"The Shred" and other things

Everything is so SILENT here lately. I think I must be loosing my edge. Either you guys aren't coming to the blog, OR I am just so good that I am not making any mistakes. I feel like tapping on the computer world and saying, "Is anybody out there?" Well, is anyone out there?

Here is what I have this morning:
McDonald's is offering free mocha coffee samples Every Monday starting at 7 am!!! This expires 8/03/09

Victoria Secret - TODAY only 20% off of a $50 order, with code VS20EXTRA

L.L. Bean - free shipping with no minimum until Jan. 2010 with code, LL 3012422 ( I don't think you NEED the LL but I added just in case) Directions for online order are to click "Redeem Coupon, Gift card, or Promotion" when you reach the "place your order" screen during check out. Enter the LL number and then click "redeem". This came from a catalog.

Wal-Mart seems to be starting their school sales, here are a few things from the ad:
~Eureka 4-in-1 stick vacuum $15
~Sandisk 4GB flash drive $12
~12" Mainstay skillet $10
~18 gallon totes $3.50
~Olay ribbons body wash twin pack $5 - $1c = $4 or $2 a piece, not great but not too bad
~1 subject notebooks .15
~1" binder $2.50
~500 pages of copy paper $2.50
~Sharpie highlighters $1.50
There are other great deals on crayons, markers, erasers, and pencils. Make sure to be looking for these when you enter the store.

TGI Fridays - BOGO meal coupon, you will have to use this link from Dealsplus to get to the pdf coupon

Fuddruckers - another pdf coupon from DealsPlus. This is for $3 off of $15 or $5 off of $25. Kids eat free Monday - Wednesday after 4 pm...so try combining these deals.

Viva Towel - free sample

Dr. Scholls for Her - $2 printable coupon

"The Weight of Silence" - free advanced copy

Free Abry's Burger with drink purchase - coupon, expires 7/12/09

Kohl's - kids clearance clothes, here are some codes available to sweeten the deal:
THANKS9710 (non-Kohl's Charge) 10% off (no minimum)
PERKSPOT100 (non-Kohls Charge) 15% off (Valid for orders of $100+)
SUMMERMVC (Kohls Charge) 15% Valid 6/22 - 7/14
JUNEMVC15 (Kohls Charge) 15% Valid 6/22 - 7/14
SAVE3DAYS (Kohls Charge) 15% Valid 7/10 - 7/12
HOTBUY30 (Kohls Charge) 30% Valid 7/15 - 7/22
Free shipping codes:
MVC9172 Free Shipping (Kohls charge) Exp. 7/11
MVC8186 Free Shipping (Kohls charge) Exp. 7/12
Thanks SLICKDEALS!!!

Target coupons - if you like Kashi now is your time at Target!!! There are tons of coupons for the Kashi products, remember you can combine these with regular manufacturer coupons. You have to hurry because these coupons expire 7/14/09...sorry I didn't check Target sooner...:(

New Balance - great deal on New Balance running shoes, $2.95 for Shipping

Target coupon generator - use this to print multiples at one time, also a coupon for Hershey's Bliss for $1 off, as well as others that I didn't list above

Purina One - Meijer's coupon, $5 off of Purina One 3.3 lbs bag of pet food

Build a Bear - $5 off of $25 coupon

Okay there is more out there but I am going to get off this thing before my eyes start to cross. Have a wonderful day. Drop me a line if you are still out there and reading the blog. I know summer is a rough time for this. To be honest I am getting disenchanted with the whole couponing business. I told a friend that I didn't even feel like going shopping anymore, she asked if I was sick! Maybe I am, I don't know. I guess that as time goes on I just find more and more things to drag away my attention. It is hard to stay focused on a single thing. I am at the moment trying so hard to loose weight. I am on a good track having already dropped around 30 to 35 pounds. Although others don't see it I still want to loose at LEAST another 25 lbs and I would really like to try for another 40 lbs. Loosing this weight means I have to eat differently. I will be honest most of the coupons out there just don't suit my eating habits any more. I do use some but not as many as I was. Also on the sales front there is nothing that I am trying to hunt down and purchase at the moment so that makes it harder to look up new things.

As a side note, one of the bloggers that I follow mentioned the workout DVD "The Shred" by Jillian Michaels. I tried to comment but the way her site was set up I was unable to. She asked how do you get through this video, basically I started with a low, low, low weight. I started with 2 lbs. in each hand. I know that doesn't seem like much but I was able to do the DVD much better this way and build up my stamina. I didn't realize how much I had built it up until I had stopped doing this DVD and switched to another. I tried "The Shred" yesterday with a 5 lb. weight and I am really feeling it this morning. So my suggestion is to start with the lower weight and build up to the weight they recommend, AFTER you have done the workout for awhile. I will be honest this is a hard workout. I totally agree with the reviews on Amazon were the people said they had worked out for years and this was still hard to do. Another thing is don't give up, you will get there. I also recommend staying on the first and second level for a couple of months, the third level is a killer! I hope this helps.

