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I received an email this morning from Allyou.com with some really great links that I just had to share!

5 Coupon myths that cost you money

Earn Money while you shop

The Daily Free Sample- Check back daily, it changes! You can also click on the calendar and order past samples of the day too!

Get Free stuff everywhere!

And of course- check out the printable coupons that AllYou has to offer!

Got the blahs?

I don't know about you all, but hte weather here is chilly and overcast, not summer-y at all.

One thing that shakes my blahs is freebies.  Check out the latest Freebies below:

Free book from Elizabeth Berg (Random House)

Free Bath Salts

Free From from QT (Quick Trip) (they are located in the Mid-west)

Free Always Clean Pads

Kids bowl free this summer!! (2 free games per child) There are locations in Canada too!

If you live near a Whataburger- To celebrate their 60th birthday, Whataburger is giving away free Whataburgers to customers that wear orange on August 3rd from 5pm-8pm, Dine-In only! WOO HOO!!

Free Nexxus HUMECTRESS Ultimate Moisturizing Conditioner Sample (From Wal*mart)

It's Friday...

That means It's time for freebies!

This week, for a change of pace, check out our Twitter Feed.  There are some great freebie posts there.

It's going to be a slow couple weeks here, folks.  I'm prepping for the coupon classes, which start on 8/11/10, and I am working on my couponing book, which continues to grow each day!

It's Sunday!

It's Sunday, Pick up a paper for the coupons!

If you live near a Dollar Tree, call ahead and see if they sell the paper.  All Dollar Tree stores in San Diego sell the daily paper for just $1.00, as well as the Sunday paper.

I was in a Dollar Tree yesterday and did my own coupon preview. I am passing on the paper this week, as there are no coupons that I need or want.  In the UT this week there is only a SmartSource insert.

NEW Gain Dish Soap - Free 11oz Samples at Local Wal*marts!

NEW Gain Dish Soap - Free 11oz Samples

Dates: 7/22/2010 - 7/25/2010

Come try the NEW Gain Dish Soap!  Free 11oz samples will be distributed throughout the event so you can try these amazing fresh scents that come with an incredible clean.  Be the first to try the new Gain Dish Soap.

See if your local Wal*mart is participating here.

Here is a listing of other upcoming Wal*mart in-store events.

Printable coupons from Allyou.com

Allyou.com has som really great printables right now, including:

.75 off any frozen Kashi Entree or Pizza

$1.25 off any 8 or 12 pack of LaCroix Sparkling water

It's not too late to sign up!!

I still have room in my upcoming coupon classes!

Click Here for more details.  Email me to sign up!

It's Friday, that means... FREEBIES!

WOO HOO!  This week, there isn't much, so I've included a rebate  and a B1G1 coupon too.

Free samples of 2 Sweet Libertine Mineral eye shadows with a SASE (totally worth it, these shadows are INCREDIBLE!!)

CVS Hand Sanitizer Pen (offer ends 7/18)

B1G1 Crush Soda Coupon- Just in Time for the summer heat.

$10 Rebate when you buy $30 in Olay, Venus, Covergirl or Secret Products.  If you still have your P&G inserts from earlier in the month- this might make a great MM!!

Like Horseys?  Sign up for a free subscription to Horse and Rider Magazine!

And don't forget to check us out on Twitter- we re-tweet and add freebies and deals daily.

A couple freebies-

It's not Friday, but here a couple nifty freebies:

Fill out a form and receive a free Bikini Bra top from American Apparel. Comes in 3 sizes for a,b, & c cups.

Select Free Bikini | Shop American Apparel (no plus sizes- only goes up to a size 10) Thanks to a lady at Starbucks for telling me about this!

BOGO Meal at Souplantation!

Weil for Origins Advanced Face Serum - Free Sample

Sample of John Frieda® Root Awakening® Hair Care

I receive this in my email box today: Receive a sample packette of Strength Restoring™ Shampoo (0.28-oz.), Strength Restoring™ Conditioner (0.28-oz.) and Strength Restoring™ Smoothing Lotion (0.15-oz.), Visit this link.

Thanks John Freida!

Free food for anyone named Dave!

At Famous Dave's on August 1, 2010.

Check out their website: http://www.davesday2010.com/

There are Famous Dave's in 29 States- so there is probably one near you. If not, start drivin'!

I already emailed my Dad!

Still taking students for couponing classes!

There is still time to sign up!

Drop me an email at akeen02037@gmail.com to sign up!

New bzzagent Campaign- Lash Blast Fusion!

WOWIE WOW WOW!!

Big thanks to my friends over at Bzzagent for the awesome tube of LashBlast Fusion in black brown.

[caption id="attachment_584" align="alignnone" width="300" caption="My new LashBlast Fusion Mascara and coupons!"][/caption]

I tried it out and it's AMAZING! It's got a great oversized volumizing brush and a fiberstretch lengthening formula.

