From the monthly archives:

October 2009

A Few Shortcuts Weekly Meal Deal: Crockpot Cranberry Chicken for Just $1.97 Per Person!

by nicolesnickels on October 31, 2009

This week Amanda brings you another great budget meal based on the grocery store sales. This week’s meal features crockpot cranberry chicken - how yummy does that sounds (and look!). This is another great meal with all of the flavor of fall. Amanda gives you a shopping list as well as step-by-step instructions complete with pictures to help you create this delicious meal.

Each week I will highlight Amanda’s fabulous recipes that take advantage of the Publix sales flyer. This week’s meal can be made for just $1.97 per serving! If you don’t have a Publix near you, you could easily print and save the recipes to use when the items are on sale at your local store.

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Sunday Coupon Preview, 11/1

by nicolesnickels on October 31, 2009

The Sunday Coupon Preview has all of your information on coupon inserts in tomorrow’s paper.

Tomorrow there will be three (3) inserts – 1 Smartsource (SS), 1 Red Plum (RP), and 1 Proctor & Gamble (PG). There are some great high-value coupons this weekend!

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Top 10 Giveaways, 10/31

by nicolesnickels on October 31, 2009

Don’t forget to enter my 3 current giveaways:

1. Hallmark Cards Giveaway (ends November 1)
2. Mineral Secrets Mineral Make-Up Giveaway (ends November 1)
3. Pink Together Gift Basket Giveaway (ends November 1)
4. Unilever Beauty Box Giveaway (ends November 3)

Here are this week’s top 10 giveaways! Please read each blogger’s giveaway post carefully as instructions may vary. Good luck and let me know if you win!

1. Mommy has to Work - Remake Its Kit (ends November 9)
2. Freebies4Mom – Silk Soymilk (ends November 5)
3. Frugal RI Mama - First Impressions Layette Set (ends November 10)
4. Hip2Save - Elefun Games Prize Pack (ends November 2)
5. Chief Family Officer - Flay Stanley Christmas Giveaway (ends November 5)
6. “Deal”ectible Mommies - SproutBaby ThinkBaby Complete BPA Free Feeding Set (ends November
7. Mom Saves Money - Nature’s Valley Granola Prize Pack (ends November
8. Engineer a Debt Free Life - Zhu Zhu Pets (ends December 2)
9. Frugal Plus - The Jumbo Book of Needlecrafts (ends November 9)
10. Hoosier Homemade - Cupcake print napkins (ends November 2)

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Kelly Confidential Perfect Party Planning Website

by nicolesnickels on October 30, 2009

I wanted to let you all know about a party planning site brought to you by Kelly Ripa and Electrolux. The website is called Kelly Confidential and it brings you great tips, recipes, and party planning solutions featuring a new expert each week! You’ll be able to create a personal party plan as well as a community party plan. Get great ideas from the experts as well as your fellow Kelly Confidential members!

Plus there is a great prize you can win – an Electrolux double wall oven! To enter you just need to drop your favorite of the three featured themes into your party plan. Then the top 3 vote-getters will be shown and if you vote each week on your favorite party theme they are showing you’ll be entered into the giveaway. It’s that easy!

Let Kelly and Electrolux help you plan a great party!

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October Online Offers

by nicolesnickels on October 30, 2009

Here is October’s online offers post! For those of you who are new, I have posted extensive directions on how to complete these offers.

Please, you MUST read the previous posts (here, here, and here) I have written about these offers very carefully – also read the comments left on those posts as those serve kind of as “frequently asked questions” that I respond to as well. If you have any questions, email or leave a comment. It’s better to ask the question than to do something you aren’t sure of and have it result in an unsuccessful offer.

It is very possible to be successful with these offers! Remember, you can only earn $1,000 in prizes from each Ideal sub-company (i.e. Bullseye, 123, etc.) so choose wisely! At the time of the posting of this, none of the offers posted required referrals. Offers can change at any time so be sure to review the terms and conditions before registering! FYI – I am hearing of people getting disqualified because they did an offer that was $500 plus a T-shirt and then when they do another $500 offer with the same sub-company are disqualified because they have technically done over $1,000 with that sub-company as the T-shirt has value! Be careful with these technicalities!

I couldn’t find many new offers this month. None of the offers below required referrals at the time I posted but the terms can change so check carefully. Also, some of the $500 offers are now 2-2-8 instead of 2-2-4 so please make sure to read your terms and conditions before signing up! Also, I am receiving some reader comments and emails that they are getting calls from telemarketers after signing up for some offers. I have never had this experience but did want to make everyone aware of this.

