Check me out on News 12 WDEF: A Couponing Christmas!

Hi Guys, this is Jamie here - your resident blogger for the Time2Save Workshops Website!

If you didn't know I existed until 2 seconds ago, that's my fault...  I've been meaning to write up a little introduction for some time now, but I always find something much more interesting to tell you about than me.  I'll make this short and sweet - so we're not strangers anymore:

My name is Jamie Miles - I'm 29, have 4 boys (ages 3-9) and am married to a fantastic grizzly bear of a man named Matthew.  (Mmwwwa!)

He drug me to Cleveland, TN from my Old Kentucky Home (Lousiville) after we were married, and we've been cozy here every since.  I formerly wrote the blog ChattanoogaCheapskate, which I still keep up and running to remind folks about our Bi-Weekly Coupon Swap-Meets...

Nowadays, I work with Kasey and Kelly to help you save money and hold your hand a little as you go from "Newbie" to Seasoned Veteran of the coupon world.  It's nice to meet you, officially!  Now that we're Best Friends Forever- can I tempt you to go see a little news clip I was in Monday night about Holiday Shopping Tips?  Yes??!  YAY!!

Last week, News Channel 12's Joe Legge (Frugal Joe) came by to get my take on Holiday Shopping Strategies.  I told him that I don't really have one - unless saving money all year, and stocking up when I find good deals counts as a strategy.  He thought that was good enough - and included me in WDEF's Holiday Shopping segment on Monday night! 

Watch the Clip/Read the Article

Free Denny's Grand Slam on Black Friday!

If you're heading out in the wee hours of the morning to do some Black Friday damage with a friend, suggest they head over to Denny's for a Grand Slam breakfast afterward.  That way, you can use this BOGO Grand Slam Coupon HERE to get your FREE!(he-he-he)
*Note: You have to become their fan on facebook to print...

Throw your turkey in the oven TODAY!

I'll just admit it.  I fear the turkey.  He is my enemy come Thanksgiving.  We do battle every year, and every year I juuuuust manage to pull it off - but I usually have to sacrifice some other dish I was planning to make in the process.

Well, I was just catching up on some blog-reading this morning, and I ran across a few posts that made my heart jump with hope that I might just dominate at Thanksgiving this year!!

• First, I want to KISS the lady that wrote this article on cooking your turkey a day or two ahead of time, sticking it in the fridge with a little butter and broth to keep it moist, and warming it up in the oven before the Thanksgiving Meal.  Read her wisdom HERE.  I am TOTALLY going to do that this afternoon, to make for a less-stress day tomorrow!

• Then, you might want to swing by Southern Plate (I LOVE this lady's blog!) to see how to make Overnight Turkey and a bevvy of "Southern-Style" Thanksgiving sides!  What I got from this page that was super-useful is how to make Pecan-Pie (My FAVORITE) and not "Pecan-Soup".    YAY!
  

$5 Hallmark Coupon in MANY Magazines

If you have a subscription to any of the following magazines, then YOU have a $5 off ANY Purchase Coupon to Hallmark Stores!  I found mine last week in my Woman's Day magazine and I was pumped!  (Exp. 12/24)

• Better Homes and Garden
• Country Living – December/January, after Page 96
• Family Circle – after Page 48
• Martha Stewart Living – December, Page 74
• Oprah – December, Page 119
• Parents – between Pages 84 and 85 ($10 off a story book)
• Real Simple – December
• Southern Living – December, insert after Page 62
• Taste Of Home – December/January, insert after Page 42
• Woman’s Day – December, Page 33

You should be able to buy some cutie gifts, a few cards, or ornaments for $5, right? (I just looked online and found the most adorable Pumpkin/Gourd Salt & Pepper Shaker for $5.99!)  Also there's a deal going on at many of the Corporate-owned Hallmark Gold Crown stores where you Buy 1 Roll of Wrapping Paper for $4.99 ~ Get a Second for 99¢.....

That would make 2 big rolls of nice wrap for 99¢!

To find a store near you, check HERE

- Thanks, Slickdeals!

Update ~ Blessed to be a Blessing.

Thank you to all of you who have responded to help the family that lost their son tragicaly in a car accident on Sunday.  Like we said in our post HERE, we want to reach out and love this family by collecting food/household grocery items to donate to them. 

It is not too late we will continue to collect into next week, maybe longer if we need to.   Leave a comment below along with your email address if you want to help and we will contact you as we work out the details.

To read the article in the Dalton Citizen about this young man who was trying to get home on time, but lost control of his car.           

Click HERE

Kroger MoneyMaker on Scotch Fur Fighter!!

I have SO MANY of those fur fighter coupons, and I haven't seen a great deal on them yet - well here's proof that waiting around for the best deal really does pay off!

