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THE GUIDE TO WEB HUNTING Tuesday, March 9th Bargain Shopping ~ Computer Tips ~ Coupons ~ Financial Info ~ Freebies People Hunting ~ Real Estate ~ Reference ~ Surveys ~ Travel/Entertainment 
BARGAIN SHOPPING
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Dealcatcher ~~ Check here first! Now I was trying to stay in alphabetical order, but with the economy what it is these days...I gotta skip bargain shopping and just head to FREE! So if you want to just stick with 'plain, old free', you only need to know one thing ... FREESTUFFTIMES He's also got a sweepstakes section, a GREAT coupon section, and a section titled 'Money', listing what's on sale at your local discount stores, matched with the right coupons! And as good as some of the bloggers are at pointing out the great coupon deals, they are not trained in sifting through bad freebies. If you stick with FreeStuffTimes, you will not end up with an in-box full of spam and no freebie! Other Coupon and Deal Sites: salescircular - see free after rebate section! coupons.com , eversave , smartsource , redplum , sweetfinds , cellfire , P&G e-saver , shortcuts , mysavings , pet coupons , wow-coupons , thokalath , stingier , All You , spoofee , walletpop , dealoftheday , hip2save , couponcravings , vocalpoint (sign up for great coupons!), printablecouponsanddeals , couponcabin , couponmountain , couponsaver , anycoupons , couponheaven , dealworker , mbb/forums , dealcatcher/forums , dealtaker , slickdeals , dealcoupon , bestonlinecoupons , athriftymom , bargainbriana , freebies4mom , southernsavers , thriftymama , dealseekingmom , sundayads and free shipping codes. Also, when using an on-line coupon code remember to always check that your code is doing what you intended before hitting the last 'I'm buying it' button. If the code isn't working and you buy it anyway, odds are you're out of luck! I usually stick with clearance items and sort items by price - low to high. Some websites do put clearance with their regular items, some keep them separate. When in doubt, head for clearance! Store Links: Albertson's circular , CVS, iheartcvs , Kmart circular , Publix, Rite Aid rebates and weekly circular , iheartriteaid , Safeway coupons and circular, Target coupons , Walgreens circular , iheartwags , Walmart TheFreebieBlogger - excellent info on the ins and outs of free (with coupons) and free after rebate deals at your local pharmacy chains - see Wendi's links at the left of her page (e.g. Rite Aid, Walgreens). If you need help with coupon printing she also has a link for that. More must read tips can be found at CommonSenseWithMoney and Chief Family Officer. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ CURRENT FAVORITES: Purina Dog Chow $2 off any bag Wholly Guacamole or Salsa $1 off exp. 3/31 Avon free shipping with code MSNMH4 Silk PureAlmond .75 off Olay $15 Rebate 2/14-3/12 P&G $100 Coupon Booklet Offer ends 4/15 Fannie May free shipping with code 10565 ends 6/30 Rite Aid $3 off $15 exp. 3/31 Rite Aid $5 off $25 Discontinued Items at the Animal Rescue Site ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Magazines: Check the free section first though!
$5 magazines from Hearst Publications BestDeal magazines, Men's Fitness $15 for a two-year sub, and mags from Conde Nast ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
MyPoints and
InboxDollars can help maximize savings. If you shop 'through' these sites you get either points towards gift cards or cash rebates. What I mean by this, is that you can find what you want on any website, put it in the shopping cart to save it, and then go back through one of these websites to check out. Most websites will save the items in your cart even if you close the browser. And even if you don't do much shopping, just clicking on their emails will still add up to free gift cards! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
More Deals!
