I got a Kindle Fire as a Birthday present from my wonderful hubby. I opted for the Kindle over the Nook simply because I knew about the Kindle Lending Library and I'm already an Amazon Prime member. I knew I could find a few free books for the Kindle and at the very least they put out a bargain book (usually $.99 to $1.99) each day, and I figured that would be enough to keep me reading on the cheap. I had NO IDEA!
There are so many more great FREE Kindle books than I had any clue of, and thanks to another blog, Pixel of Ink, I've loaded around 200 books onto my Kindle in less than a month. Also, on the Kindle when you go to the Kindle store you'll see a section of the top FREE e-books, allowing you to easily find many more books. Today, I was browsing around and found one of my favorite books of all time super cheap. Wicked, by Gregory Maguire. The standard e-book is around $10, but there was a special edition e-book with bonus material (samples of the other 3 books) for just $2.99. You bet I downloaded that one quick before it had a chance to disappear.
Even if you don't have a Kindle, there are Kindle readers for pretty much every device now, from your computer to your phone and everything in between. For a long time I swore I could never give up real books, but now I'm not so sure. If they made the Kindle water-proof I would probably make a full transition, but there's something about that risk of dropping my book in the bathtub.... when it's paper and only a few dollars it's not as big a deal as a $200 electronic device.
Monday, December 19, 2011
Monday, August 22, 2011
Relax Wraps BOGO 8/22-8/23
Relax Wraps are one of my favorite things, I have at least 5 of them floating around my house and I've been known to give them as gifts a time or two. What are they? They are customizable hot/cold aromatherapy wraps. If you deal with any sort of aches or pains you'll love these. Have a headache? pop the "Basic Wrap" in the micrawave for 90 seconds and lay it across your head (or use the eye wrap, hot or cold). I love them all. The Shoulder wrap is awesome if you endure shoulder or neck pain. The prices on these are already great but today and tomorrow they are even better at Buy One Get One (trying to think of who I might need to buy some for for Christmas). You can check out all the different Relax Wraps and options and order your bogo deal here.
Tuesday, August 2, 2011
The Best Thing About a Stockpile
You may have noticed I haven't been posting much lately (and I apologize for that). The last few months I've not really been myself, and just haven't felt well. That has really affected everything around me, including my couponing. While I continued to do it and continued to make trips to the grocery store, I wasn't feeling very passionate about it (like I had been). I went to the store more when I had to than to make sure I got any great deals. The fact that this fell on top of the week long power outage, and subsequent spoiling of our frozen stockpile, really didn't help. Despite, it all I've still managed to almost get that freezer filled again.
We all have times where life just gets crazy and we can't do what we'd like to do when it comes to getting to the grocery store or spending any real time stocking up on great deals. That's where having a stockpile is such a huge blessing. Instead of wondering what you are going to have for dinner and feeling like there is nothing in the house to eat, there is always something available. It may not be your first choice, but it's there to be used.
We all have times where life just gets crazy and we can't do what we'd like to do when it comes to getting to the grocery store or spending any real time stocking up on great deals. That's where having a stockpile is such a huge blessing. Instead of wondering what you are going to have for dinner and feeling like there is nothing in the house to eat, there is always something available. It may not be your first choice, but it's there to be used.
Tuesday, July 12, 2011
Lend a Hand to Help a Paw
I love the Swagbucks is not only a great way to get free stuff, but that they are also constantly making an effort to help others. During the last few months they have done charity drives for Japan as well as the AL and KS tornado victims. Now they are doing a new drive, this time it's to help animals. You can read more about it on their blog here. As with all of the Swagbucks charity drives, you can donate your Swagbucks to help the cause. They'll be taking the Swagbucks you donate and converting them to dollars for the ASPCA. If you aren't already a member of Swagbucks, you can join now and they will give you 30 Swagbucks to get started. Then you can start searching and earn more. There are so many ways to earn Swagbucks, but searching is by far the easiest (using their search engine can easily earn you 30 Swagbucks in a day), but you can also shop via Swagbucks and earn, or play games, watch videos. Really, just about anything you do online can earn you Swagbucks.
Once you've earned them, you can either use them to get stuff for yourself, or you can donate them. It's up to you :)
Free Salad Bag! Reserve Yours Now
Head over to VocalPoint and sign up to get your coupon for a FREE bag of Fresh Express salad, plus more coupons and a salad bag clip!
