I moved

I moved and I would miss you very much if you didn't come with me.

Here's my new address.

See you soon!

mailbox of love

I love mail. It's always been my favorite. It will always be my favorite. And it brings you surprises.

I leave the bad surprises in there. Sometimes for weeks.

I don't want to talk about it.

Yesterday, this came to me.

These little guys came from One Kings Lane.
I'm still waiting for the bowl. It's going to change my life.

I need to tell you about One Kings Lane.  You can sign up with them (using your email that you use specifically for these purposes - have I ever mentioned that?) and then you email a friend (it's there on the site) and if they sign up and buy something, you get a $25 dollar credit. Fancy.

Anyway, my suggestion is to get a whole co-op of people in on this with you. You just have to draw straws or arm wrestle to see who makes the first purchase.

May I make another suggestion?
Someone buy this and then send it to me.
Thank you very much.

I also got these in the mail.

How weird is this?
I liked it anyway.
See that granola bar in the middle? Taylor took it to school, but then brought it home all smashed and crumbled.
Know what I did with it?
I put it in a baggie and smashed it even more to bits and sprinkled it on her yogurt this morning.
Always thinking, people.
See that box of Cinnamon Toast Crunch?
Torrie and Max came to blows over it.
It didn't end well.


Here is a list of my other favorite places to get free samples and mail love:

All You - Daily freebies. Sign up for the daily sample alert. I live for these. One time, I couldn't get to the sample on my phone, so I called Brad and made him do it from his computer. He has no idea what to think about me.

Vocalpoint - They send you huge coupons for new products, and then they throw in a bunch to give to friends. I've gotten a free Bounce dryer bar, and 2 full size bottles of Pantene.

P&G - Huge savings on household products. They just issued a new sample booklet today. You can only get one per quarter.

And here are my favorites for email love:

Beauty Brands - Sign up for their email list and once a month or so, they send you an email for a free product with purchase. The free product is usually worth between $15 and $20, and there is no minimum purchase. Last time I found a sale on Tigi cosmetics and bought something for less than $2 to receive my free product.

Bath and Body Works - They give away free products all the time, and have great sales.

I just looked outside and realized something. I have the ugliest mailbox in the world.

Figures.

shut the front door!!!

Guess how much all of this cost me at Target today? Seriously, guess.

Fine. It was a total of .77 cents. It kind of made me want to slap someone.

Here's how it went down:
Glade candles: On sale today for $1.99, buy 5, get a $5 gift card.
Target online coupon $2/3
coupons.com $1.50/2
allyou.com 20% off of any glade purchase ( I just checked and saw lots of glade coupons, but this one was from Saturday)
So basically free-ish (not sure exactly)

Nivea for Men Body Wash:
On sale at Target for $3.04
Sunday P&G (Procter and Gamble) insert coupon $3/1
Total = .04 cents
Dude. Really??

Bic Razors:
On sale at Target for $3.29
Sunday P&G insert coupon $2/1
Target coupon $1/1
Total = .29 cents

Vaseline lotion:
On sale at Target for $2.69
Target online coupon .50/1
Sunday P&G coupon $2/1
Total = .19 cents

Other big fat deals from today:
Quaker Oats (18 count):
On sale for $2.50 at Target (small boxes are on sale for $2.50 at Safeway)
$2/1 coupon I shared on facebook
total - .50 cents
That makes breakfast around .03 cents a day, or if you're Tucker, .09 cents. I almost feel sad for Target.


And if that's not bad (good?) enough, check out this piece of work....

Do you see this? $2 off of fresh cut fruit. The cost of the fruit is $1.99. Target totally owes me a penny.
I actually thought it would be funny to show a manager. He wasn't amused.

By the way, it's always a good idea to warn the check out boy or girl that you have a thousand million coupons before you start making their head spin around on its own. And say it loud enough for the person next in line to hear you, so they can make that split second decision to make a run for it before they get trapped in your time warp. Or, if you're me, turn directly around and warn them yourself. It's the right thing to do. More often than not, at least for me, they want to see the show. And, at least for me, it's almost always a man and his girl. And the man almost always starts out curious, and then as he watches each $10 go by, he starts to count out loud. And then a little countdown party starts. And then he starts nodding his head in disbelief. And this is where it gets weird. This is the part where the man asks his girl why she isn't doing this? I mean, what's stopping her anyway? And then his girl stands up a little straighter, and I can see her eyes get all scary, and she (her hands are on her hips, by the way) starts to hiss a speech on the whys and hows of the time demands on her life and then she starts to sound a lot like Charlie Brown's teacher. And this is where I get to make my great escape, because frankly, I don't have time to counsel them through this. I have got to get to Costco. Okay, that part only happened once. Whatever.

I just wanted to show you this.

Oh look. Cilantro.

oh my...

