Mega Swagbucks Day & my tips for WINNING!

SO, it’s Friday – which means your chances of winning big bucks on Swagbucks goes UP UP UP if you search today!  You know I love Swagbucks – I earn bucks for searching the internet (I use Swagbucks the way I used to use Google) and then I redeem those bucks for PRIZES.  My favorite prize is $5 Amazon gift cards.  Recently I’ve had some great luck winning, at least twice a day, and here’s my big secret tip:

Use Swagbucks to search for EVERYTHING.  Not just things you’re curious about, but use it to search for websites you already know you want to go to.  Like, Mommin’ It Up for example! I enter the names of my favorite couponing sites in my Swagbucks toolbar or webpage every time I want to go there, because the more you search, the more you win!  Sure, it’s one extra step, but it’s a very tiny and very REWARDING step.  I have found that doing this has increased my odds of winning by a ton!

It’s so easy!! Get on it and getcha some Swagbucks!

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Candy Deal at Meijer!

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Today the kids and I RAN (quite literally, we had a very short amount of time) to Meijer because I had not quite gotten all the Halloween candy we needed for trick-or-treat at Emily’s house tomorrow night. AND we were out of chicken nuggets which means she was in immediate danger of starving to death. SO! Off to the store we went. I did two transactions to minimize my out-of-pocket.

Transaction #1Z:

4 bags of Nestle fun size candy $2 each – $8

-two $1/2 Nestle printables

-two 50 cents off two Nestle Meijer Mealbox printables

=$5 cash, and I got back catalina for $3 off my next order!! WOOT!

So then I got Transaction #2:

Two bags of Tyson chicken nuggets $7.98

coupons:

Two 55 cents off any Tyson bagged chicken from recent insert (both doubled to $1, so -$2)

-$3 catalina from first transaction

=$2.98!

So I got out of there w/ 4 Halloween candy bags and 2 bags of chicken nuggets for $7.98. YAY!  If you are a Halloween candy slacker like me, run out and getcha some!  This is a great deal!

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I am all for year-round school.

Joshua has a “fall break” of sorts yesterday and today.

And I want him to go BACK TO SCHOOL.

Because at 8:30 a.m. he’s wandering around the house with his “I’m bored” look (he doesn’t DARE say those words to me out loud), NOT playing with any of his THOUSANDS of toys, OR his sister, who by the way, would LOVE to play with him.

We need to get to the library today and check out every book you suggested yesterday!

Because right now, I am about to call my mom and figure out how she refrained from locking my brother and I in our rooms every school holiday. (Notice, Charles, I am leaving you out of this equation. Pretty sure you were not a problem.)

Oh wait, I do know. SHE GOT A JOB.  And sent us elsewhere.

Brilliant!

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