Amazon Bargain Catalog Outlet .99 shipping with code BC19327 ends 3/11 Buy.com great prices and lots of free shipping Crocs FTD $15 off any order HSN Clearance One Stop Plus and Roaman's Vista Print free business cards - pay only shipping! Woman Within WW41999 (25% highest priced item) or WW42005 (free handbag with $25) both end 3/15 
COMPUTER TIPS blogger.com - free blogging! Which I discovered thanks to Ashley at inthekitchenwithme. wordpress is also a very popular free blog. For great entertainment, see MoneyMateKate! trendmicro housecall - free virus/malware/spyware scan Total cost of this website: $11.18, plus $17.16 for one year renewal fees! Free GoDaddy hosting, which comes with their advertising at the top, and free CoffeeCup HTML editor. I paid for the domain name and for private registry. If you don't have a lot of computer experience I would recommend upgrading to a higher level package. They have very reasonable fees and user-friendly programs! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ PRINTABLE OR VIA MAIL COUPONS You should be able to get at least two coupons out of all of them by hitting 'back' on your browser or the backspace key and then hitting 'refresh'. Some coupons will give you two anyway, some will give you one, and some will give you all you want. And I always check my shopping/fast food receipts to see if I've got a sweepstakes entry opportunity or a survey for free food! Note: some stores do not take internet coupons, but there is a way to turn some internet coupons into snail mail coupons. I tried it with a 'bricks' coupon, which is one of the most common types. After clicking the link and loading the coupon for your printer, there will be a 'help' link at the bottom of the screen. Clicking on that may give you the option of requesting a coupon via snail mail. Want more coupons? If you pull up coupons.com or smartsource or any of the other major coupon links, you can choose from whatever is being offered in your own zip code or you can try other zips. Some people prefer printing coupons in browsers other than Internet Explorer. The most common ones? Firefox and Safari (both free). And for those couponers with a GROWING stockpile of items, here is a guide to expiration dates and information on building a basic pantry. Advantage for Pets - one month free when you buy 1 six pack Advil PM $2 off Air Wick Alaway $4 off All detergent $1 off and .40 off All You coupons Angel Soft $1 off six double rolls Aquafresh Arm & Hammer Aveeno $2 off Baby Orajel $1 off Bagelbites $1 off Bagelfuls $1 off Bar-S hot dogs Benevia $3 off Bertolli Frozen Meals $1.00 off Bertolli Olive Oil $1 off Best Foods or Hellmann's Mayonnaise .75 off 22 oz. or larger Betty Crocker coupons Blue Bell $1 off Blue Bunny Campbell's Coupons Carpet Fresh Foam $1.50 off Cascadian Farms Centrum Chinet Citracal $1 off Claritin multiple coupons Classico Pasta $1 off two Clearasil $2 off Coffee-mate or click here Cole's Bread Colgate Total $1 off Colgate and Softsoap Coricidin $2 off (prints at bottom) Cottonelle Crest with Scope Outlast $1 off (mailed) Dawn - from Home Made Simple (mailed) Degree Ultra Clear $1 off one, Degree Clinical Protection $2 off and Fine Fragrance $1 off Del Monte $1 off fruit Del Monte $1 off four products DenTek $1 off one Dove $1.50 off two deodorant and $1.50 off Body Lotion Downey Wrinkle Releaser $1 off Dreamfields Pasta $1.50 off three and $1 off with sign-up Dreft $1 off Drug Coupons & Rebates Dryel $2 off Duncan Hines Baker's Club EatBetterAmerica , Total and Fiber One cereal, Yoplait, Muir Glen, etc. 8th Continent Soy Milk $1 off any Excedrin $1 off Excedrin Migraine $1 off Family Time coupons - LOTS of great coupons in here! Famous Amos .55 off French's coupons Fruit2Day $1 off General Mills Cereal $1 off one Gerber Glad Glad ForceFlex $1 off any Glade Glucerna - $1.25 off coupon Gorton's .50 off one item Greenies Canine Dental Chews bogo coupon green works naturally all-purpose cleaner .50 off Health Valley Organic sign up is here Healthy Choice Heinz $1 off three jars of homestyle gravy Hormel Huggies Baby Idahoan J&J Red Cross $1 off plus many others Johnson's Baby Just for Men Hair Color $2 off (two coupons) Kashi cereal sign up Kellogg's cereal Kettle Brand baked chips Kraft promotions Lance Cracker coupons (three) Lea & Perrins $1 off Libbey's Little Debbie Snacks .75 off Family Pack Choc. Cupcakes (prints at bottom) Listerine for kids L'Oreal $3 off any two products Macaroni Grill $1 off any flavor dinner kit Making Life Better coupons (Unilever) Malt-o-Meal .50 off Honey and Oat Blenders Marlboro Meow Mix .75 off one 3.15 lb. bag Method Detergent $2 off Motrin $1 off any Mueller's Pasta .55 off any package of Whole Wheat Pasta or Pasta Ribbons (multi-print) Murray's Sugar Free Cookies $1 off two Nabisco Nair $3 off two products Naturally Savvy Coupons Nestle Drumsticks $1 off Nestle Evaporated Milk .50 off two, Toll House morsels, cookie dough Nestle Family Nestle/Nescafe products Newman's Own Nicorette $5 off No Yolks Pasta .75 off one Nutri-Dog Chew Product $3 off expires 12/31/10 o.b. tampons $1.50 off Olay - Dawn Hand Renewal, Crest Whitestrips and $3 off Total Effects Old Orchard Healthy Balance $1 off two Ore-Ida $1 off two Oreo Cakesters $1 off and another here Pampers Pantene Pedialyte $1.50 off Pepperidge Farm PertPlus $1 off Pillsbury Grands $1 off two Poptarts Pull-Ups $2 off Purex 3 in 1 - $1 off Quaker sign up (then look for 'promotions') Reach/Listerine coupons Reynolds Wrap .50 off recycled aluminum here Rice Dream, Almond Dream, Soy Dream $1 off two 64 oz. riceworks $1 off Right Guard Total Defense $1.50 off Right@Home Robitusson $2 off RoC Skincare $3 off Roman Meal Bread $1 off Science Diet Culinary Creations bogo coupon Scotch Brand Coupons exp. 5/31 Scotch exp. 4/30 Scotties $1 off print Seventh Generation - $1 off diapers, $1 off cleaning products, $1 off any product Seventh Generation $2 off two Simple and Delicious Smithfield Farms Snackpicks coupons Keebler, Kellogg's, Sunshine Soyjoy $1 off 5 bars Starbucks Ice Cream $1 off Stayfree $1 off Suave $1 off SunChips $1 off two SunnyD Smoothies .55 off Sudafed $1 off Sudafed PE Day & Night, $2 off Nasal Spray Sure Deodorant .75 off Tetley Tea .50 off Theraflu $2 off Tide Stain Release $1.50 off (mailed) Total Cereal $1 off one Triaminic $1.50 off Trident $1 off two True North Snacks $1 off Tylenol (many coupons) Tylenol Cold Product $2 off any Children's Tylenol Plus Cold Product $2 off any Vaseline Sheer Infusion $1.50 off V8 Fusion $1 off Visine $2 off Viva towels Wet Ones $1.50 off White Cloud $2 off 24 rolls World's Best Cat Litter $3 off Wyeth - Alavert, Advil, Robitussin, Dimetapp, Fibercon, Primatene, Thermacare, Anbesol, Centrum, Preparation H, Caltrate Yesterday's News Cat Litter $1.50 off Yoplait Frozen Smoothie $1.25 off Zantac $5 off Zicam $2 off or $1 off here exp. 7/31/10 Zucol Zyrtec $2 off any and $4 off Itchy Eye Drops Restaurants: And check your fast food receipts for free food surveys! Applebee's Arby's sign-up. Coupons vary by region. Burger King Carl's Cool Kids Carl's Jr. $1 off any size new Grilled Cheese Bacon Burger Combo ends 4/7 Dairy Queen BOGO Blizzards Denny's Der Wienerschnitzel Club Einstein Bros e-club Hardee's $1 off any Beer-Battered Fish Supreme Sandwich Combo ends 3/29 $1 off any Jalapeno Chicken Sandwich Combo Jack-in-the-Box $1 off grilled sandwiches exp. 4/11 Kentucky Fried Chicken Marie Callender's kids eat free every Tuesday and Saturday Orange Julius BOGO Quiznos Shari's free slice of pie Sonic sign-up Taco Del Mar Sign up for coupons! They also have a Reward Card that you can get a hole punched for every $5 in purchases. Ten punches equals $5 off your next purchase. And Mondays are double punch day! Wendy's sign-up ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 
FINANCIAL INFO SavingAdvice - lots of money and budget saving tips. Other good sites are Frugal Living and Better Budgeting. My favorite two are MSN Money and MSN's Smart Spending. Unclaimed money for all states. You can also check on missingmoney. For current or former California residents: SearchTheVault Utility refunds, insurance refunds - all kinds of things you'd never even think about are in there. But unless you search correctly you might not find it. Leave out location entirely. Insert surname and if necessary (common surname), insert initial of first name. Resources: Angelfood Ministries (mixed reviews), Where to turn when you're desperate (or just need some help), CareCredit and American Humane Credit Card Application. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 
