Friday, January 22, 2010

FREE Personalized Digital Invitations, Photo Collages and so much more!



Create Amazing Valentine's Day egreetingsI am so excited about this photo service, Smilebox.  I love companies like this that allow you turn life's moments into a way for you to express your care for others for FREE. Check it out!  Here are some of my favorite features:

  • Create extraordinary free digital invitations in minutes at Smilebox.com! You can even add your own photos, video clips and music.
  • Visit Smilebox.com and create amazing greetings with your photos, videos, and music. Email them free.
  • Click here to create a photo collage for free in minutes! Add your photos, message, and music, and share via email or post to web sites.
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FREE 8 x 10 on Canvas from the Canvas People!





Canvas People is an awesome company that places photos on Canvas.  They are so sure that you will love their service that they will put one photo on Canvas for free.  You just pay shipping. Just go here: Get Your First Canvas on Us. Free 8x10 Canvas Print or $55 off Larger Sizes. This would make a sweet, inexpensive Valentine's gift for ANYONE!


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Big Lots 20% off Coupon- Valid 1/23-1/30


Big Lots has a valuable coupon available that will be active tomorrow, 1/23- 1/31.  Just go HERE to print the 20% off coupon off your ENITRE purchase for Buzz Club Members.  If you are not a club member, go here and register for FREE!  Big Lots has great prices on items like the Dyson vacuum cleaner and other household goods!
(Thanks, Hip 2 Save!)

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How to Give Yourself a $12,000 + raise in 2010





Are you living paycheck to paycheck or in DEEP debt?  Does your husband or you need a raise to get out of the hole you find yourself in?  These are all tools that we used when we found ourselves paying 2 mortgages. Here is how to create your own raise in 2010!  



  1. Coupons for Groceries: Start couponing.  Learn all you can.  We gave ourselves an average $500 a month raise. If I can do it, you can do it!  I never used a coupon in a grocery store before this year.  


2.      Utilities: Cut out excess utilities.  
A.    Satelite/Cable: We cancelled our satellite which gave us a $80 a month raise.  We watched shows online at cbs.com, abc.com, nbc.com and mtv.com. 
B.    Home Phone:  Cancel your home phone and use your cell phone (metro pcs).  Up to $80 a month raise.  
C.   Yard: Cancel the yard treatment plan/yard maintenance.  $20 + a month raise
D.   Negotiate: You will be surprised also with how GENEROUS these companies will start being to keep you as a client.  **We just got our satellite back after 3 months (when we get a tenant for our condo) with a great package (HD, DVR etc.) for $40 a month for 12 months.
3.      Drugstore Game: Learn about the drugstore game.  I get $200 + a month  (raise) worth of cosmetics, hair care, over the counter medicine etc. for less than $10 a month.
4.      Eating Out
A.    Make yourself a couple of delicious soups or buy  ingredients for your favorite sandwich instead of going to a fast food restaurant 3-4 times a week  $15-40 raise a month depending on whether you are buying foods for your kids as well. 
B.    Go out to eat only once a week.  $160-300 a month raise
C.   Quit going to get fancy coffee and brew your own.  I just started using a cappuccino maker that I got as a wedding present.  Instead of going to Starbucks, I started my own home coffee shop, Savebucks J Around $40 + a month raise.
D.   Take your kids to McDonalds or Chick-fil-a AFTER lunch to buy them an ice cream cone or yourself a coffee so that they can have an opportunity to play in the Play Place without buying a Happy Meal.  $20-40 a month raise.  
5.      Salon Discounts: Go to a salon like Bob Steele Salon for the first time and get 50% off your first visit when you say that Courtney Breban sent you. That can be up to a $100 or more raise this month.  
6.      Preschool/Private School: Struggling financially?  Pull Johnny or Janey out of preschool and enroll him in some classes or sports in your community. $180-700 a month raise.  Or better yet pull them out of private school and either put them in home school or public school.  You will give yourself a $280-$2500 raise per month
7.      Cars: Sell the cars you pay payments on and buy a nice used car that you can pay cash for.  $200-1000 + a month raise
8.      Books: Use the library for you and your kids instead of buying new books.  $15-40 a month raise.
9.      Sell and Buy: Sell the stuff you don’t use or need and buy used on craigslist and ebay.  $20-100 + raise per month.
10.  Accountability/Sticking to your budget:   $$PRICELESS$$
A.   Married: Put together a Cash Flow Budget EVERY MONTH giving every dollar a name until you have spent your last cent WITH YOUR SPOUSE.  
B.  Single: If you are single, have an accountability partner who will hold you accountable to your cash flow budget and for meeting your financial goals.  


Some of this sounds extreme but if you are in a deep hole, you need a big shovel not a teaspoon to get out of the hole.  There is NOTHING Godly or good about being in debt!  If this is a generational pattern let this STOP with you.   A question we would ask ourselves is: Would our children rather have stressed out parents, in debt and have everything, or have parents abiding in peace, out of debt, setting an example and have little?  As Dave Ramsey says, "If you live like no one else, later on you can LIVE like no one else. "
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Happy MegaSwagbucks Friday!

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Swagbucks is a FREE search engine that rewards you randomly when you search.  Swagbucks can be redeemed for prizes like AMAZON gift cards.  This is a search engine kind of like Google except you earn bucks for prizes like gift cards for Starbucks, Target, Amazon and many others! Today is MegaSwagbucks day which means you can earn 5-100 Swagbucks on one search.



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GREAT deals on Digital Picture Frames!

Wow, the prices on digital frames have come down considerably.  I saw all of these fantastic deals and I had to share it!  A digital picture frame loaded with meaningful pictures would make a great gift!

NEXTAR N3-507 3.5-Inch Digital Photo Viewer $14.40 (regularly $49.99) *Eligible for FREE Super Saver Shipping!






Smartparts 12.1" Digital Picture Frame ONLY 84.99 (originally $199.99)

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