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Frugal Tips

$2 YMCA Drop & Shop Childcare at Southlands

September 26, 2011

YMCA Drop & Shop is open today from 10-1 pm at Southlands Mall in Aurora. Kids must be 2 and up and potty-trained to participate. Fee is $2 for all three hours! My son has been having a blast there playing with the other kids and I sure do enjoy the break. The center is [...]

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Stockpiling 101- What to buy month to month guide

September 22, 2011

Having done this “coupon thing” for a few years now I’ve noticed some cycles emerge. Most items will follow a sales cycle of dropping to a low price every two to three months but you can’t always be sure there will be a coupon match. If you aren’t brand loyal you probably still don’t need to hoard [...]

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King Sooper Shoppers

September 22, 2011

Here is the link to the King Sooper ecoupons and from there you can sign up for the mailing list which will get you a few booklets per month. These coupons are exclusive to Kroger/King Sooper/City market stores. In the event the electronic coupon saved to your loyalty card is a lessor amount than your paper coupon [...]

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Cellfire

September 20, 2011

I haven’t checked out Cellfire in some time but checked it out today and found $26.50 in new ecoupons. The beautiful thing is that there is nothing to clip and they come off your grocery bill even if you forget the paper coupon. Right now we can only use them at King Sooper/Kroger stores but [...]

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Mini Social Free Shipping-Shop for Free?

September 20, 2011

I just got a Melissa & Doug toy for free with free shipping courtesy of the Mini Social. It was $9.50 and I had a $10 sign up bonus and used free shipping code GETFS1 which is valid through September 25th. I can’t confirm the $10 sign up is still working on this computer and [...]

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Need a little extra $?

September 20, 2011

Go to http://www.facebook.com/EllisMysteryShoppers to sign up to become a mystery shopper. They have a shop available in Littleton for $50 and a few others that pay $35 and more with bonus payments on some. These are for apartment complexes so they are slightly more involved than grocery shops but the pay is much better. They [...]

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Chili’s Kids Eat Free Monday September 19

September 18, 2011

Yay! Chili’s is doing another kids eat free day on Monday. You can get two kids meals free with a purchase of an adult entree which will cost you around $7 if you order a sandwich. It goes without saying (I hope) that you always need to be generous with tipping on those days- the servers [...]

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Saving Money on “Real” Food & Organics

September 13, 2011

Here’s a good way to start! On Living Social you can get a $20 Whole Foods Store Gift Card for $10- You are starting at 50% off without coupons! Get Whole Foods Market locations and hours here. If you want this deal I would grab it now since they tend to go fast- limit one [...]

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Reader Question

September 12, 2011

I’d like to summarize a reader question I received recently and give some ideas and get some input from all the Denver Metro Moms out there. Help- I am a mother of three kids, 9 and 10 and 6 months. I’ve been using coupons but still have not achieved those free or money-making checkouts I have seen on [...]

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Online Shopping- My Favorites

September 11, 2011

Do you shop online? I used to think that I couldn’t get deals online that would be better than in the traditional store. How wrong I was! There are some excellent deals to be found and it’s a lot easier to take advantage of when the kids are not hanging off you and you are frazzled. But, [...]

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