Free photo cards

SeeHere, one of the many online photo places available, is offering 60 free photo cards, all you pay is $4.90 shipping! This would be great for anyone with a new baby or even anyone who wants to send out Easter cards! Just make sure you use the code NEWBABY when you check out!

You can also get 50 free 4x6 prints when you sign up as a new customer! Check them out HERE!

Coldwater Creek and Physician's Formula special offers!

If you become fans of Coldwater Creek and Physician's Formula on Facebook right now, they have some pretty awesome deals!

Coldwater Creek is offering $25 off of any $50 purchase online or in store to their facebook fans through Thursday. Click HERE to become a fan!

Physician's Formula is emailing a coupon for BOGO on any product! They also have some rebate offers on their website, which could mean two free products!!! Click HERE to become a fan!

AMAZING All You magazine deal

Money Saving Mom posted about an AMAZING deal on All You magazine recently. If you haven't heard about All You, just check the CVS and Walgreens match-ups most weeks and you'll see a reference to a coupon from there, which makes for a free or almost free item most of the time.

All You is a cute little magazine with recipes, money-saving tips, and household advice that is sold only at Wal-Mart. The cover price on this magazine is about $2.50 and most of the time, you can get subscriptions for not much less than $20 per year, until now!

Money Saving Mom is offering a deal through a company called Campus Fundraiser, which sells magazine subscriptions to tons of different magazines. Through March 15th, you can get 40 issues for $40, PLUS you will be quickly (within 3-5 business days) reimbursed for $14 via your method of payment, which means you can get 40 issues of All You (or any other $40 subscription of your choice) for only $28, or $.70 per issue! That is a GREAT deal on this magazine!

Personally, I think the magazine is cute; not the best out there, but it's pretty cute. Plus, they have TONS of coupons throughout the magazine, so even if you are only able to use one coupon each month, it more than pays for itself at $.70 per issue. I'm usually able to use at least 3-4 coupons a month, and each coupon is worth at LEAST $1 each, so I'm saving at least $4 and getting some entertainment for my $.70.

In all honesty, this is really worth it and you're not going to find a better deal ANYWHERE! I used the cost of the subscription as part of my grocery budget for that month, and it has paid for itself more than a couple of times after only a few months. You can also use this to extend your current subscription if you already have one (I do and I'm thrilled that I can extend it for so little cost!) Check out the steps on Money Saving Mom HERE to sign up too!

Free coffee and granola bars from Earth Fare

Earth Fare has a coupon out for a free pound of bulk coffee and free granola bars with ANY purchase! Click HERE for this great coupon!

CVS deals 02/28/10-03/06/10

Here are the best deals at CVS this week:

Aveeno Ageless Vitality Day, Night, or Eye Treatment $19.99
-$5 ECB (Limit 1)
-$5/1 printable coupon HERE
-Submit for $10 rebate HERE
=FREE

Softsoap or Irish Spring Body Wash $4.99
-$4 ECB (Limit 1)
-$1/1 Soft Soap from March All You Magazine
=FREE

Power Bar Energy Gel Blast $1.50
-$1.50 ECB (Limit 1)
-$1/1 from 01/03/10 SS
=FREE plus profit

Colgate Total $2.50
-$2 ECB (limit 1)
-$1/1 from March All You magazine
=$0.50

Huggies Box Diapers $19.99
-$4 ECB (Limit 1)
- any number of Huggies coupons from various home mailers (SIGN UP!)
=around $14 (with a $2 coupon)

Walgreens deals 02/28/10-03/06/10

Here are the best deals at Walgreens this week:

Colgate Total Toothpaste $2.99
-$2 RR
-$1/1 coupon from 02/21/10 SS
=FREE

Purex Complete 3-in-1 Laundry Sheets 2/$9
-$1 RR wyb 2
-BOGO coupon from 02/21/10 RP
=$1.75 each

Formula 409 $1.99
-$1/1 coupon from 01/17/10 SS
=$.99

Schick Quattro Razor $8.99
-$3 RR
-$4/1 coupon from 02/28/10 SS
-Try Me Free rebate in 02/07/10 SS
=FREE plus profit

Huggies Pull ups $8.99
-$5 RR wyb 3
-$2/1, $1.50/1, etc from various mailers (SIGN UP!!!)
= as low as $5.32 each wyb 3

Cottonelle 12 rolls $5.99
-$1/1 from 01/17/10 SS
-$5 RR wyb 3
=$3.32 each

Announcing the newest member of our family!!!!

