If you are wanting to travel near or far this weekend, here is an idea for a FREE family activity! FREE National Parks Entrance!

Starting April 21 – April 29th, 2012, you can visit National Parks for FREE.

Head to the National Park Service site to find out a national park in your area or one that you would like to travel a few hours too!

See more FREE Stuff

Thanks Money Saving Mom for the reminder

We are excited and honored to announce that we have been invited to speak at the upcoming third annual Family Economics Conference!  We attended the first Family Economics where we were challenged and encouraged to be even more faithful with our finances as well as establishing solid economic and financial principles with our children and as a family.  In fact, it was that conference that really helped solidify our vision to have me come home from my corporate job and work together with our family and develop our own family-based economic.  We will be sharing practical ways and tips to help families save money and stretch their budgets in every area of life!

Are you ready to take your family’s economy to the next level? Is your family ready to start a family business, but you just don’t know where to start. Get your family equipped and inspired in Chicago at the third annual Family Economics Conference on March 8-10, 2012. This exciting event features a line-up of speakers who will equip your family’s economy for long-term success, including Kevin Swanson, Doug Phillips, RC Sproul Jr., Steve and Teri Maxwell, Dave Tucker, Erik Weir, Bill Roth, Don Hart, Alex and Cassie as The Thrifty Couple (that’s us! ), and more! In addition, you’ll be encouraged by the practical wisdom in the popular Q&A panels, where you will have opportunity to interact with the speakers. Just a sample of the topics to be addressed are:

• Raising Sons to Provide
• Household Budget Management
• Marketing a Family Business
• Household Chores and Time Management
• The Duties of Dominion
• Keys to Being a Successful Family Entrepreneur
• Stories from Successful Family Start-Ups
• A Special Proverbs 31 Track for Ladies
• …and much more!

Also included in the price of registration is a family pass to the 2012 Annual Liberty Day Celebration on Saturday night after the conference (value of $59).

As a special for Thrifty Couple followers, you can save $20 off your family registration by using the coupon code ThriftyCouple when you register online. Click here to register now!

Here is a great and RARE deal! Grab half price tickets to the Creation Museum in Kentucky from JBDollar Stretcher daily deal site.  You do not need to be local to get this deal, but if you are planning to go to the Creation Museum, then you might want to grab your tickets for cheaper now!

In addition, right now if you donate a canned good item, you will also receive a 2nd day FREE with your ticket at the Creation Museum!

We have been wanting and planning to go sometime soon and can’t wait until we get to go (and we will go again when the Ark Encounter opens – so excited for this too).

Have you gone to the Creation Museum yet? How is it?

See more Hot Deals

Thanks Savvy Spending

This Saturday, September 24, is FREE Museum Day.  This means that you can go to many museums for FREE! Whether you want to take a day trip to someplace fun or visit a site in your own town, it is the time to do so and a great opportunity for it!

For the FREE Museums, you will need to request your FREE tickets to any of the FREE museums listed on the Smithsonian site. You will be able to request two FREE tickets.  Plus many of the attractions will let children 3,4,5, or even 6 and under for free without a ticket all of the time.

Thanks Living As Mom

Sam’s Club is having an open house starting today, August 5 – 7th where anyone and everyone can shop with no up-charge, just as if they are members.  This is a great time to check out whether or not a membership would be worth it, or a great time to compare prices on big ticket items that you have considered and budgted for.  Sam’s Club this weekend might be the time to get it.  Please see the site for details.   Thanks Frugally Thrifty

Also, we wanted to share our thoughts again regarding the value of a club membership. We find that we save more money in the grocery store or Target/Walmart with sales and coupons than we do for the shelf prices of Sam’s Club bulk items with the exception a few items listed below.

We have mostly used the membership for a few food items that we like that can only be found at Sam’s Club or things that are hard to get cheap at the store – we have consistently purchased these items at Sam’s Club. We usually end up going about every 3-4 months.

For example – these items (in our experience) seem to be the cheapest and hard price to beat at the store:

