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THE GUIDE TO WEB HUNTING Friday, July 30th 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! (mostly computer software) 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 , printablecouponsanddeals , couponcabin , couponmountain , anycoupons , couponheaven , dealtaker , slickdeals , bestonlinecoupons , athriftymom , bargainbriana , 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 , video values and weekly circular , iheartriteaid , Safeway coupons and circular, Target coupons , totallytarget , Walgreens circular , wildforwags , 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: Omaha Steaks free shipping on any order ends today Prefer to order by phone? Call 1-800-960-8400 & mention coupon code RW2589 Lands End $5 off lunchboxes and backpacks plus free shipping Kids' Pick: save $5 each! Enter code FORSCHOOL & PIN 2211 at checkout. Avon free shipping with code MSNFREE A NEW Olay Rebate! 7/23-9/3 Spend $50 get $20 Olay Facial Moisturizers, Facial Treatments and/or Facial Cleansers P&G Olay, Venus, CoverGirl, Secret or Pantene Rebate Spend $30 get $10, 6/30-9/17 McDonalds $1 off fruit smoothie or frappe THREE free burgers on your birthday! Minor League Baseball tickets, buy one get one free on Tuesdays when you bring a Kraft Singles package wrapper - ends 9/7 25 free things to do this summer Free movie ticket from Kellogg's at participating movie theaters and while supplies last offer expires 5/30/11 AMC Summer Camp $1 movies on Tuesdays ends 8/10 R.W. Knudsen Sparkling Essence 4-pack .75 off exp. 10/31 Discontinued Items at the Animal Rescue Site ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Magazines: Check the free section first though!
$5 magazines from Hearst Publications , All You Magazine one year subscription $20 BestDeal magazines , Men's Fitness $15 for a two-year sub, and mags from Conde Nast ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
MyPoints ,
InboxDollars ,
ShopAtHome and
Ebates can help maximize savings. If you shop 'through' these sites you get either points towards gift cards or cash rebates. You can also find what you want on any website on their list, 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 (first two websites only) will still add up to free gift cards! 
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More Deals!
Amazon Bargain Catalog Outlet 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 40% off highest priced item with code WW43474 ends 8/17 
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 , Air Wick , Alaway , All Detergent , All You , Angel Soft $1 off six rolls , Aquafresh , Arm & Hammer Baby Orajel , Bagelbites , Bagelfuls , Bakery on Main $1.50 off , Ban Deodorant .75 off , Bar-S , Benevia , Betty Crocker , Blue Bell , Blue Bunny Campbell's , Carpet Fresh , Cascadian Farms , Centrum , Chinet , Citracal , Claritin , Classico Pasta , Coffee-mate or click here , Colgate Total , Colgate Total .75 off , Colgate and Softsoap , Cottonelle , Crest with Scope Outlast $1 off (mailed) Dawn - from Home Made Simple (mailed) , Degree Ultra Clear , Del Monte fruit , Del Monte fruit/veggies , DenTek , Dove , Downey Wrinkle Releaser , , Dreamfields Pasta $1.50 off three and $1 off with sign-up , Dreft , Drug Coupons & Rebates , Dryel, Duncan Hines EatBetterAmerica - Total and Fiber One, Yoplait, Muir Glen, etc. , 8th Continent Soy Milk , Excedrin , Excedrin Migraine Family Time - LOTS of great coupons! , Famous Amos , French's , Fruit2Day Garnier Fructis , Gerber , Glad , Glade , Gorton's .50 off one item , Greenies Canine Dental Chews bogo coupon , Green Works Hawaiian Tropic $1 off any , Health Valley Organic here , Healthy Choice , Heinz homestyle gravy , Hormel , Huggies Baby Idahoan John Frieda $2.50 off any , Johnson's Baby , Just for Men