Thursday, June 23, 2011
$2/5 Smart Ones Coupon
Head over to Facebook and "LIKE" Smart Ones and then enter their giveaway to win free groceries. After you enter they will give you a coupon to print for $2/5 Smart Ones!
Wednesday, June 22, 2011
What is Swagbucks?
A friend just sent me a message asking me to explain Swagbucks, of course I typed it all out then the message got eaten by Facebook instead of sent. Oh well. So, I figured this time I'd post it here instead so that it would be easier to share with others.
At the most basic, Swagbucks is a rewards program that works! You get reward points (Swagbucks) for doing things online that you'd do anyway.
First, Sign Up!
If you sign up before the end of June, enter the code JuneBoom when you signup and you'll get started with 80 Swagbucks (otherwise you'll start out with 30 Swagbucks).
After you signup, download their toolbar. It's not an absolute must, but it does help me remember to search and earn using their tools. You also get an easy 1 Swagbuck a day just for opening your browser with the toolbar installed. You can earn another easy 2 points a day by answering their daily poll (1 point) and going to their surveys (1 point).
Before I go much further, let me explain what you do with these points. You earn them, then you trade them in for real stuff. I usually opt to trade mine in for Amazon gift cards (because it's the best deal). You can get a $5 Amazon gift card for just 450 Swagbucks! And you can easily earn that in just a few weeks of doing the most basic things through Swagbucks.
Besides those easy 1 point earns, the easiest way to earn Swagbucks is to do searches through their search portal. You won't earn points every time you search, sometimes you'll have to do a few searches and if you don't earn when you search, I suggest you at least make sure to click to the second page of search results (sometimes you'll get points there). On average you'll earn about 10 points when you earn through searches and I've seen points earned as many as 4 times a day via searches (but, most of the time you'll earn twice a day).
You can also earn BIG Swagbucks by going through Swagbucks to do your online shopping, whether it's daily deals at Groupon (make sure you go to Swagbucks when buying those) or just regular shopping, it's worth it to go through Swagbucks and get those points.
If you are a couponer, you can also earn points for going through Swagbucks coupon page and printing (then redeeming) those coupons. It takes a little while for those points to show up, but you will get 10 Swagbucks for every coupon that you print and redeem.
You can also earn points for playing games in their game portal, and watching videos via "Swagbucks tv" (basically Swagbucks youtube portal).
With all the ways there are to earn, even if all you do is the freebies and searches you can easily earn a gift card every few weeks, but if you really use them you can earn tons more. If you refer your friends once you join you will even get matched on what they earn via searches (up to 1000 points), so make sure you do your friends a favor and tell them how they can earn free gift cards.
At the most basic, Swagbucks is a rewards program that works! You get reward points (Swagbucks) for doing things online that you'd do anyway.
First, Sign Up!
If you sign up before the end of June, enter the code JuneBoom when you signup and you'll get started with 80 Swagbucks (otherwise you'll start out with 30 Swagbucks).
After you signup, download their toolbar. It's not an absolute must, but it does help me remember to search and earn using their tools. You also get an easy 1 Swagbuck a day just for opening your browser with the toolbar installed. You can earn another easy 2 points a day by answering their daily poll (1 point) and going to their surveys (1 point).
Before I go much further, let me explain what you do with these points. You earn them, then you trade them in for real stuff. I usually opt to trade mine in for Amazon gift cards (because it's the best deal). You can get a $5 Amazon gift card for just 450 Swagbucks! And you can easily earn that in just a few weeks of doing the most basic things through Swagbucks.
Besides those easy 1 point earns, the easiest way to earn Swagbucks is to do searches through their search portal. You won't earn points every time you search, sometimes you'll have to do a few searches and if you don't earn when you search, I suggest you at least make sure to click to the second page of search results (sometimes you'll get points there). On average you'll earn about 10 points when you earn through searches and I've seen points earned as many as 4 times a day via searches (but, most of the time you'll earn twice a day).
You can also earn BIG Swagbucks by going through Swagbucks to do your online shopping, whether it's daily deals at Groupon (make sure you go to Swagbucks when buying those) or just regular shopping, it's worth it to go through Swagbucks and get those points.