FREE Please read 'freebies about' first if you're a novice freebie hunter. Lots of spam will come if you sign up at the wrong places and you won't even get the freebie! They suggest a separate email address for this but even that can get unbearably overloaded. Here's my 'nutshell' version: If an item is being offered from the company that actually sells it or from a website you know and trust - great. If it's a marketing company, or doesn't show you clearly who and where they are, you probably won't get anything but spam. But there are lots of things for free! You just need to know where to look. And you can get free samples from just about anybody. Find the company website and look for coupons, offers and promotions. freebies.about , dealigg , games to donate rice , offers from Hewlett-Packard, mysavings , swagbucks , startsampling , trade magazines , burger from Red Robin , admission to Disney , TeenFreeway , heyitsfree , stuff for science teachers, Wine e-book , annual credit report , trial game downloads , 10 Fabulous Freebies, Craigslist , freecycle , and savingadvice. Life 101 (how to guide) , Microsoft on-line classes, Radio Shack on-line learning , HP on-line classes , Office Team free resources, dialing '511' for travel conditions , 1-800-FREE-411 (directory assistance), finding upcoming events near you, movies and television , and on-line half movies. (It only lets you watch half the movie!) More Free ... Gerber backpack for newborns from Nestle $20 in free coupons from American Spirit Cigarettes or call 1-800-872-6460 promo code 50266 ends 6/30 Bottle of Country Bob's all purpose sauce (select regions only) Sample of Dove Haircare Sample Dunkin Donuts coffee Ensure shake Sample Greenies Hill's Science Diet free pet treats JuicyJuice sippy cup (if you check the box) Free sample of L'Oreal Everstrong Nescafe Stick Sample Pack Sample Tide Total Care Sample True Lemon Walmart free samples Just for Men free after rebate (up to $9.50) ends 12/31/10 Feline Pine cat litter free after rebate for new users Sure for Men free after rebate ends 3/31 (must have 'Try Me Free' sticker) Sure Max free after rebate ends 3/31 (must have 'Try Me Free' Sticker) Sure with Natural Extracts free after rebate ends 3/31 (must have 'Try Me Free' sticker) Touch of Gray free after rebate (up to $9.50) ends 12/31/10 World's Best Cat Litter free after rebate ends 12/31/10 More rebates and promos: Kellogg's: $10 toy cash exp. 12/31/10, $10 bonus bucks exp. 9/30/10, wakin' up to breakfast exp. 9/30/10, SC Johnson Rebate exp. 6/30/10, Snackpicks tailgate cooler chair exp. 12/31/10 or while supplies last, Special K $10 off jeans exp. 12/31/10 or while supplies last. 
PEOPLE HUNTING PeopleFinders , USA-People-Search , ZabaSearch , SearchPeople , Google , MSN white pages , Switchboard , Classmates Peoplefinders or usa-people-search are great starting points, or just 'google' or web search their name. Web information isn't always accurate or quite up-to-date, but this first site may give you an idea of what cities/states a person has lived in. Zabasearch will often give you an address and an estimate of age. MSN white pages may give you a current address and/or phone number. I like to cross-check information from several places to find consistent information. Name search example: Susan Louise Jones , Susan L. Jones , Susan Jones , Sue Jones , Sue L. Jones , S. Jones One person, at least six ways to search. May well give you six different answers! And maybe this person really goes by the name 'Louise'. Searching a birth name versus the name someone normally uses may give you information under one name or both. Another place to find info is the local newspaper for the town where you think someone lives. Just type their name in the search box and see if anything comes up. To find a newspaper just search, for example, 'Dallas newspaper' (leaving out the quotation marks). Here are a few to get you started. I like to read them just for fun! Newspapers: SF Chron , NY Times , Houston Chron , Reno-Gazzette, Denver Post , OC Register , Sacramento Bee Finding email addresses: I have found several old friends - even one abroad, by discovering where they work and then using the company's style of email address but inserting the name of the person I'm seeking. First, pull up the company website and see how they format email, usually at least found in the 'contact us' section. It may be something like 'john.doe@xxx.com'. Insert whatever their name is instead. It works! Ancestry.com - Information on birth, marriage and death. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 
REAL ESTATE
Trulia- searches everywhere. Each region of the country has their own multiple listing service website, also known as the 'MLS'.
Trulia will show you many of the listings but you can also hunt for the MLS for the region you'd like to see.
Realtor.com
is another website although still not as comprehensive as the actual MLS. |
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