I am very VERY happy to report that our newest sweet little baby boy was born on Wednesday and we are THRILLED!!!!!! He is perfect in every way and sweet as can be. I'll post about the whole experience of having a third baby sometime later when I'm able to catch up on a few things (sleep being one of them,) but until then, here's a picture of our sweet baby Paul. We already can't imagine life without him.

Walgreens photo deal 02/22/10

Walgreens photo department is offering a new deal every day this week and today's deal is 40% off of digital prints. This includes 4x6, 5x7, and 8x10 sizes. Use the code DIGITAL40 when you're checking out online and choose in-store delivery.

Pregnancy update

I am now more than full term in my pregnancy, and I have to say that this pregnancy has kicked my butt! I have been in so much pain the past few weeks, and to add to that, I fell (I feel like a very old person) today for the second time this week.

The first time was on Thursday and I slipped on some vegetable oil that I didn't know was on my kitchen floor (Thank you Mark and James for getting into something you weren't supposed to!!) and I landed on the side of my stomach, so I was worried about the baby.

One awesome friend watched my kids while another awesome friend hauled my sore butt to the doctor's office, where I had a non-stress test and a sonogram to make sure that everything was ok. Thankfully, everything was great! The baby is perfect, which was my main concern.

I was also able to confirm that I have been having contractions every 5 minutes (I AM NOT CRAZY!!!!), but they're not strong enough to get me into real labor yet, which is what happened with both of my other boys. I contracted every 5 minutes for DAYS with no big results! Apparently my contractions only get me dilated as far as a few centimeters, and then I stop. We finally used a little pitocin to get me over the hump with both boys and my labor took off with fast and amazing results once I got that little whiff!

Now, I have another appointment tomorrow, and we'll see if anything more has happened dilation-wise, or if we're looking at a little more pitocin to keep moving forward. I feel like such a failure in part, because I feel like I'm just bowing out of the natural process and taking the easy way out. BUT I'm ready! My body is ready! This baby has wanted to be ready for many many weeks now (hence the bedrest earlier), and is physically ready now. I've been dilating every 5 minutes for a week for goodness sakes!!!!! I keep praying that my water will just break and I can go the 'natural' way, the way you're supposed to go, but that may just not be what's best for me, the baby, and in keeping with God's plan. I'm trying to be flexible with my expectations and just concentrate on the end result!

Anyway, my wonderful friend Kim took our family/pregnancy photos today, so I am very excited to finally post some pregnancy pictures!!! I'll get them up as soon as she has a chance to edit them!

Please join me in praying that this baby comes out fast!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Walgreens deals 02/21/10-02/28/10

Here are the best deals at Walgreens this week:

Ester-C BOGO (psa $10.99)
-$5/1 coupon from 01/03/10 RP insert
=$.45 each

Ghirardelli Chocolate bars $1.50
-$1/2 Walgreens coupon from February booklet
=$1

Goody Ouchless Elastics $2.99
-$2 RR
-$1/1 coupon from 01/03/10 RP
=FREE (WOOHOO! I've been needing more of these!)

Triaminic or Theraflu products $5 each
-$5 RR wyb 2
-$1.50/1 coupon from 02/07/10 SS insert
=$1 each

Fusion razor $8.99
-$4 RR
-$4/1 from 02/07 PG insert
=$0.99

Tylenol Cold or Allergy products $4.99 each
-$3 RR wyb 2
-$3/2 coupon from 01/03/10 RP insert
=$2 each (again, I love this stuff. It's the only stuff that I'm allowed to take during pregnancy/breastfeeding that actually works!)

