New Swagcode!!!

Do you subscribe to the Swagbucks newsletter? If so, make sure you check your email today so you can claim your free swagcode!

The free swagcode is located at the bottom of the email in a blue box. It will award you 1 free swagbuck! The code is valid through 8/1/09 at 9 am PDT. So act fast on this one!

Not sure what a swagcode is? It's a unique code that earns you free swagbucks when entered into your Swagbucks account homepage.

If you're not familiar with the Swagbucks program, you better get with it! It's one of my favorite programs to earn free gift cards!

I've belonged to Swagbucks for about a year now. So far, I've received over $250 in Amazon.com gift cards!!! And I have other gift cards that are still processing and on their way to me.

Click here to open you free Swagbucks account. You'll receive 3 free swagbucks just for signing up!

You'll earn points for using their free search engine and you can redeem your points for all kinds of gift cards, PayPal cash or other merchandise.

Oh and once you sign up, make sure you subscribe to the newsletter so you'll have access to bonus swagcodes!

New Swagcode!!!

Weight Watchers Magazine... just $6.73 for 1 year!

Looking for some handy dandy tips for trimming a few (or more) pounds? Subscribe to Weight Watchers magazine.

This magazine has healthy recipes, techniques to help you slim down, motivational articles, how-to articles on fashion, beauty and maximizing your shape to help you look your best.

You can subscribe now for just $6.73 for 1 year! Simply click through to Best Deal Magazines and use coupon code: WW55 at checkout.

This offer is good through 8/2/09.

Looking to save on other magazines? Coupon code: PXSS82 will take 15% off most other magazine subscriptions. This coupon is good through 8/2/09 as well. Note that the coupons can not be combined.

Weight Watchers Magazine... just $6.73 for 1 year!

Get your free $55 coupon calendar book!

Head on over to Nabisco World to sign up for your free Pack a Kraft Smile Savings Booklet & Calendar.

This savings booklet comes packed with $15 worth of coupons and two rebates worth $20 each!

The coupon & rebate savings are for Kraft brand favorites including Chips Ahoy, Mac & Cheese, CapriSun, Ritz Bitz & Planters, among others.

Get your free $55 coupon calendar book!

Show me the money... (Weekly Recap)

How much extra money did you earn this week? How much did you save? Here's my weekly re-cap of money/gift cards earned, cash saved by using coupons, and freebies received in the mail.

It's fun to see your savings/earnings amounts all added up. It clearly shows that it's time well spent when you cut coupons, hunt for sales, and make little bits of money here and there. Here's my re-cap for the past week, 7/19/09 -7/25/09.

Cash/Checks/Gift Cards Received

$6.90..... Opinion Outpost surveys
$0.59..... YouData (View ads... paid every Friday!)
$5.00..... Amazon.com gift card from Swagbucks (Earn gift cards for using their search engine! Sign up here, it's free!)
$5.00..... Magazines.com Father's Day gift card rebate
$25.00... Amazon.com gift card (Cashed in credit card rewards)
$16.00... Mindfield Online surveys (Surveys & product testing!)

Total: $58.49

Coupon Savings

$12.61.... Kohl's (30% off & free shipping!)
$31.73.... Target
$1.40...... Bed, Bath & Beyond

Total: $45.74

Freebies

Kotex samples and coupon
3 Campbell's Soup reusable shopping bags (Riversharks game giveaway!)
Chapstick, nail file, 4 bandanas, 3 pens & 3 coloring books (Giveaways from other sponsors of the game!)


Total 2009 Cash/Checks/Gift Cards Received: $987.98
Total 2009 Coupon Savings: $1,567.56

Find my previous weekly re-caps here.

Show me the money... (Weekly Recap)

How to remove the blogger navigation bar...

I just wanted to pass along this helpful little tip.

I know many bloggers have the Blogger naviation bar at the top of their blogs. And I know many of you, like me, want it to disappear.It takes up valuable space and can be slightly unattractive next to our pretty blog templates.

Unfortunately Blogger does not give you an easy option for removing it. BUT... I found out how to do this, thanks to another blogger posting the info for all of us! So I figured I'd share it with all of you in case you're interested.