ESolutionsMedia
$50 Visa giftcard
$50 Visa giftcard and XXL Bag of M&Ms
PS3 Slim

Bullseye Media
$500 giftcard for USAir or American Airlines

123 Click
2 American Airlines airplane tickets

MarketLabs
Uggs Slippers
$100 Visa giftcard

eSolutionsMedia
$500 Kmart giftcard
$500 to Home Depot or Lowes

Jasper Marketing
$100 Target giftcard

Top Notch
$500 Visa giftcard
$500 giftcard - Visa, Chilis, TGI Fridays, Itunes or Ebay
$500 Visa giftcard
$500 Toys r Us giftcard
$500 Visa giftcard
$500 Visa giftcard and Twilight T-shirt
Nintendo DsI

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Friday FREEBIES and Great Deals, 10/30

by nicolesnickels on October 30, 2009

Here are this week’s FREEBIES and great deals:

FREE Recipe Lion Halloween ebook of recipes!

FREE ebook of 31 Halloween crafts!

Printable coupon for 50% off your entire purchase at Payless (good through Friday evening only!)

FREE sample of Nescafe gourmet single serve coffee

FREE Healthy Habits Activities Book

FREE sample of Powerbar Gel Blasts

FREE sample of Tropical Breeze fragrance

FREE sample of Olay Total Effects Ant-Aging Body Wash

FREE sample of Pampers Extra Protection Diapers

FREE sample of Kashi TLC Bar

Still available:
FREE Hearty Crock Pot Recipes
Coupon for 15% off at The Children’s Place
FREE downloadable Angel crafts book
FREE downloadable restaurant copycat recipes ebook
FREE baby samples from babytobee
Want to save on your Groceries? Join Afullcup.com. Click Here
FREE travel guides by mail or download to many destinations
FREE E-Z Recipe Finder
FREE download of hundreds of fonts for your computer
FREE sample of Prilosec OTC
FREE VistaPrint business cards, magnets, rubber stamps, return address labels (you only pay shipping)
FREE information for diabetics, including meal plan guide to manage blood sugar
FREE 25 song downloads when you sign up for Emusic (7 day trial that you can cancel online if you don’t want to keep it)
FREE Fall Samples

Wanna win a brand new GE kitchen appliance? Remember you can enter once per day right from Nicole’s Nickels!

Have you started playing Bergwood yet? It’s an Allstate sponsored game site. Just log on each day to play their games and you’ll be redeeming for prizes very quickly!

Want to be the first to know about big sales and deep discounts? Click here to sign up with Shop it to Me (read my earlier post about it here)

Are you expecting a YouData payment in your paypal account this afternoon? I am and you can, too, because every Friday is payday with YouData! Read my post here or sign into the YouData Widget on my right sidebar.

Don’t forget to enter my giveaways:
1. Pink Together Gift Basket – ends November 1
2. Hallmark Cards Giveaway – ends November 1
3. Mineral Secrets Mineral Make-Up Giveaway – ends November 1
4. Unilever Beauty Box Giveaway – ends November 3

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Earn Holiday Money Doing Surveys!

by nicolesnickels on October 29, 2009

I have posted many times about doing online surveys but wanted to highlight surveys as a money-making opportunity as we enter the holiday season! Everyone can always use a few extra bucks so take some time when you’re at home in your pjs, on the phone, or even watching TV and take a few surveys!

Here are my top 5 tips for taking online surveys:
1. Sign up with as many survey companies as possible. I’m going to highlight my top 6 in this post but you’ll want to check out the surveys link on my blog to find more.
2. Use a separate email address for just surveys. That way your personal email inbox won’t get overwhelmed! Schedule times each week for doing surveys.
3. Know that you won’t always qualify for every survey. You’ll never know what the demographic they are looking for is so just keep doing them!
4. Keep track of earnings and cash out frequently. Each company handles payment different. Keep a spreadsheet of each company’s cahs out threshhold and method. Choose Paypal for the quickest payment.
5. Do the higher value surveys from the companies you do the best with first. As you do more surveys, you’ll get to know which companies you do the best with. Choose these surveys first, from highest value to lowest value. Be strategic in the order you complete the surveys in your inbox.

Interested in signing up for surveys? My top 6 survey companies currently are:
1. My Survey
2. HCD Surveys
3. Opinion Outpost
4. Ipsos-I-Say
5. Pinecone Research
6. Say Nation

Check out the other survey companies I have blogged about previously.

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From My Inbox…

by nicolesnickels on October 29, 2009

Here is what is in my inbox this week:

*Brandie at Free Sample Freak wrote a post on what to do when you suspect the mailman is stealing your mail! I’ve had a few problems in the past few months but I don’t suspect my mailman, I think it is a postal worker somewhere along the way. I just wish so many samples weren’t so obviously packaged – it makes stealing more tempting if they know exactly what is in the envelope/package!

*All Veterans and active duty personnel eat FREE at Applebees on Veteran’s Day, Wednesday, November 11, 2009. Make sure to check out their site as you’ll need proof of service with you.