• Fresh shredded Parmesan (the hard kind) is cheapest there
• Hormel real bacon bits (these are quite pricey for the non-imitation) in the regular store and we use it in recipes and salads a lot!
• French’s Fried Onions
• Honey (although we have been able to get this in our local grocer’s case lot sales the last 2 years for cheaper)
• There are some frozen bulk foods that can only be found at Sam’s Club that we really like too
• When we do make our quarterly or so run to Sam’s Club – we often find great produce deals and will stock up to eat fresh or freeze for the future.
• For a large item deal – we have found that Sam’s Club is a great place to get freezers – for your awesome food deals – they seem to have lower and very competitive prices on new freezers
• Our most recent large purchase was a new t.v. that was last year’s floor model for over 75% off.  They had it marked down by over 70% as it was last year’s model and the floor display and then we talked them down by another $55.
• When you are not getting your digital photo prints for FREE and need some photo prints now – Sam’s Club has the lowest price at .15-.16 a print. It is also easy to upload them from your computer and pick them up in the store and even cheaper that way!
• They can also have good deals on office type supplies and ink if/when you get in a bind and have not been able to get those items cheap lately and need them now.  We mostly buy our ink with our Max Perks rewards – but have still needed to make a Sam’s Club ink run here and there.
• With some exceptions – we will purchase the frozen chicken or fish if/when we run out and there are no immediate sales (see our explanation on saving on meat).
• Finally, we go through batteries very quickly with our camera that is always on We cannot stock-up fast enough to keep up with our usage (after we run out of our awesome stock from the office store sales) so we get the excess that we need at Sam’s Club as they have the lowest everyday price.

So that is what we do with our membership.  We debate renewing it each year, but have ultimately decided to renew because of the above list.

Please share your thoughts on whether or not you think a warehouse/club membership is worth the value and your experience!

Happy 4th of July everyone!! We hope you are having a wonderful weekend filled with friends, family, fun, memories and great BBQ’S!

We wanted to share a couple of posts with you to have a fun and safe day:

• Firework Safety reminders and information by our friend Jennie from Bargain Blessings
• How to take quality pictures or video of fireworks from your smartphone

Please be sure to thank any of our military personnel walking about for our freedom – we are free because they are brave!

Have a wonderful, safe, and Thrifty Day!

From our family to yours!

We were invited last week to participate in an exciting event sponsored by Yoplait Original Yogurt.  Nancy O’Dell, of “Entertainment Tonight” and “Your OWN Show, Oprah’s Search for the Next TV Star”, has partnered with Yoplait to commit to raising the awareness of the important of calcium in maintaining strong, healthy bones.  We asked you to share with us any questions you would like us to ask both Nancy and Yoplait and we look forward to sharing with you some of those answers here.

First we wanted to share how excited we were to even participate in such an event.  We wanted to thank you (our awesome readers) for if it wasn’t for you we wouldn’t have had this opportunity.  We wanted a short clip of a video we took to share with you what we heard at the event.  What you hear is Nancy’s commitment to spreading the news about bone health and how the newly reformulated Yoplait Original provides not only 50% of the Daily Value (DV) of calcium that women need but also provides 50% of the DV of Vitamin D which is necessary for your bones to absorb that calcium and build your strong, healthy bones.

We were especially excited because we were able to spend a few minutes with Nancy after she shared those facts with us.  And we were able to ask her those questions that many of you gave to us:

You are a busy, active woman and mother of three children.  How do you find the time to stay fit, eat healthy, and exercise? Nancy shared with us that one of the secrets to finding this time is through a combination of planning ahead (see next question) and choosing active activities when she spends that quality time with her children so that she is able to “stay fit” while enjoying that down time with her kids.

When you are so active, how do you keep the Yoplait yogurt cold? We truly loved Nancy’s idea here as she mentioned that her mother taught her a trick when she was little about she would freeze her juice boxes for her lunches – Nancy adopted that idea and freezes her yogurts (which involves the planning ahead) so she can take them with her anywhere she goes.  Just two weeks ago at the Golden Globes she had her small bag of sliced apples and her frozen yogurt to enjoy as a snack – how real is that?  Cassie and her seemed to connect at the joy of the frozen yogurt tasting just like an ice cream treat.  We loved this tip for freezing the yogurt as its been a favorite of ours for many years!

Some of our readers saw you on The Talk last week and wanted to know – is Yoplait yogurt really your favorite snack? Nancy told us that sure, there might be some junk food snacks out there that she enjoys, but when it comes to a snack that she can love and love not feeling guilty after eating it – that yes, it definitely is.  She shared with us (as she has in other places) that she loves the Key Lime Pie flavor – its her favorite!  But she also shared with us another variation of eating it:

Nancy’s Key Lime Pie Yogurt “Pie”

• Yoplait Original Key Lime Pie yogurt
• 1 graham cracker
• A dab of whipped topping

Spread your Yoplait Original Key Lime Pie yogurt on to the graham cracker (which is low in calories) and add just a dab of whipped topping.  Not only do you enjoy the bursting flavor from the yogurt but you get the consistency and sense of eating a real key lime pie!

Sorry for the focus issues – we’re not exactly sure what happened. 

We love it – Nancy took the time to talk to us, share with us about things she learned from her childhood, gave us real examples in which she lives what she talks (she really loves and believes in this yogurt) and we swapped stories about our children.  We were so impressed with how genuine and real Nancy was – and we heard many of her close coworkers affirm that as well.