Check out this great tutorial on removing the Blogger navigation bar from your blog.

It was super quick and easy to do this.

How to remove the blogger navigation bar...

Coupon Giveaway Winner

Congratulations to Shawnee, who is the winner of over 200 coupons in my latest giveaway!

Shawnee, I've already emailed you for your mailing address.

Thanks to everyone who stopped by and entered. Please consider subscribing or becoming a follower so you'll be sure not to miss any of my tips, coupons, freebies or giveaways.

I have another giveaway coming up soon.... this time it's for a $25 gift card!!!

Coupon Giveaway Winner

Caress $1.00 off coupon

You may or may not recall, but wayyyyy back in March I alerted you to the Caress Body Wash sample that was available.

Of course, I scooped this great freebie up right away. I love to test out new products without having to pay. Cause I sure don't wanna spend money for something only to find out I don't even like it.

Anyway, my sample arrived in May and I finally started using it about a month or so ago. Lemme tell you... I LOVE it.

It smells sooooo good. It's scented with burnt brown sugar and karite butter. Yummy. I just want to eat it each time I go to lather it on.

Soooooo... all of this just to tell you that I found a $1.00 off coupon that you can use for the Caress body wash or bar.

Print your coupon here.

CAUTION: Use of this yummy smelling body wash may cause extreme hunger pangs.

Caress $1.00 off coupon

New Kotex Freebies

Kotex is offering free samples of their new Ultra Thin Overnight Pads with Wings. Click here to sign up for this freebie.

This freebie arrives pretty fast! I requested mine less than a week ago and it arrived today. That's super-fast for freebies.

Anyway, my Kotex freebie arrived in a box with several other Kotex freebies thrown in as well! There was a total of four pads and a coupon for $1.00 off any Kotex product.

New Kotex Freebies

PineCone Research Exclusive Sign Up Link!

PineCone Research is one of my favorite survey sites. Are you a member yet? If not, this is your chance.

PineCone Research sign-ups are pretty exclusive. You can't just go to their site and sign up. And normally you can't even be referred to join.

The only time to join their paid survey site is when they give certain members exclusive referral privileges. And that is what I have right now!

So, if you're interested, you can sign up for PineCone Research, and start taking their paid surveys.

The site is free to join and they periodically send you surveys through your email. When you qualify and complete a survey, they automatically send you a check in the mail. I've usually gotten $3.00 per survey! Much better than many other survey companies.

Looking for more legitimate (and free) survey companies to earn a little extra cash? Check out the list of companies that I've been using for quite some time. The list can be found at the top of my left sidebar.

PineCone Research Exclusive Sign Up Link!

Coupon Giveaway!

Have you entered my latest giveaway yet?

This giveaway is for over 200 coupons!!! There is a great variety of coupons and I'm sure they'll save you tons of money!

To enter, please visit my original post for the giveaway. You can find that HERE.

I'll be accepting entries through today, 7/21/09.

Thanks for entering!

Coupon Giveaway!

30% off and free shipping at Kohl's!!!

Kohl's is having their mystery discount sale again. Kohl's charge holders get an extra 15-30% off their entire purchase!!

And of course I have the 30% off code for you! The code is : HOTBUY30 and is valid through Wednesday 7/22/09.

You can also claim free shipping on any size order by also using code: MVC6833. That one expires 7/25/09.

If you are not a Kohl's charge holder, you can use coupon code: NEW5919 to take 10% your order. This code expires 7/25/09. And all customers get free shipping on orders of $75 or more.

BONUS: Make your purchase through your Ebates account and you'll earn yourself 2% cash back.

New to Ebates? Sign up for your free account and you'll also get a $5.00 sign-up bonus in addition to your cash back!

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***Have you signed up for my latest giveaway? This is for over 200 coupons!!! Sign up HERE, it's quick and painless, I promise.***

30% off and free shipping at Kohl's!!!

Freebie Alert: Fiber One Cereal & Chocolate Bar

This is a great freebie.... well, actually two freebies & coupons!

