Do you like to have fun? Are you always looking for something funny to read? AND do you like awesome giveaways?

Well, then you absolutely must go check The Song Stuck in my Head. My friend Brady (actual friend in real life-not JUST an online friend) writes it and the blog is as fun as he is!

He gives away some really fun, silly things and right now he is doing a giveaway that I personally think it pretty sweet. There are a number of prizes, my favorite is this awesome scorpion:
Yes, you could win that (though I hope I do as my boys would LOVE it and it would creep out ALL the kids at the same time)! So, go enter the giveaway here and make sure to tell Brady Hi for me (not that you are required to do that, but just because I would love it if you would!)!

Here are my favorite deals in Scottsdale grocery this week:

Albertsons Market (I no longer shop here due to their terrible customer service and their rude manager, but I post the deals for pricematching purposes...just an FYI...)

• Cuties Clementines 3 lb 2/$5
• Coke Pepsi or 7Up 12 packs 4/$9 (When you buy 4 WITH a minimum $25 purchase)
• Lay's Potato Chips 10-10.5 oz, Santitas 11 oz or Chester's Puffcorn 3.5-4.5 oz $1.88 (limit 4 on the Lay's)
• Jennie O Blue Ribbon Deli Turky Breast $2.99/lb (limit 2 lbs-additional $4.99/lb)
• Kellogg's Cereal 11.4-18 oz $1.99 (This is part of a mix and match sale where you have to buy 8 participating items to get this price. If you do not buy 8 items, the price is $.50 more)
• Capri Sun or Kool Aid Jammers 10 pk $1.79 (This is part of a mix and match sale where you have to buy 8 participating items to get this price. If you do not buy 8 items, the price is $.50 more)
• Super Lean Ground Beef 93% Lean 3 lbs or more $2.77/lb
• Extra Lean Ground Beef 85% Lean 3 lbs or more $2.59/lb
• Chicken Breasts of Thighs $1.99/lb
• Armour Meatballs 14 oz Frozen BOGO (Buy one at regular price of $3.99 each, get second free)
• Fresh Made Guacamole 12 oz $3.99

Bashas (Remember, their sales are almost always WITH your Basha's Thank You Card)

• Fresh Baby Back Ribs Buy 1 get 2 free
• Blueberries (fresh full dry pint) $1.77
• Large Slicing or Red Ripe Roma Tomatoes $.77/lb
• Lay's Potato Chips 10-10.5 oz $1.88
• Food Club Chunks, Bars, bars, or shreds (6-8 oz) $1.88
• Chex Cereal 12.8-14 oz 4/$6 (when you buy 4 in single transaction)
• Welch's Grape Jam or Jelly 2/$4
• Danimals Crush Cup or Dannon Activia Breakfast Blends 4 pack, 4or 6 oz 3/$5
• Large Haas Avocados 10/$10
• Large Fuji, Ambrosia, Braeburn or Red or Golden Delicious Apples $.99/lb
• Sweet Onions or Jicima $.99/lb
• Large Green Bell Peppers 2/$1
• Sweet Baby Ray's Barbecue Sauce 2/$3 (18 oz)
• McCormick Grill Mates Seasoning 2.5-3.5 oz 2/$3

In addition to their regular week long special, Basha's also has a 3 Day Sale Friday 2/1-Sunday 2/3 that includes the following:

• Haas Small Avocado 5/$1

Fresh & Easy

• f&e tri tip roast $2.99/lb
• f&e Guacamole 12 oz $3.49
• Snack Factory Pretzel Crisps 7.2 oz 2/$5

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

• Pork Loin Back Ribs or St Louis Style Ribs Buy 1 get 2 Free
• California Seedless Mandarines or Cara Cara Navel Oranges 3 lb bag $2.47
• Kroger boneless, skinless Chicken Breasts or tenderloins $1.88/lb
• Kroger Cheese 6-8 oz $1.99Kroger Orange Juice Gallon $2.99 (from concentrate)
• Mini Peeled Carrots 1 lb bag $.98
• Mini Sweet Peppers 2 lb bag $2.99

Safeway (Remember their sales are almost always WITH card)

• Rancher's Reserve Whole Beef Top Sirloin (sold whole in the bag) $2.77/lb
• Farmer Johns Hot Dogs 16 oz $.88
• Pantry Essentials Milk $1.67
• Fresh baked Muffins 9 ct $5
• Safeway Select Artisan All Butter Croissants 15 ct $5Fresh Baked Cookies 50 ct $5
• Mangoes 10/$10
• Red Vines or Sour Punch Twist Tub 2.78 or 4 lb $6.99
• Pepperidge Farm Goldfish Carton 30 oz $6.49