This  weekend was...
not conducive to anything but wishing and hoping...
I will resume Monday... that is, if my daughter can breathe and the b-rad has a minute or two to help this little mama figure stuff out...
if not.
I will watch 400 re-runs of something brainless... and then eat the rest of my chili cheese frito's I bought to numb myself. (they were only 1.49... small price to pay for my sanity.)

run, don't walk

These freebies go fast, so you gotta pounce like a jungle cat when you see 'em...

Get a sample of:
Vaseline Intensive Rescue

Emergen-C

Oxi Skin Care  (promo code is WOMANSDAY)

Free coffee mug for Au Bon Pain (if you have one in your area - coupon will come to your email address)

Free Beaker of Worst Case Scenario Gross Slime   Awesome stocking stuffer for a 10 year old boy whose name might happen to be Max. Max reads this blog. In fact, Max is a contributor to this blog, as you will see next week. Max will have to wait until Christmas to enjoy this freebie, so it will still be, in fact, a surprise, because Max will forget allll about this by then.

Cottenelle Fresh Wipes Give a Tub, Get a Tub, Share the Freshness with Friends.
Hmmmm, let's not really discuss this one. Let's just do this one real quiet like.

And, again I say unto thee, get yourself an extra email address for this purpose. Don't make me stop this car and come back there.

best deals today

Sorry to bombard you with goodness. Just wanted to throw these out here today for your viewing pleasure. I'm going to the zoo with my babies, so I wanted to make sure you didn't miss out on these time sensitive opportunities. I just said time sensitive opportunities. I don't say things like time sensitive opportunities. I think I need to go wash my mouth out with soap.

Again, an email address just for freebies and goodies is a good idea. Or you'll never get any real work done.


Safeway:
Colgate toothpaste - $1 in Safeway ad, $1/1 Sunday paper P&G (Procter and Gamble) coupon, FREE
Mars fun size candy bars - 2/$4, $1.50/3, 3 bags for $5.50, save $7.50
Ziploc bags - Safeway in ad coupon, $1.49, $1/2 Sunday paper coupon, save $3

Boulder Walgreens Grand Opening Specials:
Garnier Herbashine Hair Color - $4.99 in ad special, $3/1 coupons.com, $1.99 total
Herbal Essence/Aussie shampoo $2.99 in ad special, Sunday paper coupon $1/1, total $1.99
Campbells soup - 2 /$1
Carefree pantiliners -  .99
Progresso Soup - 4/$5, coupons.com .40/3
$3 off purchase of $10
total purchase - $7.89

Walmart:
2 FREE 5x7 cards - try the new HP kiosk (Sunday Ad) great for birthday postcards for parents or grandparents

Redbox:
free rental - code CHANCEMONOP

click here

Naturapet:

Free bag of Dog Food
http://www.naturapet.com/

Advil: 

First 500,000 get a free sample of a 24 count bottle. This coupon gets here quickly.
http://takeadvil.com/

Covergirl:

Free Products
click here to get started

how to get fat on your birthday

This is Tucker Boy's birthday week.  I mean, the dude was born. That's a big deal.

So, in honor of a starving 15 year old to be, I have some ideas on how on earth to satiate the biggest appetite I've seen in years, months, decades, and years. I think it all goes straight to his pecs. Punk.

Can I make a quick suggestion? I suggest you adopt a coupon email address. Where all of your signed up for goodies go to live in peace until you decide they are worthy. Where they will steer clear of your library circulation notices and your forwards from Aunt Betty. Consider it your freebie Utopia. You will thank me later and send me love letters.

And now it's time to put on your fat pants. Here we go.

IHOP
Holy cow. These people mean business. You get to sign yourself up, and THEN you get to sign your kids up for their birthday. And did you know that after you stuff yourself full of happy face pancakes, you can tell them it's your kid's birthday, and they'll bring you an ice cream sundae? At 6:47 in the morning? And then you get to drop them off at school? Best parent ever.


Noodles and Co.
After you go blind from your morning carbs, you'll need more carbs. Noodles and Co. have some of those.
And they adore you, so they want to give you a free noodle bowl that day. You're welcome.

Chili's
Sign up for their email list, and you'll get a free chips and queso. This will help with the coma.

Ben and Jerry's
It's called ChunkMail. What do you want from me?

Dairy Queen

You'll get a monthly offer and coupon. And on your birthday? A free Blizzard. (I feel woozy.)

Honorable mentions that will come in handy eventually:

Tokyo Joes
You have to be an addict to sign up. They will give you a fob that you can pick up at your local restaurant. This will sign you up for possible free lunches (they choose 3 a day, every day and it's placed on a calendar on their website) and specials through email that only your fob knows about.

Chik Fil A
It's a privilege to know you, Chik Fil A.


Sonic
Treats on your birthday. And other times. I love Sonic.

And there you have it. Oh, and click on the yellow underlined highlighted names of the restaurants. It'll save you on postage.

I am no longer responsible for you.