coupon insert schedule 2012

January
1 — (2) Redplum, (2) Smart Source, and P&G
8 — Redplum and Smart Source
15 — Smart Source
22 — Redplum and Smart Source
29 — Redplum and Smart Source

February
5 — Redplum, Smart Source, and P&G
12 — Redplum and (2) Smart Source
19 — Redplum
26 — (2) Smart Source

March
4 — Redplum, Smart Source, P&G
11 — Redplum and Smart Source
18 — Redplum and Smart Source
25 — Redplum and Smart Source

April
1 — (2) Redplum, (2) Smart Source, P&G
8 — No Inserts Scheduled (Easter)
15 — Redplum and Smart Source
22 — Smart Source
29 — Redplum and Smart Source

May
6 — Redplum, Smart Source, and P&G
13 — Redplum and Smart Source
20 — Redplum and Smart Source
27 — No Inserts Scheduled (Memorial Day)

June
3 — Redplum, Smart Source, and P&G
10 — Redplum and Smart Source
17 — Redplum and Smart Source
24 — Redplum and Smart Source

July
1 — No Inserts Scheduled (July 4th)
8 — Redplum, Smart Source, and P&G
15 — Smart Source
22 — Redplum and Smart Source
29 — Redplum and Smart Source

August
5 — (2) Redplum and Smart Source
12 — Redplum and Smart Source
19 — Redplum and Smart Source
26 — Redplum and Smart Source

September
2 — No Inserts Scheduled (Labor Day)
9 — Redplum and (2) Smart Source
16 — Redplum and Smart Source
23 — Smart Source
30 — Redplum and Smart Source

October
7 — Redplum, (2) Smart Source, and P&G
14 — Redplum and Smart Source
21 — Redplum and Smart Source
28 — Redplum and Smart Source

November
4 — Redplum, Smart Source, and P&G
11 — (2) Redplum and Smart Source
18 — Smart Source
25 — No Inserts Scheduled (Thanksgiving)

December
2 — Redplum, Smart Source, and P&G
9 — Redplum and Smart Source
16 — Smart Source
23 — No Inserts Scheduled
30 — No Inserts Scheduled

Thanks, Bargain Blessings!

Walgreens trip 12-26-11

The One Touch Delica trick worked where I live and I got $10 towards......PRO GLIDE RAZORS that I desperately need on next week's sale.  Here's how it worked:

1-One Touch Delica device $19.99

1-Walgreens gift card $10.00

Total $29.99

Subtract the $19.99 One Touch Delica mfg coupon printable HERE and HERE

Subtract the in store $10.00 Walgreens coupon in the December coupon book

All I paid was $2.00 SARALAND, AL sales tax.  Some states like Florida do not charge sales tax on diabetes supplies.

and I have $10 for the sale next week for the Gilette Pro Glide deal

Here's my thinking:

$15.99 for 4 Pro Glide blades

$9.99 for the Pro Glide razor + 2 blades

$5.00 register rewards when you buy both

$4.00 register rewards when you buy the razor

(possible) confirmed $5.00 MFG coupon in Sunday's paper for Pro Glide razors.
(can be used on just the razor from what I saw next to the CVS advertisement for next week, but it's just as well for me to buy the refills too.)

-$20.00 (or less) in Walgreens (free) gift cards obtained from the Delica deal

Please note:  Go to SmartSource and print without the questionnaire.  You may print 2 of these per computer.

In depth Swagbucks tutorial

When you register with Swagbucks you do not need to give out any address, phone number or even any credit card info. Pretty cool, huh? When you register, you’re already started out with 30 Swagbucks in your account. Sweet, huh? After you are registered go fill out your PROFILES section for even more Swagbucks.

I then suggest downloading the Swagbucks toolbar because it’s a great source of free codes and you can always see your Swagbuck balance. Oh, they also give you a free Swagbuck daily just for having the toolbar too!

Once you have the toolbar, just enter your search terms into the search box as you would with any search engine. You’ll get your search results and every so often you’ll also be rewarded with Swagbucks. There’s no special way to search to win and there are no certain number of searches that you need to make to win. It seems to be a completely random process. You won’t win with every search, but you will win at times. You’ll know that you’ve won Swagbucks when you get something that looks like THIS:

That was about a normal win for me. You’ll earn a different number of Swagbucks each time you win, the amounts are rarely the same and can vary from 5 to as many as 50-100 on Fridays because that is MEGA SWAGBUCKS DAY! On Fridays the search awards are usually the higher amounts if you are lucky. I once won 50 for a search! That was cool! Those randomly-awarded Swagbucks add up pretty quick in your account.

If you downloaded the Swagbucks toolbar (you should!) you’ll sometimes see messages from The Swag Guy. It will be under the “From TSG” section in the toolbar, and it will look like this.