But remember, you had some other questions for us as well that was more suited for Yoplait.  We loved the fact that we met and were able to spend some time with a General Mills spokesman.  We asked about their usage of artificial dyes and ingredients.  What she shared with us is that the newly reformulated Yoplait Original does contain natural ingredients yet doesn’t contain any of those artificial dyes or high-fructose corn syrup – which makes the choice of Yoplait Original even that more appealing for yourself or for your kids.  She also stated that Yoplait is committed to continue to offer more natural options and maintain their commitment to health.  It sounds like Yoplait wants to continue to lead the pack in providing more natural, healthier options in the years to come – she also shared with us some great new products coming out soon like a newly updated formula for their Greek Yogurt (yum!) and others that should be hitting the market as well!

Don’t miss out on your FREE cup of yogurt!!

If you saw the video the you also saw Nancy encouraging you to go become a fan of Yoplait on their Facebook page!  When you do, don’t miss out on requesting your FREE cup of Yoplait Original so you can find out just how delicious it is as well!  But don’t take our word for it – go try it yourself!

Finally, we would be lacking if we didn’t thank Yoplait for inviting us and making arrangements so that we could take part in this event and celebration of Yoplait Original’s newly formulated yogurt!

And truly we had to throw in one last picture – we have been “Trading Spaces” fans and Paige Davis fans for many years.  Cassie looked over and said “There’s Paige Davis!”  I said, “No…..”.  Well, guess who was wrong?    Thank you Paige for taking all that time in letting us hang out with you while at the party!

If you are wanting to travel near or far this weekend, here is an idea for a FREE family activity! FREE National Parks Entrance!

Starting tomorrow Saturday, January 15 – Monday, January 17th, you can visit National Parks for FREE.

Head to the National Park Service site to find out a national park in your area or one that you would like to travel a few hours too!

In case you haven’t heard, Toys R Us has a fun birthday club.  It is FREE and so easy.  Each child in your home can join.  Once you join, a few weeks before your child’s birthday, they will send you a party planning kit and a great coupon (usually $5/$25!). Then, around your child’s actual birthday – they will receive a birthday card from Geoffrey with a gift card attached! In the past it has been $3 gift card ($3 off a purchase of $3 or more).

Cold Stone Creamery is offering a FREE 3 oz. sample of their 8-layer cakes tonight (Tuesday, November 16th) from 5pm – 8pm at the locations nationwide.

Here’s how the cakes are described:

Cold Stone’s Eight Layer Cakes feature three layers of ice cream, three layers of cake and two mid-layers of mix-ins and finished with frosting and edible decorations. They’re available in two flavors: Cake Batter Layers and Quilted Coffee Caramel. Valid only at participating locations. While supplies last.

We suggest calling your Coldstone Location ahead of time to be sure they are participating.

Thanks Chi-Town Cheapskate

Then don’t forget to take this coupon with you in case your tastebuds want more.

Also, you can purchase discount gift cards to Cold Stone (that you can then combine with coupons) to lower your out of pocket expenses even more!

City Deals is offering $20 Coldstone gift cards for $16.  See all of the details on City Deals site at this link HERE.

Sam’s Club is offering a FREE $10 gift card for new memberships that join by November 24th. You will receive your gift card that will be activiated after the 26th (after Black Friday of course!).

Please see the site for details.

Thanks Combat Clippers

If you have thought about buying a Sam’s Club membership then this might be the time with this gift card deal.

Also, we wanted to share our thoughts again regarding the value of a club membership. We find that we save more money in the grocery store or Target/Walmart with sales and coupons than we do for the shelf prices of Sam’s Club bulk items with the exception a few items listed below.

We have mostly used the membership for a few food items that we like that can only be found at Sam’s Club or things that are hard to get cheap at the store – we have consistently purchased these items at Sam’s Club. We usually end up going about every 3-4 months.

For example – these items (in our experience) seem to be the cheapest and hard price to beat at the store:

• Fresh shredded Parmesan (the hard kind) is cheapest there
• Hormel real bacon bits (these are quite pricey for the non-imitation) in the regular store and we use it in recipes and salads a lot!
• French’s Fried Onions
• Honey (although we have been able to get this in our local grocer’s case lot sales the last 2 years for cheaper)
• There are some frozen bulk foods that can only be found at Sam’s Club that we really like too
• When we do make our quarterly or so run to Sam’s Club – we often find great produce deals and will stock up to eat fresh or freeze for the future.
• It is a great place to get freezers – for your awesome food deals – they seem to have lower and very competitive prices on new freezers
• When you are not getting your digital photo prints for FREE and need some photo prints now – Sam’s Club has the lowest price at .15-.16 a print. It is also easy to upload them from your computer and pick them up in the store and even cheaper that way!
• They can also have good deals on office type supplies and ink if/when you get in a bind and have not been able to get those items cheap lately and need them now.  We mostly buy our ink with our Max Perks rewards – but have still needed to make a Sam’s Club ink run here and there.
• With some exceptions – we will purchase the frozen chicken or fish if/when we run out and there are no immediate sales (see our explanation on saving on meat).
• Finally, we go through batteries very quickly with our camera that is always on We cannot stock-up fast enough to keep up with our usage (after we run out of our awesome stock from the office store sales) so we get the excess that we need at Sam’s Club as they have the lowest everyday price.

So that is what we do with our membership.  We debate renewing it each year, but have ultimately decided to renew because of the above list.

Please share your thoughts on whether or not you think a warehouse/club membership is worth the value and your experience!

Our Family at Our Yellowstone Vacation 2010

This is going to be a fun weekend to explore some historical and beautiful sites across this great country.

This Saturday, September 25, it is both FREE Museum Day and FREE Public Lands Day.

This means that you can go to many museums and many national parks for FREE! Whether you want to take a day trip to someplace fun or visit a site in your own town, it is the time to do so.

We posted this on our other blog, but wanted to share with everyone here too.

For the FREE Museums, you will need to request your FREE tickets to any of the FREE museums listed on the Smithsonian site. You will be able to request two FREE tickets.  Plus many of the attractions will let children 3,4,5, or even 6 and under for free without a ticket all of the time.

Thanks Money Saving Mom

Head to the National Park Service site to find out a national park in your area or one that you would like to travel a few hours too!

Here is a round-up of FREE things to do on Saturday August 14th!

First, Walmart is having FREE sampling of many products again for this weekend. Click on each of these to see if you local Walmart is participating (each store is offering different ones) and for additional details.

• FREE sampling Quaker LifeBar
• FREE sampling of Kellogg’s Bakers Treasures and Cinnabon Bars
• FREE sampling of Diamond Foods Breakfast on-the-go and Kettle Chips
• Dora’s 10th Birthday Celebration Event filled with FREEBIES

Lowe’s is having their next FREE Build and Grow Clinic for kids.  This time they are making a FREE Bug Box. Just head to the Lowe’s site to register your kids for FREE.

PLUS – your kids will also get a coupon for a FREE Wendy’s Jr. Frosty for attending! Thanks Mojo Savings

Thanks Savvy Spending

Sam’s Club is having an Open House this weekend – that means that anyone can go and shop at Sam’s Club just as if there are a member.

This is an excellent way to try out the shopping and see if it is something that would be useful to your family’s budget.  We do have a membership – but honestly shop there rarely!

We find that we save more money in the grocery store or Target/Walmart with sales and coupons than we do for the shelf prices of Sam’s Club bulk items with the exception a few items listed below.

We have mostly used the membership for a few food items that we like that can only be found at Sam’s Club or things that are hard to get cheap at the store – we have consistently purchased these items at Sam’s Club. We usually end up going about every 3-4 months.

For example – these items (in our experience) seem to be the cheapest and hard price to beat at the store:

• Fresh shredded Parmesan (the hard kind) is cheapest there
• Hormel real bacon bits (these are quite pricey for the non-imitation) in the regular store and we use it in recipes and salads a lot!
• French’s Fried Onions
• Honey (although we have been able to get this in our local grocer’s case lot sales the last 2 years for cheaper)
• There are some frozen bulk foods that can only be found at Sam’s Club that we really like too
• When we do make our quarterly or so run to Sam’s Club – we often find great produce deals and will stock up to eat fresh or freeze for the future.
• It is a great place to get freezers – for your awesome food deals – they seem to have lower and very competitive prices on new freezers
• When you are not getting your digital photo prints for FREE and need some photo prints now – Sam’s Club has the lowest price at .15-.16 a print. It is also easy to upload them from your computer and pick them up in the store and even cheaper that way!
• They can also have good deals on office type supplies and ink if/when you get in a bind and have not been able to get those items cheap lately and need them now.  We mostly buy our ink with our Max Perks rewards – but have still needed to make a Sam’s Club ink run here and there.
• Finally, we go through batteries very quickly with our camera that is always on We cannot stock-up fast enough to keep up with our usage (after we run out of our awesome stock from the office store sales) so we get the excess that we need at Sam’s Club as they have the lowest everyday price.

So that is what we do with our membership.  We debate renewing it each year, but have ultimately decided to renew because of the above list.

