TOTALLY FREE CHRISTMAS GIFTS

I know it's been forever and a day since I've blogged but I just had to share my excitement! I have promoted Swagbucks several times on here and told you my plans to use my swagbucks to help pay for some Christmas gifts. Well, I did it! With the swagbucks that I earned, I was able to purchase $100 worth of Amazon gift cards and with that money I bought four really great Christmas gifts (using a Black Friday deal). I already received one of my purchases today and I can't tell you my excitement over getting something completely free! All I had to do was simply search the internet a couple of times a day. This has been an AWESOME way to help with Christmas. It's never too soon to start thinking about next Christmas or even birthdays. Take my advice and sign up for Swagbucks today!!! Hint: The more referrals you get, the more swagbucks you will earn! So, be sure to use my link below to help me out and then after you get signed up, use your own personal link to get your friends and family to join! It's almost too easy!

Hello...anybody still out there?

I don't know if I have any readers left, but here goes...

Rest assured that I have not fallen off the face of the earth. I have merely moved...and in the process lost my beloved high speed connection. I have traveled back in time and am now doing things like popping popcorn on the stove, walking a mile uphill to school, dipping a feather in ink to write a letter that I will later mail with an envelope and stamp, errr....sorry, I'm getting a little carried away. I'm really just on dial-up. And if you haven't caught my drift yet....it's slooowwww. Painfully slow. How did we do this in the 90s???

Anyhow, I hope to have DSL soon! Verizon is telling us it's not available in our area as of yet (3.5 minutes from our old house, where we have had DSL for years). So we must wait. We filled out an acceleration form (which is probably just a ploy to get us to stop calling them). And for the time being I have a 90 day trial of AOL (flashback to 1997) and to say the least, I AM NOT ENJOYING IT.

Blogging has been very neglected, as I spend about 15 minutes a day checking my email and Facebook and then I go pull my hair out and scream into a pillow. Wait, that's in my imagination. I am going to attempt to start blogging again but I can't promise you it will be very regular. I really do miss it! And it's not so bad after I reboot my computer a couple of times and control/alt/delete my way past a few frozen screens. I hope to catch up on everyone's blogs soon! I am missing all of my deal and coupon blogs so much!

So, if I have any readers left out there...please bear with me. I promise I will return to the blog world in full force eventually!

Salsa Win

Last night I won a coupon for a free jar of Pace salsa! Not a big win, but a win, nonetheless.

TGIF

Well, it's Friday again and we made it through another week of school. Nothing major happened this week other than my son told me yesterday that he has to start going to speech once a week. I was a little confused because while I always thought he was having a little bit of difficulty with some of his letter pronunciations, I specifically asked his teacher about it a couple of years ago and she said that his speech was "just fine." She even said that everyone is evaluated by the speech therapist a couple times a year and that if there would have been a problem she would have requested to see him on a regular basis. Hmmm. Well, he's in third grade now, and apparently they have decided that his speech is no longer "just fine." So, he will now be seeing the speech therapist every week and at least maybe he will learn how to pronounce his "r"s. We shall see. Thank God it's Friday!

Mail Call & More Wins

I got my $10 Red Robin gift card in the mail today! Woot! (This was one of my prizes from an intant win game several weeks ago.)

Yesterday, my husband won 2nd row tickets to a Jeremy Camp, Natalie Grant, and Bebo Norman (sp?) concert...and then last night I won a $25 TJ Maxx gift card in a blog giveaway!

To get started in sweeping, I recommend you check out www.sweetiessweeps.com for the best info you can find!

Coupons.com and Kroger Mega Event Matchup

Kroger is having their 10 Item Mega Event again this week! There are some great participating items! A few of my favorites are: Pillsbury Toaster Streudels, General Mills cereals, Hamburger Helper, and Pepsi 2-liters. Buy any combination of 10 participating products and receive $5 off your shopping total!

I finally got some printer paper so I am able to print off coupons, but only barely. To my dismay, I am now almost out of ink! Anyway, go to coupons.com by clicking the banner in my left sidebar under "Printable Coupons" to find some great matching coupons for Kroger! Here are the ones I printed off:

$.75/3 Hamburger Helper (making them $.64 ea.)

$1/2 Pillsbury Grands Biscuits (making them $.49 ea.)

$.55/2 Toaster Streudels (making them $1.22)

$1/2 Cheerios (making them $.99 ea.)

Remember, you can print each coupon twice! There are lots more great deals at Kroger this week. Here are a few things for only $.88: bread, tortilla chips, Sunny D, Kraft Easy Mac, and Eckrich Lunchmeats. Also, grapes are $.97/lb. We have gotten the black grapes for three weeks in a row and they are delicious! Tyson frozen chicken breasts are $5.99 for a 2.3-3lb bag. Select varieties of Kraft cheese are $1.99 ea. A 10lb. bag of Kroger Russet Potatoes are only $2.98. Cottonelle Bath Tissue is on sale for $5.48. Check out your coupon stash or go to http://www.hotcouponworld.com/ to find matching coupons for any of these items. I'm not sure what all is available right now.

http://www.redplum.com/ also has some good coupons including: $1.50/2 Kelloggs Frosted Mini Wheats or Raisin Bran, $1/2 Ballpark Franks, ad $.0/1 Kelloggs Yogos (this one doubles at Kroger).

Hope this info helps you in your shopping endeavors this week! Don't forget, gallons of milk are always $1.99 at CVS!

Monday Meandering

We survived our first full week of school last week, so we decided to celebrate Friday night with movies and pizza! It was a lot of fun. We rented (from a Redbox, of course!!) Hannah Montana and Race to Witch Mountain, both pretty great movies. Even though Summer just ended, it felt like it had been a lifetime since we'd all just hung out together as a family. It was a really nice night.

Saturday and Sunday were both pretty busy. My husband had a ton of tomatoes and green beans to can so I had mercy on him and gave him a hand. On top of the several hours spent doing that, my son also had a football practice, scrimmage game, and pitch-in dinner on Saturday. And, of course, Sunday was busy with church, children's drama rehearsal, and Sunday School. We were gone the entire day!

That's about all, folks!