In addition to their regular week long special, Safeway also has a 3 Day, $5 Sale Friday 2/1-Sunday 2/3 that includes the following:

• Signature Cafe Family Size Cheese Pizza OR 15 ct (18 oz) Bone In Chicken OR 1.5 lb Boneless Chicken Wings $5 each
• Fresh Bakes Strudel or Gourmet Croissants (Dare I hope they are chocolate Croissants?!) $5
• Tony Roma's Ribs (16 oz) OR Bar S Sausage (40 oz) $5 While Supplies last!
• Lucerne or Open Nature Cheese 24-32 oz Chuck or Shredded $5
• Safeway Trash Bags 18, 20, 25, 38, 45, or 50 count $5
• Foster Farms Corn Dogs OR Smucker's Uncrustables OR Totinos Pizza Rolls $5
• 5 lb Clementines $5
• General Mills Trix 10.7 oz, Cocoa Puffs 11.8 oz, Cereal or Quaker Chewy Granola bars 8 ct 3/$5 ($1.67 each)
• The Snack Artist 28-31 oz Peanuts $5

Sprouts

• Roma Tomatos 3 lb/$1
• Organic Red delicious apples $.48/lb
• Crisp Cucumbers or Green Bell Peppers $.48 each
• Red, Yellow, or Orange Bell Peppers $.88 each
• Strawberries 1 lb clamshell 2/$4
• California Navel Oranges $.48/lb
• Braeburn or Fuji Apples $.88/lb
• Garnet or Jewel Yams $.88/lb
• Grape Tomatoes (1 dry pint) or hothouse cucumbers 4/$5
• Baby Carrots $.88 each (1 lb bag)
• Snack Factory Pretzel Crisps 7.2 oz 2/$5

***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. You can also pricematch at Target, but I find it easier to pricematch at Walmart.

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Mrs Cubbison posted the following on Facebook: LAST CHANCE for FREE Salad Toppings! Our giveaway begins in 1 hour at noon ET (9am PT). Click "Like" now to get ready!

So they are giving away free salad topping so the first 200 in about 15 minutes, See their FB site here for details and to sign up for your freebie-I hope some of you get one!! Here's the Facebook site: https://www.facebook.com/#!/mrscubbisons

Hello. First, sorry for the lask of posts. We went home to Utah for the holidays and since our return have been fighting off the sickies! Yuck. I am feeling a bit better (knock on wood)! Anyway-I love this deal each year so I am sharing it.

Tomorrow (Wednesday, January 23, 2013) is National Pie Day. Which means Village Inn will give you a free piece of pie with any purchase.

(I know in Omaha this is only an ok deal since VI has free pie EACH WEDNESDAY is free pie day, but that is not the case in all VI's...)

Anyway-here are the details...No Coupon necessary. Free slice of double crust fruit pie of feature pie with any dine-in purchase. Offer available 10am-10pm. One slice per person per per purchase per visit. Valid only at Participating restaurants (So make sure to call your local VI before you head over to see if they are participating). Not valid with other offers.

 See their National Pie Day webpage here.

Oh how I love being a Purex Insider! It gives me the chance to try not just Purex products, but also products from other great companies! Most recently I was sent some AWESOME Dial Antibacterial Foaming Hand Wash and I want to tell you all about it.

I have to admit, I was out of town for almost the whole month of December and I did not get to try out the awesome foaming soap until I returned. And it is a shame really, because they are SOOO cute and decorative for the Christmas holiday! Check out the 4 limited edition holiday designs:

I was lucky enough to have them send me the Santa one and the Christmas tree one:

Let me tell you about the product (from the information they sent me about it:

Each decorative designed bottle contains Dial Complete's #1 doctor recommended Antibacterial foaming hand wash. The formula kills 99.99% of germs encountered in the household setting and is still gentle on skin.

And Now to tell you about my experience with them: First, as I mentioned before, I LOVE how cute and decorative they are! I know the holidays are over, but I like to have holidays in my house year round, so we are totally using them, and they look SO cute in our bathrooms!

But honestly, the thing I like BEST about them has nothing to do with the cute holiday packaging. It is all about the soap. To be honest, I am not sure which smell is in those bottles, but I think it is cranberry, and let me tell you is smells AWESOME! I actually hate washing my hands too much because my hands get so dang dry, but I find I am washing my hands way more now that I have these bottles of foaming soap that smell fantastic! I love it so much! Plus I have always been a fan of the foaming hand soaps, so that is a huge bonus for me as well!

