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Coupon Challenge Blogger Wanted!

jeffrey — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 23:00:55 +0000

We are looking for someone that would like to do some type of coupon challenge and blog about it here. The challenge can be absolutely anything as long as it’s somehow connected to using coupons. There is no need to have a blog or even to have ever used coupons before. All that is needed is to set a challenge and then record the progress for all to see as you attempt to reach your goal. I did a Eating well on $1 a day challenge and a Thanksgiving dinner challenge. The blogger doesn’t have to be this extreme (a person who has never used coupons before trying to cut their grocery bill by 50% is also perfectly acceptable or using coupons with certain dietary restrictions), just trying to make a change and willing to blog about it.

Again, there is no need to have any blogging experience in the past, but it’s essential that you’re a competent writer, can write 2+ posts each week and you’re willing to share your trials and tribulations that go along with the challenge which you have picked for yourself. We don’t expect that the blogger will have all the answers (in fact, we would prefer they didn’t), but someone that is looking to use coupons to help them buy the food they need for their family and who’s willing to share their successes and failures.

There will be a small amount of compensation for the blogging position. If you have a coupon challenge that you are dying to try and would like to share it on this blog, please contact me with your idea, how long it take, and why you think it would be an interesting coupon challenge. Please let me know if you have any questions, or leave them in the comments.

Grocery List

Niki — Wed, 20 Apr 2011 17:44:36 +0000

This is certainly not your typical grocery list, but it sure is cool!

The Pantene ‘Real Deal’ Guarantee!

flash — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 19:24:15 +0000

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Free Groceries or Just Another Scam?

flash — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 23:57:02 +0000

My half brother has been out of touch with me for several years. Broken families go through confusing relationships, and ours has been no different. But lately he’s been reaching out by email. He doesn’t “get” the whole couponing thing, although he buys in bulk and believes in stockpiling groceries to save money, just not exactly how the serious savings come about. He’s making an effort, though, and has been sending me links to sites and articles he finds on non-couponing ways to save money on groceries.

Some have been interesting, and a few have been um, well, creative approaches. I don’t usually see any major savings to be had, but I think it’s neat he’s trying. He has a huge family, three mortgages on one house, and really needs to get his expenses in check.

He’s also been the victim of identity fraud a few times.

So…I was looking through some links my brother sent, and opened this one advertising a free $250 grocery card. Just fill out a few sponsorship offers, and there you go. Free money, right?

Only, in my experience, these are the horrible offers that take forever to get through, and technically you can’t complete the terms of all the required sponsor offers, usually because you can’t take out that many new credit cards at one time.

This one might be legit. I don’t know, I didn’t try. I’ve been burned too many times on similar “free money” offers. But, I’ve been wondering how to approach my brother about it. My brother has complained that his live-at-home son is constantly taking out credit cards under my brothers name and SSN, and maxing them out. That’s a whole different story. I am wondering, though, if my nephew is chasing down all these “free” offers in my brothers name, getting scammed, and causing many of the problems for my brothers credit. And if so, how to broach the subject with him. My half brother is really sensitive, and I’d hate to muddle up our relationship more than it already is.

Then again, maybe it’s NOT a scam, and I’m just being really hard on him. Sigh. Free groceries sound nice. Especially for only 20 minutes of filling out sponsors offers. Sure, I regularly get free groceries, but it’s by cutting out coupons, reading ads, finding deals, and stockpiling. Alot more work. (On the other hand, my way is ‘sustainable’ and I can do it every week if I work at it. But I wouldn’t want to rub that one in!)

I love my brother, but he’s a dreamer. I love that about him. But sometimes, even dreamers need to see the cold hard truth: if it looks too good to be true, it probably is.

Ah, what to do, what to do…has anyone else dealt with this? What would you do?

Nature Made is paying $30,000 for part time bloggers!

flash — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 20:56:58 +0000

I finally got past this cold enough to open my inbox. Along with my usual coupons, product advisories and announcements, and other newsletter stuff, there was an announcement from my Nature Made rewards program. Nature Made is offering $5000 a month, for six months, and providing a free laptop, for someone to blog about using their SAM-3 product. Nice!

I’ve been a member of their advisory board and rewards program for years, and in all honesty they are aware I can’t use SAM-E since my accident, as it may interact with some of my other meds. Still, it’s a nice change. I’m always encouraging people to sign up for newsletters, advisory panels, and send emails with compliments to manufacturers of their favorite products. Usually people just receive free product coupons, loads of free products to try, coupons to share. A few people have even received trips to California to participate in panels in person, and my sister even received a nice trip to Disneyland. But a job offer is always interesting.

The job offer was extended to their advisory board, people who have used the product and people who have been on their product panels, as well as people who visit their special product website. “Applications” have closed, but still…who knows what the next email may bring in.

You can find out more about this opportunity here, or sign up for other Nature Made panels, or other manufacturer panels and opportunities from our guide page here.

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