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April 2010

It’s link up your blog Friday! Place the link to your home page in the box below and please word it like this: Blog Name.

Plus I am offering a giveaway to all my blogging friends! I will do the following for you:

1. Place your button on my sidebar for a week.

2. Post a showcase of your blog on my blog to drive traffic to your site.

3. Post a link to your Facebook page on my Facebook page to encourage people to fan your site.

All you have to do is link up your blog below! I’ll pick a winner this weekend!

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A Crystal Garden makes beautiful hair bows and accessories for little girls. She has gracious agreed to give one lucky reader a Magical Vacation Gift Set that includes 1 small bow, 6 sweet petitie bows and 2 sweet & simple clips!

To enter this giveaway, become a fan of A Crystal Garden on Facebook or follow her blog. Then fill out the form below to enter! This giveaway will end Saturday night at 9 pm!

A Crystal Garden is providing this giveaway. My words and opinions are my own.

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Graveyard Mall has 10 pairs of Women’s sunglasses for just $15.95 shipped! You will get assorted pairs, but they all look cute to me!

(Thanks Who Said Nothing In Life Is Free???)

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Do you ever have one of those unexpected bills (or an unexpected amount) that make you want to pull out your hair?

My husband just called from the Tag Office. We had to pay $450 to get the title for his dad’s truck put in our name. Ouch! I didn’t realize it would be so much. But at least it’s behind us now and the truck is ours. Of course I get to look forward to tagging it again next March.

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Comments, Comments, Comments!

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Guess what…. I’ve decided to start a DAILY giveaway on the blog. Every morning I will randomly choose 1 reader who left a comment on the blog the day before to win a $5 Amazon.com gift card. The more you comment, the more you are eligible to win!

Here are a few rules:

1.You can comment on any post on the blog to enter. It does not have to be this one. Each comment you make today counts! So the more you comment, the more you entries you get! So comment, comment, comment!

2. You must leave legitimate comments. Short comments like hi, what’s up, etc will be removed. Thank yous, your so awesome Kristin, etc… are fine. ;)

3. Replies count. So if you want to carry on a discussion with other readers, feel free to click on the reply button beneath their comments. All comments appear in a list on the inside of the blog. (Answering other readers questions would be awesome!)

4. Every morning I will count all the comments from the day before (it’s not hard on the inside of the blog) and randomly choose 1 person to win a $5 Amazon.com gift card code. It’s totally random. The winner will have 24 hours to confirm my email and I will send them the Amazon.com code. I will personally be providing the gift card.

5. Everyone who comments is eligible to win and you can win multiple times a month!

6. That’s about it! This is going to be so fun!!

I just wanted to tell you all how much I love and appreciate each and every one of you. You are such a blessing to my life!

Winner to announce:

renangel25@ won the $5 Amazon gift card for commenting yesterday! She had 1 comment and won by commenting on the No Dining Challenge on 4/29!

So good luck everyone!!

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My daughter will be 6 on May 13th and all the birthday freebies have started rolling in! I want to share them with you, so you can sign your children up as well! Most of these are coupons that are valid for their entire birthday month!

The Children’s Place - 15% off your entire purchase

Zaxby’s - Free kid’s meal

Club BK - Free kid’s meal

Toys R Us – $3/3 purchase

Sonic – Free kid’s meal

Red Robbin – Free kid’s meal

Bob Evans – Free kid’s meal

Baskin Robbins – 2.5 oz cup of ice cream

Moe’s Southwest Grill - Free kid’s meal

California Pizza Kitchen – Free kid’s meal

Crayola.com – Birthday greetings and 15% off your purchase

Coldstone Creamery - Free kid’s creation with one mix in

Culver’s – Free 1 scoop sundae
(Thanks Sarah’s Deals for the above 3 deals!)

Great American Cookie – Free slice of cookie cake

Build-a-Bear - $5 off a purchase

Firehouse Subs – free six inch sandwich

Does anyone have any other kid’s birthday clubs they can add?