Sources:
~email
~snail mail
~Deals Plus
~Slickdeals

Back in the Game!

I reported yesterday that my middle child got up in the middle of the night and did her school work, well she also unloaded and reloaded the dishwasher! Whata youngun!

Along the way I have been mentioning survey companies that have really worked well for me and I wish to share another one, it is My Survey (located on the right side of the screen). They give points for doing surveys. Every time you reach 1000 points ($10.00) you can cash out and request a check to be sent to your home. At this time, EVERY survey you do you will make at least 10 points. I hope you all sign up and make yourself some extra cash!

Subway - Buy a footlong for $5 and add any side item like chips or a drink for $1 extra.

Coke Rewards - if you do coke rewards you can receive double points on Powerade codes on April 7th.

Chadwicks - buy 2 items and get 30% off of one code - CH302

Coupons.com - have added another cottenelle coupon for .50

Canon Survey - do the survey and get a free water bottle

Ben and Jerry's - free ice cream cone on April 21st

Shop Rite - April magazine with coupons, this link should be the pages link so you see thumbnails of all the pages. These coupons should be able to used any where not just Shop Rite.

Glad bag - free sample Glad bag, from Sam's do not have to be a member to receive this free garage bag

Mueller's Pasta - .55 off of 2 coupon

Uncle Ben's - $1 off of 2 coupon

Kraft First Taste - if you are a member then go and sign in and check for the newest offer, it is a free Oscar Mayer Deli sandwich! If you are not a member then sign up. Every so often you will get a new offer, all you do is go to your account and request the offer, then you receive a coupon in the mail for a free one, go get the product, try it and do a short survey on what you thought. It is very simple. I love free food!

Dominoes - Medium pizzas for $5; of course if you are next to a Little Ceasars you can get a $5 large at any time

KFC - to get current coupons

Hardee's - printable coupons

Burger King - sign up to get the current coupons sent to you

Zaxby's - join their email list and get a coupon for a free meal deal!

Wendy's - sign up to get coupons sent to you, you will also get a $1 coupon off of a sandwich within a week as soon as you sign up!

Roaman's - buy 2 products get 20% off the highest item and 30% off the second highest item with code RD17304, use ebates to make this purchase and get 3% back

Land O'Lakes - sign in or sign up to get to these coupons: (slickdeals)
.55 off on Land O Lakes Fresh Buttery Taste Spread
$1 on any 1 pkg. of 1/2 pound of Alpine Lace Deli Cheese
.50 on One pkg. of Land O Lakes Eggs ( Any Variety)
$1 on any 1 pkg. of 1/2 pound of Land O Lakes Deli Cheese
.75 off (1) Land O Lakes Half & Half Quart
There may be more on the site but these are the ones that I am told is listed.

EAS bar - free sample...make sure as you log in that you put yes that you want the free sample, after you do this it will tell you to print one coupon, if you print more than one your membership will be cancelled. (via slickdeals)

Scotchgard - $1 printable coupon (via slickdeals)

Green Giant Steamers - .60 printable coupon, these are on sale at Walmart for $1...so .40 vegs with coupon!!!! Limit of 2 coupons...how sad...

Shortcuts has a .55 coupon for Honey Nut Cheerios AND coupons.com has a .55 coupon for Honey Nut Cheerios..combine at Kroger and get $1.10 off of one box!

American Greetings - $1 off of any 2 cards...click on the side where is says "Special Offers", also there is a little box that says 50 free prints for joining American Greetings Photoworks.

Blue Bunny - different from yesterday's coupon, $1 off of any Blue Bunny quart of ice cream

Sea Pak - $1 off of any 2 items

I have to thank the hard work of the slickdeals people for a lot of these later coupons. One day I will be signed up on every corporate email group there is but until the time that my email box is flooded with offers I am glad that these people are willing to share theirs! I hope that you enjoy today's post and get a lot of use out of it. I believe that I will be cutting coupons for quite a while today. :)

Monday's Extra

Hint for finding extra savings:
Make sure when you are looking at a website to check out all the banners "advertising" surrounding the page. Lots of times these items that we choose to try and ignore contain coupons and deals.

Gas-x - free sample

Snore Stop - free kit

Febreze - $2 printable coupon, this is for laundry

coupons - coupons for clothes, febreze, dreft, dryel, and downy wrinkle releaser

Redbox - code for a free movie tonight - MS72K3

Chilis - sign up to receive an email for free chips and queso

$25 GC - Staples is offering a new program for schools, you email about your school and when they sign up you both get a $25 GC to staples. Might work for homeschool co-ops, not sure.