  

Click the icon as soon as you see a new message-meaning a number there in place of the usual 0. If you are lucky you will snag the bonus code before it expires and grab you some bonus Swagbucks. After you have copied the code, just go to the front page of the Swagbucks site , paste the code where it says GIMMIE and you get your Swagbucks!

Be sure to click on the Trusted Surveys link to get your daily free Swagbuck, as well as the Daily Poll. If you are lucky there will be a survey available for you to take for more free Swagbucks. Those amounts vary depending on the survey available.

Everyday you can go to the Special Offers tab and look through the No Obligation Offers section. You don’t have to sign up for anything, but you will win a Swagbuck just for looking through them.

You can also refer your friends to Join Swagbucks and earn. When you are a member you will also get a referral link for your own account. Be sure to share your link because you will get bonus Swagbucks for it.

Oh and be sure to check their blog a few times a day because the folks at Swagbucks like to hide codes in their postings there. If you have a Face book account and a Twitter account, they also like to stash a few codes here and there too!

Lastly, if you do any shopping through the internet, always be sure to check if there is a link through Swagbucks to shop through. Usually you could get 2 Swagbucks for every dollar you spend through their link. I made the mistake of buying something online before checking out Swagbucks. I lost 140 Swagbucks because I didn’t check first. That hurt. The cool thing is that a lot of the good deals that I post on my twitter deal box in the upper left hand side of my site usually have a thing going with Swagbucks too! Talk about maxing out your great deals! So.. rule of thumb here, always check with Swagbucks first before shopping online.

Like I mentioned when I first started my blog, I am not out to make money off of it. You will not find any affiliate links or advertisements here at all. I only post about great deals or freebies that I would or have done myself because I just want to help other Frugalistas out there get the most for their money… However.

I do have one tiny exception to this link thing. If you are so inclined, I would like to get a Swagbuck referral from you if you have not joined this fantastic freebie program yet. (I have a widget on my home page)

 If my Swagbucks totals are showing a low count, it is probably because I just cashed in a bunch of them. They will build up again soon enough. What that widget does not show is the gift cards that I have purchased with my Swagbucks. As soon as I can redeem them, I do and keep them active in my account that does not show up here like my current available Swagbucks do. In just a couple of months of doing this I have gotten many Amazon gift certificates which I am now stockpiling for Christmas shopping.

If you do not wish to give me credit, that is fine too, you can just go to the main Swagbucks site to sign up. Either way you are off to getting some fantastic freebies and making your money stretch which is what this whole blog is about anyways, right?

Now go swag!

Refresh 1 more week on Serve offer

ONE WEEK LEFT ON THIS OFFER!!!!  SIGN UP QUICKLY!!!!!

I found this new offer the other day that you can get $20 for free, ($10 just for joining, $10 about 36 hours later after answering 1 simple question correctly).  Also, you get $10 for each referral.

Now, I would like to get the referrals so I can get a new laptop since mine is junk.

Here's my referral link.

(copied from Couponing to Disney)

American Express has launched a new company called Serve.com. It is a next-generation digital payments platform that helps you organize your money, send and receive funds, and manage payment requests (like Paypal). And for a limited time, Serve.com is offering a $10 bonus to new users! You will need to enter the last 4 of your social to verify your identity.

After you sign up with Serve.com, you will automatically see the $10 bonus added to your account.

You can then head over here and play the Serve.com Money Mover game to score another $10 bonus. The code will be emailed to you within 1 business day with instructions to claim your FREE $10.

After you do both of these steps, you can then request a $20 cash to be mailed to your house! That’s FREE money.

It's a lot like Pay Pal and you can send money from one email address to another.  You can get yourselves to sign up and then your significant other, and anyone I guess to a certain age.

iPhone 4S with Siri. Unlocked. $1.00?

Alright, so I have been finding ways to get me a iPhone 4S (yes, with Siri) that is factory unlocked so I can update my software on iTunes.  And when T-Mobile gets the 1900 band to carry 3G on even a iPhone 3GS, it would be smooth as possible.  Maybe even faster than AT&T's so called fast network.  So anyways, I found this website that is on all referrals (and I want to make a YouTube video for even more referrals) and takes only 1 $1 offer like Equifax to $5 playing games.

So if you want a iPhone 4S without paying AT&T $199 to renew your contract, click here and help me out.  If I create a video, I will post it here.

Today's deals and freebies 12/19/11

First off, I want to update the Serve link.  You must be on Facebook and your email that you desire to sign up through.

Now when I wrote this blog the other night, I haven't received my debit card from Serve yet.  It came Saturday evening after I put the money in my checking account.  But I had a few dollars remaining so I used the card and it worked fine.  I ordered from Vitacost with their $10 free promo with $10.32 worth of Burt's Bee's products (including cough drops) and only had to pay the 32 cents and shipping costs.  

