WOW – Guess what today, October 26th is??? It is the 1st birthday of our site!
One year ago today, we did our very first post and it was for a FREEBIE for KFC (of their new grilled chicken at the time)! We posted for the rest of October and then made our site public in early November.
It has been such an amazing and wonderful year here at The Thrifty Couple! Here are a few things we wanted to highlight over the last year:
- We started at the busiest time of year – The Holiday Season!
- We were interviewed by the Salt Lake Tribune for our frugal Black Friday shopping ideas that appeared on in the Thanksgiving Day 2009 newspaper (the biggest newspaper day of the year). Talk about exciting for brand new bloggers!
- We did our first diaper deals post in December.
- We had our first giveaway of a $25 Amazon gift card on January 7th.
- We also started our page on Facebook on that day with 2 likers (“fans” back then – the two of us) and now we have over 3,300!
- We were still paying off our final debts when we started and were able to declare We are Debt Free on April 3rd.
- We started Fun Fabulous Friday on the first Friday of April.
- We were selected to attend the prestigious Savvy Blogging Summit in Colorado in July and were finally able to meet fellow bloggers face-to-face for the first time.
- We also started telling our Deep-in-Debt to Debt-Free story the same weekend we went to the Savvy Blogging Summit.
- Since then we have added the following featured regular posts to our site: Daily Dose of Thrifty, Thrifty Kids Thursday and Thrifty Date Deals along with the usual Best Deals on Diapers.
- In late July, we were on the 11Alive Atlanta news regarding how we are frugal and how we used it to get out of debt.
- Just a few weeks ago, with your help, Savings.com declared us to be one of 30 bloggers in the nation to be the most frugal and financially responsible. As such, we are one of 30 Savings.com Deal Pros and will be heading to Chicago in a couple of weeks for the Deal Pro gathering.
- On Saturday, October 23rd – we were the feature story on the front page of the Deseret Morning News in UT about how our whole family and us as a couple achieved debt-freedom after getting ourselves into a ginormous amount of debt. The story was also about how we share our advice to help others do the same!
- AND Finally……… this post will be post number 2,608, which equals an average 7.14 posts a day!
So what does this fun 1st Birthday and year long reminiscing bring??? Well, how about a giveaway to you, all of our awesome readers!
AND THIS GIVEAWAY IS AWESOME!
2 Winners Each Get an iPod Shuffle and iTunes $15 Gift Card
Two winners will each receive a FREE iPod Shuffle and a $15 iTunes gift card!! And the two winners will be able to pick their color of iPod in Silver, Blue, Pink, Green or Orange!
It is EASY to enter! And to up the ante, you can enter up to 4 times EVERY DAY. This giveaway is going now until Saturday, October 30th at 11:59 p.m. That means that you would have a potential of 20 entries into this giveaway by the time it ends!
Here’s how this giveaway works, there are four (4) possible ways of entering per day!
- Just leave a comment – either what your favorite features/posts are, why you like to come to our site, or any other comment you would like to leave! Be creative as you can leave a comment each of the 5 days and leave a different comment each day.
- Like The Thrifty Couple on Facebook and then leave a comment to tell us you did. If you’re already a Liker then even better! Just leave us a comment and tell us you already are.
- Subscribe to The Thrifty Couple email updates then you will 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.
- Also, spread the love by telling your friends about this product and giveaway and then come back here and leave a comment telling us you did.
This giveaway will end on Saturday, October 30th at 11:59 p.m. MDT. Get 1, 2, 3 or 4 entries to increase your chances of winning by following the ways to enter above.
A couple of additional points:
1. Leave a separate comment for each of the above things you do each day, each comment and activity you complete is an entry. The total number of entries you may have at the end of this giveaway is 20.
2. Be sure to leave your comments for entries here on this post to be counted as an entry.
Laddie Wolfe
I spread the love to some of my friends on FB
sarah w
I love your diaper deals!
sarah w
im a fan on facebook!!!!!!!!
sarah w
i subscribe to your email updates!!!!!!
mandy
I’m a facebook fan!
Trina Chadwick
I’m a FB Liker
I like your Best Deals on Diapers
We always check for your deals before buying.
Happy Birthday!!!
Breanne t.
Thank you guys!
Natalie King
I’m addicted, I have to check my FB everyday just to see what deals you’ve found.
Karen J.
I like the freebies
Natalie King
I’ve shared this with my friends today.
Karyn Hughes
Thanks for all the deals you find for my family!
Karyn Hughes
I am a facebook fan
Karyn Hughes
email subscriber
Karyn Hughes
I told all my twitter friends! http://twitter.com/#!/CallasMama/status/29008158754
Hannah
I love the diaper deals
Nicole
I love love love the diaper deals. It saves me so much time and money. Thank You!
Rebecca
I subscribed to the email!
Rebecca
I told Friends about this!
Rebecca
I love the free samples!
Rebecca
I liked you on facebook!
Danielle G.
I visit your site EVERY day and I love all of your ideas for saving money. We’re new parents and it’s been so helpful! THANK YOU for all of your super hard work!
Danielle G.
I am a facebook fan!
Danielle G.
I told my coworkers!
Danielle G.
I told my coworkers!
maura
Happy Birthday — Your site = my first stop with my morning coffee.
Leigh Powell
Love the help with diapers!!
Leigh Powell
Like u on facebook!
Leigh Powell
Subscribe daily feeds!!
Terri McLaughlin
I have your blog in my google reader and look forward to reading it every chance I get.
I’m especially happy with the Toys R Us coupon right now. I just “Liked” you on facebook and signed up for the email newsletter – can’t wait!
amanda s
I Love saving money with you guys!!
amanda s
I am a facebook friend too!
Hillary
I’m a fan on FB!
Hillary
I subscribe to your email!
Hillary
I LOVE your diaper deals! Thank you!!!
Hillary
I am spreading the news about your awesome blog and this give away to my friends and family!
Sylvia Blimes
Thanks for all of the good ideas. I am almost debt free now and looking forward to saving lots of money with your fantastic deals.
April
Love the diaper deals.
Soraya
I love the freebies…I just discovered you today, but I will be back to see and sign up for more.
Soraya
I liked you on FB too!
Julie
Started watching for the diaper deals. Love to see the ideas for getting to be debt-free.
Connie
I just found your website and LOVE deals/freebies/etc. Gonna love subscribing and seeing what you find to share with us!
Connie
I just “liked” you on FB.
Michelle
Thanks for everything, I love the diaper deals.
rachel duclos
wow! congrats on 1 year of success. i love your site because it is my dream minus all the work, lol…I love how I can come here and learn to save all this money and not have to do all the hard work, because you have already done it for us…I feel like we should all be giving you something! I love your site! Thanks and once again, congrats on your first year, may you have many more great blogging days ahead of you!
rachel duclos
Already a Facebook ‘liker’….Facebook is how I stay up to date with all of my savings and having your guys’ updates pop up makes it just that much easier! Thanks!
rachel duclos
I subscribed via Email….thanks
Melissa S
I’m a liker on Facebook.
Melissa S
Can’t wait to share your website with my thrifty friends
Tracy
Congrads! On making it one whole year!
Sylvia
Wow! You guys have had a heckuva year! Would you have imagined this was going to be your life one year ago?