I know the limited edition ones may not be available (they might be on clearance though so keep an eye out!!). I totally recommend checking out the Dial Complete's #1 doctor recommended Antibacterial foaming hand washes though. Even without the cute holiday theme, if you are anything like me you will still love them!

Want more information on Dove? Check out their web page www.DialSoap.com or go like them on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/dial. Of go do both, and make sure to check them out next time you are out shopping! Pick up a bottle, I think you will be happy with your purchase!

By way of disclosure, Dial provided a free sample of their Holiday Foaming Hand Soap so I could review them. However, as always, all opinions expressed are my own!

Oh My Goodness! I just might be addicted to Old Navy...really. I love it. I feel like most of my clothes are Old Navy. In fact, when I was in Old Navy in Utah last week, I was trying to talk to a manager and when they called the manager to come talk to me I heard them over their walkie say "She's the one up front wearing our jeans and our Pea coat...and her husband is also in ON jeans and an ON jacket." I looked at us and realized she was totally right! So, you can imagine that with my love of ON, I am always excited when I get the chance to score some FREE ON clothing AND to get something free for a friend too!

In case you have not read my previous posts about this, let me explain: I have been a member of Crowdtap (which is a place you get to share your opinions and sometimes even get to sample awesome items) for quite a while now. I love all the different things I get to discuss, review and try out through them. My favorite things though are always the Old Navy sample and share programs. If chosen, you get a coupon for a free item for yourself and a free item for a friend. I have been lucky enough to do quite a few sample and share projects. I reviewed Old Navy Jeans, Old Navy Outerwear/coats, and Old Navy Shorts, and Old Navy Dresses. My most recent opportunity was for an Old Navy Active Wear Sample and Share and I want to tell you all about it!

So, this has been a crazy month with Christmas and all that excitement AND with a birthday trip to Disneyland for our now 10-year-old.  We were out of town more in December than we were in town! It was a fun a crazy time! I got the coupons for the ON Active Wear the day I was driving out to Cali for our Disney trip! I was so excited because that meant I could use my SHARE portion of the coupon to share with my good friend Carly (who was letting my family stay at her house AGAIN for our Disney excursion).  I thought it would be something fun for us to do and that it was a small thing I could give her to thank her for letting us crash at her place over and over! Unfortunately, it being a Disney vacation, we did not actually ever make it over to Old Navy during business hours! So, I left Carly the Share coupon to get her own Active Wear outfit and I took mine home with me.

The first chance I had to use my coupon was right after Christmas in Utah while visiting our family. Wes (Mr Beckee's Deals) and I left the 4 oldest kids with my mom and we ran over to the neighborhood Old Navy with the baby (who is really almost 2...).

Upon arrival, I always like to talk to the manager and let them know what I am doing so they will let me take pictures and try on all the best stuff they have. The manager came over and talked to me a bit about the Crowdtap/Old Navy Style Council program as she had never seen these free coupons before. After we talked and she looked at the letter stating that I should be able to take pictures and stuff, she showed me where the Active Wear was (thank goodness because they were in the process of moving it and I would have had trouble finding it all without her help). I picked out quite a few outfits to try on, and she pointed out the ON tennis shoes and sports bras as well. I admit I skipped the bras, but did try on the shoes with each outfit.

Here are some of the outfits I tried on:

I MUST show you my favorite part of the tops. Many of the tops had this feature:

I LOVE it because I tend to get cold hands when I exercise, but I HATE wearing gloves, so this is a perfect solution for me and I LOVE LOVE it!

Now, I have to note that all the outfits pictured above were good options, but my two favorite outfits were these ones:

I had a really hard time choosing, but in the end I bought the second one mostly because the top has the thumb holes and the white top did not. Also, I admit a white top with my messy life and 5 kids seemed less realistic for me.

My friend Carly sent me this picture of the outfit she picked (it is a super cute one too!!)

Happy With my Choice:

I loved checking out and trying on so many of the current Old Navy Active Wear! I am not a skinny little lady anymore, but the ON Active Wear fit me nicely and looked good. I felt like there were many outfits I could have bought and felt good about wearing to work out in. Many times I am self conscious in tight work out clothes, but I was able to find MANY options that did not make me feel fat or self conscious. I would totally feel good out and about in these outfits and highly recommend checking out Old Navy for your active wear needs! Did you by chance, like me, put lose weight on your New Years Resolution list? If so, you can grab some cute work out clothes to help you start on the right foot!

