Facebook Follow Friday: Come and Link Up! 2/25

Would you like to have more Facebook Followers and be able to find new blogs or businesses? If so come and Join me Every Friday For "Facebook Follow Friday!"

1. Add your Facebook Link, when you add it, it will automatically appear on everyone’s page that posts this Linky so you do not need to add it more than once.

2. Click on the Top 3 and like/add them: The first one will be me, Shining2Save and every week I will pick 2 more randomly. Please also follow the two people above you if you would like so everyone will get at least a couple new followers. You can leave them a comment letting them know your following from the Friday Facebook Hop.

3. Add/Like as many people on Facebook as you like.

4. You do not have to make a post to join: but it is always a plus if you do so everyone else can see and join in on the fun.


Help spread the word and add this Linky to your blog! The more we spread it the more followers we will get!

Below the Linky box, you will see see “What is a blog Hop? Get the Code Here" Click on it and just copy and paste that code into your post and the same Linky will appear. Your blog visitors can add their Facebook URL to your list and it will show up on all lists!


Feel free to copy and paste these instructions or just post the button and link back to me.


Please only add your Facebook url.

Big G Hot Wheels Review & Giveaway

If you look in my cabinets you will see that General Mills rules the breakfast around here. My daughter eats Reese’s Puffs or Lucky Charms every morning and I love Cookie Crisp or Cheerios (I am such a kid). My daughter and I was so excited when MyBlogSpark asked me to do this review for General Mills. They sent me a prize pack that included 1 box each of Cheerios® 14 oz, Cinnamon Toast Crunch® 17 oz, Lucky Charms® 16 oz, Reese’s Puffs® 18 oz, and Cookie Crisp® 15.6 oz that each included a custom designed collectible Hot Wheels pullback racer.


First some info from General Mills:

Start your engines with Big G in the morning! Big G cereals have teamed up with Hot Wheels® to make family time at the breakfast table fun, offering collectible Hot Wheels® pullback racers inside specially marked boxes along with a unique access code to the Hot Wheels® Racing Circuit!


Starting January 24th, inside each participating cereal box (Cheerios® 14 oz, Cinnamon Toast Crunch® 17 oz, Lucky Charms® 16 oz, Reese´s Puffs® 18 oz, and Cookie Crisp® 15.6 oz), you´ll be able to "gas and go" with one of four custom-designed collectable Hot Wheels® pullback racers. Each car contains a code to unlock an exciting online racing game.

When it comes to meals, breakfast is important in helping kids fuel up for the day and Big G cereals provides a healthy breakfast choice for parents to offer their families. You can feel good about giving your kids a bowl of Big G cereal and they´ll be thanking you for a breakfast that is as tasty as it is fun!

Now my take:

Being that we are already fans of General Mills we loved this promotion. My daughter is such a tomboy when it comes to Hot Wheels. I think she has 50 or more Hot Wheels already. They are in a separate pack on the top when you open the cereal box so your child will not feel like they need to empty the cereal to find it. With each pullback racer they include a code (located on the sticker sheet that comes with the car) that unlocks a racing game online. My daughter got online and absolutely loved it.

Giveaway

One (1) winner will receive the same prize pack that I received.

Rules:
1. This giveaway is open to U.S. residents only.
2. This giveaway will end on 2/26/2011 @ 11:59pm.
3. Remember to include an email address that you can be notified that you are a winner.
4. The winner will be chosen by random.org and notified immediately by email. The winner will have 48 hours of email to respond. If the winner does not respond within the 48 hours I will chose another winner.




Mandatory Entry


1. Share which Big G cereal is your favorite.


Extra Entries

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3. Tweet about this giveaway and include @marylynnA in your tweet. This is something that you can do once a day and come back and post me the status link to the tweet. If you don't know what a status link is, it is the time stamp of the tweet url.

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Disclosure: I received a prize pack from General Mills from MyBlogSpark and a prize pack to offer to 1 winner. I received no financial compensation for this review.

What To Do With My Living Room

With all of the changes in my life, I am planning to rearrange my living room since I will be returning the hospital bed that my grandmother had used and was placed in the living room. I have been sitting here this morning mentally planning each furniture piece’s placement and still have not found a flow that I like. One piece that I really can’t decide on is where to place my TV. I am lucky enough to have one of those corner TV stands that allows me to not make it a major focus of the room. My living room is a long rectangle shape with the front door taking up one of the corners. I do however have to get it planned right since my furniture is heavy.I think moving around the furniture will help me be more relaxed when home.

This a post sponsored by CSN Stores for an upcoming giveaway. Stay tuned for more details.

It's Giveaway Roundup Tuesday!

Are you hosting a giveaway on your blog or website? List them here so that my readers have a chance to enter. Just leave a link below with a direct link to the giveaway. I will remove anyone who does not link directly to your giveaway.

If you are a blog or website owner that host a weekly giveaway linky and want to be included on my growing list of linky’s email me with an image, day of the week you post a new one, and a url. I will be glad to add you to the list.

