P&G Samples and Coupons

P&G is offering great samples and coupons! Just click this link! You'll need to create an account with them in order to choose the samples/coupons you'd like. Or, if you already have an account, you can just log-in! These are only available once a quarter - but normally fantastic high-value coupons!

Fitness Deals in Charlotte

A while back I bought a Living Social deal for tennis clinics with Upchurch Tennis. I took the clinics and liked them so much that I even paid full price (gasp) to take a few extra! Well, Living Social is running another great tennis clinic deal with Upchurch tennis right now!!! Here's what you can get:

Five 60-minute group clinics - $30

Five 90-minute group clinics - $40

Two 60-minute private lessons - $49

I can personally vouch for Upchurch Tennis (operate out of Jeff Adams Tennis Center); they are fabulous!

MoveStudio Charlotte is my favorite Pilates/Yoga studio in Charlotte! Once again, I found out about them through a Living Social deal back in June. I started going on July and haven't stopped! They are offering two amazing deals to get your New Year started off on the right foot! 

Unlimited Classes for January - March - for only $50/month. You have to create an online account through their website and then sign up for an automatic draft for the $50/month. The unlimited pass is normally $85/month - so this is an amazing savings!

$5 Saturday Class at 9:30! If you're not so sure you want to commit to $50/month before trying it out - go to their $5 Saturday classes! The normal drop-in rate is $15, so this is a huge savings. Most weeks it will be Yoga with an occasional Pilates class thrown in. There will be a different instructor every week - so it is a great way to try everyone out and see which style you like best! They may even start offering child-watch during this class! Wouldn't that be a cool New Year's resolution: to start each Saturday morning with your significant other doing Yoga or Pilates?!?!?!

Read it Forward: Book on the Real Downton Abbey

There is a site called Read it Forward that I joined a while back, but haven't really paid much attention to. They highlight a different book every month and you can enter their drawing daily to get a free copy. Well this month's book really caught my eye because I'm completely obsessed with the PBS series Downton Abbey! The book that Read it Forward is featuring this month is about the real Downton Abbey - Highclure Castle - that inspired the series. If you'd like to enter the drawing, click here! You'll have to like the Read it Forward page on Facebook, then click "Enter Now" - and enter your name and email address. You can get an extra entry if you share it with your friends on Facebook and you can go back each day to re-enter! The book is called Lady Almina and the Real Downton Abbey by Countess of Fiona Carnarvon. If you just can't wait to see if you've won a copy, it can be purchased on amazon.com for a little under $10 + shipping (maybe use some of those amazon.com gift cards you've earned from swagbucks???)!

Back Online

I'm not sure what happened yesterday, but for some reason my blog was temporarily deleted. Thankfully, it magically reappeared this morning. I've changed passwords and contacted blogger, so hopefully we're "safe" now! Thanks for bearing with me and coming back for more tips on savings!!!

This and That

Earth Fare - text "Eat" to 71700 and get an instant mobile coupon for $10 off of a $25 purchase! You'll also be signed up for their "Feed your phone" promotion and get instant savings sent to your phone. Beware - the $10/$25 mobile coupon may only be good for 24 hours. I didn't realize this and went in a day after it expired. But I asked the management if they'd still honor it - and they happily did! :)

Lands End - 30% off and no-minimum free shipping! :-) As far as I can tell, there are no coupon codes required! Don't forget to go through ShopAtHome or Ebates for 2.5% cash back!

BellaTutor Coupon Class - will meet this coming Tuesday, January 17th from 7:00 - 9:00. Mention that you heard about it on this blog and you'll get 50% off (making the class only $25).

Swagbucks - if you aren't a Netflix customer already, sign up through Swagbucks and get 675 swagbucks just for signing up! Even better, your 1st month is 100% free! So, you can get a month of unlimited instant streaming and dvd rental for free, plus you get enough swagbucks to cash in for a $5 amazon.com gift card - and still have 225 swagbucks left over! If you're new to swagbucks, you can sign up here and get free swagbucks just for signing up! There's also a special for Blockbuster that will give you 1/2 off your 1st two months and 1,000 swagbucks (that's enough for TWO free amazon.com gift cards and a 100 swagbucks left over)!!! Also, don't forget to print your coupons (the same ones that you find on coupons.com) from swagbucks! It takes a while to credit your account, but you'll eventually get 10 swagbucks for every coupon!

Bebe Bella - Enter promo code: posh85 to get 85% off Posh Dot Blankees. A great stock-up price for super sweet/soft baby presents!!! Go here!

