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August 2010

A new law was recently passed that I am a huge fan of. Now on your bank accounts, you will be able to choose to opt in or opt out of debit transactions that might potentially make your account go negative. For example, if you had opted out and you went to buy a cup of coffee and you only had $1 in the bank and the coffee was $3, the debit would be declined on the spot. You would not get your coffee. This is great news because that cup of coffee could of turned into a $39 drink!

According to the article I read here, everyone should automatically be opted out. However, you might want to check with your local bank to make sure.

Also if you do ever incur NSF fees, always be polite and ask them to waive them. In the past, they have always been willing to waive one or two of mine. (Thankfully it has been a VERY long time since I went negative in my account.) Also, most banks now allow you to link accounts together. I have all my accounts linked to one another, so if something was to happen it will pull a balance from the other account (a $7.50 charge each time), but it avoids the risk of being overdrawn.

Be sure to catch up on all the previous Let’s Save Some Money posts.

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I am so excited to get this deal in my email. You can choose from Free Business Cards, Free Postcards, Free Rubber Stamp, Free Banner, Free Mug, Free Invitations, Free Photo Wall Calendars, Free Photo Flip Book, Free Car Door Magnet, Free Note Cards or Free Stickers from Vistaprint!

You do have to pay shipping on these items, but it isn’t too bad. I got a rubber stamper, a canvas tote bag and 140 address labels and I paid about $7. Shipping on 140 labels is $3.11.

Here are the ones I ordered:

I love their rubber stampers. I have had mine for 2 years and it still works excellent! It beats having to write your address out every time. Now that I have the PO Box for the blog, I wanted one for it as well.

I also really like their canvas bags. They have so many different designs including ones for your kid’s sport teams! I’m going to use mine to carry my reusable bags to the store. I think it will work perfect for that.

I also love their address labels. There are so many neat things you can do with them besides using them for addresses:

Plus they are offering 250 business cards. Besides using them to promote your business, blog, Etsy shop, trade site, etc. You can get creative. One of my readers uses them as little cards of encouragement when her employees are doing a good job. Another made cards to pass out at Disney World to cast members that brightened her day.

You can also use them as Mommy Cards. You can give these to other mother’s that you meet at the park, play group, mall, etc or to give to the baby sitter so she can contact you.

The possibilities are endless! You just need to get creative.

To get started, just go here and click on the free product you want to create. Plus they take Paypal at check out. That really makes my life easier!

Here are my products:

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I went to Walmart today to use up a bunch of free coupons that I had that were expiring:

From Kraft First Taste (no longer available, but make sure you are a member!)

  • 2 free Kraft Homestyle Mac & Cheese (an awesome reader send me her coupon too)
  • 1 free Ritz crackerfuls
  • 1 free DiGiorno Deep Dish pizza for one
  • 1 free Oscar Mayer deli fresh lunch meat (coupon was for up to $4.50, I got the $4.98 package so it was really 38c)

From the 5 A Day program:

  • Free Skintimate
  • Free Raid
  • Free Oust
  • Free Scrubbing Bubbles Wipes

Regular price:

  • 3 2-liters of Diet Dr Pepper
  • 1 Deli Deluxe sandwich

My total…………. $2.68 for everything in the picture! :-O

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If you are planning on purchasing Beauty and the Beast on Blu-ray/DVD combo pack, you might want to go ahead and pre-order it at your local Toys R Us store. You will need to pay $5 to reserve the movie, but then you will receive a coupon for $10 off another Disney movie.

When Toy Story 1 & 2 were released in the Spring, Toys R Us ended up having the best price. I think reserving the movie now is a good plan. Be sure to call your local store ahead of time before you go there.

Plus don’t forget about the $10 coupon you can print here.

(Thanks Saving Cents with Sense!)

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In  the 8/29 P&G, there was a coupon for $1 off any Gain dish detergent. Walmart has the 11 oz Gain dish detergent for 97c. But as you know, the coupon will beep and sometimes this frustrates cashiers and they reject your coupon. (They shouldn’t but you know how that goes.)

Walmart also has the 30 oz bottles of Gain dish detergent for $1.75. This is almost 3 times the size of the little bottle! You can use the coupon and pay just 75c a bottle. This might be the best use of the coupon if you only got a few and you go through a lot of dish detergent. Plus you will avoid any beeping with the coupon!

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Gymboree is having their Fill A Bag sale. Everything you can fit in your bag is 30% off both in store and online. Plus they are also doing Gym Bucks – for every $50 you spend, you get a coupon for $25/$50 purchase to use later!

This sale is good until Labor Day.

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Dollar General has just released a new store coupon for $1/2 Clorox cleaning products. If you stack it with the 25c coupon from the 8/22 SS, you get a GREAT deal until Saturday night!

Clorox Bleach 96 oz — $1.66
Use $1/2 Dollar General coupon and (2) 25c from 8/22 SS
Total: 92c ea

Clorox Clean Up Cleanser — $1.66
Use $1/2 Dollar General coupon and (2) 25c from 8/22 SS
Total: 67 ea

Go here to see all the deals this week at Dollar General!

(Thanks Eeendavors!)

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For the next hour or less, Amazon.com has Toy Story 3 for the Wii on sale for just $34.99 shipped. That is down from $46.99. But hurry, this deal is VERY time sensitive!

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There are tons of hot coupons available on these three sites that will disappear tomorrow night! Be sure that you have printed all of your favorites!

Go here to print these:

DiGiorno Deep Dish – $1/1
Oscar Mayer Hotdogs – $1/2
Chex Mix – 50c/1
Lawry’s seasoning salt – 50c/1
Select Kellogg’s cereals – $1.50/2
Huggies Wipes (320 ct or larger)  – $2.50/1
Huggies Pure and Natural diapers – $2.50/1

Go here to print these:

Baby Magic – $1/1
Lunchables with Water – $1/1
Hot Shot – $1.50/1

Go here to print these.

Kellogg’s Pop Tarts – $1/3
Tums 24 oz or larger – $1/1
Nutella – $1/1

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

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Amazon.com is having a day full of video game deals. Today only, you can get Tony Hawk: Ride Skateboard Bundle for Wii, Xbox and PS3 for just $39.99 shipped!

And starting at 2 pm, I *think* they are going to have a Toy Story game on sale. The clue is “No toy get’s left behind”. I’ll update you as soon as I know!

(Thanks Addicted to Savings!)

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