Free!

Here's a little money-saving tip for you.  You're welcome.

We eat a lot of yogurt in this house.  Micah's favorite food is yogurt with frozen blueberries in it and since he only eats about 5 things, we have that at least once a day.  I'm on a yogurt and granola kick (i know...i'm so healthy.  This helps to offset my huge bowl of ice cream every night) and Scott and Camden both eat yogurt every day as well.  Yogurt is not the cheapest food, especially when you buy organic.  We try to buy organic as often as possible, and although we can't afford to buy every type of food organic, yogurt is one thing that we always do. 

Scott often gets frustrated with me because I leave the tops of the yogurt containers lying around the kitchen counters so that I can enter the codes and earn points on stonyfield.com.  It is kind of a pain, but it has paid off!  I cashed in some of my points a couple weeks ago for some coupons for free yogurt and came home with four free quarts of yogurt.  That's right my friends, I just got $13.96 worth of free food!  Yahoo!!!  

 Free Yogurt!  :)

 If you are someone who buys stoneyfield often, open an account on their webpage and take the two minutes to enter the codes and it pays off!  :)



On another note, I received an AARP card in the mail a couple days ago with my name on it.  Seriously?!?!  I mean, I know I just turned twenty-nine and a half and am starting to finally feel like an adult (sometimes...), but I'm not quite ready to join the American Association of Retired Persons.  Sorry, Betty!

My First-Ever Post With No Photos, But You Should Still Read It!

I am absolutely loving this Christmas season.  Have I mentioned that yet?  Loving listening to Christmas music.  Loving our beautiful tree and the candles in the windows.  Loving listening to Camden's ever-changing Christmas list (recent list-toppers include a robot, a nutcracker, a tea-set and a dollhouse).  I had my first sip of eggnog today and it was lovely, although I can only take eggnog in very tiny amounts.  One thing that I'm not loving??  Holiday shopping!  I know, I know...everybody loves to shop.  Not this girl.  I mean, I guess it would probably be different if I had an unlimited budget, tons of spare time on my hands and the stores weren't 30+ minutes away, but unfortunately, money is tight, time is fleeting and we live in the middle of nowhere.  My mom offered to watch the boys on Friday and I was so excited to take an excursion to Tilton to run some errands and potentially start my Christmas shopping.  It turned out to be a pretty unsuccessful trip.  I've found out that I'm really good at wondering around aimlessly (seriously, people were looking at me weirdly because I had a blank stare and didn't know which way I was going).  And let me just fill you in on a little secret: Walmart isn't an enjoyable place to shop even on a Friday morning a month before Christmas!  There were SO many people.  The toy isle was completely overwhelming - I've never had so many inanimate objects singing at me, talking to me and beeping at me.  It was crazy.  If you aren't in the market for battery operated toys, than Walmart isn't for you!  I left with two boxes of cereal and a box of crayons!  I think I'll stick to my wonderful Amazon where it's shipped free to my door in two days and is generally cheaper than what I find at the stores!  I do enjoy walking the streets of New London and supporting the local shops, but I'm hoping to stay away from the crazies in the big city from now on!

I have to say, online shopping has revolutionized my life.  Especially since having kids when getting out to run errands is an entire day's event.  If you ever shop online, and if you like to get money back in the mail(!!!) you need to check out Ebates.  I'm obsessed with this site.  You go to Ebates and from there select the store that you are going to order something from and then you just shop as you normally would.  That's all you have to do and then you get a certain percent of what you spent back in the mail.  I just got a check from Ebates for $8.00 recently after I placed an order at Snapfish!  Amazon isn't a part of Ebates, but we've received cashback from JC Pennys, Lowes, Home Depot, Shutterfly, Snapfish, Sears, Old Navy etc...
You should join (you only have to give your email address and you get a bonus giftcard just for joining (and I'll make some bonus cash if you use my links above!).

Cheers for shopping from your couch and saving money!