If you are a couponer, you can also earn points for going through Swagbucks coupon page and printing (then redeeming) those coupons. It takes a little while for those points to show up, but you will get 10 Swagbucks for every coupon that you print and redeem.
You can also earn points for playing games in their game portal, and watching videos via "Swagbucks tv" (basically Swagbucks youtube portal).
With all the ways there are to earn, even if all you do is the freebies and searches you can easily earn a gift card every few weeks, but if you really use them you can earn tons more. If you refer your friends once you join you will even get matched on what they earn via searches (up to 1000 points), so make sure you do your friends a favor and tell them how they can earn free gift cards.
Sunday, June 19, 2011
50 Swagbuck Bonus for New Signups!
So you still haven't signed up for Swagbucks? What are you waiting for? Oh, you were waiting to get that 50 Swagbuck bonus for signing up? Well, here it is. Enter Code: JuneBoom now through the end of June and add an additional 50 Swagbucks when you signup. Normally, you start out with 30 Swagbucks, so this will start you with 80 and puts you well on your way to your first gift card (or prize of your choice). Get started now and you'll be able to put a dent in your Christmas shopping a little early.Click here to sign up!
Wednesday, June 1, 2011
Buy a Daily Deal, Get a Bonus With Swagbucks
If you purchase, even occasionally, Daily Deals from sites like Groupon, Living Social, Eversave and many others, then make sure you check out Swagbucks first. For MOST of the daily deal sites you can go through Swagbucks and earn some mighty big rewards just for purchasing a daily deal you were about to buy anyway. For instance, today you can get 160 Swagbucks for purchasing any of the current daily deals on Groupon. Check out the Swagbucks Daily Deals List. That's a nice little bonus and puts you at about 2/3 of the way towards a $5 Amazon gift card. Those points add up quick, and it's one of the best ways I've found to earn Swagbucks (outside of searching). You get them in big numbers and you get them for doing something you were going to do anyway!
If you are new to Swagbucks, you might be wondering what it is. Swagbucks is the best online Rewards Community I've found. Swagbucks works by rewarding you (with Swagbucks) for things you'd normally do online anyway (like searching the web or buying stuff) as well as for doing extra tasks, watching videos and filling out surveys. There are tons of ways you can earn Swagbucks. Then you take your Swagbucks and trade them in for real stuff including gift cards to the likes of Amazon.com, CVS, Home Depot, restaurants, etc or even hard goods like electronics and jewelry. When I first heard about it I was skeptical but I gave it a try and downloaded the toolbar (the easiest way to remember to earn), and within a month I had my first $5 Amazon gift card. Since the first of the year I've earned over 20, while at the same time giving back a portion of my points to help others in storm ravaged areas across the globe. Swagbucks isn't just about winning, they are about giving! That's just one more thing I like about them and that helps make them the best rewards community online. If you've not joined yet, you can click here to do so. Then, look for "daily deals" under "earn" on the Swagbucks toolbar (be sure to install it).
If you are new to Swagbucks, you might be wondering what it is. Swagbucks is the best online Rewards Community I've found. Swagbucks works by rewarding you (with Swagbucks) for things you'd normally do online anyway (like searching the web or buying stuff) as well as for doing extra tasks, watching videos and filling out surveys. There are tons of ways you can earn Swagbucks. Then you take your Swagbucks and trade them in for real stuff including gift cards to the likes of Amazon.com, CVS, Home Depot, restaurants, etc or even hard goods like electronics and jewelry. When I first heard about it I was skeptical but I gave it a try and downloaded the toolbar (the easiest way to remember to earn), and within a month I had my first $5 Amazon gift card. Since the first of the year I've earned over 20, while at the same time giving back a portion of my points to help others in storm ravaged areas across the globe. Swagbucks isn't just about winning, they are about giving! That's just one more thing I like about them and that helps make them the best rewards community online. If you've not joined yet, you can click here to do so. Then, look for "daily deals" under "earn" on the Swagbucks toolbar (be sure to install it).
Tuesday, May 31, 2011
Publix Sale Preview & Coupon MatchUps
Passionate Penny Pincher is on the ball and she's already posted the Publix Sale Preview and coupon matchups for this week's sale starting on Wednesday. Be sure to check it out to see what the deals are and what coupons you may still want to print to make for better deals.
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