*Carrie from Pocket Your Dollars emailed to tell me about how you can get a full refund of Baby Einstein DVDs you purchased from June 2004 through September of 2009.

*Sara from Dealicious Mom posted about the new Hasbro toy coupons and where you can get the best deals on them!

*Enter the Shop it To Me Giveaway to win a Lucky Shops Gift Bag worth $750! The giveaway ends Friday, 10/30 so you have a good chance to win! You’ll just need to leave a comment on their blog about what is the most exciting part of Lucky Shops. You must be a Shop It To Me member to win, so sign up here first.

*Heather from Pinch That Penny emailed to tell me that you can get a travel size Connect 4 game for FREE at Target with a printable coupon.

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Publix, 10/28-11/3

October 29, 2009

Michelle at I Heart Publix is your girl for all things Publix! I’m posting the highlights (IMHO) but definitely check out her full match-up post and her Super Deals.
Don’t have a Publix near you? No big deal – just head over to The Grocery Gathering at Be Centsable to find the match-ups for the stores [...]

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Phase 2: New $15 Kodak Credit Starts Tonight!

October 28, 2009

I blogged before about Kodak’s big giveaway! They are giving away $15 credits on the Kodak Gallery site! This makes for very cheap or FREE high quality photo products. You’ll need to hurry though as the $15 credits are limited and Phase 2 of their giveaway starts tonight at 12:01 am. If you didn’t get [...]

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Halloween FREEBIES!

October 28, 2009

My friend Brandie at Free Sample Freak has posted a large list of Halloween FREEBIES for you all! I’m posting a few below but you’ll definitely want to check out her post to see a full list.
•Free ‘Boo’rito at Chipotle on Halloween, Must be dressed as a Burrito or Chipotle-like.
•FREE Mattel Toy from Sears on [...]

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Join My Village: Socially Responsible Blogging

October 28, 2009

I love receiving information about causes such as Join My Village. My blog is read by tens of thousands each month and if even 1 of you joins my village and supports this great cause then I will have done my job.
What is Join My Village? Join My Village is a joint effort between General [...]

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$25 Restaurant Certificates for Just $1.50 – You’ll Make $3.50 if New to Cashbaq!

October 28, 2009

From now until October 31, 2009 you can get restaurant.com certificates at 80% off. Since $25 certificates sell for $10 usually, that means they are now only $2.00! If you go through Cashbaq, a cash back shopping site, you’ll get 25% of what you paid back into your Cashbaq account. That means you’ll be paying [...]

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National Shopping Service

October 27, 2009

I signed up for National Shopping Service a while ago but just recently completed (and was paid for!) my first shop. I found the directions to be clear and straightforward and the shop form was fairly easy to enter. In my area they have quick casual restaurants and retail establishments primarily. The [...]

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My Favorite Beauty Tip and Unilever Box of Beauty Products Giveaway!

October 27, 2009

I blogged about the Beauty Tip of the Day widget last month and hopefully you had a chance to check it out further! If you haven’t seen it, it’s in my left sidebar. The tips provided on the widget are really useful and many of the brands are providing printable coupons as well.
It’s so hard [...]

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Shop at Home’s $1,000 Facebook Giveaway!

October 27, 2009

I have blogged before about Shop at Home. They are a great cash back shopping site that also offers a freebie toolbar as well as free samples, etc. They are hosting a $1,000 Facebook Giveaway that I wanted to make sure to tell you about.
Shop at Home is collecting your best money-saving tips just in [...]

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Target Deals, week of 10/25

October 26, 2009

Collin over at Hip2Save has a great list of Target deals. There are weekly match-ups with the flyer as well as ongoing deals. Target’s coupon policy is now online. I always keep a copy of it with my Target coupons so it comes with me to the store. My issues at Target have always been [...]

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Alice.com HOT Deals!

October 26, 2009

I’m excited to tell you all about Alice.com. Who is Alice? Alice isn’t a who, it’s a what! What is Alice? Alice is an online household essentials website. For you folks who live in a rural area and don’t have access to all of the stores I post about each week, you’re going to love [...]

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Best Deal Magazines, Week of 10/26

October 26, 2009

Here are this week’s hot deals of the day and coupon codes for Best Deal Magazines, my go-to for holiday and birthday gifts!

Here are this week’s coupon codes:15% Off Most Titles (Code: PXSS111 Offer Expires November 1, 2009)$5 OFF $30 (Code: MNDSS111 Offer Expires November 1, 2009)$7.50 OFF $40 (Code: MQQSS111 Offer Expires November 1, [...]

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Coupons.com Update, 10/25

October 25, 2009

Each Sunday I am going to bring you the updated list of printable coupons from coupons.com! You can access these coupons from the blue widget on my right sidebar that has 3 coupons on it or by clicking here. Some of them are not available in all zip codes. You can print two (2) of [...]

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