SURFIN FOR SAVINGS

Thought I'd take a few minutes and share a couple websites that help with the money saving. I haven't had the time to spend much time on these sites yet but a reader suggested one and I saw the other one on tv, somewhere like the Today Show. I'm hoping to get the time to peruse them both a little more, they look interesting.

The one a reader shared with me is www.myfreegenie.com. "Down load the free genie and check out the great savings. It will find the least expensive place on-line to buy anything you could imagine."

The other one is www.consumerqueen.com. This site has all kinds of usefull information on the Sunday Circulars in newspapers, coupons and how to maximize all of these to translate into savings for you. Their motto is cheap is good, free is better!

And don't forget restaurant.com too for savings when eating out. We used a coupon from the site last weekend when we ate out at Del Pietro's. We also bought 3 certificates when they were on sale for $2 each to use when we are in vacation down in southern Texas.

So, if any of you get the time to surf out to these websites and check them out and use them, please let me know how your experience is so I can share with everyone! And if you have any other good sites to share let me know that too!

Somethin for Nothin (well almost)

So, I'm needing foundation and not wanting to go the department store route. I peruse the sales fliers in Sunday's paper and find that CVS has L'Oreal makeup buy one get a powder, blush or concealer free. Lipstick is also buy one, get one free. I could use a new color of that, too, with Spring coming. Then I decide to do a little coupon clipping (I'm not religious about this but I do take a look now and then). There in the coupons are two coupons for L'Oreal makeup. $2.00 of a foundation and $1 off a lipstick. Bonus, I have a CVS cash register coupon for 50 cents off. So today I headed to the cosmetics counter. I purchased a L'Oreal foundation for $14.49 and got an undereye concealer ($10.49 value) for free. Then I got an $8.99 lipstick and got another $8.99 lipstick for free. Then they took off $3.50 in coupons and when it was all said and done I got $42.96 worth of makeup for $19.98. A savings of $22.98. That ROCKS! And THEN, to top it all off, the cashier said that if I'd give her my email address they would email me a coupon for $4.00 off my next purchase! Ha, beat that!!