Heads-Up for Charlotte Locals

Harris Teeter - Super Doubles are still going on and will be until Tuesday of next week! I was able to get the following for free (or actually make money)!!!

Bounty Paper Towels - $2.29

Used $1.00/1 MF Coupon (that doubled) + $1.00 eVic Coupon = 71¢ profit

NatureMade Vitamin B100 Complex - B1G1 sale - $6.49

Used $1.00/1 MF Coupon (that doubled) + $5.00 eVic Coupon = 51¢ profit

OralB Floss Sticks - $2.99

Used $1.00/1 MF Coupon (that doubled) + $1.00 eVic Coupon = free

Nivea Lip Essentials (lip balm) - 2/$3.00

Used $3.00/2 MF Coupon = free

So many great deals out there right now! Remember, these are stock-up prices! Get these things for 75-95% off right now, even if you don't need them immediately, so you won't have to pay full price later!!!

Groupon - is offering a deal at The Meat House (in Ballantyne area on Rea Road). Pay $15 for $25 credit! This place is supposed to have fantastic quality. I plan to get the deal and save it for a special occasion and maybe get some lamb, or special beef tenderloin! There are normally a lot of coupons or deals on fresh meat, so this is a fantastic way to get almost 1/2 off!

Coupon Clippers -a small group of ladies (and one gentleman) who gather twice a month to swap coupons! Bring your un-wanted and un-clipped coupons to McDonald's in Southpark this Sunday (January 8th) at 2:30!

P&G Coupon Sampler Booklet - go here to request your coupon booklet. They sometimes send much higher value coupons than they publish in the Sunday Paper Inserts!

Sunday Paper - rumor has it that this Sunday is going to be a huge for coupon inserts! Should be: 1 Red Plum, 2 Smart Source, 1 General Mills, 1 Wal-Mart Page, and a Target insert!!!

Happy New Year!!!

So I took a little break over the New Year holiday, but I'm back and excited for what this new year holds!!!! Deals that I'm particularly interested are a little scant right now, but that's probably a good thing. :) That gives me time to really work on my organization - which is one of my big goals for 2012! But, there are a few things out there that you may want to take a look at!

Harris Teeter - Super Doubles (double coupons up to a $1.98 face value) starting tomorrow and running until next Tuesday (January 10th)!!! This is such a great time to stock up on toiletries, paper goods, cleaning supplies, and pantry staples. Southern Savers has 3 different lists of super double coupon match-ups, so definitely go there and check them out! If you're not familiar with Southernsavers.com, Jenny does an awesome job of keeping the site up to date with all the sales and unadvertised specials, their coupon match-ups, and the links to the coupons that are available online! A fantastic resource! I'll be posting later this week with the deals I've found!

MoveStudio Charlotte - My most favorite Pilates/Yoga studio is offering an amazing deal! You can get an umlimited pass for 3 months - for only $50/month! You have to sign up for an automatic renewal - but it's totally worth it because the unlimited pass is normally $85/month. So that's a savings of $35/month and you get to go to as many classes as you want! This is a great way to give this place a shot. Personally, I love their teaching style and their classes will never have more than 8-10 people in them - so you get lots of personal attention! Go here for more information! 

CVS - has some pretty good coupon/ECB match-ups this week. Plus, they have shifted their buy $30 deal. Now, instead of getting a $10 gas card, or other gift card, you get $10 in ECB's! Personally, I like this even better! One of the deals I'm going for at CVS this week is:

Buy $10 worth of Nivea products and get $4 ECB's

Nivea Lip Care - 2/$5 

Buy 4 packages of Nivea Lip Balm = $10

Use 2 $3/2 Manufacturer coupons (from this past Sunday's paper)

Pay $4 + tax

Get back $4 ECB's = free! 

Target - has some amazing deals right now. If you're unfamiliar with how all the coupons, redcard, and gift card deals work at Target, please go back and read my previous post about Target. As for what deals you can get this week, well I'm going to refer you to welovefree.wordpress.com. Hollie has some great lists on there to get you started!

Deal Sites - You know all those deal sites I was telling you to go ahead and sign-up for so you could get the sign-up credit? Well, a lot of them are doing clearance right now and your credit will go a LONG way. A lot of them are still offering sign-up credit, so here are some links to a few of them you might want to check out! 

Minted

(paper goods - one of my new favorites)

OneKingsLane 

(on January 8th they'll open back up their clearance section - scroll to the bottom and look in the "Downstairs at One Kings Lane")

The Clymb 

(great fitness gear to get you motivated for those New Years Resolutions)