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Date Night!! Screamin Daily Deals is one of our very favorite daily deals sites.  Not only do they have fantastic deals and wonderful customer support but they also donate a portion of their proceeds to schools who have signed up for the School Rewards Program.  Fantastic!  A good deal and a good deed. Today you can get this deal for only $15!  A perfect date night deal: $15 for Two Movie Tickets to any Movie from Regal Cinemas, Edwards, and United Artists Theatres, Plus a Free $25 Restaurant.com Gift Card (up to $50 Value) Have you signed up for Screamin Daily Deals?  If not, click here to sign up for FREE, see the savings and start finding deals!  They also have Getaway Deals and remember, you can usually print your deal certificate immediately. I have a marketing connection to a brand, topic or product herein. Through the use of affiliate links contained herein, I may collect fees from purchases made.

I'm a couponer, yes.  I just can't quite get "Extreme" with it.... yet.  Of course, I am referring to TLC's Extreme Couponing where the people buy 400 million dollars of groceries for 2.5 cents.  Maybe I just don't need 2500 sticks of deodorant?  All joking aside, couponing is a way of life and today was no exception. My most recent shopping trip resulted in getting just over $100 of groceries for $30-something.  Not spectacular, but not bad.  Everyone likes to see my receipt when I arrive home from the grocery store but today I heard "not your best trip, Mom".. ha!!  I got 47 items for $32.81 which calculates out to .70 per item and this included a family pack of chicken breasts, family pack of ground beef, and a bottle of laundry detergent.  I'll give myself a pat on the back and keep counting my pennies!

Remember... Earth Day is April 22nd!   Please join us on Facebook and pledge to do a good deed on Friday. Here is a listing of deals that are being offered in honor of Earth Day.  Have fun!! Starbucks - Bring in a travel cup or reusable mug for a free coffee or tea on 4/22. Caribou Coffee - Free coffee to guests who bring in reusable drinkware on 4/22. Evos - Get a free organic milkshake on 4/22. Disney Store - On 4/22 get a free reusable shopping bag when you trade in 5 plastic shopping bags. Blockbuster Express - Free rental on 4/23 or 4/24 with code THANKYOU. Lowe's - Visit on 4/23 to get a free tree. US National Parks - Free admission to all parks through 4/24.  Junior Ranger day is 4/23! Origins - Trade-in your old facial care product (any brand!) for a free full size product of Checks and Balances™ Frothy face wash or A Perfect World™ Antioxidant cleanser with White Tea on 4/22.  Yoga Journal - Get the current issue for free and look for t...

Recently we were introduced to CouponChief.com , a site dedicated to bringing current coupon codes for online shopping to everyone.  CouponChief.com literally has tons and tons of stores in their database for just about everything.  And who doesn't want to save money on everything !?  We certainly do!!  In fact, they have 50,000 coupons for over 15000 stores.  Wow!! The site is very easy to navigate and search by either store name, popular tags or alphabetically.  There is also a tutorial for redeeming coupon codes.  Although there are many of us out there who are savvy with couponing and coupon codes, there are just as many who are confused about how to use them.  My non-couponing family and friends are often bewildered about things like coupon codes so to see the tutorial was a very nice touch.   We embarked on a little 'test' just to see how easy it was to use CouponChief.com.  I had promised my daughter a "Mommy-Daughter" night whi...

$1.08 (13 CENTS before tax!!).  Yep, that's the grand total for 8 items including full price toilet paper and hubby's favorite deodorant!  Of which we sadly needed both .  Do ignore the Gillette body washes on the receipt, they weren't ringing up correctly and I didn't feel like bringing it to the attention of this particular cashier so I had them removed. We did one transaction previous to this one for the Walgreen's Excedrin promo (buy $20 get $10 register receipt).  We had 2 free product coupons, 2 $2.50 coupons and 1 $1.00 coupon and paid $8.97 pre-tax for 5 bottles of Excedrin (price before coupons and tax $23.95). Total pre-tax for both transactions was $9.10 for 13 items = .70 each.  Not bad! I'm always getting in on the end of the sales weeks though.  I would have liked to have gotten more of the Renuzit Crystals for .99 but, alas, they only had one package left. We would also like to invite you to join the *brand new* Lower Your Alexa Blog Hop...

I just found out about this!! TODAY ONLY you can get free shipping at The Body Shop with code FREESHIP17. They have some really good prices on their Specials page including $3 originals (reg. $8.99) and body spray $4 (reg. $14.00). These could make for some really nice Valentine's Day gifts!