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The freebies weren’t that abundant this week, but there were still some good ones:
2 free $10 Starbucks gift cards from Swagbucks
Free Dove GoFresh Deodorant sample
Free Nature’s Bounty Fish Oil samples
What freebies have arrived in your mailbox this week?
By the way, if you want to start getting great freebies in your mailbox, just start signing up for the freebies I post every day that interest you. Within 4-6 weeks, your mailbox will start filling up with great freebies!
Add 10 points to your Pampers Gifts to Grow account with the following code:
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Here are more points you can add to your account, if you’ve not added them yet:
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Thanks, Coupon Pro!
The Baby Sleep Site has two part-time work-from-home positions open for live computer chat customer service agents. This is a part-time position starting at 16 hours per week. For this position, we are looking for people who can work Monday through Friday during daytime business hours (time zone flexible).
Primary Responsibilities
1. Be available via computer to (online) chat live with site visitors (no phone required).2. Provide helpful direction to visitors to articles or resources that best suit their needs, and answer questions.
Knowledge and Skills Needed
1. The ideal candidate for this position is someone with a customer service background, with knowledge of the resources available on The Baby Sleep Site. Experience in sales is a plus. Article writing skills also a plus.2. Candidate must be able to empathize and communicate with a wide variety of personalities and parenting philosophies.
3. Candidate must:
- Possess excellent verbal and written communication skills,
- Be kind and focused toward the solution,
- Have good computer skills and be proficient in using the internet,
- Type fast.
Work Requirements
- Must be able to work remotely from home or own office.
- Must have dedicated time available to work up to 4 continuous hours per day (or broken up in two chunks), Monday through Friday during daytime business hours.
- Needs to have a reliable internet connection and computer in good working condition.
Compensation: Based on experience.
For more information or to submit your application, visit the Career page on The Baby Sleep Site.
You can get girls’ and toddler’s leggings for just $3.73 shipped from Lands’ End plus 8% cashback. Here’s how:
::Click through the ShopAtHome site to the Land’s End site to get 8% cashback.
::On the Lands’ End site click on “Overstocks” in the header and then “Under $10” to find Girls’ and Toddlers’ leggings priced at $4.97. (These were on the third page for me.)
::Put your selection in your cart and go to checkout.
::Use coupon code DISCOVERLE and pin 6702 to get 25% off plus free shipping (no minimum).
::That makes these leggings just $3.73 shipped (plus tax, if applicable).
::Within 30-60 days, you’ll receive 8% cashback in your ShopAtHome account, plus a $5 bonus if it’s your first time to order.
You can also still get Ladies’ Turtlenecks for $3.73 shipped.
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I’m stoked! Amy Lynn Andrews is generously offering her ebook Tell Your Time: How to Manage Your Schedule So You Can Live Free for just $0.99 through Monday. Just use coupon code ONLY99 to knock the price down.
I don’t highly recommend books or ebooks very often, but this is one that I would recommend everyone read. In fact, it made it to the short list of must-read books I share in the back of my new book.
The principles in Tell Your Time have revolutionized my life and time management–and how I view time in general. And when I consistently apply the principles in it, it is amazing the difference it makes.
If you’re struggling with time management or just feel like your life is out of order, I’d encourage you to get a copy of Tell Your Time, read it through carefully, and implement the principles in it. If you’re anything like me, you’ll see incredible results.
Now I just have to work on continuing to follow through with the principles. 🙂
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Gap is offering a coupon for $5 off any $5 or more purchase at GAP Kids or GAP Baby.
Just share the coupon via Facebook, Twitter, or Google and you’ll receive a coupon by email you can print and show to the cashier.
I printed mine and am thinking of using it to buy socks or tights for the girls. I’ve only been in GAP one other time and was aghast at the prices, but I’m hoping perhaps I can find something free or almost-free with this coupon!
Thanks, One Frugal Chick!
So many of you mentioned yesterday that it was really hard to choose just one bad habit to focus on for the next 20 days. I know the feeling! At any given time, it can seem like there are a hundred and one areas that I need to improve in. In fact, when I start dwelling on all the bad habits I want to reverse or the good habits I want to implement, I can become overwhelmed!
Over the summer, I attended a workshop at our local homeschool conference by Susan Christman. She was encouraging moms to making habit-training a priority in their children’s lives. (You can see her hand-out here. If you’re unfamiliar with the term “habit-training”, be sure to check out this free ebook for more helpful information.)
The one thing that she emphasized was not only important habits are to develop in our own lives and the lives of our children, but how important it is to focus on one new habit at a time. I left the conference with this nugget of wisdom forever lodged in my brain.
In fact, it was the answer to my lifelong quest for more discipline. You see, for as long as I can remember, every few months, I’d realize that my life was in serious need of more order and discipline. In a flurry of resolve, I’d make this huge list of new habits I was going to begin implementing immediately.
I’d do really well at my new resolutions for about two days. And then I’d crash and burn from exhaustion, or something unexpected would come up and catapult me off course. When this happened, I’d throw up my hands in despair and defeat, feeling like a failure.
Instead of trying to implement two dozen habits at once, pace yourself and just focus on one habit at a time. Yes, it will take longer to actually see big changes, but those changes will be much more long-lasting.
In the long run, it’s better to only focus on and master three habits each year that actually stick, than to try repeatedly to develop 30 different habits at a time and end up overwhelmed, frustrated, and back to where you started from.