Here are the details for the Open House at Sam’s Club this weekend:

August 6 – 8th anyone can shop just like a member would.  The best news is that there is no upcharge on your purchases – normally, if you shopped at Sam’s Club as a non-member, they would add a 10% upcharge to your balance – there is no upcharge this weekend! YAY! So check it out and let us know your thoughts on a Sam’s Club membership.

Also, see our previous post regarding a special deal for the College Student Sam’s Club memberships!

Thanks The Frugal Mind

Tonight (August 3, 2010)  is National Night Out – what that means that is many cities across the Nation are hosting gatherings for the community to sponsored by local businesses and attended by the law enforcement and public service groups to:

• Heighten crime and drug prevention awareness;
• Generate support for, and participation in, local anticrime programs;
• Strengthen neighborhood spirit and police-community partnerships; and
• Send a message to criminals letting them know that neighborhoods are organized and fighting back.

What are some of the activities that promote the above goals on National Night Out 2010? Well according to their website:

Along with the traditional display of outdoor lights and front porch vigils, cities, towns and neighborhoods ‘celebrate’ NNO with a variety of events and activities such as:

• block parties,
• cookouts,
• visits from local police and sheriff departments
• parades, exhibits,
• flashlight walks,
• contests, and
• youth programs.

NNO has proven to be an effective, inexpensive and enjoyable program to promote neighborhood spirit and police-community partnerships in our fight for a safer nation. Plus, the benefits your community will derive from NNO will most certainly extend well beyond the one night.

It is FREE to attend your local National Night Out. To see if your local community is participating, just head over to the National Night Out website, click on your state and then a list of cities in your state will pop up.  Have fun!

Thanks Sarah’s Deals

It is time again for Walmart stores across the nation are offering a bunch a FREEBIES at different locations for the Walmart in-store events starting today, Thursday, July 29 and running through the weekend until August 1st. Many of the FREEBIES are new products that are “debuting” and so we all get to try them first at Walmart.

Stop by your local Walmart and pick up the following FREEBIES (click on each one to enter your zip code to see what Walmart locations are offering that FREEBIE near you):

Purina One

Coty Beyonce Heat Fragrance

Sun Crystals Keeblers and Tarts

Atkins Nutritional Bars

Dean’s Foods Swiss Tea and Fruit2Day

I guess these sampling events are quite the event!

Thanks Mojo Savings

Walmart stores across the nation are offering a bunch a FREEBIES at different locations for the Walmart in-store events starting today, Thursday, July 22 and running through the weekend until July 25th. Many of the FREEBIES are new products that are “debuting” and so we all get to try them first at Walmart.

Stop by your local Walmart and pick up the following FREEBIES (click on each one to enter your zip code to see what Walmart locations are offering that FREEBIE near you):

General Mills Bugles and Snack Bars sampling

Kashi Cereal and Blueberries sampling

Chelan Fresh Washington Cherries sampling

ACH Weber Tones Spice and Kraft Toasted Chips sampling

Gain 11 0z. sample bottle (Thanks Mojo Savings)

Wrigley’s Orbit Gum

Have fun this weekend as you pick up a bunch of FREEBIES while doing your thrifty coupon shopping.  I think that the Walmart stores will be hopping!

We are leaving at 4 am tomorrow morning (Thursday, July 8th!!) to hit the road and drive from Salt Lake City to Breckenridge, CO for the Savvy Blogging Summit! We are very excited to attend and to learn how to become better at our efforts with blogging! We do have many site changes coming in the near future that we are excited about!

In the meantime and for this weekend – we are still blogging and bringing the deals to you! PLUS there will be the following things that we will also have this  weekend:

• Our fourth part on Thrifty Travel Series and staying at timeshare resorts and condos!
• Our first part to our “Deep in Debt to Debt-Free – How it all started!”  series
• Also, there will be a big giveaway with the largest prize we have ever offered to a single reader of The Thrifty Couple!

That is a few of the exciting things going on this weekend here on our site so stay tuned….

Happy 4th of July weekend everyone!! We hope you are having a wonderful weekend filled with friends, family, fun, memories and great BBQ’S!

Our weekend started on Friday when we had many close friends come over for a BBQ and fireworks, today was spent in the Utah mountains hiking and enjoying God’s creation then off to parades, fesitvities, fireworks and family gatherings  on Monday! Whew – it is turning out to be quite the weekend!!

Have a wonderful, safe, and Thrifty weekend!

From our family to yours!

Thrifty Al and Thrifty Cas

Denny’s is offering a yummy FREEBIE right now! Just head over to Denny’s on Facebook and “sign your Bill of Rights” which entitles you to a FREE order of Red, White and Blueberry pancake puppies when you purchase any entree or item from the $2 $4 $6 $8 Value Menu! You will need to print your Bill of Rights and as this is your coupon for your FREE pancake puppies.  You will have until 7/25/10 to use it!

