Archive for April, 2009

Repairpal will email you a free, no-obligation price quote on auto repair whic is based on surveys of auto repair costs at thousands of repair shops across the country. RepairPal  features local mechanics and provides free price quotes based upon your zip code, make, model and year of your car. This can give you negotiation power...

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Buy a blank canvas tote bag at the craft store (Michael’s with the coupon from the Sunday paper) and let your kids decorate it with fabric paint for mom and/or grandma to use at the grocery store. Tiny handprints and footprints are especially adorable. The trick to using canvas bags for groceries is to...

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You can sell your unwanted jewelery with Redswan . The idea is to host a party and invite your friends to bring their unwanted jewelery. Red Swan will send you postage paid boxes to mail the items along with instructions. You will receive checks for your jewelery and you will also receive a commission for hosting...

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Link your Delta SkyMiles  frequent flier miles with Northwest’s Worldperks  program and you will get a 500 miles bonus if you complete your merger before April 30th. You can choose to have all of your miles with Delta or with Northwest. Before you proceed, have both account numbers handy and both PIN numbers. You will...

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Visit Amazon.com and type in free mp3 downloads in the search bar.  You can listen to 30 second samples of songs before you decide to download them. You can download the songs to any digital media player including an Ipod. You can sign up for Amazon’s free newsletter to get a “heads up” on future freebies....

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The federal government had more than 46,000 job openings posted on its job board last week at  usajobs.gov . This is the official job site of the U.S. Government. There is no cost to use this service. You can post your resume and set up an automated job alert. Simply type in your zip code...

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Send your unused and expired coupons to our military families for use at their base commissary (grocery store) or PX/BX (department store). They will accept manufacturers coupons that have expired. The site that shows you how to do this is ocpnet.org .  Be sure to read the “tips” and choose where to send your coupons under...

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Bonanzle is an eBay alternative that is growing quickly.  I am not an eBay seller, but many of my friends who are (or were) complained about the expense of selling items through eBay. At Bonanzle, it is free to list an item and about 2/3′s cheaper to sell an item. You can import your...

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Save money and your sanity by purchasing an audiobook at any Cracker Barrel Restaurant. You can listen to it and then return it to any location for a full credit less $3.49 per week. “Rent” the audiobook for a week or less for $3.49. Cracker Barrel Restaurants are in 41 states/582 locations mainly on...

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There are several great sites to help us find Victoria Secret coupons and discounts. I often use  Retail Me Not   before I buy anything online. You can purchase gift cards for less than face value at this giftcards.com. Often they have Victoria Secret coupons in their inventory.   Also, if you sign up to receive their...

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Academic Earth offeres free video lectures from the world’s top scholars. The organization was founded with the goal of giving everyone on earth access to a world class education. There are classes from Yale on Studying the Old Testament, Political Science classes from Princeton, science classes from MIT, and  business classes offered through the Stanford Entrepreneurship Center, just...

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Save money by unplugging your  LCD or plasma TV when not in use can save you $150-$200 a year on your electric bill. Apparently plasma TV’s are notorious power hogs. Using a power strip can make this easy. However if you have a Tivo or DVR, your shows will not record when the power...

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Save money on starting your vegetable garden using the  Burpee seed catalogue. The Burpee Seed Catalogue is featuring a “money garden” for $10.00 which is half off of the items priced individually. It contains six of their classic vegetables: Bush snap bean “Heavyweight” Lettuce “Burpee Bibb” Bell Pepper “Home Run” Carrot “Big Top” Garden...

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