Kroger's price for Scotch Fur Fighter: $5.99

Use $4/1 from 11/8 RP (exp 12/31)

Use Cellfire $4/1

(Makes it a $2.01 MoneyMaker!)

RARE: Milk Coupons for our Georgia Gals!

If you live in Georgia or South Carolina, you're a lucky duck - there are a couple HOT milk coupons available to you on Coupons.com right now!  Use Zipcode 29808 to get:

~FREE 1/2 gallon of Chocolate milk WYB 2 gallons of White milk~

PRINT HERE

Time 2 Give - Blessed to be a Blessing

With heavy hearts we ask for your help.

A precious lady who recently attended all three workshops lost her 16 year old son in a tragic car accident on Sunday.  She had shared her excitement about couponing and how it was an answer to her prayers.  How quickly any of our lives can change in a blink of an eye.  

Thinking back to the most difficult losses in our lives, Kelly's mom passed away in a car accident, and my father of brain cancer we remember the people who stepped in and meet the physical needs in our lives.  We were blessed by those who prepared meals, brought groceries to our homes, cut the grass, answered phones, or even did laundry just so we didn't have to.  Now, it's our turn.   

We'll be collecting food/household grocery items to donate to the family, we hope to shower them with so much that they won't have to worry about the bulk of their grocery shopping for months.  Since we live in Cleveland it would be helpful to have a contact person in surrounding areas that could help us collect food.  Hopefully, this would make it as simple as possible to all of you who want to help.

Rejoice with those who rejoice; mourn with those who mourn.

Romans 12:15 (New International Version)

Give, and it will be given to you. A good measure, pressed down, shaken together and running over, will be poured into your lap. For with the measure you use, it will be measured to you."

  Luke 6:38

If you would like to help, please leave a comment at the bottom of this post with your email address so that we can contact you as we work through the details.

New Food Lion Printables for 11/25

Here are your NEW Food Lion Printables (aka FLIP's) for Wednesday, 11/25. Remember that this past week's ad with coupon match-ups will have to last you until Dec. 1st, which is when they will start a new ad.  If I see any new deal alerts however, I'll notify you! 

$1 off Two (2) boxes of Wheat Thins
$1 off Two (2) cans of Dole Pinapple
$1 off Two (2) packages of Kraft Shredded Cheese
$2 off Three (3) American Greeting cards (excluding $.99 cards) (exp 12/29)
PRINT

$1 off Two (2) boxes of Food Lion Wheat Crackers
$1 off Two (2) cans of Food Lion Pinapple
$1 off Two (2) packages of Food Lion Shredded Cheese
$2 off Three (3) American Greeting cards (excluding $.99 cards) (exp 12/29)
PRINT

Get your FREE Toblerone Stocking Stuffer at Walgreens!

Abundant Food Savings just confirmed a "Sweet" little freebie at Walgreens.  Toblerones are ringing up for the unadvertised price of 2 for $3 (sticker price reads $2.29 ea).  Here's how the freebie breaks down:

Toblerones: 2 for $3

Use (2) $1/1 from the 11/22 SS (Regional! - Boooo)

Use WITH the $1/2 from the November Coupon Booklet

(makes 2 FREE!)

Free Drink at Target on Black Friday

If you're planning on heading out to Target on Black Friday, you can print a coupon HERE to get a FREE Medium Soda/Drink!  This looks like a PDF coupon, so you might want to save it to your desktop or print several for later trips (or for your Black Friday Shopping Buddies)!

PRINT HERE

If you ARE planning to head to Target for Black Friday, check out all the hot deals ahead of time HERE!

Kraft & More Dairy Printables - Don't Delay!

• $0.55/1 Breakstone’s Sour Cream
• $0.55/1 Velveeta Cheese Brick
• $0.55/1 Knudsen Sour Cream
• $1/2 Kraft or Cracker Barrel Natural Cheese
• $0.55/2 Philadelphia Cream Cheese Packages

If you haven't noticed yet, cheese and dairy coupons aren't as plentiful as we'd like.  Therefore, if you'd like to get in on these printables, it would be best to do so before they reach their limit!  PRINT HERE.  
*NOTE: Site may be experiencing heavy traffic, just try back later if it is taking forever.

Zaxby's FREE FOOD!

Today is REPEAT DAY at Zaxby's restaurant!  Go to Zaxby's Brainerd Rd. location (in Chattanooga), order your food and SAVE YOUR RECEIPT.  Then take that receipt back anytime before Dec. 8th, and they will give you a repeat of that order for FREE!!!  If you are curious if your local Zaxby's is doing this, make sure to give a call and find out!

-Thanks, Joe Frugal!

Target Policies ...Yep. More Changes.

Target.  Listen.  You done Wore. Me. Out. with all your waffling on the issues.  I understand that you probably didn't anticipate how awesome and cunning we couponers are.  (We are a rather underestimated group...)  However, you are quickly losing our loyalty altogether by constantly pulling the rug out from under our feet!  Is that what you want?  IS IT??

