Give and Receive!

Two great places to check out while your helping out!


This coming weekend is the annual Backpack and School Supply drive for The Least of These, a local charity. The children that participate in this program are in extreme need of supplies for school. Help us help them get off to a strong start for this upcoming school year. Bring in a new backpack and some school supplies you will receive a Free Full Service Auto-Magic car wash ($16 value) or you can get 50% off your entire Jiffy Lube purchase! This weekend July 10th thru July 12th only at all Springfield Auto-Magic and Jiffy Lube locations.

www.automagicjiffylube.com

When your thinking Arby's, donate a dollar to the Ozarks Literacy Council and you'll receive a bunch of coupons for free drinks and sandwiches with purchase.

Free Cup of Joe!

This first coupon can be used at any Border's anywhere!


FREE cup of Seattle's Best Coffee good thru June 18th.
All you do is click here and print!


Coffee, Tea, Soda, whatever to wash down the delicious food from Ziggies Cafe. The new location is open for biz in downtown Springfield and The Money Saver that came in my mail yesterday has a coupon "Buy 1 Entree Get 1 Entree half Off!" There's a few more stipulations clearly stated on the coupon.

This reminds me, always thoroughly read your coupons. You might miss an expiration date or location.

Beside the Ziggies deal, this direct mailer features a coupon to save 5 cents on GAS from Signal! Click here to keep updated or find out how to get yours!

Shortcuts to Branson, MO

I'm usually the first to sign up for a contest, since I have won a few. I figure the more contests I enter the better my chances are of winning something. Here's a chance for you to win 4 tickets to the Dixie Stampede in Branson, MO. There's really no other way I could afford to go to this overpriced and yet highly entertaining show. While your at the KY3 website, you should sign up to get notifications to all of their contest announcements.

Enter To Win at KY3.com

And following along to Dolly's contest . . .







I'm also very much looking forward to saving money at White Water this summer. Thanks to 417 and GO Magazines there's a fun party planned for June 20th, just click on the picture for details . . .

Local Discounts and One Big Nationwide!

I can't believe I used to consider this stuff junk mail. I started reading some of the ads that come through my mail slot and discovered that sometimes mail leads to real deals!

AdNews (I get mine in the mail once a week)

"Where your ad is the news" is by far the most delicious mailer. It is full of ads, but if you read them you can find deals at some of your favorite restaurants, such as Rosati's Authentic Chicago pizza, Samurai Sam's Teriyaki Grill, and this week's Buy one - Get one free coupon at the Pineapple Whip! That coupon is located right next to a Sunshine Carwash coupon so if you drip some whip on your car you can get it cleaned for just $5. I usually cut these coupons out and carry them in my wallet, but some have said they just carry around the AdNews in their big purses. I even heard of a lady who writes the deals down in a little notebook and then just tells the business what the coupon is they are using. I've never tried this method, but might save on the excess of paper in your purse.

Greater Springfield Kids Directory (pick it up at the retailers who advertise with them)

If you have kids, you have to devour this monthly. Not so much for the coupons, which are very random if any, but for the community calender and most especially the Kids Eat Free*or almost free! You can always look these up on their website too: springfieldkids.com. My favorite is the 99 cent kids meals on Monday nights at Buffalo Wild Wings. Our family of four can get in and out of there for less that $20 including tip. We love to play the trivia games and the food is always fantastic!

While I was running around this morning I found out about these discounts around the Springfield area that you are gonna love!

Saturday, June 6th is the $5 Fill a Bag at Children's Orchard on Republic Road. Get there early and bring your folding skills. Actually rolling up the clothes like a sleeping bag works best to get as many in that little bag as you can. And here's the hot tip; If you join their email club, you'll be invited to the Preview Sale the night before!

Sundays and that means every Sunday at the D.A.V. Thrift Stores you can buy specially marked items for just 25 cents! 4 for a dollar, however you look at it, you're gettin' a great deal. I love thrift stores anyway, so this will give me a reason to get out on a Sunday afternoon!

And don't forget, tonight . . .

Sonic Free Root Beer Floats Being Offered on June 3rd

From 8pm - Midnight!


See you there.

Introduction

We're all looking for a good discount these days, and I consider myself to be the Queen of discount. I'm not cheap. I'm thrifty. Thrifty is good! I have found so many different ways to get discounts so I'll pass the secrets on to you. Use them to save money on groceries, pharmacy, clothing, restaurants, vacations and pampering which I'm sure you deserve.

Let's get started with the basics. Everyone should bookmark the following websites and check them close to the beginning of the month for updates.

www.couponmom.com
The easiest way to save! It ain't no lie! She has tips to teach you to cut your grocery bill in half. You've probably heard of those people who get to the Kroger check out and their total bill started at $139.78 and by the time they use their coupons and rewards card they leave paying only $15.99! This can be you. It will require some effort but if savings is what your after, be sure and join the coupon mom system!

Freeflys.com

Cheap is good . . . but free is better! Everything from batteries to oatmeal, this site has it all. I'll tell you how great the day was I was out of laundry detergent and couldn't buy any for a few days but I checked my mail and my free Tide sample had arrived. I wasn't that excited about doing the laundry, but at least I had clean clothes for my kids to wear the next day. Bookmark it and you'll have the links to samples at your fingertips.

Well, my kids want to get on the computer to play a computer game we checked out at the library. Just another quick tip before I go. You local library is a wonderful source for not only books, but computer programs, movies, music and more.

Have a great day and check back often. If you live in the Ozarks, I'll be blogging about ways to save locally in my next blog.