5 free issues of O magazine

If you are a member of Startsampling they have an offer for 5 free issues of 0 magazine. I get about 12 magazines a month and I don't pay for 11 of them. I did buy a subscription to All You but thats because its such an awesome coupon magazine.

I stocked up on some cheese this week at Kroger. They have Kraft cheese( shredded or chunk) on sale for $1.24 a bag. If you buy 4 the 5th on is free so its 5 pks for 4.96. Then it prints a catalina for $4 off your next order. I am going to get some more cheese in the morning. I keep it in the freezer and thats an awesome deal.

I got my latest $5 gift cert for Amazon.com from Swagbucks in my email last night. I am saving for Christmas with those.

BTW I order some 4th of July pictures from Snapfish using the coupon code PENNY. I got the pictures today and they are awesome. The code is good until July 10th and its 50 prints for 50cents plus shipping and handling.

There is a rebate out for $10 from Kellogs Fuel for School
buy 10 product in one trip and send the upc codes, cash register receipt and the form to get your rebate. These are the products.
-100 Calorie Right Bites (6 ct. or larger)
-Eggo Products (4 ct. or larger)
-Keebler or Austin Products (8 oz. or larger)
-Kellogg's Cereal (10 oz. or larger)
-Kellogg's Fruit Flavored Snacks (6 ct. or larger)
-Kellogg's Nutri-Grain Cereal Bars (8 ct. or larger)
-Kellogg's Pop Tarts (8 ct. or larger)
-Kellogg's Rice Krispies Treats Squares (8 ct. or larger)
-Kellogg's Special K Cereal Bars (8 ct. or larger)
-MorningStar Farms Veggie Foods Product (5 oz. or larger)
-Sunshine Products (8 oz. or larger)

I have put links on the side bar for sites to print online coupons and a lot of those sites have coupons for those products. I am hoping to catch the eggo's on sale since I have printed coupons for those.

Get your name on Dale Jr's Amp car

I will start out on an odd note. Its not very warm for it to be July in West Virginia. Its only in the 70's and I am freezing for some reason so had to light the stove to take the chill out of the air. This is crazy. It was cold and snowy for months and months and now its not even warm for summer.

I thought this was pretty cool. I am a Jimmy Johnson fan myself but still this is cool. Sign up if you aren't an Amp member and then you can have your name on the 88 car in the Amp 500 race. Sign in here.

Also for any who are interested in actually money not gift cards, you can now redeem swagbucks for paypal cash. It takes 80 swagbucks for $5 in PayPal but I prefer the Amazon gift certs since that makes me feel like I am buying presents for nothing.

Wednesday Weigh In

I missed last Wednesday, mostly because I hadn't lost anything. I got on the scales this morning and am down 2 more lbs. I've been a bit depressed so haven't felt much like posting lately.

I have been in a lot of pain from my back lately so I thought this was a cool deal
Sign up and get 3 sample size oinmnents here for pain.

In the mail yesterday I got a box of Nature Valley Nut Clusters There were 4 bags, 1) roasted cashews with granola and a touch of honey, these are my favorites, 2) honey roasted peanuts with granola and a touch of honey 3) roasted almonds with granola and a touch of honey, and 4)nut lovers with granola and a touch of honey (my second favorite). These were a freebie from MyBlogSpark. These are the people who sponsor a lot of the giveaways you see on other blogs. If you have a blog I recommend you set up an account with them. BTW if you go to the Nature Valley page there is a $1 coupon to print off the nut clusters at the bottom of the page.
I also got a couple of coupons off of Marlboro cigarette's. I don't smoke but they are having a daily prize contest. Last year I got a sleeping bag from them. My sister won a tent once from them. I also got the Veggie Tales dvd I ordered. Since my granddaughter's birthday just past I am going to save it for either Halloween or Christmas.

mail call

Here are a few things I got in the mail yesterday. I got my coupon from KFC for a free ungrilled meal after the coupon fiasco, I got a coupon for free flatbread melt from Digiorno, I also got my Pillsbury doll. He is adorable. I am putting him up for my granddaughter when she is older. In my email I also got this notice I won a second Pillsbury doll. That is too cool. It also comes with a cookbook of prize winning recipes so now I have one cookbook for my collection and then one is going to be someone's present for something. I am slowly building up my gift box. I used to always have a box that was full of stuff I had for gifts for unexpected occasions and had gotten away from that but now I am working on building it up again. That makes for a frugal Christmas and all around occasions. I got enough Swagbucks to order another $5 Amazon.com gift certificate. I get about 1 $5 gift code a month and am saving those up to get Christmas stuff with.

free sample of Kiss My Face anti-stress gel. Boy do I feel like I need this.
offer here

A really cool moneysaving contest. I really need to crack down and save and am enthused just by the chance to save money.
All You grocery challenge. You could win a $1000 grocery card, a one year supply of Knorr side dishes, plus a feature in All You magazine! The winner will appear on the CBS Early Show in December!
To register, fill out and submit the form by 11:59 p.m., July 12. The challenge starts on July 13.
We'll send you weekly e-mails, starting July 13, that include tips, recipes and instructions on how to blog about your progress and use our handy Spending Log.

After four weeks, we'll tell you how to send in your results, and we'll then choose 10 finalists.
The finalist who followed the budget with the most creative healthful choices will win a $1,000 grocery card and a year's supply of Knorr side dishes—and will appear in ALL YOU!
You must spend no more than $25 per person, per week on groceries
They also have an online spending log you can use to track your spending. You have to keep the receipts for each week because if you are choose you will have to show them.
Household and toiletry items do not count in your grocery spending total
Eating out/takeout *does* count toward your grocery spending total

Saturday Savings

Sportsman Magazine free subscription

Double Roll of Scott's Toilet Tissue and 10 count pack of Flushable Wipes This is offered from Walmart.

Ok this one isn't totally free but its really cool and a good deal. You can get a Veggie Tale dvd for $2.99 shipping and handling only. Free DVD Veggie Tales are faith based cartoons for the kids to watch.

ranting

Please forgive the below rant but I am so mad I could spit. My oldest daughter is so lazy she won't get a job, she just sits around with her friends all day. She has been coming to my place to visit me supposedly only tonight I look out my window and she is making out with the man next door. I don't know his age but I do know he is older than me. He is on disability due to a back injury, owns no car, has 4 kids with his ex wife. I am so angry and disappointed, I just want to pack up and move back to NC and not deal with any of this anymore. After stewing all night about it, I got to thinking off all the things I have done so that she would have a better life than I had. Then I thought of Christ. I imagine there are a lot of times he feels the same way about me. He even died and was tortured for my sake and yet I so often go about my daily life without thought of Him. I still don't have the slightest idea what to do about her but I will just pray for her and turn it all over to God and let him take care of it. He is so much better equipped to deal with this than I am.


In an attempt to get my mind off this I was netsurfing and found this video. I would imagine its to promote the new show with MC Hammer and his family. It was fun to watch though. I remember my cousin Melanie used to own pants like that and she loved MC Hammer :)