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Great coupons on children's games and activities!

Click on the coupons.com title bar above this post! There are great coupons for games, leapfrog items, and more! Some of the great coupons include:
$5 off Elefun
$5 off Guess Who? Extra
$5 off Sorry! Sliders
$5 off Gator Golf
$5 off Twister Hopscotch
$4 off TAG reading book
$10 off the TAG reading system
and lots more Leapfrog items!

Just click on the coupons.com bar above posts to print these coupons! These would make some great items to stash away for the upcoming rainy days and of course, for summer fun or all those birthday parties your kids are invited too!

Check out my $10 Starbucks Giveaway on the Two Monkeys Blog

Go here to enter to win a $10 Starbucks Gift Card! Giveaway ends on March 29, 2009!

Using e-coupons (my lazy way to save money)!

For me, coupons have become a shopping staple, but I have to admit that all that clipping and sorting can be a pain sometimes. Lately, I haven't even been keeping them sorted by week (I will have to change that, I think I just got overwhelmed and needed to take a break). That’s why I’ve decided to dedicate this post to a few trusty (and free!) paperless coupon sources. The process is simple: sign up online, load their coupons on your store’s shopping card, and they’ll automatically deduct when you scan your card at the checkout. The best part is that you can stack these coupons with paper coupons, so you can often get items for really cheap or even free! Most of these services are available at only select merchants, but they seem to keep adding more!

UPromise.com: Earn some extra money for college or pay off qualified student expenses with UPromise.com. The program has TONS of partners, including restaurants, grocery stores, drugstores, and online retailers. For a more detailed look at how this program works, click here!. Although the savings aren't immediate with UPromise.com, these e-coupons can be used with other e-coupons and paper coupons. Plus once you register your credit card too, you can save money for college at lots of places you might shop!

P&G e-Saver: Anyone who buys the Sunday paper for the coupons should be familiar with the monthly P&G Saver coupons for personal care and health products and a few food items. Did you know they also have the paperless version, P&G e-Saver? The paperless coupons are currently only available at Kroger stores, but anyone can sign up to receive e-newsletters featuring additional coupons and sample offers! All the sample and coupon offers are on the same page, so it makes it very easy to navigate! Like others, you can use the e-coupons along with the paper coupons from the Sunday insert!

Shortcuts: Shortcuts is easy to use, and they offer coupons for a variety of brand name items. You can save up to 50 coupons at a time on your grocery card, create a grocery list, and receive e-mail notifications based on how much you saved during a shopping trip or new coupons that are available. Right now, Shortcuts is only available at about a dozen or so partner stores, but they are always accepting requests for more stores. If you store isn't included, you should ask!

Cellfire: With Cellfire, you have the option of loading coupons onto a store card or downloading them to your cell phone. In addition to grocery coupons, you can also get discounts for restaurants, movie rentals, and more! Sign up and enter your zip code to check out your local deals. One plus - no spam on your cell phone (at least I haven't gotten any in the three plus months I've been using cellfire).

If anyone knows of any other good e-coupon sources, just let me know and I’ll feature them in a future post! Plus I would love to check them out! This is truly the easy way to save money, and since the savings are automatic at checkout, you don't have to worry about forgetting to hand over your coupons!

Check out my new blog - promise I can explain! Warning long post!

When I originally set up $20 Challenge for Charity, I had these grand ideas to pick a new charity every month and spend $20 out of pocket for lots of items that others could use and post each and every shopping trip here! Well, good ideas can sometime be hard to implement, and we found this amazing charity through this endeavor.

I know I mentioned the Arlington Life Shelter around the holidays (we adopted two families for Christmas there), and we really liked the warm reception we received when we donated items! I had gotten used to what felt like an assembly line, with volunteers or workers that didn't really care what you donated and I was very put off by that! Arlington Life Shelter was very personable, and their thank you letters were handwritten, no form letters here! Okay, so where am I going with this? We have opted to make Arlington Life Shelter our charity of choice in 2009, so I won't be featuring monthly charities and well it seems that many of my followers would prefer the other deals, discounts, and giveaways! So....

... through $20 Challenge for Charity, I have gotten lots of opportunities to do product reviews, and have found lots of great deals for my readers and myself but they just didn't seem to fit the original plan! It doesn't seem right to post about a music group, concert, expensive handbag, etc., when the goal was to give to others through saving money on this blog! Although I still hit CVS, Walgreens, and Kroger at least every other week, going back to work full-time has limited my time available to blog about these trips while keeping family a priority! The charities are still being helped, but you can get so many things for nearly free that it was hard to spend $20 monthly and it was tiring!

I still plan to help others, and to post great deals, but I think another forum might be needed, so I have started another blog! Please join me at Two Monkeys & A Washtub for product reviews, giveaways, shopping discount codes, freebies, and great family and pet-friendly activities!

Free McDonald's Sausage McGriddle (select areas)!

McDonalds has this site called Morning Impaired. Click the button on the bottom middle of the page that says "free". After you register and enter your zip code it will tell you if your area qualifies. Luckily, my city qualified! I can't wait!

Great $off coupons on Huggies still available!

Scroll through the coupons in my coupon bar above! Amazingly, the coupons for $5 of Huggies Gentle Care and the $3 off Huggies Natural Care coupons are still available! If you combine these with store sales and ecoupons (such as those available on cellfire), you are getting some really cheap diapers! It looks like they may have reset too (???? or just a fluke), I was able to print them out again today!

Upcoming Home Depot and Lowe's Kid's Workshops!

If you haven't taken your kids to one of these great workshops, you are really missing out on a great project for your family! We try to go to as many of these as possible! They are completely free, so you should really check them out!

Check out the upcoming Home Depot Kids Workshops here!
* Racetrac on March 7, 2009
* Window Birdhouse on April 4, 2009

Chech out the upcoming Lowe's Build & Grow Workshops here!
* Tabletop Basketball on March 14, 2009
* Yard Mobile on March 28, 2009

As you can see, Lowe's offers two workshops every month! We have noticed for our 2.5 year old (with Dad's help of course) that the Lowe's workshops are much easier to complete, so these are probably better for young kids!

Save 50% or more on Kid's DVDs at Amazon

Amazon is having a great sale on Kid's DVDs, so if you need any movies for the little tots in your life now might be a great time to buy a few to store away for a rainy day! Go here to see the great selection of kid's DVDs. Titles include Barney, Bob the Builder, Sam the Fireman, Fraggle Rock, Thomas and Friends, Kipper and Angelina Ballerina.

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