Amanda Blankenship is the Chief Editor for District Media. She frequently writes for a handful of blogs and loves to share her own personal finance story with others. When she isn't typing away at her desk, she enjoys spending time with her daughter, son, husband, and dog. During her free time, you're likely to find her with her nose in a book, hiking, or playing RPG video games.
Would you consider YoCrunch yogurt a healthy food or junk food? In our house it’s considered a healthy food according to our 4 year old daughter. She loves these, so I excited to see that they were on sale this week for $2.50 per pack, plus there’s a $0.50 off 1 coupon, which will be doubled to a…
Top Safeway deals of the week for 9/5 – 9/11. Scenario’s below reflect using double coupons. Yoplait Yogurt Cups 4 – 6 oz $0.50 each $0.30/1 Yoplait Simplait Yogurt Printable $0.30/1 Yoplait Simplait Yogurt SS 8/26 B1G1 Yoplait Simplait Yogurt SS 8/26 $0.40/6 Yoplait Yogurt Cups Printable Final Price: as low as FREE Progresso Recipe Starters $1.39…
Well…I hadn't planned on cashing in on the free turkey for shopping deals too much this year. But we lived off our our stockpile of nearly free groceries for most of the summer. There was no time to shop, prices were high, coupons low. Then my sister arrived with the flu, and the amount of…
Pantene is inviting women to find out if Pantene results are the real deal. They’re guaranteeing big things, and backing it up in a big way with a TWICE your money back guarantee!! Take a look! Pantene Real Deal To Receive your money back: call 1-800-522-2106 must send original dated receipt limit 1 refund per…
The first time I read a grocery store ad declaring “We Won’t Be Undersold on Turkeys – we will match any competitor’s price!” I thought WOW! I was new to deal hunting and finding major savings at grocery stores. But, I was serving 20 for Thanksgiving dinner, and I knew our family was expecting a…
BJ's Warehouse is offering a free 60 day trial membership to their stores, just in time for your holiday shopping! To receive full membership benefits, just print your FREE 60-day trial membership offer: BJ's 60 day free membership coupon take it to your nearest club (you can find locations here) Activate it at the membership…
While picking up milk yesterday, I found a $2 coupon off of any Organic Valley product, and an announcement of a new promotion they are offering from their website. You can find more information here: Organic Valley Celebrations When you sign up, you will automatically be sent a $10 coupon booklet (while supplies last!) be…
Most manufacturers don't publish coupons on holiday weekends. After all, people may be away from home, or doing things besides clipping coupons and looking for recipes or ideas for Christmas or New Years. Coupons are expensive to print, publish, and distribute. So, most companies will wait for the following weekend. Proctor and Gamble WILL be…
Thanksgiving is less than two weeks away, and it is time to plan, prepare and purchase those critical must-have items – the emergency supplies! My stockpiled pantry is usually flexible enough to accommodate surprise needs. You know the ones I mean : my sister comes to visit and she is on a sugar free, soy…
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…
If you are waiting for your local stores to pick up on the paperless clipfree coupon trend, you might want to check out the latest. Zavers.com, a leader in providing paperless coupons, has recently launched a clip-free grocery coupon service. The Zavers program allows you to link coupons directly from your PC and/or your mobile…
Yes, it's another consumer advisor invitation. It's definitely a trend among manufacturers to sign up consumers to try new products, give insight on marketing, and receive coupons and samples. But, if you are interested, they can have rewards. Here's the information on the new Viactiv Consumer Advisor Panel Viactiv invitation The makers for VIACTIV products…
One of the complaints I hear regularly is that Kellogg's doesn't have printable coupons, and finding their offers is a challenge. Not everyone receives the Fall coupon booklet in the newspaper. But…Kellogg's is on of the brands that have recently added their own printable coupon page on their website, along with email updates for new…
With the Summer a distant memory, you may find yourself in a predicament familiar to me: what to do with those extra boxes of breakfast cereal you bought on sale just a few months ago? There are several options: serve them up in the near future, freeze them, or make something tasty out of them.…
I’ve noticed over the last week or two a new type of deal cropping up: the Free Thanksgiving Dinner Deal, otherwise known as the “Holiday Rewards“ deal. A number of supermarket chains have hit on the idea that a “Spend $XXX dollars and get a free turkey dinner” deal will be a sure fire winner…
General Mills is beta testing a new site for finding, sharing, and saving recipes, and it’s loaded with coupons, too! The new site Tablespoon.com is designed to provide a huge reference of searchable commercial kitchen-tested recipes (like the ones from Betty Crocker, Pillsbury, and their other brands), along with your own recipes, and share them…