“Save when you want, where you want.” Great new motto from a great new app!
Save Money! Don’t pay full price! Download Retail Me Not for your apple product. It’s Free! Don’t have an apple product? Head to their website Retail Me Not.
I use Retail Me Not’s website all the time. So, I was super excited when the new App came out! Retail Me Not has over 1,600 redeemable coupons with thousands of merchants. With the Retail Me Not app you can save online or in the store! “Hot Deals” from popular stores are updated daily.
Explore the online and in-store coupons from thousands of merchants or the drag and drop functions for easy online shopping. Don’t need your coupon now? Save it for later. Or check out coupons from popular stores and categories.
Select a book, track your child’s progress with the book(s), get a reward! Sounds good to me.
With summer nearing, it’s hard to keep your child still reading. Here’s an incentive and a reading challenge! Download the book list, progress chart, a certificate from Pottery Barn’s Website ( http://www.potterybarnkids.com/design-studio/articles/summer-reading-challenge.html ). Once your reading is done and tracked, you then print a certificate for your child and visit your local Pottery Barn and your child will receive a book! You can also enter to win a backpack with books!
TOS (The Old Schoolhouse Magazine) revives Molly Green Magazine / Econobusters! Each week Molly Green is delivered to your inbox with tips, recipes and other inspiring ideas related to saving money! Molly Green Magazine / Econobusters offers decorating tips, pet care, health and beauty care for less. Let’s not forget tips on coupon clipping and “Abundant Blessings” (large savings for large families). With a paid monthly subscription to Molly Green Magazine / Econobusters you will receive “FREE Menu-Planning E-Book and Home Work: Juggling Home, Work and School Without Losing Your Balance E-Book“. Let Molly Green Magazine / Econobusters save you money too!! There is also “A Minute with Molly” a free newsletter.
Look what I found this morning! How exciting! This is the information I’ve gathered through Kidsbowlfree.com . “Registered kids receive 2 FREE games of bowling everyday all summer long”. They mention the value is over $500.00 per kid! I imagine this would be if you went everyday. Click on your state in the US or Canada to find your nearest bowling center.
I went to my nearest center and currently they are only taking email address to send you more information for this summer once it’s available.
I had questions and went to the F.A.Q. Most of the answers I found depend on the bowling center itself. My three biggest questions were what are the age requirements? Do I need to pay for shoes? When is the free bowling? (dates, times, days) Unfortunately, I won’t find out these answers until registration opens and I get my email.
They also have a benefit for families! KidsBowlFree.com has a Family Pass! For $24.95 (according to their site) for the summer up to 4 adults, get 2 free games person per day also!
This is great family fun time! I’ll update you when I get my email!
STOP BUYING BOTTLED WATER!!! ZeroWater is here to help save the Earth with it’s water filtration system. ZeroWater has a “patented 5-stage water filter system and is the only system certified to meet the Food & Drug Administration’s standards for Purified Bottle Water.”
Let’s talk water and TDS (Total Dissolved Solids) – TDS is the substances in your water that make it “taste salty, bitter or metallic.” I live in the Northeast and have well water.
I used the TDS water meter provided
I tested our tap water and here’s the results.
That meter reads 126 as the glass stood there for a few minutes it went up to 129. Which in my area of the world is normal for tap water. Most of the US falls into the 051-200 meter reading. The ZeroWater filter will produce about 24 to 40 gallons of water for my area. As the meter reading rises the gallons of water reduces, because the filter has more substances to clean.
I buy bottled water for my family to drink. If I drink my current tap water from the faucet, frankly it tastes like dirt. I’ve tried other filtration devices and they haven’t worked.
Here’s what happened to the meter when I put my tap water through the filter.
The meter dropped to 001! WOW!
For the heck of it – I tried bottled water.
That one was 046!
The Pitcher -
It fits well in the fridge, has a place on the lid to put the TDS meter and a little spout on the bottom. I don’t even need to take the pitcher out of the fridge! My only concern in the future would be a leak from the spout. So, far all is well an no leaks! Hooray!
The Taste – It improved my water taste tremendously! No more dirt water and I can finally stop buying bottled water! ZeroWater recommends that you change your filter when you TDS meter reads 006.