If you also want the chance to become a Crowd Tapper so you can apply for future sampling events, please join through my referral link here and we can start tappin together! :)

***By way of Disclosure, I was given a coupon for me to get a free ON outfit, as well as a free coupon for a friend. Thanks CrowdTap and Old Navy for this fun experience and these free outfits for me and my friend!!***

I was at Disneyland last Friday with my family and came out that evening to the horrific news of the tragedy at Sandy Hook Elementary school in Connecticut. 20 children killed?! All in 1st grade, all ages 6 or 7?! Six adults tried to stop it and paid with their lives?! It was (is) an unbearable sadness for me and I felt like I had no right to feel it so deeply.

This is not my tragedy. But in spite of the fact I live a counrty away, and I know none of the victims, It is a tragedy that has hit me hard. I have a first grader. I was horrified and so, with most of the country and world, I have cried and mourned with those families whose tragedy we are all watching unfold. I have deeply felt this tragic loss and this horrific event has made me really stop and take a step back.

I cannot imagine the pain these families are going through. I thought first of the kids themselves and what they went through-of the teachers and principal and how hard they tried to stop this man and paid with their lives. I thought of the parents of these babies that were taken (and then I thought they probably hate me calling them babies-I know my 6 year old would!), I thought of those poor siblings of those children, particularly of the ones that experienced the terror of being in that school. I thought of the spouses and boyfriends and parents and siblings of those adults that went to work and never left. I thought of the teacher who is out on maternity leave and just lost her entire class and her substitute. Everytime I think I am done crying, another person or another thought brings me to tears.

I WANT to hear what the parents and families of the children want to say about their kids-about every one of those kids because they all deserve to get their child's story out in their own words! I want to honor those 26 people we lost in Sandy Hook Elementary school on Friday, December 14, 2012.

There is nothing I can do. Nothing will make this better or fix this for those families, but we as a country can honor them and remember them. We can be kinder and more loving to each other and we can work together to figure out how to stop this from happening again!

Here are some things you and I can do to help:

Fisrt, USA Today has a list compiled with ways to help here. It is good and has a lot of options. Please know that Noah Pozner's (a 6 year old victim) family has warned that there are FAKE funds being set up and be careful. I like this list because it has what families have said are legit places to donate. Please read this article about the scams. It gives great info on how to check and make sure you are dontating to a legit place!

Second, The Connecticut PTSA (Parent, Teacher, & Student Association) has some ideas on their website on how to help. The thing getting the most attention (because it is actually something we can all DO to try to make life easier for the surviving 600+ Sandy Hook students when they return to class in January) is a Snowflake drive (I guess). You make snowflakes and send them to the Connecticut PTSA who will put them up all over the new school so when students return they will return to a winter wonderland. I love this idea because I think there will be enough snowflakes to cover the school in white. Beautiful and peaceful for those students! My kids and I will be making and sending snowflakes this week!

The PTSA website says "Make and send snowflakes to Connecticut PTSA, 60 Connolly Parkway, Building 12, Suite 103, Hamden, CT 06514, by January 12, 2013."

Third, Ann Curry tweeted shortly after this terror that we should all commit to doing 20 random acts of kindness for others in honor of the 20 children slain. Responses noted that the teachers were also heroes and the 20 acts quickly became 26 acts and now it has gone viral. You and I can commit to doing #26acts of Kindness to honor those killed in Sandy Hook Elementary school. Please read more about that here or just type #26Acts into Twitter and see all the good that has been happening! I am going to do #26Acts!

Last, there is a movement for a national #momentofsilence tomorrow (Friday 12/21) at 9:30am est for a minute. Many, many websites are going silent/dark during that time. Although I cannot get the neato widget to work and to display that I am going dark. I will be sharing in the Moment of silence. My blog will be silent, and I too will be silent. As my kids and I prepare for them to go to school (it will be 7:30 am here), we will stop and silently honor those children and adults from Sandy Hook.

There is nothing I can to to fix this, but I hope all the families of the lovely children and brave women killed will feel the love and support of those that grieve with them. I hope acts of kindness can help those that need some love, and I hope to help make the world a better place in some small way by trying to be the best me I can be.

Will you join with me to honor these people? Are there other things we can do that I have not listed? If so, please feel free to post your ideas as a comment after this post!

One more thing, one of the young victims, Emily Parker, was a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints as am I. This article is about her stake president (one of our clergy) and how he was able to attend to her family as this tragedy unfolded. It is a beautiful (I highly recommend reading it)and I will steal from it a quote by Abraham Lincoln to end this post:

With malice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in; to bind up the nation's wounds; to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow, and his orphan—to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves, and with all nations.

