I did end up with a few things in the mail this week:

-Spanish General Mills Sample Pack (Hamburger Helper, Fiber One Cereal and $1/2 coupon for Totinos)
-150 Bonus Box Tops Coupon from a giveaway I did from Sam’s Club and My Blog Spark
-$50 Rudy and Kelly Hair Stylist Gift certificate (only paid $25)
-Promotional bag for site from Vistaprint (only paid shipping)

I have more Walgreen’s Photo Deals for you.  Valid through Tuesday, August 31st

-Save $5 on your photo purchase of $15 or more

-Buy 25 4X6 Prints, Get 25 4X6 prints Free

I was given the opportunity to review a product from CSNStores.com!  Several months ago I hosted a well received giveaway from CSNStores.com.  You’ll get your chance to win another gift code during the Healthy Families 4 Healthy Kids Event in October.  I wanted to share with you one of the items I’m looking at for myself.  We are actively looking for a new dining table.  I have looked in almost every local store and still don’t see a dining table I want.  I’ve dealt with an empty dining room for a year now, so I’m in no hurry to spend the money we saved until I find just the right table.

I’ll post more about what product I decide to purchase from one of the 200+ stores available at CSNStores.com.  I’m always getting products for the kids, so this time I think it’s mommies turn!  We’ll see…

Don’t forget…Only 4 more days left to join The Pampered Chef and receive all of the NEW fall products for free 🙂 Only $80 and you can try out this biz to see if the apron fits. Tiffany is so glad she took the chance 7 years ago last week. She had no idea how much it would provide her in ways of money, products, travel, friends, life lessons, and so much more! What a great way to save for a debt-free holiday season!

Tiffany was just named one of the TOP 20 Recruiters in the Nation!

Contact Tiffany via email or visit her website before all the spots are gone!

Just a reminder:

The Pampered Chef Products Giveaway ends tomorrow, August 29th at 8pm EST.

Tons of chances to win!

Welcome to the 8th Surfin’ Saturdays hosted by Chubby Cheeks Thinks, Two Monkeys & a Washtub, And Then There Were Four and The Coupon Challenge! Each week we will be surfin’ a different social network. You will have to check back every Saturday to see where we will be! One week it may be a facebook hop and then the next an email hop! It will be lots of fun and you will get to meet new people and see old friends as well!

We kindly ask that you follow these simple requests:

• Follow the hostesses in the first four spots (We will follow you back! Just please leave a comment letting us know that you are following us!)
• Please only link up the network that is being hopped that specific week.
• No spam please. These will be removed. 
• It would be wonderful if you are linking up this week if you could add our button to your sidebar or in a post to help spread the word! 🙂 The more people that join, the more fun it will be! (Plus if you add our button to your sidebar you can grab 5 extra entries into any ONE giveaway!)
• If someone follows you please feel free to follow them back! If you follow me and leave a comment you are guaranteed a follow back!

This is a new list every Saturday, so please remember to come back and link up!

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This week is FACEBOOK! Please link up only your FACEBOOK PAGE!

Karen sent me an email telling me about a great deal she found:

At Walgreens this week, they have Hot Pockets and Lean pockets on Sale for 2/$3. Not all that great but there is also a RR involved!! Buy $20 worth of Nestle’s Product and get $5 RR!!!

•Buy 8 and they ring up as $2.99 a box = $23.92
•Hand them the “In-Ad” coupon and the register takes off $11.92
•You pay $12
•You get back $5
•Like paying $7 for 8 boxes!
•OR .87 per box!

Head over to The Coupon Queens site to see how she’s planning to work this deal by purchasing the Side Shots!

I am a big supporter of my local schools.  My son is in 1st grade at a public elementary school and my daughter attends a church preschool.   In these tough economic times, education budget cuts are affecting schools across the nation.  Programs that directly benefit students are being dropped due to lack of funding.

I urge you to consider these (or other) programs.  It only takes a few seconds to clip a Box Top or register your loyalty card.  If you don’t have children or your children don’t attend a school that participates in the program, consider donating to another school in your area.   Coupon shoppers are a valuable asset to schools because we purchase countless items cheap or free, and we never forget to scan our loyalty cards!

I wanted to mention a couple national programs plus a few programs at my local grocery stores:

Box Tops for Education is a General Mills program that gives $0.10 to a participating school for every Box Top redeemed.  I know it doesn’t sound like a lot, but my mother-in-laws school earned $1,323.00 in 2009!  You can also participate in store promotions to earn Box Tops Certificates.  Approximately 2 weeks ago, I ended up with 5 certificates worth 50 Box Tops each. I earned an extra $25 for my school!  A few participating products include: Nature Valley, Cascadian Farms, Betty Crocker, and Kleenex.

Labels for Education is a Campbells’ program that allows you to earn points for your school through specially marked proof of purchase labels from Campbell’s family brands.  Points range from 1-10 points depending on the product.  Campbell’s Soup carries a 1 point value label, Campbell’s Select Soup has a 5 point label and Pop Secret Popcorn labels are worth 10 points.  Did you get free Pepperidge Farm lately?  There is a 1 point label on the side!

Healthy Kids Bloom is sponsored by Bloom Grocery Stores.  Shoppers can earn points by using their Breeze Card.  Bloom is committing $300,000 for education this year.  I  know they are also a continuous sponsor of Moneyboy’s school.