Mandie, who writes www.iheartcoupondeals.blogspot.com emailed me today and asked me where I get the stuff I give away on this blog. I thought that if she wanted to know, maybe some of you did too.
I buy 2 papers each week, plus family members give me their coupon inserts and I trade with friends and co-workers.
I use the coupons to get free stuff to give to my blog readers and for the door prizes at my coupon classes. I use my rebate money to buy gift certificates/gift cards.
I am a member of mypoints, and I use my points with them to get gift cards to give away. My day job is in an industry where vendors and companies give us gift cards frequently, so I receive small denomination gift cards to give away as well.
I write companies and when I get coupons for free products I write about it on my blog and often times I will give my freebie coupon away, either on my blog or as a RAOK to one of my readers, who I know would enjoy the product.
I am all self funded. Unlike some of the bigger couponing blogs, I don't get freebies from companies and talk about them on my blog. I would LOVE THAT, since I love doing consumer reviews (that's why I LOVE LOVE LOVE yelp.com) and helping consumers (especially my army of frugalistas) finder cool new products to use. Another site I love that is all about that is houseparty.com- if you haven't heard of it, check it out, it's pretty awesome.
So that's it! I'm just a crazy coupon lady who wants to help others!
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