We LOOOVE these things – we love to eat them as a dessert – when we have a FREE coupon of course Have you tried them yet?? What do you think?

Also, don’t forget that Kids Eat FREE at Denny’s on Tuesday and Saturday nights!

I saw this advertised a couple of day’s ago and I thought to myself “wow, that is a lot of work and a lot of money for a FREE Chick-Fil-A meal to come fully dressed as a cow!” But after talking to Thrifty Al – it is hard to pass up FREE food.  So he suggested just grabbing a white t-shirt and putting black construction paper spots and am sure that this will be sufficient as being dressed up like a cow. Dress the whole family and each of you get a FREE meal!

If you have ideas on how to make a cow costume for FREE – please share your ideas and pictures!! If you decide to do this – send us a picture of your costume and/or your costume and FREE meal and we will post it to share with everyone!!

To get your FREE meal, put on your cow costume on July 9th and head to your local Chick-Fil-A to snag your FREE Chick-Fil-A meal!

Thanks Savings and Stewardship for the reminder!

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Yay! FREE Ice Cream Party At Walmart for tomorrow, May 22nd ONLY!

Get ready for the Memorial Day weekend parties and yummy taste testing for the whole family! ENJOY!

WALMART’S FREE ICE CREAM SUNDAE EVENT DETAILS

WHAT: Walmart invites families to come have a free ice cream sundae* with Breyers new and exclusive flavors, and Blue Bunny Premium Ice Cream and new All Natural Frozen Yogurt topped with Hershey’s Chocolate Syrup, Reddi-wip, and Fresh Strawberries.  The “Free Ice Cream Sundae” event will give moms some sweet inspiration topped with even sweeter savings.

*While supplies last.

WHO: EVERYONE

WHEN: Saturday, May 22 – 11 a.m. – 4 p.m.

WHERE: More than 2,000 Walmart stores nationwide

This is kind of a fun post! I have a birthday that is coming up and I have signed up for soooo many birthday offers that I am not even sure if I can keep track.  However, just today, I woke up to an email bomarded with offers! My birthday is still not for several days, but this must have been the day for many companies to send their FREEBIES!

Looks like our eating out budget will go even further the next couple of weeks with these offers!

So, I just thought I would at least share what I get as I get it! Here is a list for you!!

• My favorite from this list is the FREE Burger of choice from Red Robin! There is no purchase of another item necessary and ANY burger can be chosen! No restrictions except that it has a 2-week expiration! My favorite is the Blue cheese burger and I can get one for FREE! Yay! This one will be used on family dinner night!
• Dairy Queen FREE 16 oz. Blizzard when you buy one.  Also, signing-up for this gives you a bogo coupon six times a year, with an extra on your birthday month! I am sending Thrifty Al now as I type this up as it sounded really good after a full day of yard work UPDATE: I am now eating the double fudge chocolate chip cookie dough – WOW!
• Mimi’s Cafe coupon for $10 off $20 purchase. I think a cheap date night for just the two of us is in order sometime in the next 2 weeks (that’s how long we have to use it!). Plus by joining this one, also get a BOGO breakfast!
• Fazoli’s FREE dessert coupon.  No purchase necessary! I have been wanting to try the new Strawberry Ice (as they are included) – will have to get my FREE one when I am running errands next
• Denny’s FREE Grand Slam Breakfast. No other purchase necessary, except that this is the ONLY one so far that has to be used on my birthday. The rest have a 2 week window.  Problem is that my birthday falls on a week day, not sure yet how to make this one work (I suppose I could get up really early before Thrifty Al has to go to work and eat breakfast by myself – but that doesn’t really sound like a birthday treat).
• Carinos Italian (which is my favorite Italian restaurant!) FREE Dessert with the purchase of an entree.  This one may or may not get used, but it is great to have the options open!

So that is what I have received so far! You can join the site: birthdayfreebies.com and be able to search for FREEBIES in your area for your birthday. However, I put my zip code in with a 50 mile radius and only 3 restaurants were listed. But your zip code might have more and some great ideas!

Let us know any other birthday FREEBIES that you have come across!

Here is a HOT DEAL that is available through tomorrow – the 13th ONLY! Possible FREE Entertainment books! You have until the end of the day on the 13th to cash in on this incredible deal!

