Work From Home.....

I have been a stay at home mom for almost 8 years. At first, I did lots of refunds, shopped with coupons to save on my grocery budget, sold extra coupons and filled out surveys for a few extra dollars. 2 1/2 years ago, I found a work from home job working for a Dr office. It gave me the extra money I was looking for without having to put my kids in daycare. This was the answer to my dreams.. still be home with my kids but have a small income. BUT... if I found this job... could I find more ways to make a few extra dollars? I love having extra money so that we can take a vacation from time to time and I can shop for nice things from time to time.
I started blogging over a year ago just because I wanted to share the great deals I found with some of my friends. As time went by, I actually was able to create a pretty good blog following. The wheels got rolling... maybe I could make money from my blog too!! I search for ways to do this. One way I found was here.... get paid to blog. I signed up a long time ago but never really did anything with it. A few weeks ago, my friend Stacy sent the link to me again. It got me thinking that maybe I should check out Pay per Post to see if I could really make money. I have read other blogs that used get paid to blog and it looked simple. So.. here I am giving it a shot. If you are a blogger, why not try it out. Who can't use a few extra bucks each month? Click here get paid to blog and at least look at the opportunities they have for you.
This sure does beat picking up aluminum cans or delivering phone books for a few extra bucks!!! Trust me, I know! I have done them both!!

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Wednesday.........

AJ-Tuning - free car air freshener
PARTIDA TEQUILA - free tshirt
Energizer® PowerSource - Powering Today's Family. - printable coupon
Veggie Pirates Fan Club - very cute website for kids!!
Knaack L.L.C. Survey Thank You! - free hat
KFC Online Coupons by Creative Alliance - printable coupons to KFC
Print a coupon - b1g1f pepsi printable coupon

Frugal Breakfast......

During my best coupon days I bought frozen pancakes for my DD for pennies or got the free after double or triple coupons. I would stock up when I found a great sale. This spoiled her. Then I fell off the coupon wagon sometime last year but continued to buy these for her at full price (Gasp!)! Now that I am back on the coupon wagon and trying to be more frugal with my groceries I do not want to buy items like that with out a coupon. My solution.... I found a box of pancake mix in my pantry last week when I cleaned it out (imagine that! LOL!) that was marked 75 cents from a discount grocer. SO... Sunday evening, I made a large batch of mini pancakes. I placed them on cookie sheets and froze them. Once frozen, I placed them all in a freezer bag. Now DD can grab a few each morning and stick them in the microwave... just like the store bought ones. I still have enough mix to make another batch. She should be able to eat breakfast for 2 weeks at the cost of 75 cents! Now if I could could find a mix for whole wheat pancakes at that price. OR.. anyone have a frugal whole wheat pancake mix recipe?

Tuesday......

I am late with my post today.. busy morning working for the Dr office. The soup was a big hit with Dh yesterday. I thought I added to many spices but I did have a big bowl for dinner last night. I would make it again but change a few things that I did.
Pucker Up Baby! - cold sore treatment and tshirt
Cystic Fibrosis Foundation - Request Mailing Labels - free address labels
Bar Keepers Friend, A Friend For Life! - free sample
Walmart.com - GLAD Microwave Steaming Bags - free sample
Coach's Oats - FREE SAMPLE! - free sample
http://www.cheer4me.net/cart/MailingList.htm - free cheerleading gift
http://www.perfectporkloin.com/pdfs/coupon.pdf - printable coupon for pork

Monday......

I did not do any CVS deals this week yet. Nothing really interested me so I did not want to waste my ECB. I will keep an eye on the expiration dates though and at least go buy laundry soap and deoderant if nothing else interests me.
Coach's Oats - FREE SAMPLE! - free cereal sample
NewCom Computer Solutions (Lufkin, Texas) - free t shirt
Beech Nut Baby Food - free baby bowl
Purple - free drink sample
Work It, Mom! A Community for Working Moms - I am making this soup today. The only things I had to buy in order to make it were the sausage (I used sausage patties), chicken broth and diced tomatoes. The rest of the stuff I either has or improvised. We grew and dried black beans last summer so I added them instead of kidney beans and I did not buy any new spices... just added what I had along with some Mrs Dash from Bzz campaign I did a few months ago. I will let you know how it is!
HERE - print $1.00 off any Suave. Makes it free most places!!
Kraft Promotions - anyone with a Publix should check this out!

Weekend Update......

Print off the form for $4 refund on Sargento Shrek The Third String Cheese Twirls and Shrek The Third DVD, click here.
Enter Zip Code - free soap sample
3M Post-it® Super Sticky Notes FREE Sample Offer - free sample