Okay, here's the news fellow-couponers and bargaineers.  Target has not only changed their coupon-printing system to limit us to (2) prints per computer (and no printing at Target Kiosks).  Many of the coupons on their site are now Manufacturer coupons and therefore can't be stacked with other MFR coupons.

Besides that, they have changed their Price-Match Policy!! 

• Price-Matching will Exclude all Doorbuster, 1-2 Day Deals, Limited Time or Quantity Deals, etc...  Basically, don't even try price-matching it if it's not a normal weekly ad.
• Also, now if you bring in a competitor's ad to price match, and there is also a Target coupon available for that item, you will not get the price match + the Target Coupon discount.  From now on this is how it will work:

Target coupons will be deducted BEFORE the price match is made.  If the competitor's price is STILL lower than Target's price after the Target coupons have been applied, then the competitor's low price will be matched.  Manufacturer coupons will be deducted LAST.   Read all the changes HERE.

I know.  I know.  Listen - we feel the same way.  Until they get all this mess sorted out, I don't plan on getting very experimental over there.  But hey, I did hear a rumor today that Wal-Mart is going to start taking competitor's coupons.....  maybe they'll finally start honoring their Official Coupon-Policy after all!! (Click on link, and notice how it says they accept "Store Coupons")

FREE Hard-Cover Photo Book for the first 25,000!

WOW.  

Guys, I almost posted this AWESOME FREEBIE earlier today, but I tried it out first and the site was running so slow that it couldn't even load a photo.  I despaired of making it within the first 25,000 people and didn't want you to waste your time either.  BUT.  Sometimes the latey bird gets the worm!  I think lots of early birds gave up, so if you have time tonight to spend on this, it will be well worth it!

Here's how to get your 20 Page, Hardcover, Personalized Cover, FREE SHIPPING, Photo Book.....Absolutely FREE!

1)  Go HERE and choose your layout/design choice, etc...  I suggest if you really want this freebie before it's gone you just click "OKAY.  SURE.  Whatever." to all their default choices.  Which is black.

2)  Upload 20 - 100 pics.  Twenty pics will give you 1 pic per page, a little more will let you put 2 on a couple pages to shake things up a bit.  Much more though, and you'll likely miss the boat.  That site is running SLO-O-O-OW.

3)  If your "workspace"doesn't load right, hit refresh and wait.  Then maybe try that again.  The site is getting hit hard for this freebie.  Add or don't add captions, it's kind of time-consuming, so maybe you can just write in some captions with a silver sharpie later.

4)  At checkout, enter the code BONNIE (this comes from the Bonnie Hunt Show!) and it will deduct shipping and handling ($8.99) as well as the price of the book ($39.99).  You just got a $48 present - FREE!

FREE Redbox Code from Orville Redenbacher!

Just saw in my inbox that wyb (2) Orville Redenbacher popcorn or Poppycock at Walgreens, a FREE Redbox Rental code will print out with your receipt. I don't see any good deals on that stuff right now, but if you happen to be buying it there anyway...

Amazon code for $3 in Free Uploads!!

Plan to travel for the Holidays?  Need some new music to drown out the fighting in the back seat?  Yeah.  Me too....

Guess what?  You can get a few free songs just by going HERE , and entering the following code:

MP34FREE

I just checked out what I could get with my $3, and I could pick out 3 FREE Holiday Songs from THIS LIST HERE..

 

Or you can get any one of these great albums for only $2 Each!

Yo Gabba Gabba is one of them!  So are albums from Johnny Cash, Tim McGraw, Steve Miller Band, BlitzenTrapper, and so many other good albums!  This freebie seemed kind of boring at first, but now I'm so excited!!!

Kroger 11/22 - 11/29

This week at Kroger has some more great meat prices as well as a few freebies!  There is also a gift card deal: Buy $100 in gift cards, Receive $10 Off Instantly at checkout! (Not sure if this includes Kroger Gift Cards, but that would be great!)  As always, this is just a highlight reel, for more deals and prices, check outSouthernSavers!

Freebies:

Tennessee Pride Sausage Gravy (8oz): $1
Use $1/1 from the 11/15 RP
(makes it FREE!)

Dole Pineapple or Mandarin Oranges: $1
Use $.50/1 PRINT (must play game to access)
(makes it FREE!)

McCormick Spice Grinders: $1
Use $1/1 from the 11/18 RP insert
(makes it FREE!)