Fiber One is offering a free sample of their Honey Clusters Cereal along with their Oats & Chocolate Bar! Mmmm, sounds good.

Along with your two freebies you will also receive $5.00 in coupons! Wooo! The coupons are for various Fiber One products and range from $0.50-$1.00 off.

Claim your Fiber One freebies here.

Enjoy!

Freebie Alert: Fiber One Cereal & Chocolate Bar

Show me the money... (Weekly Recap)

How much extra money did you earn this week? How much did you save? Here's my weekly re-cap of money/gift cards earned, cash saved by using coupons, and freebies received in the mail.

It's fun to see your savings/earnings amounts all added up. It clearly shows that it's time well spent when you cut coupons, hunt for sales, and make little bits of money here and there. Here's my re-cap for the past week, 7/12/09 -7/18/09.

Cash/Checks/Gift Cards Received

$5.00... Amazon.com gift card from Swagbucks (Earn gift cards for using their search engine! Sign up here, it's free!)

Total: $5.00

Coupon Savings

$18.50.... The Children's Place
$28.94.... Acme
$3.00..... Rite Aid

Total: $50.44

Freebies

Sun Crystals All-Natural Sweetener samples & coupon


Total 2009 Cash/Checks/Gift Cards Received: $929.49
Total 2009 Coupon Savings: $1,521.82

Find my previous weekly re-caps here.

Show me the money... (Weekly Recap)

Try Tyson Skillet Creations Meal Kit FREE!!!

Have you tried Tyson's new Skillet Creations Meal Kits? I haven't yet. But, I will now since I can try one for free!!!

How do you score this for free, you ask? Tyson is offering a mail-in rebate for the purchase price up to $8.99.

Purchase one Tyson Skillet Creation Meal Kit between 7/10/09-10/31/09. Mail in the UPC and the original receipt along with this printable rebate form.

Rebate forms must be received by 11/15/09.

BONUS: This may be a possible money maker. Tyson also has this $1.00 off printable coupon available. So you may be able to get the $1.00 off and then get the rebate for the full amount back.

Sometimes rebates take off the amount for the coupon, but most times they do not. So you are possibly earning $1.00 besides getting the item for free!

Try Tyson Skillet Creations Meal Kit FREE!!!

Enter to win over 200 coupons!!!

One of my favorite ways to save money for my family is to shop with coupons.

So far this year, we've saved about $1,500 by using coupons and coupon codes! That's some serious savings there. Especially when you consider most things were also bought on sale, so the savings is even greater with the sale & coupon savings combined!

Anyway, I know that sometimes it's hard to find coupons, depending on where you live. And even if you have access to coupons, you may not have many for products you need.

Soooooo.... it's giveaway time again here at Tips & Treasures! I'm giving away a packet of over 200 coupons!!!

To enter the giveaway, simply fill in your name and email address in the contest entry form below (not in the comments section).



Giveaway entries will be accepted through Tuesday 7/21/09. Open to US residents only. Good luck and thanks for entering!

Enter to win over 200 coupons!!!

Rite Aid: $5 off $25 printable coupon

Rite Aid has another one of their great $5.00 off coupons out!

This coupon will get you $5.00 off your purchase of $25.00 or more. It expires 7/31/09.

Print your coupon here.

I'm so glad to have this coupon... I'll be heading out to Rite Aid this evening to pick up some diapers. They have Huggies Mega packs for $14.99 with a $2.00 Single Check Rebate, making them just $12.99.

Not bad... especially with a Huggies manufacturer's coupon and with the Rite Aid $5 coupon when I bring my purchase up to $25.00.

Rite Aid: $5 off $25 printable coupon

Free Coldplay Album Download!!!

Yay, I'm so excited about this one!

You can get a free download of the entire Coldplay album, Left Right Left Right Left. How cool is that?

Go here to download the album from their site. Then click the butterfly at the top of the page right where it says Free Download.

Thanks to Money Saving Methods for the heads up on this one.

Free Coldplay Album Download!!!