CVS deals 02/21/10-02/28/10

Here are the best deals at CVS this week:

Colgate MaxFresh Toothpaste $2.99
-$2 ECBs (limit 1)
-$0.75/1 coupon from 02/21/10 SS insert
=$.24

EARinse $7.99
-$7.99 ECBs (limit 1)
=FREE

Mennen Speed Stick $2.99
-$2 ECBs (limit 2)
-$0.50/1 from 01/31/10 SS insert
=$.49

Physicians Formula Bamboo Wear Powder or Bronzer Refill $6.99
-$5 ECBs (limit 1)
-$5/1 peelie coupon (rumored to be on some packages)
=FREE plus profit

Almay Intense i-Color $5.99
-$2 ECBs (limit 1)
-$2/1 from 02/07/10 SS insert
=$1.99 (I love this stuff!!!)

Almay Smart Shade or Smart Balance Foundation $9.99
-$5 ECBs (limit 1)
-$2/1 from 02/07/10 SS insert
=$2.99

Airwick Freshmatic $5.99
-$5/1 from 02/07/10 SS insert
=$0.99

Swaggrabber diapers.com giveaway

So every time someone signs up at Diapers.com and uses a referral code, the person who referred them gets a credit, which is AWESOME! I've gotten a few myself and THANK YOU TO THOSE WHO HAVE DONE IT!!

So Sheri at swaggrabber.com has gotten quite a few credits and, lucky for her, she doesn't have any need for diapers (oh, someday I'm sure I'll get there too!) She's currently hosting a giveaway for her credit, which is a total of $87 in free diapers!!! I don't know about you, but I could sure use some free diapers!!!!!

Check out her blog to sign up for her giveaway, with up to 6 ways to win. Blogging about it is one of the ways to win, which is the reason for this fine little post, so good luck and wish me the same!!!

Walgreens family and friends discount day is back!

Walgreens is offering their family and friends discount again this friday, Feb 12th only! The discount is 15% off of anything, and 20% off of Walgreens brands.

All you have to do is print the coupon from their WEBSITE or you can also receive the coupon as a text message on your phone and just show the cashier. To get the text version, message the word HEART to 21525.

I'm so glad that I didn't finish all of my Walgreens trips last night. I'll be making the last two on Friday for a better deal/more profit!!!

Diapers.com $25 off of a $50 order

I've seen lots of ads for diapers.com in the past couple of years, in various magazines, mailings, online, etc, and I had always thought about checking it out, but never actually done it. I did it for the first time a couple of weeks ago and I was very satisfied!

I was on bedrest and we needed diapers. I love my husband, but I really didn't want to send him out with the very specific instructions on how to buy diapers that worked for us at a good price (aka stacking coupons, using register rewards, etc) so I bought a GIGANTIC pack of Huggies and a big pack of Pampers (for the new baby) from diapers.com.

Not only did the price end up being about the same as a great deal on diapers in town, but they delivered them to my door!! This was a huge bonus since I couldn't leave the house myself. Plus it's a great way to stock up on diapers without running from store to store, buying coupons online, and you can wear your jammies without anyone seeing you!

First, I compared the cost of both scenarios. Here's a good way to compare the cost of diapers: I like to calculate the price per diaper when I'm trying to figure out if packages with different amounts than I'm used to are really a good deal. So I take the total cost and divide that by the number of diapers in the package/s.

This week at Walgreens, Huggies are on sale, plus you get $3 RR, plus you can use coupons, so let's take that scenario for comparison.

Huggies size 4 $8.99
-$3 RR
-$1 MQ
-$1 WQ
=$3.99 per pack

These size 4 packages have 31 diapers, which, if you calculate it, equals to be about $.13 per diaper. The cost of the diapers without a sale (usually $11) is about $.35 per diaper.

I spent $25 at diapers.com for large amounts of both NB Pampers diapers and size 4 Huggies diapers, and the total cost per diaper, after the coupon codes and rebate available, was $.14 per diaper. Add to that the fact that Pampers cost more per diaper than Huggies, I didn't have to leave the house, they were delivered to my door, and I was out of diaper coupons to use at the store even if I could have gone, I came out on top!

Now that I'm sure you're as convinced as I was, here's how to do it. Through the end of February at diapers.com, if you use my referral code (PROVIDENT), you get an instant $10 off of your order on any kind of diapers (They carry a large variety of brands.)

You also get free 2 day shipping if you spend $49 or more.