Meat/Produce:

Fresh Ground Chuck: $1.25/lb
Fresh Split Chicken Breast: 99¢/lb
Boneless Pork Loin: $1.99/lb
Butterball Turkeys (Frozen, Fresh): 99¢/lb, $1.19/lb
Use $2/1 PRINT

Refrig/Frozen:

Private Selection Ice Cream:$2.50
Use $1/1 Shorcuts E-Coupon LOAD
(makes it $1.50 ea)

Ore-Ida Frozen Potatoes: $2.69
Use $1.50/2 from 9/27 SS
(makes it $1.94 ea)

Kroger Cheese(bars or shredded): $1.50
Use 45¢/1 from kroger Home Mailer
(makes it $1.05 ea)

Grocery:

Campbell's Cream of Chicken or Mushroom: 75¢ ea
Use $1/2 print (IE) or print(FF)
(makes it 25¢ ea)

Selected General Mills or Kelloggs Cereals: $2.69
Various Printables on Coupons.com & Smartsource.com
$1/1 Crispix or Rice Krispies from 11/08 RP (also works on Cocoa Krispies!)
(makes it $1.69 ea)

Heinz Gravy 12 oz: $1
Use $1/3 PRINT (must sign up)
(makes it 67¢ ea!)

Pepperidge Farm Crackers: $2.49
Use $2/1 from 10/31 SS
or, if you didn't get that one, $1/1 from 11/1 SS or PRINT (IE) or PRINT (FF)
(makes it 50¢ ea!)

Kroger Brown N Serve Rolls 12 ct: $1 ea

Duncan Hines Cake Mix: $1
Use $1/2 from 10/11 SS
(makes it 50¢ ea!)

Household:

Purex Laundry Detergent 24-32 Oz: $2.50
Use $1/1 Purex Naturals PRINT
(makes it $1.50)

Health/Beauty:

Huggies Jumbo/Pull-Ups: $8.99
Use $2/1 or $1.50/1 Huggies PRINT
ALSO Use $1.50/1 Shortcuts E-Coupon LOAD
(makes it as low as $5.49 ea!)

Theraflu/Triaminic Cold Medicines: $4.99
Use $2/1 Theraflu or $1/50/1 Triaminic from 10/18 SS
Use WITH $2/1 Triaminic or $2/1 Theraflu E-Coupon LOAD
(makes it as low as $1 for Theraflu)

Schick Quattro, X-Treme 3 or SlimTwin: BOGO
Use $2/1 10/11 SS

Old Navy: Thanksgiving Week Specials

Old Navy is having some AWESOME specials this week - check them out below, and get a $10/$50 coupon to sweeten the deals right HERE!  (Good Thanksgiving Day Only)  Oh yeah, and if you spend $20 or more on Black Friday.... Get a FREE copy of LEGO Rockband!! (while supplies last..)

• 50% off all outerwear
• 5-pocket jeans for kids & toddlers, $10
• $15 Frost Free Jackets for Toddlers (normally up to $50)
  
• 5-pocket jeans for adults, $15
• $5 Graphic Tees for the Family (normally up to $16.50) 
• $2 Holiday Stockings (normally up to $19.50)
• and so much more!

Go here for all the deals...

P.S.  It's pretty fun making your customized Family Band Name - here's my family's!

I saw a good deal online this morning and had to share.

For all the tall girls everywhere we know how hard it is to find clothes in talls much less on sale.   New York & Company carries Petiete and Talls!!  They have a great online sale today and tomorrow only.  They also have every sweater and select bottoms and tops buy one get one 50% off. 

$35 off a $75 Purchase

coupon code 4343

$75 off a $150 Purchase

coupon code 4345

Expires 11/24/09 ~ Enter coupon code during checkout.


Make your deal even sweeter by signing up for ebates first HERE. 

1. First go to Ebates HERE to log in or sign up. Signing up for the first time? Get a $5 bonus credited to your Ebates account just for signing up. By using Ebates you will receive 4% back from Ebates on your total purchase at New York and Company (there are thousands of retailors that offer cash back).




2. On the top rght side of the page there is a search bar, type in New York and Company.  Click New York and Company, then shop now and you will be directed to http://www.nyandcompany.com/ .(***In order to receive Ebates you must always go to Ebates first find your store, and allow Ebates to link you. If not, you will not earn money back from your purchases.)


3. Once you finish shopping use one of the coupon codes above for your discount.

4. What about the $5.00 Ebates bonus for signing up or the 5% back? When you do any shopping online, if you first go to Ebates, then use Ebates to link you to the website you want to shop from, you will earn a percentage back. Each quarter Ebates will mail you a BIG FAT CHECK for logging on to their site first and allowing them to direct you to where you want to shop. New York and Co pays you back 4% of your order. There are 1000's of retailors to choose from, each pay back a percentage.

So forget the crowds and traffic sit back on your comfy couch with a hot cup of coffee and order your Christmas gifts online.  Don't forget to go to ebates first, to earn cash back.  Then, after all of the shopping is done and your wallet feels drained - you will get a surprise check in the mail.  (Note all purchases made between October 1st and December 31st will receive their check on February 15th.)