FREEBIE ALERT: Bodycology Hand & Body Lotion

Sign up for your free sample of Bodycology's Hand & Body Lotion. You can choose from Cherry Blossom or Raspberries & Cream scents. Sounds yummy.

This freebie is offered online from Walmart. You know Walmart routinely has a page of freebies, right? They switch them up every so often.

Find the Bodycology lotion freebie HERE. And the entire page of freebies HERE.

FREEBIE ALERT: Bodycology Hand & Body Lotion

Design your own makeup bag... too cute!

This is such a great idea. ArtsCow (the online photo print place) has this great feature where you can design your own little make-up bag!!!

How do you design your own bag? You simply upload one of your pics and it will become the cover of the make-up bag. Sooo cute!

So you can use a cute pic of your kiddos or flowers in your garden, or your fav pic of the beach, or whatever you want. It's up to you!

Start here to design your own make-up bag!

ArtsCow is offering this Photo Make-Up bag for just $11.99 when you use the coupon code: MAKEUPBAG1199. Oh, and this is shipped FREE!

This offer is good through 8/15/09. BUT.... they are anticipating a big response to this offer so they are limiting it to the first 100 orders each day until the deadline. So if you try today and you aren't able to snag the deal, just place your order tomorrow.

This looks like a fun gift opportunity!

Design your own makeup bag... too cute!

Show me the money... (Weekly Recap)

How much extra money did you earn this week? How much did you save? Here's my weekly re-cap of money/gift cards earned, cash saved by using coupons, and freebies received in the mail.

It's fun to see your savings/earnings amounts all added up. It clearly shows that it's time well spent when you cut coupons, hunt for sales, and make little bits of money here and there. Here's my re-cap for the past week, 7/5/09 -7/11/09.

Cash/Checks/Gift Cards Received

$0.10...... YouData (Earn cash by viewing ads... paid every Friday!)
$5.00... Amazon.com gift card from Swagbucks (Earn gift cards for using their search engine! Sign up here, it's free!)
$20.00... Amazon.com gift card from Valued Opinions surveys
$2.00...... Diapers.com referral (Use code: NOWSAVE5 to take $10 off your 1st order)

Total: $27.10

Coupon Savings

$25.00... Lane Bryant
$13.75.... One Step Ahead (Plus I qualified for a free mag. subscription & elected for the $9.97 refund instead! As usual, I'll count this when it's received.)
$9.99...... Collections Etc.
$1.00..... Acme

Total: $49.74

Freebies

No freebies received this week. (Haven't been signing up for many.)


Total 2009 Cash/Checks/Gift Cards Received: $924.49
Total 2009 Coupon Savings: $1,471.38

Find my previous weekly re-caps here.

Show me the money... (Weekly Recap)

Alternate uses for rubber bands

One of the best ways to reduce waste and to save money, is to use what you already have. And one of the best ways to make the most of what you already have, is to think about other ways to use those items.

Every so often I highlight a new item that you can repurpose around your house. What's up for today? Rubber bands. Exciting, I know!

Here's a quick list of a few alternate uses for rubber bands...

1. Decorate Easter eggs... wrap them around the egg a few times, dip egg into dye, then remove rubber bands when the dye has dried.
2. Wrap them around wrapping paper rolls to keep them from getting too ragged.
3. Hold wobbly items in place in your dishwasher with a rubber band.
4. Open jars more easily... wrap a rubber band around the lid a few times for a better grip.
5. Wrap a rubber band around your chimes during heavy winds.
6. Wrap a rubber band a few times around the edges of your hangers. This makes a non-slip surface so shirts stay in place.

Looking for more ways to repurpose items? Check these out:

1. Repurposed baby food jars
2. Repurpose baby wipe containers
3. Uses for plastic bags
4. Crafty Edition: Repurpose formula cans
5. Reusing empty shoe boxes

Alternate uses for rubber bands

Barnes & Noble 10% off coupon

One of my most favorite ways to relax is to sit on the beach and read a good book. Gotta love the warm sun, the cool breeze and the sound of the gentle crash of the waves.

So peaceful and it's super easy to get lost in whatever you're reading.

