All Kinds Off Goodies In The Mail

Here's the FREE fun mail I received yesterday and today.

Woman's Day Magazine

Kraft's Food & Family (sign up here), included coupons and lettuce seeds.

3 Shampoo and Conditioner samples, the Aveeno included a $1 coupon.

A check for $16.81 from Ebates. You get a $5 bonus for signing up. I totally forgot this check was coming, yay free money!

Free magazines a fun for several reasons. You can read them, donate them, and/or sell them. I took another stack of magazines and a book to Half Price Books on Monday and made $6.

On another topic, I've had some great coupon karma lately. It started with Suzanne, The eBay Selling Coach, sending me an e-mail asking me if I wanted a bunch of coupons. How sweet is that? They came this week and I used them to save at Albertsons last night. Thank you Suzanne!! On Sunday we went to the zoo (used a family pass and packed a lunch=free) and out of the blue a lady walks up and hands me $6 in zoo cash that she wasn't going to use. What was crazy is that is could have been used on the carousel, on food, in the gift shop, pretty much anywhere. Wow! So the kids each rode the carousel and then I passed on the last $2 to a lady in line to get carousel tickets for her 3 kids. Now, I feel like I should pass on more coupons. :)

Not Leaving Town For Spring Break? Think Like A Tourist!

It's Spring Break here in North Texas. The weather has been absolutely perfect. Clear, breezy and in the upper 70's. After TONS on rain last week, trees and flowers are budding out everywhere you look. So, needless to say, we've been busy. Mostly playing outside, and I've done quite a bit of "spring cleaning". Anyway, our big adventure of the week was a trip to the Dallas Arboretum. We were thinking like tourists....

I've never been to the arboretum in the spring. Wow!! Was it so beautiful to look at and smell. :)

It seems like most of Dallas was thinking like a tourist as well. The arboretum was packed!! Lots of people looked to be taking Easter photos. Anyway, we had to park way out in remote parking and take a shuttle bus to the front. The kids loved it, and it totally added to the adventure. The day before I tried to load the coupon page (several times) with no luck. But, while standing in line, my coupon karma paid off and a very sweet lady handed us a B1G1 Free coupon for Wednesday only. Yay, it was Wednesday.

Once inside we enjoyed our picnic lunch in the grass. It was so lovely, have I mentioned that yet? The kiddos really enjoyed playing in the new Storybook Playhouses. They are on display until the end of the year. It was a nice change for the kids, getting to run free and explore!! Thanks to my sister-in-law and nephews for joining us on our play date adventure. We made some great memories!

Interested in visiting the Dallas Arboretum. Visit their homepage here and the coupon page here. For the coupon page, scroll down and over to the right a bit. Print extras and pass on the coupon love!

Stuck in town? Think like a tourist and visit someplace new or different!!

Coincidence? Fate?

Yesterday I took the kids to McDonald's. I had a coupon for a free Chicken Sandwich and thought it would be fun to let them play in the playground. I guess we called it my son's birthday lunch, and since he's too small to have a favorite place, my daughter picked. They had a great time by the way. :)

So anyway, the day before I had put jumper cables in my car. I have no clue why. I haven't had them in the car in YEARS and I drive a new car, so I wasn't thinking I would need them. As we are unloading for lunch my daughter notices them and asks what they are. I do my best to explain a car "emergency" to her while we're heading through the parking lot.

Well, it didn't take long to show her what they are for! On the way out, a girl asked me if I had any cables and if I could help her with a jump. I haven't had anyone ask me this in over 10 years, and someone does the day after I load cables. Coincidence? Fate? I loaded the kids and had her off and going under 2 minutes. Aren't I handy? Not really....that was a joke. I'm terrible with cars. :)

Neat story, huh?