Want more!? Use the following code MC30 for 30% off your own 10 Cup ZeroWater Pitcher !
My Review – Great product. As I said earlier my water tasted terrible. With the ZeroWater Pitcher, I don’t have to buy bottled water anymore! I can save money and the environment!
Faith and Family Reviews received the following product in exchange for writing a review. While we consider it a privilege to receive free products to review, our reviews are our honest opinion and thoughts of the product.
“I wrote this review while participating in a blog tour by Mom Central Consulting on behalf of ZeroWater and received a water pitcher to facilitate my review, two pitchers to giveaway, and extra filters to thank me for taking the time to participate.”
There’s a giveaway! No, wait there’s 2 GIVEAWAYS!!!
Spring Break and Summer are getting close, what are your plans? With gas prices soaring and admission into places doesn’t seem to be getting any lower, family fun is getting expensive! Try this site Factory Tours USA . I did a spot check and from what I could see, most of the Factory Tours are FREE, granted I’m sure most have a gift store at the end. By going on a tour, you and your family are having fun and don’t even realize they are learning! There are many great places to visit. There are just about 50 categories ranging from candy to racing teams to musical instruments to mines and mining. You can search by state too. Here’s the website! http://www.factorytoursusa.com
Coupon lovers and deal seekers will love this! A post full of coupons for products from baby wipes to food to DVDs! Let me know how you like it and I will be keeping track to see if people click the coupons to determine if this will be a regular feature! Leave me a comment if you’d like a regular post featuring coupons! Happy Shopping and saving money!
Remember a couple of weeks ago when I wrote about our Champion for Kids SIMPLE service projects (here and here), and I said I was determined to coupon for charity more often? Well, we have been hard at work.
My older daughters are interested in helping so they have offered to help look for coupons, promo coupon codes and Target coupon codes that will allow us to save money on our purchases. So their job is to scour selected websites and blogs for deals, sales, coupons and more for charity. They print off the coupons, cut them out if necessary and file them for me.
The snag we have hit is our printer has not been cooperating. One of my daughters must have worked an hour on gathering information only to discover the printer would not allow her to print the coupons! Very frustrating to say the least. I am not sure if we didn’t have the appropriate coupon printing software installed or what, but at least one of the sites we have used before so I think it was just a printer issue.
Needless to say we kept working with the printer and I *think* we have finally got it to work…. most of the time. Therefore, my daughter will be at it again today to find more coupons in order for us to complete our shopping for charity and dropping off our donation.
Has that ever happened to you when you are working on project, especially a worthwhile one like couponing for charity, need to print something, only to have your printer act up and hinder you from completing your task? Arrrrrgh! is how I feel just thinking about it! But the feelings go away when I think of the cause we are supporting – our local food pantry or women and children’s shelter. A good thing, eh?
Check out Amazon’s Deals! Amazon has one Deal of the Day, then Lightning Deals throughout the day! But, you’ve got to be fast they expire before the next one begins! If you click on each time, they will give you a hint. But, you need to check back to see what the deal is and how much percentage off!
There is always something to do around our home, whether it’s housework, work or whatever. For this week’s motivation I want us to work on organizing our days better to get more done across the board, especially once we have the garden and chickens. It’ll be easier once summer comes, I think, but for now we need more organized days as not everything is getting done that needs to be done lately. It doesn’t help that all the children have been sick the past week, but still when we get behind on things it is time to pull up our boot straps and get back at it. I may blog less this week as we catch up, just depends.
Seeds and Veggie Plants
On Friday afternoon I was able to get onions, kale, parsley, leeks, spinach, cabbage and Swiss chard planted. You should see the children’s seeds! They are no longer seeds, but little plants! It’s amazing how they sprouted and grew in the last week!
And here are the seeds I planted on Friday, March 16. Again, as you can see I used what I had to save money, instead of buying seed flats I used the big foil roasters and lasagna pans. Hey it works as I got 40-45 seeds planted in each! I did buy 4″ pots to replant everything into and we’ll reuse the egg cartons and pans to plant more seeds for succession planting.
