Carmex Sample

Every week, Carmex, the makers of the amazing lip balm, are giving away 50 samples to 50 lucky people. If you would like to enter, click here.

You can never have too much lip balm, especially if it's free. :)

Busy busy busy!

I've been soo busy with my day job lately!

Never fear, I've still been scoping out all the deals and to be honest, I haven't really found any worth mentioning in the past week. Sure there have been lots of those "If you have 21 coupons for this then you can get a great deal" but I want to give you guys easy deals that everyone can do!

One deal worth mentioning is ending at Giant Eagle on November 4 (that's THIS WEDNESDAY). If you buy 4 participating Betty Crocker products you get a FREE cookie sheet or cake pan. Products include cookie mixes, Warm Delights, frosting, and brownie mixes. Check you coupon stock because you should have a lot of those coupons handy. In fact, you can get Betty Crocker frosting for just $.50 this week with a newspaper coupon from a few weeks back. The cookie sheets and cake pans should be located in the baking aisle. I have been able to get 3 free cookie sheets. woo!

If you guys are curious what I do all day at work, you can check out my Facebook page here. Yep, that's me -- the redhead in the red bathing suit. :)

Rite Aid Fall Clearance

Just wanted to let you guys know that Rite Aid has lots of their fall decorations on clearance at 75% off. I hit the jackpot at my local Rite Aid and found Pumpkin Spice Reed Diffusers on clearance for $2 and Spice Cake warming oils complete with cute ceramic pots for $1.74. You can't beat that!

Del Monte Pineapple Coupon

Fresh fruit is always expensive so I was super excited when I saw the $.75 off Del Monte Gold Extra Sweet Pineapple printable on Coupons.com. Click here to print yours off. Make sure you press the back button on your browser so you can print two, and then take it to a grocery store that doubles coupons. $1.50 off pineapple is a treat indeed!

Free Snuggie Blanket?

UPDATE: THIS IS A SCAM. READ HERE TO FIND OUT MORE.
Many thanks to Denise for sharing!!

This sounds too good to be true but I gave it a shot. Click here to request your completely free Snuggie Blanket.

I've been wanting one of these suckers for awhile now but can't part with my cash to get one. I'm excited and I hope this works!

Thank You

I've been thinking a lot lately about the future of my blog. I love couponing and finding great deals, but my every day life is becoming more and more demanding and I just couldn't see where Cheapie Cheapie fit in. I know I started Cheapie Cheapie as a blog/journal about my adventures with frugality, but somewhere along the way I think I lost that original idea.

I was seriously thinking about hanging up the keyboard for awhile because I just felt like I couldn't keep up with everything. I read lots of other blogs about couponing and deals and their posts are so numerous and overwhelming -- I began to feel like my blog was so little and overlooked and was basically for nothing. (I know, this sounds like a pity party, right? It's not, I swear.)

At any rate, I received a few of the nicest e-mails in the past couple of weeks thanking me for Cheapie Cheapie. I had no idea that this 'lil ole blog was affecting so many people in such a positive way. I've had the biggest smile on my face from those e-mails. You have no idea how happy they made me. :)

I want every single person reading this to know YOU are the reason I write this blog. I want to help you as much as I can with living inexpensively. Those e-mails have made me realize that this blog isn't for nothing. Even if I'm helping one person, I'm helping one person. And that's huge!!

As for the future of Cheapie Cheapie, I will continue to post my insane coupon wheelin' and dealin'. I'm no expert at this, to be sure, but I think I can muddle my way through this enough so we can all benefit from the power of coupons.

I'm going to try and start a weekly CVS Challenge for myself, and to teach all of you how to manage CVS from the very first baby step of walking through their doors to walking away with tons of free product.

If you have any ideas or topics you would like me to cover, please let me know!

Thank you all for reading my blog. You guys are the best!

How to Get More Newspaper Coupons -- Cheapie

I used to have a subscription to our local Sunday newspaper. I would look forward to every Sunday morning drinking my coffee and clippin' my coupons.

BUT, not so long ago our local delivery service became sub-par, and before we knew it, we were only getting the D section of the Sunday paper and having the front page thrown in our driveway sometime on Monday. Needless to say, after lots of Sunday phone calls to the paper with no change in delivery, we cancelled our subscription.

I started to think outside the box as to how to get my newspaper coupons. Here are some ideas that I've tried and yes, they do work.

1. Our local grocery store offers the newspaper for half price on Mondays. I do all of my grocery shopping on Mondays anyways, so this works out wonderfully for me.
2. Ask your grocery store what they do with their old papers. Last week I asked our other local grocer -- They throw them away on Mondays! Now I have a super sweet lady save them for me every Sunday. I'm getting at least 9 papers a week for FREE. All you have to do is ask.
3. Ask friends and family for their coupon inserts. Most likely they'd love to pass them along to you. (And if you throw them some of your deals now and again, I'm sure they'd looove to hand those coupons over).
4. Join a Coupon Swap Group. You can find them at afullcup.com, or if you live in the Northeast Ohio area, try northeastohiocouponers.com. Coupon Swaps usually meet once a month and trade coupons. I haven't gone to one yet, but if my life ever slows down I would really like to give one a shot.

Let me know if you have another other cheapie ways to score newspaper coupons! :)

I Might Have Lost My Mind Part II

To recap: I tried out an online offer for $500. You can read my original post here.

I think I did it! After many, many, many days of nervously waiting around, all of my offers for the Silver, Gold and Platinum Tiers were approved. I cannot believe it.

I printed off my certificate stating I've fulfilled all requirements and will be mailing it certified tomorrow. In 6-8 weeks I should have my $500 gift card. That's not possible, right??? right????

All said and done, I spent right around $55 for this offer. I didn't catch one of my free trials in time and was billed $30 for 1 month. But other than that, I've played everything by the books.

This is just too good to be true. I think I'll only really believe this when I have that $500 gift card in my hand. (And you better believe you'll hear me screaming on high if it really does arrive!)

Coupons INSIDE Vocalpoint Mailer

I was perusing some great couponing blogs this morning and happened across a post from Cherry Picker.

She mentioned that the nifty Secret Clinical Deodorant sample sent to many of us from Vocalpoint actually held high value coupons inside it -- you just had to dissect the box to get to them.

Oh snap! I threw mine away! You can bet I was digging through my trash this morning to retrieve those high value coupons. (I got 'em!)

Note to self: Always tear apart packaging to check for coupons. :)

FREE Snapple with coupon!

Click here to print a coupon for $.55 off 1 Snapple product. If your store doubles coupons (like my Giant Eagle does) then this should equal a free bottle of Snapple! Yum yum yum!

Thanks Deal Seeking Mom