Other than that, I have earned $5 in Swagbucks in which I redeemed for a Kmart gift card (also redeemable at Sears), $50 in Nike gift cards through Coke Rewards.  

Thus, right now i'm offering tutorials.  Want to earn some free bucks?  Email me or send me a message through Facebook and I'll help you set up.  I can get you on your way to a first $10 gift card in 2 weeks, and $20 within a week.

First pet project: Paying for a $200 computer and/or getting an iPod touch

As I said earlier, my 6 month old NETBOOK is starting to bog down and I realized I need more memory and processor speed.  Thus far, I have like 1100 points in MyPoints (in which they have a weird system.....some points are instant, others are available in a month) in which most are from just checking my email every day.  I'm hoping to cash out for some $25 prize (or more), so that's more long term.  So if you want to try that program, email me.

Another good program is more interesting is Quizpoints.  There is no referral program here, and it's a limit to one account per address.  So if you want to join and your husband wants to join, make sure you both live in different addresses or one has a P.O. Box.  You mostly do surveys (most last about 10-30 minutes) and earn gift cards there.  So far this year when I started in November, I earned $10 in Starbucks and $25 in American Express gift cards.  I'm close to another $10 but I may wait and get another $25 AMEX gift card.

For every survey you fill out successfully (there are more misses than hits), you get 30 points.  You complete 15 surveys in a month, you get a 250 point BONUS.  So just completing 15 surveys should get you a $10 gift card to somewhere.  Their prize structure is pretty easy:

$10 gift cards--are 500 points
$25 gift cards--are 1200 points
$50 gift cards--are 2300 points

They have other things you can do to boost your point total.  Some are trials that give you a big boost.  One is a credit score that just authorizes your card for $1.00 (and you get it back) and is free until after the 31st day.  It's easy money if you do it right.

My favorite is Swagbucks and I have been scoring 500+ points a week.  Right now for the holidays, you can get a Amazon gift card for 450 points, but add another 50 points and you can get it the next business day.  It's also an easy way to refill your Starbucks gift card for 635 points.

Sometimes they add Swagcodes.  These are free Swagbucks towards your total and your prize.  Check the blogs, too.  For some quick easy points each morning do the following things:

1.  Download the Swag Bar for 1 Swagbuck each day.
2.  Vote in the daily poll for 1 Swagbuck each day.
3.  Check you Swagbucks email at least twice a day.  Sometimes there's 2 videos worth 3 Swagbucks, most of the time, it is 1.  Also, there may be special offers that you can gather 10 or so Swagbucks at a time.
4.  Watch videos.
5.  Check their twitter account.

I have others, in which I will post throughout.

One other post.....I will trade for

I will trade a $6 wyb turkey, ham, or deli platter rebate (posted here) by December 31, 2011 if you can print me a $19.99/1 coupon for the One Touch Delica lancet device.  We use these, plus, Walgreen's has an offer I want to redeem these for.  ON THE OFFER, you must say you are a diabetic and you take insulin.  The site will take you to one of the major online couponing sites (like Red Plum) and you can print 2 of these.


Here's a picture of the rebate.  I have already sent mine off.

Now, there is a reason for why I desire this coupon.  Walgreen's has the One Touch Delica lancet device for $19.99.  So it would make it free, right?  Of course.  But, the December coupon book also has a $10.00 coupon for the device in which I can get overage.  That overage can be spent on $10 worth of merchandise in the store.

Welcome everyone! How about $20 for free?

Welcome everyone to Thrifty Coupon Trading Post!  First off, I am an unemployed individual who even if I had a job, I'd be couponing.  I have been couponing since I was a sophomore at the University of South Alabama.  So couponing is nothing new to me.

I found this new offer the other day that you can get $20 for free, ($10 just for joining, $10 about 36 hours later after answering 1 simple question correctly).  Also, you get $10 for each referral.

Now, I would like to get the referrals so I can get a new laptop since mine is junk.

You can email me and I will send you a referral link.

(copied from Couponing to Disney)

American Express has launched a new company called Serve.com. It is a next-generation digital payments platform that helps you organize your money, send and receive funds, and manage payment requests (like Paypal). And for a limited time, Serve.com is offering a $10 bonus to new users! You will need to enter the last 4 of your social to verify your identity.

After you sign up with Serve.com, you will automatically see the $10 bonus added to your account.

You can then head over here and play the Serve.com Money Mover game to score another $10 bonus. The code will be emailed to you within 1 business day with instructions to claim your FREE $10.

After you do both of these steps, you can then request a $20 cash to be mailed to your house! That’s FREE money.

It's a lot like Pay Pal and you can send money from one email address to another.  You can get yourselves to sign up and then your significant other, and anyone I guess to a certain age.