Anyway... maybe you need some new reading material for those great beach days. Or maybe you're just snuggled with a book in a comfy chair at home.

Either way, take 10% off any one item at Barnes & Noble, now through 7/19/09. To take advantage of this offer click through and use code: U4W8R8B. You're welcome!

Barnes & Noble 10% off coupon

Show me the money... (Weekly Recap)

How much extra money did you earn this week? How much did you save? Here's my weekly re-cap of money/gift cards earned, cash saved by using coupons, and freebies received in the mail.

It's fun to see your savings/earnings amounts all added up. It clearly shows that it's time well spent when you cut coupons, hunt for sales, and make little bits of money here and there. Here's my re-cap for last week, 6/28/09 -7/4/09.

Cash/Checks/Gift Cards Received

$0.30...... YouData (Earn cash by viewing ads... paid every Friday!)
$10.00.... Amazon.com gift card from Swagbucks (Earn gift cards for using their search engine! Sign up HERE, it's free!)
$1.00...... Diapers.com referral (Use code: NOWSAVE5 to take $10 off your 1st order)
$21.00.... Survey Savvy

Total: $32.30

Coupon Savings

$29.40... Acme
$5.00..... Payless
$1.65...... Kohl's
$12.95... TGI Fridays

Total: $49.00

Freebies

First aid kit
Fancy Feast Appetizers Cat food (I'll donate this since we don't have a cat.)


Total 2009 Cash/Checks/Gift Cards Received: $897.39
Total 2009 Coupon Savings: $1,421.64

Find my previous weekly re-caps here.

Show me the money... (Weekly Recap)

New Swagcode!

Are you a Swagbucks user? I hope so... it's my absolute most favorite way to earn money online.

Well, today 7/5/09, they have a free swagcode for everyone! The code is: Independence.

This will get you 1 free swagbuck into your account. Making you 1 step closer to cashing out for cash, gift cards or other prizes!!!

Don't have a Swagbucks account yet? What are you waiting for??? It's a completely free search engine, just like Google or whatever you're using now.

The difference? You randomly earn swagbucks from doing searches. You can then use your swagbucks to redeem for cash, gift cards or other cool prizes.

Sign up for your Swagbucks account here.

I've earned well over $200 in Amazon gift cards since I started using Swagbucks last year!!! I LOVE it.

New Swagcode!

Oriental Trading: Take 20% off ANY order

Just in case you're planning a party sometime soon, I have a great coupon for ya.

Snag 20% off any size order at Oriental Trading! Simply use coupon code: WCX8178 at checkout. Offer expires 7/6/09.

If you've never shopped at Oriental Trading, they are the headquarters for party supplies, decorations and favors. Oh and they carry about a gazillion other things as well. All, super cheap.

BONUS: Make your Oriental Trading purchase through your Ebates account and you'll earn 3% cash back! New to Ebates? Sign up for your free account and you'll earn a $5.00 bonus in addition to your cash back!

Oriental Trading: Take 20% off ANY order

Puzzles: B2G1 Free + Free Shipping

I LOVE the Melissa & Doug Puzzles and other wooden toys. They are so cute and made with such great quality that they easily stand apart from other puzzles and toys.

Anyway, eToys has a hard-to-pass-up deal going on where you can buy any 2 Melissa & Doug puzzles or toys, and you'll get another one for free! And, like icing on the cake, they are offering free shipping as well!!!

No coupon code necessary for this promo, just click through above and add your three items to your cart. The free one will be adjusted at checkout. Offer runs through 7/11/09.

Puzzles: B2G1 Free + Free Shipping

$1.00 off Gerber Graduates Smart Sips

Have your toddlers or preschoolers tried the new Graduates Smart Sips drinks? We haven't yet.

Apparently these Smart Sips are milk drinks loaded with vitamins and minerals. And they come in Plain, Vanilla & Strawberry.

You can learn more about them here, if you want.

And then you can print out a great coupon for $1.00 off any one single serve Graduates Smart Sips.

$1.00 off Gerber Graduates Smart Sips