I have been a member of Crowdtap (which is a place you get to share your opinions and sometimes even get to sample awesome items) for quite a while now. I love all the different things I get to discuss, review and try out through them. My favorite things though are always the Old Navy sample and share programs. If chosen, you get a coupon for a free item for yourself and a free item for a friend. I have been lucky enough to do quite a few sample and share projects. I reviewed Old Navy Jeans, Old Navy Outerwear/coats, and Old Navy Shorts. Recently I was chosen to also get an Old Navy dress!! (And as I was typing this review, I just got an email saying I get to Sample and Share Active Wear soon as well!!)

Today I want to tell you about the Dress sample and share! I took my daughter with me to go shopping for my dress. She tried on dresses too. We had a great time. I was actually hoping to get a maxi sweater dress like this one from OldNavy.com:


But, as you may recall, I have recently moved to Arizona. It is still hot here. There is no need for a maxi sweater dress here, and when I went to the store, they did not actually have any (which was ok since it would be far too hot here anyway). So, when they did not have what I had liked online, I just started grabbing different dresses and trying them on. Here are some of the ones I tried on:



So, I really liked all these ones, but in the end I went with this one:

I just thought it was a fantastic dress and in a different color than I have in my closet right now! I wore it to church on Sunday and got SO many compliments! I knew then I had chosen wisely. I was tempted to buy my daughter the same dress since we look so cute together in the matching dresses:

BUT she was not fond of matching her mommy. I liked this dress she tried on as well:

But the dress SHE liked the best (and bought) was this one:

All in all I had a great experience going to Old Navy and trying on all the dresses. I thought there was a lot to choose from (though there were not long dresses). I liked what I got and if you are looking for a super cute dress at an affordable price, check out your local Old Navy store or go check out OldNavy.com dresses right from your computer!

If you also want the chance to become a Crowd Tapper so you can sign up for future sampling events, please join through my referral link here and we can start tappin together! :)

***By way of Disclosure, I was given a coupon for me to get a free ON Dress, as well as a free coupon for a friend. Thanks CrowdTap and Old Navy for this fun experience and these free dresses for me and my friend!!***

I truly love doing reviews. I love it. So i was so happy when I was asked to review SAFESKIN Kids Antibacterial Gel. 

The SAFESKIN Kids Antibacterial Gel is pretty awesome. we have used it before. It's been a long time though, so I was excited to try it again. 


Let me tell you a little bit about it from their website:

• Trusted by Hospitals
• Barrier to MRSA
• 48 Hour Antibacterial Protection
• Made in the U.S.A.
• Non-greasy for stronger bandage adhesion

With 5 kids we have a lot of cuts and scrapes and burns and bruises in this house. So I was sure I would have plenty of opportunity to try this out. However in some miracle during the time we've had this in our house we have not had a single instance where we could use it. I had hoped to show you some great day before and after pictures of using this product but that's not going to happen. What I can tell you is that in the past we have used it before and we have liked it it has lived up to what it says it will do.

I did you some of the SAFESKIN Kids Antibacterial Gel on my own skin just to see what it felt like a test it out. I usually use neosporin for cuts and bruises. One thing that always frustrates me when using neosporin is how hard it is. It's difficult, in cold weather especially, to spread it on a wound. Especially with young kids for moving around and don't want you to put it on. However this product solve that problem beautifully. It is nice and soft to the touch when you squeeze it out of the tube put on your skin it feels all nice and it definitely has a protective barrier to it. I really like how it felt and thought it would be excellent to use. 

You can buy some SAFESKIN Kids Antibacterial Gel at most Walmart stores. Head over today and you can print a coupon for $1 off here: SafeSkin coupon.

And guess what?  One lucky Beckee's Deals reader will win one (1) tube of SAFESKIN Kids Antibacterial Gel!

See rafflecopter below to enter:a Rafflecopter giveaway Please note that the giveaway will end on 12/13 at 12:01 AM EASTERN time. That means you have until 11:01 PM on 12/12 Central time to get in entries (That is only 10:01PM here in AZ).  Please note that winners will be picked at random by Rafflecopter after the giveaway ends!  Also, Facebook is not affiliated with this giveaway and cannot be held responsible for it in any way. 

By way of disclosure, I received a package containing the following: · One (1) tube of SAFESKIN Kids Antibacterial Gel · One (1) $10 Walmart Gift Card And In addition one (1) tube of SAFESKIN Kids Antibacterial Gel will be provided as a prize for my giveaway winner. No other compensation was given, and as always all opinions expressed are my own.