3 free meals at IHOP

The Frugal Girls discovered three ways to eat free at IHOP! I love free food!

The 411 on Your Fav Boutiques

Most of you know I love products made by moms or just handmade in general. I found this great Facebook page that highlights the best of the boutique world!

Like The 411 on Your Fav Boutique on Facebook and tell them Mom Loves Deals sent you!

Free Samples - Deal Seeking Mom

Deal Seeking Mom is a great resource for free samples and here is the weekly roundup from her site. Make sure you get them all!

Thanks for all your hard work, Deal Seeking Mom!

Grocery Inventory and Price List

Southern Savers has created two incredibly helpful documents that will ensure you are saving the most possible money at the grocery. You can print a pantry inventory (to help you avoid having six unopened containers of Parmesan cheese or eight bottles of salad dressing, like...you know, my "friend" once did...) and a pantry staples price list. I looked at the price list and it's very accurate for this area. The prices are what we all should be shooting for when we shop and when they reach that price, it's time to stock up!




Thanks for your hard work, Southern Savers!

Giveaway: Lizzie's Lovelies

If you want to win this sweet bow and $3 towards another item from Lizzie's Lovelies, enter on her blog here. The winner will be chosen on Thursday at 8pm so enter now!

Make your own cleaning supplies

I have been doing this consistently for about a year and I love both of these recipes. If you search, you will find hundreds of variations of these so if you find something isn't working well for your needs, you can always add or exchange ingredients.

Laundry Detergent
I can get all of this at Publix in the laundry detergent aisle. It's about $8 for all three things but the washing soda and Borax make about six  batches. A triple batch lasts me about five months and I do at least one load a day. I use it for cloth diapers, as well.

• 1 bar Fels Naptha soap
• 1 1/2 cups of Arm and Hammer Super Washing Soda
• 1/2 Borax 
• a sprinkling of baking soda (more if you have hard water, I add it to cut down the ammonia smell from the cloth diapers)

I need to get a food processer but I just use a cheese grater and grate the Fels Naptha into a container with a lid (I use a 6.5 qt. Rubbermaid bucket.) Add the rest of the ingredients and stir. You only need 1-2 tablespoons for each load depending on how dirty the clothes seem.

All Purpose Cleaning Solution
I buy all of this from Lucky Vitamin. I've used the same shipment of ingredients for over 6 months and they are no where near empty.

•   .5 oz of Aubrey’s Earth Aware Cleanser ($5.42/32 oz. bottle)
• 10 drops NOW Tea Tree Oil ($5.39/1 oz. bottle) 
• 20 drops NOW Lemon Oil ($10.19/4 oz. bottle) 
• Mix in spray bottle with filtered water
• Final cost: $0.20 per bottle of household cleaner

How to Shop Walgreens

Have you been curious about Walgreens and how their Register Rewards program works? Friend Family Savings has a great guest post that spells it out. They do mention northern grocery stores that will accept the register rewards as cash but unfortunately, Florida doesn't have any that do.

This is an easy way to get lots of products you use every day for free or occasionally actually make money!

Winning Sweepstakes

Some of you know that I love winning stuff. I enter blog giveaways and sweepstakes often. Since I've started tracking my winnings, I win something useful about twice a week. Not bad as a second income! A friend of mine has recently started entering contests as well and just won a $300 car seat! It really does pay off and it's worth the time you put in.

I love this guest post on Freebies 4 Mom. It will help you get started and discover the world of winning!

Free Bedtime Story

A Story Before Bed is offering a free bedtime story ($9.99 value)! All you need a a camera and microphone on your computer and you can record a cute story for your kiddos. This would be great to have grandparents or family out of state do for your kids. The only downside is you can't save it to your computer but Deal Wise Mommy had the great idea to record it with your camera and put it on a DVD so you can save it.

Thanks, Deal Wise Mommy!

P&G Home Made Simple coupons

Get $30 worth of coupons from Procter and Gamble.
The Home Made Simple mailer has great coupons and they usually have long expiration dates so you can wait for sales.

Thanks, Deal Wise Mommy!