Practical Application
Sometime in the next 24 hours, find 15 minutes to sit down and make a list of all the good habits you want to develop in your own life and the bad habits you want to reverse. This is not an exercise to overwhelm you; it’s an exercise to just get it all written down on paper so it’s not sitting in your brain nagging at you. 🙂
Once you’ve made an exhaustive list, prioritize the top three habits that will make the most difference were you to implement them tomorrow. Then, take a deep breath, set your paper aside in a safe place (if you’re prone to lose things, consider emailing yourself the list or saving it as a file on your computer!), and keep working on the habit you’ve already committed to make your focus for the next 19 days.
When you feel like the current habit you’re working on has truly become a habit, you can then pull out your exhaustive list and start making the next thing a priority. Remember to take it slowly–even if you’re tempted to accelerate onto the next habit.
Yesterday’s project update: The habit I chose to focus on is to get up early every single day for this whole 21 day challenge. I’m three days in and already dragging, but I know that it takes awhile to “reset” my clock again. So I’m pushing through the tiredness, making early bedtime a priority, and not allowing myself to find an excuse for sleeping in in the morning, even when my warm bed feels so nice. 🙂 How’s your daily habit going?
I think the Chicken Lime Taco recipe is going to be a keeper. It’s so easy to make and very yummy.
I took the recipe times two and it made enough for two dinners for us (we’ll probably have some leftovers, depending upon how generous I am in doling out the filling on tacos. :))
When I was making these, I realized that I had forgotten to pick up salsa at Aldi this week, so I just left it out and decided we’ll serve it with the tacos when we make them up. That might actually end up working better anyway.
Next time, I think I might mix in some black beans. This would give it more flavor and stretch it a bit, too.
By the way, I thought that you’d like to know that I also made chocolate chip cookie bars this afternoon, seeing as I’m not sure we’ve had enough chocolate yet this week. Ahem. Let’s hope I don’t someday find out I’m allergic to chocolate or something. 😉
Guest post by Nony from A Slob Comes Clean
We pay for Christmas gifts with cash. It’s the only method we’ve found that keeps us within our budget.
You see, I’m scatterbrained. I choose to view this as an endearing quality, but also have to find ways to compensate for it. If I try to remember how much I’ve spent on a credit (or even debit) card, I’ll invariably forget something. Sometimes something big. If I write down each gift and its cost, I lose the list.
Using cash solves both of these problems, and I actually enjoy shopping this way. I start out feeling rich with an envelope full of money, and I end up feeling not-poor because I haven’t overspent.
In the age of online shopping, it can be difficult to work with cash only. A few years ago, I got the bright idea to buy a digital camera for my computers-are-for-solitaire in-laws. Family members warned me that it was a bad idea, but I was sure that if I could find one with a viewfinder, they would use it.
Turns out, there aren’t many point-and-shoot digital cameras with viewfinders. I searched and searched until I finally found one on Walmart.com. They didn’t sell them in stores, and I had to pay online.
I went through the checkout process, figured out exactly how much it was going to cost, and drove to my local Walmart. I bought a gift card for the exact amount–using cash from my Christmas envelope!
Yes, it was a bit more effort, but it disproves the theory that you can’t shop online with cash. You just have to turn that cash into a gift card first! I’ve now done this multiple times and it’s worked well for me.
Not every online store will have a brick-and-mortar counterpart where you can buy a gift card, but you can also purchase a re-loadable Visa gift card with cash from your cash envelope. There may be a fee, but a fee that you pay in cash up front is definitely preferable to an unexpectedly high credit card bill in January.
Is it easier to pay online with a credit card? Yes.
It is much more satisfying to know that you stayed within your budget? Definitely!
By the way, my in-laws loved the camera, though I don’t think they’ve ever yet actually used it. Maybe my next post should be on how to save money by not buying people gifts they won’t use…
Nony is a full-time mom who is forever coming up with practical solutions that work for her unique, creative (but very scattered) brain. She focuses on ways to keep her home in order at A Slob Comes Clean, where she shares her personal deslobification journey with complete honesty.
April from Frugal Homemaking shows you how to make your own Kettle Corn–in the microwave. I can’t wait to try this!
Do you have a fun and frugal DIY idea to share? I’d love to hear about it! Read the submission guidelines and submit it here.
You can get Ladies’ Turtlenecks for just $3.73 shipped from Lands’ End right now. Here’s how:
::Click through the ShopAtHome site to the Land’s End site to get 8% cashback.
::On the Lands’ End site click on “Overstocks” in the header and then “Under $10” to find Ladies’ Turtlenecks priced at $4.97.
::Put your selection in your cart and go to checkout.
::Use coupon code DISCOVERLE and pin 6702 to get 25% off plus free shipping (no minimum).
::That makes these turtlenecks just $3.73 shipped (plus tax, if applicable).
(Note: The links in this post are my referral links. Read my disclosure policy here.)
MyPublisher is offering another freebie! Type in your email address to get a coupon code for five free photo cards plus free shipping.
This offer is good through November 23, 2011.
Thanks, Moms By Heart!
Print a $1/1 Scotch Lint Roller coupon and use it on the travel-sized Scotch lint rollers available at Target for $1.49 to get them for $0.49 each.
Thanks, Moms By Heart!
Clay In His Hands shows you how to make ruffle pants for that special little girl in your life.
