For the next few weeks on Tuesdays I’m going to bring you some tips for the Christmas season instead of homemaking tips. My Tips for Tuesday series will return in 2012. Consider the true dollar value of the toys you plan to buy your kids this Christmas. Much like a new car drops it’s value as soon as you drive it off the lot, the value of toys will drop as soon as you open the box of a new {Read More}
The Value Drops When You Drive it Off the Lot
November 1, 2011 by 1 Comment
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Don’t Like a Price? See if You Can Make It Instead
September 27, 2011 by 3 Comments
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When Turkey was born, my mother-in-law bought him this tall giraffe bank. We started putting our change in and it wasn’t long after his 1st birthday that he enjoyed “feeding” the giraffe coins. I wanted Little One to have a similar bank and had my heart set on a flower. We looked at several online and the cheapest price we found including shipping and tax was almost $55! I couldn’t do it. My mother-in-law wanted to buy it for her, {Read More}
Alternate Uses for Shampoo
September 13, 2011 by
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So you buy a bottle of shampoo and the scent isn’t exactly what you want to be smelling all day, or maybe it doesn’t work with your hair as well as you’d hoped. That shampoo doesn’t have to be wasted! Use a squirt to give your toilet a daily swish. It will extend the period of time that you need to use chemicals to clean it, and keep it fresher in the meantime. You can use it to shave your {Read More}
How Much Does Your Plastic Cost?
September 6, 2011 by 6 Comments
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Ok, fess up- who has gone to the store and bought those sets of plastic containers to send to a friend that you were cooking a meal for? I know I have – twice, and I regretted it. When I look back on it, I wasted our hard earned money. There are so many containers that get thrown away each week without their value being considered. Most of the time it’s simple to toss these into the sink to soak {Read More}
Huggies Rewards Restocked DQ and Starbucks GCs, Free Pull Ups and More
July 14, 2011 by
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I was just over at huggies.com entering a couple of codes from diapers and noticed that their rewards catalog has been restocked. There were around 40 different rewards to choose from including: $15 Dairy Queen GC for 375 pts. Jumbo Pack of Pull Ups for 337 pts $25 Starbucks GC for 625pts Little Swimmers pack for 207 pts Too bad that I don’t quite have enough points to snag that DQ card yet If you’re unfamiliar with the Huggies Enjoy {Read More}
Reader Tips- Free Pepsi, Filtrete Rebate, and $.71 for 25 empty soda cans!
June 11, 2011 by Leave a Comment
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A couple of tips from local readers: “Lowe’s currently has a rebate of Filtrete air filters through the end of June. $4 and $6 on different ones Also the price of aluminum cans is $0.71 a pound….if you have someone who lives with you that goes through a lot of soda (my father-in-law) you can get paid to recycle the cans…..we had 20 pounds yesterday—about $14.00—-little extra for the groceries….” Thanks Belynnda! If I recall correctly from my days of {Read More}
The Easiest Money I Ever Made
May 19, 2011 by Leave a Comment
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I typed “jazz music station Tyler” into my search box and won 23 swagbucks. Actually even easier was when they sent me 50 swagbucks last year for my birthday. You can buy a $5 Amazon.com GC with 450 swagbucks. It’s the easiest program out there, and there are nearly 540,000 facebook fans to prove it works. There are lots and lots of gift cards you can redeem for varying amounts, as well as prizes. Here’s how the Swagbucks program works: {Read More}
Inbox Pays vs. Inbox Dollars
April 7, 2011 by
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Several weeks back I posted about InboxPays and asked if anyone had any experience with them, but I didn’t get any responses. The reviews I found online told me they were a legitimate company and I felt it would be worth a shot. I know many of you are already signed up with InboxDollars, and the two companies are fairly similar, so here’s what I’ve seen so far: At first glance it looks like you’ll make more with InboxDollars, but {Read More}
Have You Tried Inbox Pays?
February 16, 2011 by
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I got an e-mail about Inbox Pays today. At first I almost deleted it, thinking it was Inbox Dollars-which I already participate in. Has anyone tried this? I don’t have a lot of extra time right now but this one looks good so I’m thinking about it. It appears to be set up like Inbox Dollars but also advertises getting paid to try new products. My interest is peaked piqued. I would love your feedback if you’ve given this one {Read More}
Check Your Engines
February 15, 2011 by Leave a Comment
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By now, almost everyone who frequents a frugal blog has heard of Swagbucks. If you haven’t heard of it, you can click here for my explanation. For those of you who use swagbucks as your preferred search engine, take a moment to check your settings. If you’re like me, you downloaded the swagbucks toolbar for quick and easy searching. This search box can be used for many different search engines though. To the left of the search box is a {Read More}