[caption id="attachment_585" align="alignnone" width="300" caption="The brush from LashBlast Fusion Mascara"][/caption]

LashBlast Fusion mascara comes in 4 colors: Very Black, black, blackbrown, and brown.

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After it dried, I rubbed my eyes, and it really is smudge-proof, flake-proof and rub-proof. My lashes still look great!

I received LashBlast Fusion mascara from bzzagent.com, and I am a BzzaAgent!  Iif you are interested in learning more about all the awesome perks you can earn by being a bzzagent, including free products and Mypoints.com points, which you can redeem for gift certificates, check out www.bzzagent.com!

I have 5 $2.00 off any Covergirl product coupons to share with 5 of my readers.  The first five commentors will receive a coupon from me to try this (or any) Covergirl product!

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It's Friday...

That means FREEBIES!!!

Found all over the web.

Philosophy’s Purity one-step facial cleansing cloth (Big thanks to Philosophy for having great giveaways!)

Free samples of Dove from Sam's Club (Samples will be available again on Monday 7/12/10)

Avenda Sample Pack (From Marie Claire Magazine) Print it off and take it to your closest Aveda Store.

Sunday is 7/11/10- that means Free Slurpee Day!!

Saturday 7/10/10 at Bath and Body works, Free C.O. Bigelow Lip Product with any $10.00 purchase!

It's a short list today- I'm getting ready for Vegas!  I won't be posting this weekend.  I hope you all have a great, frugal weekend!

Donation based Yoga in San Diego, CA

I just wanted to give a shot out to my friend Jenny's awesome Yoga group, One Love Yoga San Diego.

They are a donation based yoga group.  Classes are taught in San Diego in various locations in San Diego.  She has wonderful, honest, caring teachers.  Anyone can attend- all skill levels are welcome!

If you are looking for a group to practice yoga with, check out the Schedule page and find a time to go and practice!

They have family yoga too- you can bring the kids!

Free Thai Chicken at Panda Express 7*14*10

Courtesy of Panda Express on Facebook.

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If you are a Panda Express Fan and you visit often, use your  receipt survey (buy a two entree meal, receive a free entree) from your last purchase with this free entree deal and you'll have enough food for two people!

Let's do a Mail Box Round up

We haven't done one in a while...

[caption id="attachment_573" align="alignnone" width="300" caption="Our Recent Freebies- WOO HOO!"][/caption]

The past two weeks have been busy for our mailman!  We've received samples of Sauve shampoo (walmart), Burt's Bees lip balm, All with Oxy Clean(walmart), Starbucks Via(walmart), Popcorn, Cottonelle (walmart), EOS shaving cream, Crystal Light Fitness (from Vocal Point), Purina Dog food (walmart), Secret Clinical Strength (walmart), Aveda hand cream (freebie post card).

I also received Kraft mayonaise, Playtex tampons, diapers (Vocalpoint), and Kotex sanitary pads (I passed all of those on to others so they are not pictured).

I've also received coupons in the mail with most of those samples.

If you haven't been signing up for freebies, it is worth the few minutes that it takes to sign up for each one.  My travel toiletry kit is well stocked for all of my upcoming trips!

Free Oatmeal!

Free BetterOats oatmeal? YMMV

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Two of my local Vons have BetterOats Oatmeal marked down to 10/$10.

If you visit BetterOats Oatmeal and click on taste test, you can print bricks q's for .55 off one.

Vons will double the first coupon up to a dollar, resulting in FREE oatmeal.

I have bought 2- I paid .45 for 2 boxes of oatmeal! Hooray!

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Flat rate envelope FULLA coupons!

We've been collecting coupons for months and we've got a flat rate envelope full of clipped coupons, some expired, some still valid.  Most with expiration dates 6/1/10-8/30/10.

This would be great for a military family (or families) stationed overseas.

If anyone is interested, please let me know.  I am only asking the cst of shipping for the envelope- $4.95.  There are over 1200 coupons in the envelope.

We've changed our look!

I've been monkeying around with the look of the blog today, and I've picked a format that I like a little better- after all variety is the spice of life, right?

What do you think?

Info on the upcoming Couponing Classes

Couponing classes- Learn to save money and live better!

Ever wonder:

• How those people ahead of you in line at the grocery store buy an entire cart of groceries for pennies?

• How you can use your airline miles or credit card points to plan your vacation or buy something GREAT?

• How to really save money without eating PB&J and Cup O’Soup for every meal?

Now you can learn how to do all of the above, plus lots of other easy to use, easy to remember tips and hints that will help you save fifty plus percent when you are shopping for almost anything!

This series of classes will start with the basics and move towards the more advanced topics.

Class will be held once a week, for approximately 2 hours. Classes will go on for between 3-4 months, or until all the topics are covered to the students satisfaction.

There will be shopping trips to grocery and drug stores, as well as mass merchandisers as a group, as well as individual trips with each student to help each student sharpen their abilities.