My Absence

I am sorry that I have not been blogging a lot lately. I have been dealing with the illness of my grandmother. She was sick for about a month and lost her fight on Wednesday 2/16/2011 at the young age of 86. I am slowly trying to find my routine again. I choose to devote my life to my grandmother and daughter the last few years and have enjoyed every minute of it. Now that she has went to be with my mother and grandfather that died before her, I am having to learn how to live again for my daughter and me. The pain is still numb, but I know that she is no longer in pain herself and that means more than anyone can understand. I have seen her put up a fight that most would have given up on earlier. She went from someone that could walk with a walker all over to a woman who was determined to bounce back from hip surgery. She did get to a point where she was walking good with her physical therapist but her health started to fail and she got weaker. I treasure the times that I had with her and can’t thank our home health nurse, physical therapist, and medical assistant enough. I ask that all of you be patient with me in the coming weeks as I have to adjust to all of the changes in my life. I want to say thanks to all of my loyal readers.

How To Maximize Your Savings At CVS Pharmacy

What you need to know to maximize your savings at CVS

This is a guest post written by MidgetMomma from Luxury Living Frugal Style.

CVS is one of my favorite stores, most of my savings comes from there on our bath and body products, soda(hubbys addiction lol), diapers, you name it, watch for sales and just about anything can be free there if you have the right coupons. Once you get the hang of CVS it will be one of your favorite stores to shop at.

There are a few things you need to know to maximize your savings at CVS:

CVS Lingo:
Extra Care Card-

CVS's store card that is needed to score the deals. It is FREE to sign up for.

ECB

-Extra care bucks- "money" that you earn from buying certain products that you can use to buy other things at CVS

Money Maker

- When you get back more ECBs then you spent

B1G1 or BOGO

Coupon Policy:

Important things to know about CVS's coupon policy. You can e-mail CVS for their coupon policy, but they do not have it avaliable online.


Buy 1 get 1 free sales:
With a buy 1 get 1 free sale you can use 1 coupon per item

Examples:

Shampoo is on sale B1G1, you have 2 $1 off 1 coupons for the same brand you can use both coupons combined with the sale.




Pads are on sale B1G1 and you have a B1G1 coupon, you can use your B1G1 coupon with the sale to get both items free(just pay sales tax)


There is no limit with how many ECB's you can use, your dollar amount total just needs to be less then the ECB and coupon value amount or they will be adjusted down to the amount you have.




1 CVS coupon and 1 manufacturers coupon per item (ECBS are NOT counted as coupons, they are used the same way as if you were using a CVS gift card)



Use of $x off $x coupons:



When you get a coupon for $4 off $20 CVS coupon, the $20 total is counted BEFORE the use of manufactures and CVS coupons. Only one of this type of coupon can be used in a transaction

Internet Printable coupons:

CVS accepts IP coupons that are printed from authorized websites, copies of coupons will not be accepted

Competetor's coupons:

CVS does not accept competators coupons except for in the pharmacy. If you have a Rite Aid coupon for a free gift card with a new or transfered perscription CVS will honor those.

Overage:

CVS does not allow for overage, if product X is .50 and you have a .55 off 1 coupon the coupon will be adjusted down to .50

Extra Care Card Rules:

Cvs limits the amount of cards to one per person, however they do allow each person in a household to have their own Extra Care Card.

Some examples of my CVS Shopping trips in the past few months. I am sharing my favorite ones with you:)


5 Wisk @ 5.00(spend $25 get $10 ecb deal)
5 L’Oreal Eye Shadow @ 2.19
1 L’Oreal eye liner @ 3.37
1 L’Oreal powder @ 3.75
1 L’Oreal Lip gloss @ 3.49
Coupons Used: 5 $2/1 Wisk, 4 $5/2 L’Oreal cosmetics, 10% CVS cosmetic coupon(from signing up for the beauty club)
ECB used:$9.00
Total-5.73 (CVS gift Card)
Total Saved: 133.67

Transaction 1


14 Mentos @ b1g1 @ 1.79 (used 14 1/1q)
1 Schick Hydro Razor @ 8.99 (used 4/1q)(get 5.99 ECB)
1 Oral B toothbrush @ 23.00(had a raincheck get 13ecb back)(10/1q)
3 reese’s @ .50
1 butterfinget @.89
used 18.98 ECB
total-..39on cvs gift card
total saved-71.47

　








Transaction 2
1 oral b toothbrush @ 23.00(10/1q)(raincheck got 13 ecb back)
used 13 ECB
total-0
total saved-32.99

　








　

It's Giveaway Roundup Tuesday!

Are you hosting a giveaway on your blog or website? List them here so that my readers have a chance to enter. Just leave a link below with a direct link to the giveaway. I will remove anyone who does not link directly to your giveaway.

If you are a blog or website owner that host a weekly giveaway linky and want to be included on my growing list of linky’s email me with an image, day of the week you post a new one, and a url. I will be glad to add you to the list.