ALSO you can get a $14.97 rebate (or a free subscription to Parenting the early years magazine) when you buy $15 worth of diapers from diapers.com.

SO...

Go to diapers.com and set up a new account with my referral code (PROVIDENT) for an instant $10 off. Fill your cart with at least $49 of any brand of diapers (they also carry a wide variety of reusable diapers if you're interested.) You will qualify for free shipping. Check out. In two days, your diapers will arrive on your door. Send the receipt enclosed with THIS form for your rebate.

You will end up paying about the same as a really good sale on diapers, which only happens every couple of months.

Kid to Kid sale

Kid to Kid is a children's consignment store, which has locations all around the country! Our local Kid to Kid store, in Evans, GA, is having a couple of great sales these next two weeks (I'm not sure if it's only a local sale or if every location is having the same sale, but check out yours just in case!)

Basically, they're revamping their 0-9 months section to only include the top brands, so they're trying to get rid of their non-name brand stuff. I told the cashier that I hated to hear that because I'm not really one to go searching for the top brands of clothing for my children and I am more than happy to spend less on good quality, used, non-name brands, especially for children who are under a year old and barely use the clothes anyway! Oh well. Anyway, right now, all the 0-9 month clothing is buy two, get one free. I was able to get two barely used shirts and a brand new jacket for the new baby (Gymboree, Carter's, and TCP brands) for $5 because all of them were marked down on top of getting one for free! I was pretty happy with what I got!

What I really wish that I could participate is the next sale, but I'm hoping to be recovering from having a baby around that time. In addition to revamping the store, they're celebrating their anniversary, so next week, from the 18th-21st, they're offering 40% off of all marked down items, and 20% off of everything else. I found a lot of clothes that were marked down, so this could mean some really great deals for all sizes!

Go HERE for more information on this sale or to get directions!

Michael's 60% off one item

Here's a great coupon!! Michael's is offering 60% off any one regularly priced item. This is only good through Saturday though, so hurry up and use it!! Go HERE to print yours.

FREE Denny's Grandslam breakfast!!

On February 9, 2010 from 6 am to 2 pm ONLY, Denny’s will be giving away free Grand Slam Breakfasts to anyone who comes in, with NO PURCHASE NECESSARY!

Last time they did this, the lines were HUGE, but they were giving away rainchecks, so it may be worth checking out! I'm debating slightly, but I will probably not be doing this because it always looks like a nice little family activity in my head and then turns into more than I can handle in real life (long lines with a VERY pregnant mama and two small boys doesn't usually equal a good time.)

Go HERE for more details on this great freebie!

FREE 6 month subscription to Thriving Family

Focus on the Family is offering a free 6 month subscription to Thriving Family Magazine! Go HERE to sign up for yours!

Walgreens 02/07/10-02/13/10

Here are the Walgreens match-ups for the week:

Dove Men's body wash $5.99
-$5.99 RR
-$1.25/1 coupon from the 01/31/10 RP insert
-$1.50/1 printable coupon HERE
=FREE plus profit

Huggies diapers or pull-ups $8.99
-$3 RR
-$1/1 coupon from 01/17/10 insert
-$2/1 Pull-ups from mail-out
-$1.50/1 from mail-out
-$1/1 Walgreens coupon from Children’s Activity book
= as little as $3 per pack

Joint Juice 30ct pack $10
-$10 RR

Vitamin Water Lip Care $1.99
-$2 RR

CVS 02/07/10-02/13/10

*sighs* it was a long weekend here, with my baby's 2nd birthday AND the superbowl hooplah, I was down and out today. Here are the match-ups for CVS for this week:

Valentine's photo cards $1
-$1 ECB
=FREE

Listerine, Reach Total Care, Reach floss, or Reach toothbrushes $3.99
-$2 ECB wyb 1 (limit 2)
-BOGO Reach floss coupon from the 01/03/10 RP insert
-$1/1 coupon from the 10/18/09 RP insert
=FREE plus profit

Gillette Fusion Razor $8.99
-$4 ECB
-$4/1 coupon from the 02/07/10 PG insert
=$.99

CVS brand vitamins are BOGO (I always get my kids' gummy vitamins when they have their BOGO sale, they're much cheaper than the name brand, even with coupons)