Have you joined the Savings Pledge presented by Savings.com?

Over $4 Million has already been pledged to save this year!

To take the Savings Pledge, simply log-on to the Coupon Challenge Facebook page and tell us how much you plan to save and what you are saving for.  Just look for the app on the left-hand side of the page.

You can learn more about the Savings Pledge or if you missed it, you can also read all about what my family is saving for on my personal Savings Pledge post.

Now to highlight one of your Savings Pledge’s:

Reader Debbie is savings for a trip to Maui, Hawaii for her 50th Birthday!  She needs $1,500 to cover Air Fare, Food, Hotel fee’s, and maybe even a lil Shoppin…..

That will be a birthday to remember! Thanks for sharing your Savings Pledge Debbie!

What is your Savings Pledge?

Mama Loves Her Bargains is sharing with us the new testing requirements for children’s toys.  I hope this helps eliminate some of the safety hazards that we have been seeing with the toys are children play with.

The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) voted 5-0 on July 20 to approve new third party testing requirements, through a notice of requirements, to ensure the safety of children’s toys. While the toy industry has had to comply with mandatory toy safety requirements for more than two years, the Commission voted to give manufacturers, importers and private labelers additional time to put a third party testing program into place.

CPSC has approved a stay of enforcement on the requirement for third party testing and certification of children’s toys until December 31, 2011. The Commission will enforce third party testing and certification of compliance based on the testing for toys manufactured or imported after that date.

In the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act of 2008 (CPSIA), Congress required that the existing voluntary standard become a mandatory standard and directed CPSC to require testing to that standard. In May 2009, the Commission adopted the updated voluntary ASTM standard known as F 963-08 as the mandatory safety standard for toys and ASTM F 963-07-1 as the mandatory safety standard for toy chests. [Read more…]