There will be a one-time fee of $20.00 per student to cover the materials that each student will receive.

The materials will include:
• handouts at each class
• brand new spiffy coupon wallet
• scissors
• calculator
• pens/pencils
• highlighter

Class size will be limited to 4 or 5 students. If you don’t get into the first round of classes, you can get in on the next round! Please feel free to forward this email to your friends and family who live in the San Diego, CA area who also may be interested. Classes will be held in various locations in central San Diego, however, the majority of classes will be held in my home in San Diego.

When you email (akeen02037 at gmail dot com) to sign up- please indicate which days of the week you would like the class to be held and which days do not work at all for you.

Classes will start in August.

San Diegians- Couponing and money saving courses?

Would anyone be interested in local weekly couponing classes?
Classes would be once a week, in the evening (maybe 7-9 pm), I'll serve dinner (recipes will be provided too), we'll cover various topics surrounding couponing and money saving.
We'll meet for maybe 3-4 months (or as long as it takes to answer everyones questions and get everyone acclimated to the money savin' lifestyle).  We'll even have a couple shopping trips to grocery, drug and mass merchandisers, and there will be one on one shopping trips for each student.
There will be a one time fee of $20.00 per student to cover the materials each student will receive.  The materials  will include handouts at each class, a brand new spiffy coupon wallet, scissors, calculator, pens/pencils, highlighter.
I'll take on 4-5 students at a time, so if you don't get into the first batch, you can def. get into the next batch of classes.  For those of you who live outside my area, I might have a kit with all the materials available for sale, if that is of interest.

Holiday coupon insert reminder

For most of us, there will be no coupon insert(s) in the Sunday paper tomorrow.

Some of us will receive P&G insert.  I have missed the last few, it seems our local paper on the newsstand doesn't include P&G coupons.

Have a great Independence Day!

My day of free- a success!

Well, mostly.  Pesky sales tax!

My first trip was to Albertsons. I bought:

2 Kraft Mac n' Cheese $3.79 each(I received coupons for free products from Kraft)

2 Ronzoni Pasta products $1.69 each(I received coupons free products for filling out a survey from Ronzoni)

1 Bottle of Sauve Shampoo $1.99 each (Free coupon from Facebook- up to a $3.00 value)

1 DiGiorno Pizza $6.49(I received a $4.00 off Coupon from Kraft- I think.  It just appeared in my mail box one day.)

1 package of pens- $1.00.  There was overage, and I needed a non-food item (so as not to effect my grocery OOP for the week) to suck up the overage.  This resulted in a small OOP and sales tax.

I don't really shop at Albertson's all that much, so I didn't realize that when the checker scanned the coupons the register would automatically deduct the full value of each coupon, even if it exceeded the amount of the purchase price.  That's why I got overage.

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Pens not pictured- I left them in my car- they're going to work with me.

[caption id="attachment_548" align="alignnone" width="225" caption="Albie's Receipt- All that for just .85- woo hoo!"][/caption]

My next stop was CVS, where I have an Extra Care Buck worth $2.00 that was expiring soon.  We needed milk.  I scanned my CVS card at the entryway kiosk, and it spit out $2.50 MORE in ECB!

I picked up a gallon of fat free milk for $2.89, and I had a .55 coupon for the milk.  I also picked up a 2 liter of diet wild cherry Pepsi for my husband.  The shelf tag said $1.99.  Not a screaming deal, but we don't drink a lot of soda and he needed a treat for sticking with the All You Grocery Challenge. When I got to the register, it turns of the soda was only .99 and the .55 off coupon would have generated "too much" overage to quote the cashier, so I kept it.

my total OOP... .03!!

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The receipt shows 3 items, but the CVS system includes the bottle deposit/CRV as an item. :(

My next free adventure is heading over to Dream Dinners at 4pm for my free dinner for 3, courtesy of the Entertainment book!

WOO HOO!

What $17.65 looks like

I took a picture of my trip to 99 Cents Only Last week, but I didn't post the pic.

So, here it is.  This is what $17.65 will buy you:

[caption id="attachment_544" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="See what $17.65 will getcha?"][/caption]

In case you are wondering what I did with this plentiful bounty, The FiberOne bars are being consumed for breakfasts. THe International House Foods Coffee I made in a large pitcher (yeah, the whole package) and poured into re-usable bottles and stored in the fridge for iced lattes.  That tin made about 5 20 ounce bottles- that's alotta latte. That kept us in lattes for about a week.

I baked the asparagus in the oven after tossing it in oil and kosher salt, then topped it with balsamic vinegar and goat cheese.

The salad and whole wheat tortillas we took to a potluck, the ham steak we ate for breakfast last Sunday with scrambled egg white, which brings me to the eggs and onions.  Some were used in breakfast last Sunday, the rest I will continue to use throughout the weeks ahead when I cook.

The vitamin water I drank right after the photo was taken, washed the bottle and re-used it.  The Toberlone bars didn't make it to see the next morning.