This is one hot deal! Fuji is promoting its photo gift site — www.SeeHere.com — by offering 50 photo Christmas cards for free! All you do is pay $3.19 in shipping. That’s it!

Upload your favorite photo to the site, select a 4″ by 8″ inch photo card design (either vertical or horizontal), add in your text, order 50 and then proceed to checkout.

Then, just type in the promotional code: freebies4mom-1109 at checkout, and you will save a whopping $24.50! All you pay is shipping of $3.19 — you can’t even buy a box of 50 cards for that! Oh, and did I mention, it includes the envelopes!?!

But remember, the deadline for this deal is November 30. They already are charging for shipping, which they weren’t before, so I would say the sooner you order, the better.

This is one incredible deal. I’ve never done photo cards because they are so expensive, but this is a God’s send this year when I have so much on my plate and so little time. Many, many thanks to my pal Traci in Atlanta — whose great blog, Couponbelle is on my list — for tipping me off on this great steal of a deal.

This is a perfect example, again, that living frugally doesn’t mean doing without — it means getting more!

I’m one happy camper!

Hope you have some extra money this week in your food budget, because Target is having some incredible food deals through Nov. 21!

These are all loss leaders (as I discussed in this post), so be a smart shopper: Grab the leaders and make Target take the loss, then beat cheeks out of the store with the deals.

Some examples:

But if you want to make these killer deals, add in coupons! Using the list at Couponmom.com, you can net incredible deals on these and a lot of other items. Just go to “Deals by State” at the site, and you will see the hot link for Target specials.

These are some of the deals I will be picking up with coupons:

And I have a tip on getting the biggest killer deal on the Campbells Mushroom Soup. Go to Campbellskitchen.com and print the coupon for $1 off four (and you can print twice). You’ll get the soup (which is normally $1 on a very good sale) for only 24 cents a can! The ad says others are also on sale, so I am hoping I will be getting some Cream of Chicken, too. But either way, for less than $2, I am going to get eights cans of the soup. We will be stocked easily for six months!

So check out Couponmom for the coupon matchups, as well as Saving Cents with Sense blog for more, and I will see you at Target!

I hope you know by now that you can reap so much more in savings at the grocery and drug store when you combine savings — sale prices+coupons+rebates=great steals.

But the same thing applies when ordering online.

A week ago, there was a great deal where you could get $15 free in merchandise at the Kodak Gallery site. I got the code by signing up, but it looks like it is still available. Anyway, before I ordered, I searched Retailmenot.com for any additional savings. Lo and behold, by just entering a coupon code, I saved another 20 percent!

It gets better!

I then went to my link at Ebates.com and I got another 20 percent in cash back there!

So here is how it figured out:

So I will end up getting paid to buy the set!

Of course, I did pay shipping and tax for a total of $7, but with the Ebates rebate, it will end up being $3 total!

By just taking a few minutes, I got a great Christmas gift for nearly nothing! Remember these tips when you begin your online shopping — especially as the holidays quickly approach. This is free money!

I had to tell you about this site, which has become one of my go-to places to get those online codes to save you money when shopping online, or even in stores.


Just today, I netted two coupon codes for BevMo when I was ordering a bottle of Wild Turkey for my Dad for Christmas. I got 10 percent off, just by entering the codes at checkout.

I wrote about other sites in this post, but I find more and more, that this one always has the most thorough reports of what works and what doesn’t.

So check out Retailmenot.com next time before you order something online. I’m sure you will be glad you did, as I was. You can net even more savings by then going to Ebates by clicking this link and see if the store is available there, and get more cash back. Plus, you get $5 bonus just for signing up!

Gotta love the savings!

Are you stumped for a gift for the person who has everything or needs nothing? I have the perfect idea — dinner!

Think about it, how many of your friends and family would love to come home and have dinner already made?

After years of buying my Mom jewelry, Lenox items, Christmas decorations, etc., I decided last year to give her four dinners ready to go from freezer to the oven. Now that it’s just my Mom and Dad at home, she finds it difficult to find the impetus to cook.

What I did was double anything I was making for dinner, and then store half in the freezer in one of those larger plasticware containers that are readily available. I just attached the cooking directions, which usually involved just defrosting in the microwave and baking.

She loved the gift.

I think this would be an ideal present for the busy couple on the go, or the single working mom, or the person who often finds it easier to stop for fast food, rather than make something at home.

The dishes don’t have to be elaborate — I am making my Mom this year spilt pea soup, Tuna Noodle Casserole (she loves mine), Chicken and Biscuits and one other dish to be decided. Click the Recipes category for other ideas.

At any rate, hope this gives you a welcome gift-giving idea.

I’ve already done some online shopping — so much easier than hitting the stores (and many are offering free shipping!).

At any rate, I found this great site in which you get an automatic $5 to sign up, and then have access to thousands of online codes and discount specials. Many offer a percentage back to you on any purchases, or you can net the codes you need to get free shipping, etc.

The stores featured all all the big ones — Target, Kmart, Nordies, Walmart, Amazon, etc! You might as well make some money on your Christmas shopping this year.

Just click this link for Ebates, sign up, and you automatically have $5 added to your account. I already have $10 in cashback just for shopping (and yours truly nets a bonus after you sign up!) So save yourself — and make some money — with your shopping, and automatically send a “thank you” to Prohomemaker.

Happy bargain-hunting!