.org chose comment #14 which was Leandrea at Coupons Are Great!

Leandrea at Coupons Are Great said...
My closest location is 14.4 miles. leandrea246(at)hotmail.com


I have emailed Leandrea and she has 48 hours to get back to me (If you are Leandrea and did not get my email, please email me at beckeesdeals AT gmail DOT com)!

***Remember that I generally just price match at Walmart as much as I can rather than go to all the stores separately! I LOVE being able to do that. Walmart will pricematch their generic to other stores generic brand as well! And remember, you can also pricematch at Target, but I find it easier to pricematch at Walmart.***
 
Here are my favorite deals in Omaha grocery this week:
  Hyvee

• Hy-Vee Canned Vegetables 14.5-15.25 oz $.29
• Hy-Vee all purpose Foulr 5 lb $.99 (w/in ad coupon)
• Hy Vee baking chips 10-12 oz $.99 (w/in ad coupon)
• Chex Cereal 2/$4
• Hy Vee canned broth 14.5 oz 2/$1
• Athenos Greek Yogurt 5.3 oz $1.00
• Fresh tender green beans $.99/lb
• Green peppers or cucumbers 2/$1
• Midwest country Fare Cottage Cheese 24 oz $1.68
• Energizer Batteries (advanced lithium, AA or AAA 2 ct or Max AA, AAA 4 ct, C, D 2 ct, or 9V each) $1.99

In addition to their regular week long special, Hy-Vee also has a 4 Day Sale Wednesday 12/8-Sunday 12/11 that includes the following:

• Midwest Country Fare froaen Vegetables 16 oz $77
• Hy-Vee Whipped Cream $.77
• Hy-Vee Apple Juice 64 oz $.97
• Coke Product 2 L $.97
• Farmland Breakfast Sausage (12 oz link or 16 oz roll) or Jumbe Franks (16 oz) $.97
• Grimmway 16 oz baby carrots $.99
• Hy-Vee Russet Potatoes 5 lb $1.48

No Frills Fresh

• Wonder classic White Bread $.98
• Fudge Shoppe or EL Fudge sandwich cookies $1.48 (8-15 oz)
• 93% lean ground beef $1.88/lb
• M&M's Holiday Mix 12.6 oz bag $1.88
• Nestle Baking Chips 10.5-12 oz $1.68
• Skippy Peanut Butter 16.3 oz $1.68
• Famous Dave's BBQ Sauce 19-20 oz $1.88
• Avocado $.88 each

In addition to their regular week long special, No Frills also has a 3 Day Price Buster Sale  Friday 12/10-Sunday 12/12 that includes the following:

• Roberts Butter 1 lb Salted Quarters @1.99 (limit 2 shile supplies last)
• Dole Iceberg Lettuce $.77

Bag N Save

• Spiral Sliced Ham $1.67/lb
• Pillsbury Brownie Mix 19.5 oz $.69 (limit 4)
• 4 lb bag Navel Oranges or 5 lb bag Texas Red Grapefruit 2/$5
• Rhodes Dinner Rolls 9-12 oz $1.99
• Cook's Bone In Shank Portion $1.17/lb (limit 1)
• 10/$10 Mix & Match items include: Lynden Farms 32 oz Hashbrowns, crinkle fries or french fries, Our Family 24 count Ibuprofen, David's Deli 5 count bagels and more

In addition to their regular week long special, Bag N Save also has a 3 Day Sale Friday 12/10-Sunday 12/12 that includes the following:

• Our Family Brown or powdered sugar 2 lb $.79
• Our Family Spring Water 24 pack $1.99

Baker's (Remember their sales are almost always WITH card)

• Baker's Milk Gallon $1.99
• Kroger Boneless, Skinless Chicken Breasts (fresh) $1.69/lb
• Ocean Spray Cranberry Juice Cocktail $1.98
• Texas Grapefruit 10 lb bag $3.99
• Kroger or Active Lifestyle Yogurt 10/$4 ($.40 each)
• Red Bell Peppers 10/$10
• Grape Tomatoes 10 oz 2/$4
• Pomegranets 2/$4
• Pepsi Products 2L $.79
• Chex Mix, Gardetos or Bugle's 7.5-8.75 oz Snacks $1.49
• General Mills Cereal 8.9-14 oz $1.79
• Silk Pure Almond half Gallon $1.99
• Pam cooking Spray 5-6 oz $1.99

In addition to their regular week long special, Bakers also has a 4 Day Breakfast Sale Thursday 12/9-Sunday 12/11 that includes the following:

• 50% off Kellogg's Cereal, Nutra-Grain Bars, Rice Krispies Treats, Special K cereal bars
• Dillons Large Eggs dozen 3/$4 ($1.34 each)

Aldi

• Baker's Corner Baking Chips 12 oz $1.29
• Cambridge Graham Crackers 14.4 oz $1.19
• Little Salad Bar 12 oz bag garden salad $.49
• Happy Farm Cream CHeese $.89
• Baker's Corner Marchmallow 7 oz $.89
• Butterball whole turkey $.99/lb
• Nature's Nectar SParkling Juice $2.29
• Bake House creations Cookie Dough Tubs $3.99 (2.5 lb)