Hair Color Kashi cereal sign up , Kellogg's , Kettle baked chips , Kix , Kraft promotions Lance Crackers , Lea & Perrins , Libbey's , Lindsay Olives $1 off two , Listerine for kids , L'Oreal , L'Oreal $2 off Healthy Look creme gloss hair color , Lucky Leaf Pie Filling Macaroni Grill $1 off dinner kit , Making Life Better (Unilever) , Malt-o-Meal , Marlboro , Method Detergent , Motrin , Mueller's Pasta (multi-print) , Murray's Sugar Free Cookies Nair , Naturally Savvy , Nestle Drumsticks , Nestle Evaporated Milk, Toll House morsels, cookie dough , Nestle Family , Nestle/Nescafe , Newman's Own , Nicorette , No Yolks Pasta , Nutri-Dog Chew Product expires 12/31/10 o.b. tampons , Olay - Dawn Hand Renewal, Crest Whitestrips and Total Effects , Old Orchard Healthy Balance , Orville Redenbacher $1 off cheddar cheese or spicy nacho Pampers , Pantene , Pedialyte , Pepperidge Farm , PertPlus , Poptarts , Pull-Ups , Purex 3 in 1 , Purina Puppy Chow Quaker sign up (then look for 'promotions') Reach/Listerine , Renuzit , Reynolds Wrap recycled aluminum here , Rice Dream, Almond Dream , Riceworks , Right Guard Total Defense , Right@Home , Robitusson , RoC Skincare , Roman Meal Bread , Ronzoni Quick Cook .50 off coupon Science Diet Culinary Creations , Seventh Generation - five coupons , Seventh Generation , Silk PureAlmond , Simple and Delicious , Snackpicks coupons Keebler, Kellogg's, Sunshine , Soyjoy , Starbucks Ice Cream .75 off and $1 off two here, Stayfree , SunnyD Smoothies , Sudafed PE Day & Night, Nasal Spray , Sure Deodorant Tetley Tea , Theraflu , Tide Stain Release $1.50 off (mailed) , Total Cereal , Triaminic , Trident , True North Snacks , Tylenol , Tylenol Cold , Children's Tylenol Plus V8 Fusion , Visine Wet Ones , White Cloud $2 off 24 rolls , Wholly Guacamole $1.50 off ends 7/31 , World's Best Cat Litter , Wyeth - Alavert, Advil, Robitussin, Dimetapp, Fibercon, Primatene, Thermacare, Anbesol, Centrum, Preparation H, Caltrate Yesterday's News Cat Litter $1.50 off Zicam $2 off or $1 off here exp. 7/31/10 , Zucol , Zyrtec ($2 and $4 off) and also $2 off Restaurants: And check your fast food receipts for free surveys and sweepstakes! Arby's sign-up. Coupons vary by region. Burger King Carl's Cool Kids Carl's Jr. free small diet coke with the purchase of one Hawaiian Grilled Chicken Salad, ends 9/17 Dairy Queen BOGO Blizzards Denny's Der Wienerschnitzel Club Einstein Bros e-club Hardee's free small coke and fries when you buy Chicken Tenders, ends 8/6 Jack-in-the-Box Kentucky Fried Chicken Long John Silver's coupons Marie Callender's Orange Julius BOGO Quiznos Shari's free slice of pie Sonic sign-up Taco Del Mar Sign up for coupons! 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), and CareCredit. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 
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 , donate free World's Best Cat Litter , 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 ... Sample of Aveeno Nourish Shampoo Gerber backpack for newborns from Nestle Bottle of Country Bob's all purpose sauce (select regions only) Sample of Dove Haircare Sample Dunkin Donuts coffee Ensure shake JuicyJuice sippy cup (if you check the box) Free sample of L'Oreal Everstrong Nescafe Stick Sample Pack 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 Women free after rebate ends 11/15 (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, 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 , 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. And I am not suggesting that you should pay for information from any of these sites. Only ONE time have I ever paid for any information ($3 for an obit) and the next day I found the same information for free! 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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