First, a bit of history before we share the deal….. We have used Entertainment books for our family’s eating out and activities for many years! In fact, our family knows how much we love this book, that it is a traditional Christmas present we get (so we get one for FREE each year Thanks Mom and Dad).  You know you are truly thrifty when you open this up and you are dancin’ around the Christmas tree!! As a matter of fact, we made everyone at the Christmas celebration laugh as we are a quirky and thrifty couple

This book actually has a permanent home inside our minivan! Well, for the last couple of years, we have even purchased 2 of them as they pay for themselves with just a couple of coupons!

Well, right now you can get them for FREE -$7! So load up and here’s the deal:

• First, head to shopathome.com for $7 back on this purchase!
• If you are new to shopathome, register for FREE and get a $5 bonus!!
• After logging-in or signing-up, search for Shopathome on the search bar
• Once the link appears, click through this link to get your $7 (and additional $5 for new accounts)
• Then purchase your Entertainment book for $12 on sale!!
• Your shopathome.com will be credited with the $7 for the purchase of this book = final is $5
• PLUS if you have that new account, get your $5 credit too = final is FREE for you!!!
  

PLUS – FREE Shipping on ALL orders!

If you did not want to use ShopAtHome.com – you can just order it directly for $12, which, even at this price, will pay for itself in 1-2 coupon uses!!

It would also make a great gift still! Maybe you can make some quirky couple dance around over a coupon book

The reason why the books are marked so low and possibly FREE for some of you is that they coupons all expire at the end of November of 2010.  But you still have MORE THAN ENOUGH time to use them and get good use out of them!

Enjoy and remember this deal is ONLY good until the end of the day TOMORROW – May 13th!!

We really do like our Entertainment Book!  We really do like our second Entertainment Book as well!!    So, we thought we would share another way to maximize on this deal.  First, let’s cover what the Entertainment Book is if you haven’t heard of it!!

If you haven’t heard, The Entertainment Book is customized for your local businesses and restaurants to provide you with amazing deals throughout the year!  We have been getting this book for a few years now and LOVE IT!  There are coupons for BOGO at restaurants (husbands, great date ideas!), local attractions such as mini-golf, coffee houses, discounted movie tickets and more!  We love ours and generally save the price of the book by our second coupon!

So, how can you get this book for $3?!  You maximize on this deal by buying it through Shop At Home (register/login and search for Entertainment Book and click through the link there to get your cash back at the end of every quarter!!  It’s really that simple!) and get $7 back!  That brings your total cost down to a whopping $8!  If you use just one coupon for a BOGO on a restaurant, you have just covered the price of the book with MANY more coupons to use!    Oh wait, how do you get it for $3?  Well, new Shop At Home members will get another $5 OFF just for signing up!!  No matter how you buy it, you can truly maximize on your savings!!

This is also an amazing gift idea! Buy it now for FREE shipping as well!  Click to get the Entertainment Book for $15 (to not use Shop At Home) or Shop At Home to order yours on this deal!!

We have already saved the cost of our book several times over – you can typically make the cost up in about 1-2 coupons! The coupons are good through November 2010!!

This Giveaway is now closed! Winner announced HERE!

We are so excited about this giveaway!! This quick giveaway is for 4 tickets to the Disney on Ice: World Of Fantasy Show in Salt Lake City, UT! A HUGE thank you goes out to our friend and fellow Utah money saving blogger Jodi from My SLC Mommy! As a way of saying thanks to her for letting us offer this to one of our readers, be sure to visit her site and add her to your favorites!

The tickets are valid for any show starting on Wed. March 10 – Sunday March 14th. A wonderful The Thrifty couple reader and family will be awarded 4 tickets to Disney on Ice World of Fantasy. The tickets can be for any perfomance here in Salt Lake City. There will be a Disney Princess Pre-show as well! We have been to a handful of the Disney on Ice shows, our kids love them! It created such fun memories in our family! We are hoping it will for you too!

A fun family adventure for this weekend! There are 5 ways to enter this awesome and quick giveaway! Enter once, twice or all 5 ways to increase your chances of winning! Just be sure to leave a separate comment for each of the following things you do!

• Become a fan of The Thrifty Couple on Facebook and then leave a comment to tell us you did!  If you’re already a Facebook fan then even better!!  Just leave us a comment and tell us you already are!!

• Become a follower of The Thrifty Couple on Twitter and then (you know the drill) leave us a comment on this post telling us you did!!  Of course, all you current twitter followers just need to comment and tell us you already are just that cool!

• Become a Friend of The Thrifty Couple (see our Google Friends widget at the right to walk you right through it!).  Just remember, we’re not paying you to be our friend, we’re giving away awesome prizes to be your friend!  This should be obvious to you by now, but don’t be bummed that you’re already our friend – just leave a comment to tell us you already are!