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Red Baron is offering their Facebook fans a coupon for $2 off 1 pizza! Just like them and you’ll be able to print the coupon!
(Thanks A Thrifty Mom!)

Del Monte – $1/1 Fruit Chillers (there is no apparent limit on this! Print as many as you might use before 6/25!)
(Thanks Addicted to Savings!)

Go here to print these:
$1.00 off any one package of Nestle Toll House Refrigerated Cookie Dough (any variety)
$.50 off 2 packages of Nestle Toll House Morsels (any variety)
$.50 off 2 cans of Nestle Carnation Evaporated Milk 12oz (any variety)
(Thanks Printable Coupons and Deals!)

$4 off any 10 Weight Watchers Smart Ones Products
(Thanks Printable Coupons and Deals!)

$1.50 off any Frozen Mystic Pizza Product
(Thanks Printable Coupons and Deals!)

$1.00/1 Oscar Mayer Deli Creations
(Thanks Addicted to Savings!)

Remember you can print most of these coupons twice by using your back button. Be sure to check out all the ways to get coupons and all the available printable coupons.

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TLCMallows are amazing gourmet marshmallows. I was lucky enough to sample Caramel, Strawberry, Vanilla, Chocolate and Peppermint and they are amazing! There is less than 100 calories in each marshmallow making it a delicious sweet treat that doesn’t expand your waist line.

Carol of TLCMallows is graciously offering 2 readers each 30 marshmallows. You can  pick one flavor or pick up to  5 different flavors to try (I highly recommend the caramel!).

To enter, visit Carol’s TLCMallows etsy shop and let us know what flavor you’d most like to try. Just fill out the form below! This giveaway ends Saturday night at 9pm!

*I was sent a box of TLCMallows to try. TLCMallows is providing the giveaway. My words and opinions are my own!

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Can you go an entire month without going out to eat? What about a week or a day? Can you cut your dining out bill by 20%, 50% , 75% or more? That is what I challenge you to do!

Welcome to No Dining April! Everyday I will post a discussion for us to comment on our progress, vent our frustrating, share recipes for eating at home, etc. You can share anything you want on this thread if it helps you keep your dining budget in check!

At the end of the 30 days, I will choose one winner who will get a $50 gift card to the restaurant of their choice!

Here are the rules:

1. You must challenge yourself. Try to spend less than you spend now. If you don’t go out to eat at all, challenge yourself to try new meals this month. As long as you are challenging yourself when it comes to your family’s eating habbits, you can participate!

2. You must comment on at least 10 of the discussion posts in order to be eligible to win the gift card.

3. The winner will be chosen at random. It won’t matter if you have been 100% successful or not. However, if you have been successful I will throw in a few extra surprises with your package!

4. You are allowed 1 freebie meal that you don’t have to count or report back to us about. Please report on everything else though so we can encourage and support one another!

5. Free meals do not count against you. This is a challenge to spend less money going out to eat than you usually spend. If someone else is paying for the meal or you have a coupon to make it free, great!

6. Here is a thought… consider keeping a tally of what you would of spent this month. For example, if you really want to go out for breakfast this morning and you resist… write that down! You could then donate that money to a food bank or save it for a goal you are working towards (like a trip to Disney World!).

7. Be sure to check out our list of casserole recipes here and the crock pot recipes here and the under 6 ingredient recipes here.

In order to be eligible to win the $50 gift card, you must comment on this post today!

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Best Deals Magazine has 2 different specials this week:

Family Fun is $3.75 for a 1 year subscription when you use the code WKLYSPEC at checkout.
Every Day with Rachel Ray is $5.99 for a 1 year subscription when you use the code WKLYSPEC at checkout.

Today’s deal of the day is 1 year of Cat Fancy for $7.22 when you use the code PXCJ52 at check out.

They have 250 magazines under $10, so be sure to check it out!

Plus you can go through Shop at Home and earn 15% cash back. And if you are a new member, you will get a $5 bonus on top of the cash back! Just sign up here and after logging in, search for the store in the search box and follow the link to the store’s homepage and proceed with your order like normal.

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