Super Saver

• Del Monte Canned Vegetables 13.5-15.25 or Mushrooms 4 oz 2/$.88
• Doritos Tortilla Chips 11.5-13.87 oz  $1.98
• Best Choice Beans or Tomatoes 14.5-15 oz 2/$.88

In addition to their regular week long special, No Frills also has a 3 Day Price Buster Sale Friday 12/10-Sunday 12/12 that includes the following:

• Best Choice Medium eggs 1 dozen $.88
• Best Choice Cake Mix 18.25-18.5 oz 2/$1
• Best Choice Vegetable Oil 48 oz $1.58

Fareway

• Frito Lay's Ruffles Potato Chips $1.99 (8-9 ox, excludes Baked)
• Bird's Eye Steam Fresh Vegetables 12 oz $.99 (excludes with sauce)
• Rotella VIenna Bread $.99
• Post Cereals 5/$10 (Cocoa Pebbles 11 oz, Fruity Pebbles 11 oz, Alpha Bits 11.5oz, Waffle Crisp 11.5 oz, Golden Crisp 14.75 oz, Honey Comb 12.5 oz, Raisin Bran 20 oz, Marshmallow Pebbles 10.75 oz, Cupcake Pebbles 11 oz)
• Yellow Onions $.39/lb
• Vine Ripened tomatoes $.99/lb
• Texas Grapefruit 5 lb bag $2.48
• Fareway (generic) "Cream of" soups 2/$1
• Sirloin Strip Steak $3.99/lb

I feel a lot like the picture above this month...and especially this week!!

I am seeing a lot of good stuff to post, and I am working on the Best of Omaha Grocery for this week, but I have a playgroup this morning, so I will be taking the rest of the morning off. I will finish the grocery post and try to get up some of the other deals going on as well this afternoon before my birthday girl gets home from school!

If you are reading this in the daily email, and the grocery round up did not make it in the email, just check the blog a little later this afternoon and it will be there (or wait until tomorrow and it will be in your email).

I have been waiting and hoping this deal would come up this year. I am sadly NOT doing holiday cards this year (I just feel too crazy). However, my daughter is turning 8 today, and I need to make around 75 invitations to her baptism which will be right after Christmas (in our church we baptize children at the age of 8, not at birth like many other churches). So, I was waiting for a GREAT card making deal to come up and look what you can get now:

Now, through December 12, you can get 50 FREE 4×8 photo cards from SeeHere and pay only $4.99 for shipping. Even if you already made your holiday cards, this is a great deal and you could use it to make thank you cards or invitations or something.

HOW TO GET IT: Go to See Here's site, make your 4x8 photo cards and at checkout make sure to use coupon code 50cards. (BTW-some bloggers are reporting that these do not have to be 50 of the same cards.)

I am totally making those baptism invitation today with this deal (as soon as I get some pictures of my girl in her baptism dress to put on the invitation)!!! WAHOO! Thanks goodness for this awesome deal!!! :)

Last year I scored some sweet/free game deals on Hasbro games and toys using the coupons available. Right now there are 4 great coupons at the Hasbro site here. These coupons are for the following:

• COUPON 1 - Save $5 on the purchase of any (1) ELEFUN, GATOR GOLF, HUNGRY HUNGRY HIPPOS or POP GOES FROGGIO game 
• COUPON 2 - Save $5 on the purchase of any (1) SORRY! SPIN, TWISTER HOOPLA, BOP IT BOUNCE or U-BUILD game 
• COUPON 3 - Save $5 on the purchase of any (1) CRANIUM SCRIBBLISH, FUNGLISH, SCRABBLE FLASH or PICTUREKA! game
• COUPON 4 - Save $5 on the purchase of any (1) TRIVIAL PURSUIT: BET YOU KNOW IT Edition, TABOO, The Game of THINGS or ELECTRONIC CATCH PHRASE game.

Often you can use these coupons for the Card game version on the game (like the Pictureka card game which is around $5 ar Walmart can be matched with coupon 3), or the Travel Size game (like the Hungry Hippo's travel game which can be matched with coupon 1). These should be free or close to it with these coupons!

Candice over at Stash Mama does a fun weekly feature that I thought would be fun to join in. Each week she does a Whatcha Say Wednesday, and how it works is like this: she posts a few fun "getting to know" type questions on Tuesday, you answer them on your blog then go back on Wednesday and link up your answers. I thought I would try it out this week and maybe let you see a little peek into the world of Beckee.

Here are the questions she posted for tomorrow:

1. If you could go to any country for free, where would you go and why?

2. If you were a time traveler and could only go back in time or forward in time, which would you choose?

3. What was your first job?

Bonus!
Why isn’t the number 11 pronounced onety one?

Feel free to answer these questions in a comment here as well if you so desire. I would LOVE to get to know my readers better through these fun questions! Here are my answers:

1. I would travel to Greece for sure! I have been there once before and there was so much to do that I would love to go back and do and see more of the country. It is also where my mom's mom family is from and many relatives are still there.

2. I would go back in time not forward! I know what to expect in the past and can pick and choose the past times I wanted to go back to-my wedding, the births of my 4 kids, etc. Also, I would love to go back and talk to some of the family that has passed on!

3. It was as a dresser for Fashion shows at Nordstrom.

Bonus: Really, I have NO clue...What are your thoughts?