• Subscribe to The Thrifty Couple email updates PLUS then have our deals delivered to your inbox daily so never miss a deal or another giveaway! You must confirm your subscription before commenting (a confirmation email will be sent to you that you will need to click through to confirm that you would like to receive emails from us!)! If you are already a confirmed subscriber, just leave a comment for another entry!

• Finally, spread the word!!  Share this giveaway via email, Facebook or Twitter informing your Utah friends about this giveaway (or any other friends willing to come to SLC) and possibly enjoy a FREE show with their family.  Just leave a comment for each way that you share as an entry for each one!

Also remember that tickets are available at Smith’s Tix. If you want to go and did not win then you can get a $3 discount by entering: Mblog as the internet code. Tickets range from $13.00-$52.00. For details on the show, go HERE!

This giveaway is open to anyone willing to come to Salt Lake City to attend the show – if you don’t live close, but know someone that does, send them our way to enter! The winner will be announced, as well as sent an email with instructions on how to claim the tickets for the show.

This giveaway ends at 6:00 a.m. MST on Wed., March 10th! One winner will be randomly selected and then contacted after that deadline.  Make sure to check back though in case we can’t contact you!

Take lots of pictures for us and share your experience! Here is a picture of us at our last show at the Energy Solutions Arena!

Have you bought your Entertainment Book for 2010 yet?!  Have you bought your second Entertainment Book for 2010?!    Here’s a deal that you will really want to check out!  Why?  Because these 2010 Entertainment® books are just 50% OFF plus FREE shipping!  Where we live, these books are $35 (I believe that is the price for most locations).  This deal makes the books only $17.50 (check your zip code for the price where you live!) with FREE shipping to my door!!  What a great deal!

Why?!  If you haven’t heard, The Entertainment Book is customized for your local businesses and restaurants to provide you with amazing deals throughout the year!  We have been getting this book for a few years now and LOVE IT!  There are coupons for BOGO at restaurants (husbands, great date ideas!), local attractions such as mini-golf, coffee houses, discounted movie tickets and more!  We love ours and generally save the price of the book by our second coupon!

This is also an amazing gift idea! Buy it now for FREE shipping as well!  Click to get the Entertainment Book for 50% OFF or on the image above to order yours on this deal!!

We have already saved the cost of our book several times over – you can typically make the cost up in about 2 coupons! We actually have two books ourselves! The coupons are good through November 2010!!

Family Christian Stores is offering a FREE viewing of the NEW Veggie Tales Movie “Pistachio: The Little Boy Who Woodn’t.” Also, there will be some exclusive discounts while there. PLUS additional FREEBIES for the first 40 kids at 10AM, 12PM and 2PM! The first 40 children will receive a FREE poster and balloon plus. Everyone will receive FREE stickers, coloring pages and special in-store savings! Not sure if all stores are partipating, so I would call your store ahead of time!

Thanks Deal Finding Chik!

Lowe’s Build and Grow Workshop for Saturday, February 27th.  Kid’s can build a FREE “Lowebot” tomorrow from 10 am – 11 am.  You will need to register, this event is FREE! To register and for more details, go HERE!

Back for a limited time! This week only, all 2010 Entertainment® books are just $19.99 plus FREE shipping! The site says that this is the last chance to get this great price! If you haven’t got your Entertainment Book (or need your second!!) then now is the time to get it!!

Why?!  If you haven’t heard, The Entertainment Book is customized for your local businesses and restaurants to provide you with amazing deals throughout the year!  We have been getting this book for a few years now and LOVE IT!  There are coupons for BOGO at restaurants (husbands, great date ideas!), local attractions such as mini-golf, coffee houses, discounted movie tickets and more!  We love ours and generally save the price of the book by our second coupon!

This is also an amazing gift idea! Buy it now for FREE shipping as well!  Click to get the Entertainment Book for $19.99 or on the image above to order yours on this deal!!

We have already saved the cost of our book several times over – you can typically make the cost up in about 2 coupons! We actually have two books ourselves! The coupons are good until Nov. 2010!

This is the week (ends Feb 14, 2009) to get The Entertainment Book for 2010!!!  If you haven’t got your Entertainment Book (or need your second!!) then now is the time to get it!!

Why?!  If you haven’t heard, The Entertainment Book is customized for your local businesses and restaurants to provide you with amazing deals throughout the year!  We have been getting this book for a few years now and LOVE IT!  There are coupons for BOGO at restaurants (husbands, great date ideas!), local attractions such as mini-golf, coffee houses, and more!  We love ours and generally save the price of the book by our second coupon!

This is also an amazing gift idea! Buy it now for FREE shipping and $21 (in most zip codes – areas do vary – that’s $14 off the original price)! Click to get the Entertainment Book for $14 OFF or on the image above to order yours on this deal!!  I know we love it!