Free Redbox Rentals

Use these codes at any Redbox for free 1-night rentals. I don't know when they expire so use them soon!
ABTS25
SNSV25

Get free stuff for recycling

 This may not be new to some, but it was new to me so I wanted to share. Recyclebank.com is a website that rewards you for recycling. You get 100 points just for signing up and then you can add more points to your account by recycling old electronics, joining and using kashless.org (like Freecycle), or being a part of a neighborhood curbside recycling program. I have a few old cell phones I'm going to recycle but even if you only use the first 100 points, you can still get great stuff. I spent my points on 5 $1 Coke coupons since it's the one thing my husband asks me to buy every week. (He will eat Hamburger Helper and Easy Mac with hot dogs without complaint, I can buy him Coke.) Other free rewards you can get with your 100 points are Seventh Generation dish soap, 20% off at Foot Locker, amd BOGO Huggies wipes. There are hundreds of rewards!

Walgreens this week

Walgreens (deals good through 1/9)

What I bought:

Electrasol dishwasher tabs ($2.50 coupon from Sunday paper)

(2) 6oz Chips Ahoy (coupon here printable (IE) or printable (FF))

(2) 8oz Fig Newtons (coupon here printable (IE) or printable (FF))

1 pack of notecards (no sale or coupon, I needed them)

Total: $8.76

Total I paid: $1.26

Total I got back in Extra Bucks: $2.00 

(Yes. they paid me $0.74.

CVS this week

I go to CVS and Walgreens every week and buy according to the rewards bucks for that week. (If you aren't sure what I'm talking about, Go here for a CVS 101 and Walgreens 101. They are under the "Drug Store" heading.)

Here's what I got this week.

CVS (deals good through 1/9)

What I bought:

(4) 12-pack Coke products (no coupons, on sale 4/$13)

1 single serve Coke (coupon here.)

12-roll pack of Scott toilet paper (on sale, not pictured)

(2) Oust Surface and Air (BOGO coupon from Sunday paper)

1 bottle of Nivea Body Wash with free Body cream attached ($2 CVS coupon and $2 from paper)

4 tubes of Nivea Lip Gloss (2 BOGO coupons)

*If you spend $10 on Nivea products, you get $5 back.*

*For each Oust product you buy (limit 3), you get $3 back.*

*You get 2% of whatever you spend back each quarter.*

Total: $52.69

Total I paid: $37.22

Total I got back in Extra Bucks: $12.50

Free Dog Food

If you or someone you know adopted a dog in 2009, Pedigree wants to give you a free 20 lb bag of food for the little pooch. Thanks, MomsbyHeart, for the info!

Go here for more details.

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Coupon Fraud

This is a GREAT article by Jenny at Southernsavers.com. "Spotting Coupon Fraud" is a must read for anyone wanting to use coupons the right way. Stores get reimbursed for coupons and if we aren't aware of the problems, we could get in trouble and lose them money. I'm not trying to break laws or cheat the system so I am very grateful for this article!

Snapfish.com 50 prints for 50¢

This is a great way to print out all those pictures of you opening presents on Christmas. Your Grandma would love to know you actually wore the sweater she knitted and for 1¢, you can show her!

Go to snapfish.com by January 7th, order 50 4x6 prints, enter code NEWYEAR50, and tada! Almost free pictures!

Free Crunch Bar

Nestle Crunch has launched The Crunch Challenge on Facebook (you don't have to become a fan, just click Crunch Challenge on their page.) All you have to do is play a surprisingly fun 10 question trivia game. If you answer all 10 questions (I don't even think you have to get them all right) and you are one of the first 1000 of the day, you will get an email (mine came two days after I played) telling you to submit your address to get your coupon good for a free Crunch bar. It's easy, fun, and free chocolate! What could be better than that???

Disney Give a Day, Get a Day

Go here to sign up. You volunteer for a few hours and Disney will give you a one park ticket to any Disney Park. If you want to do this, SIGN UP NOW! Spots are filling up VERY quickly. I signed up today and all the weekend days at the place my husband and I are volunteering were gone. What I did love, though, is that I could sign up as many as 6 people in my house to volunteer on the same day at the same location, as long as they had requested that many volunteers.

Do something good and get rewarded!!

My coupon organizer

   If you read any number of coupon blogs, you will see many different ways people organize their coupons. If you are going to use coupons every week and aim to save more than you spend, you will need some kind of system that works for you.

   Here is what I was using:

It worked for a while until I started getting doubles of each's weeks coupons and made couponing more of a lifestyle change than an occassional habit. I got frustrated because there was no way to organize the coupons within each section. Once I got frustrated, it was over. If I don't enjoy what I'm doing and it becomes a chore, then I need to step back because a frustrated mommy makes everyone's lives miserable.

I knew I needed something so I could see what I had. I liked the idea of a binder and was thinking I wanted to use something like what baseball card collectors use. So, I took a trip to Office Depot to see what I could find.

Here's what I created: (And, no, it's not new, many people use this and you can even buy them premade online but it was easy to just do it myself.)

 
I started with a 1 inch 3-ring binder since I had an empty one laying around. I ended up going back to Office Depot to get a 1.5 inch binder because it's roomier. I bought pages for business cards and 3.5x5 photos. each slot is for one item but not neccesarily the same coupon. For example, right now, I have 8 coupon for Glade candles. Some are BOGO, some are save $2 when you buy 2, ect but they are all for Glade candles. They are all in one slot. It makes stacking and stocking up so easy!

   Another reason you need to make something that works for you is so you can seperate the coupons into groups you will use. The small organizer only had 13 sections which, I learned, wasn't enough for me.

My tabs are labeled as follows

• Baby
• Baking/Cooking
• Beauty (This is for lotion, makeup, ect, not bath stuff)
• Bread
• Breakfast
• Cleaning
• Dairy
• Dessert
• Drinks
• Fruit
• Meat
• Medicine - Adult
• Medicine - Child
• Paper Products
• Pasta/Rice
• Pizza
• Snacks
• Soup/Sauce
• Toiletries
• Veggies
• Non-grocery/Misc

Within each section, I can organize further since everything has a page. Within toiletries, I can keep toothbrushes, toothpaste, ect on one page. Deodarant on another and so on and so forth. I work better with over the top organization so if that doesn't work for you, find something that does. My brain works logically and methodically so I needed something that required little thought.

Good luck on a new year of saving money!!!