Macaroni Grill - on the right sign up to receive emails and get a free appetizer

Product Tester - product tester for Progressive...I believe they have kitchen products

Kroger samples - they have added a sample for Acuvue contact lenses

Self magazine ($1 ic at www.coupons.com)
Here is a list of CVS coupons in the March issue of this magazine:
♥ $1 Almay eye shadow
♥ $1 almay pure blends makeup
♥ $5 aquafresh white trays pro-gentle
♥ $1 on boghese nail lacquer
♥ $1 copperstone nutrashield spf 70+ with dual defense
♥ $1 dove cream oil body wash
♥ $1 sensodyne pronamel
$1 viologie shampoo/conditioner
all expire 3/31/09

Be on the lookout for the new beauty book with coupons in the pharmacy section of CVS.

CVS - March deals from CVS, list coupons with links...keep watching everyday this month to see what iheartcvs purchases

Old Navy - Old Navy has done a new site that offers new coupons, one is for $75 off of $100!!!! To check and see who has found what and where you need to click, check here first - link; best I can tell after the slickdeals post the sales rotate over on Thursday.

MCDONALDS - 49¢ Hamburger, 59¢ Cheeseburger Every Friday - March 06 - April 24, 2009 - USA, thank you Slickdeals!

Hooked on Phonics - First grade activity pack $14.95, plus 40% off with code SAVE40, code works, have to pay $4.95 for shipping so one pack turns out to be about $15.xx after tax and shipping.

Fashion bug - clearance shoes plus shipping with code - 776265308, expires 3/03/09

Here is the extras that I have found for the day.

Jan. 9th, 2009

Sorry there was no post yesterday. I really enjoy finding and sharing these deals but there are just some days when I over sleep and all my other obligations just have to come first. Also I seem to be having a really difficult time getting back into the groove of doing this and starting school on time and this is just not as important to me as schooling my children. But anyway that is the monologue for the day, lets get down to business.

First of all some of my good shopping deals for the week, remember you can still do these because the new sales don't start until Sunday:

Key:
pm - price match, can only do at Walmart, take in the sale ad from another store and they will match the price
c - newspaper coupon
ic - internet coupon
oop -out of pocket
dc - doubling of the coupon by the store

Wal-Mart: (yes I actually got a few good things here this week)
Health Choice Steamers (pm from target ad) $2 - $1 ic = $1
Goodlife cat food $4 - $3 c = $1
Electrosol tabs $3.25 (pm from target ad) - $2.50 c = .75

Kroger:
3 boxes of Kellogg's cereal:
Special K $2.67 - $1 c = $1.67
Pops $2.67- $1 c = $1.67
Special K (fruit and yogurt) $2.67 - $1 ic = $1.67
total $5.01 - $4 Kroger sale = $1.01 oop or .34 a box
also bought:
softsoap $1 - .35 c - .35 dc = .30
pkt of taco and fajita seasoning by Old El Paso .65 a piece, - $1.10/2 ic = .20
I also did $25 worth of P&G products and got the $5 off.

I had $40 worth of coupons I used plus $20 worth of Kroger savings. I hope this weeks post has helped with some of your shopping.

Freegrabber:
Nicoderm CQ coupon and sample...new link

Computer games - 8 computer games for children for $9.99, there are 2 spy kids games and then some games with kermit the frog

Aeropostale - 70% off sale

computer monitors - list of monitors that Dell has on sale, 19" starting at $119

Circuit City - Link to the 3 day sale. They have some Wii accessories for 50% off, sorry no controllers or nunchuks, BUT they do have steering wheels, guns, and covers, for the Wii that is.

Walking Coat - Coat from Cabela's for $9.88! Originally price at $59.95, 4 colors to choose from, shipping is around $5.95.

GNC - printable coupon for $5 off of $35 expires Feb. 28, 2009

Reebok Outlet - 20% off printable coupon, includes sale items

Dress Barn - 10% off printable coupon, expires Jan. 31, 2009

Rack Room Shoes - $10 off of $60 printable coupon, expires Jan. 28, 2009

H&R Block - $20 coupon off tax preparation, says for new clients but I think I will take it anyway all they can do is say no but then again they could say yes. To bad there is not a coupon for long standing customers.

Little Ceasars - coupon for crazy bread and sauce for $1.99, not sure if this is different from the everyday price or not.

Hardees - coupon for a free cinnamon raisin biscuit with the purchase of any breakfast combo; $1 coupon for a ham and 3 cheese burrito combo - link

Arby's - Free medium Dr. Pepper with any purchase, expires Jan. 30

Barnes and Noble - have to be a member to use these printable coupons, one for $5 off of $40 worth of a books, $5 off $15 worth of a dvds, $5 off of $10 worth of a CDs, BOGO coffee, BOGO classic book, and a BOGO quamut chart

AC Moore - 50% off printable coupon, expires on Jan. 10th

Banana Republic - 70% off sale

Soy Joy bars - free sample

I have to thank Deals Plus members and Mommy Saves Big for most of these finds today, we really appreciate the hard work and sharing that these people do. Often I share what I get in my inbox but most often I am just organizing others hard work into items that I think you guys might be interested in. Without these other people trying to help us save what I am doing just wouldn't be possible.

I hope to come back to this later but for now I must move on and get some other things done.