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.
Jana C.
I am also a FB liker.
Molly
I neeedddd one bad!!!!!!
Molly
I am a facebook fan!
Molly
I am a subscriber!
Christy Brady
I love coming to your website to learn about all of the great deals. Thanks for keeping me informed. I would love to win the Ipod or gift card. thanks
Christy Brady
I am a facebook fan.
Christy Brady
I am a subscriber.
April
love your site. Thank you!
Tami
Happy first year!
Tami
I’m a Facebook fan.
Tami
I’m an email subscriber.
Marissa
love the diaper deal write up that you do.
sandy @ Journey To Our Home
I love the diaper deals on your site. Even though we don’t have ALL the stores you list it does tell us WHERE to go to find the deals at!
sandy @ Journey To Our Home
I follow The Thrifty Couple on FB!
sandy @ Journey To Our Home
I subscribe to daily emails!
sandy @ Journey To Our Home
I posted about this giveaway as my status on FB.
Tami
Live this blog for all the tips!
Tami
I follow you on Facebook.
Aubrey
I love your Thrifty Kids posts!
Tami
I subscribe to your emai.
Aubrey
I follow you on Facebook!
Aubrey
I subscribe to your emails! 🙂
Aubrey
I tweeted about your giveaway!!
Hannah
I love your posts about craft ideas!!
Hannah
I am a facebook liker
Laurie
I “like” you on FB. I have learned so much from your “The Thrifty Couple” site! Our debt story is similar to yours, except we’re not debt free yet – but certainly closer than we were – with your advice and help! Thanks!
Laurie
I have told friends about you!
Laurie
Comment – I used the free earrings from the Dorcus Tori company post and got an additional free pair that was listed as “free” by them – a pair of amethyst studs. Ended up with 4 pairs of earrings for Christmas gifts for $18.80 shipping costs! WOW!! THANK YOU!
Gina R.
Love your website!
Karyn A.
I am a facebook liker.
Thanks!
Gina R.
I already liked you on FB.
Gina R.
I would LOVE to win this!!!
Karyn A.
I am a subscriber to your e-mail updates.
Karyn A.
Loved the article that you had in the Deseret News last week. My husband pointed it out to me. Since I started couponing after a class that Cas taught, he has been impressed when I’ve come home with 128$ worth of groceries for $40.
Thanks for all the great ideas.
Lori
I read your newspaper article that you posted on FB the other day and thought it was very inspiring! That’s awesome that you guys were disciplined enough to get yourselves out of that kind of debt. You remind me of Dave Ramsey people…”We’re debt free!”.
Lori
Oh, and my hubby and I both like you on FB.
debroah
I am a fan!
Barbara Cerveny
Great site, you help alot of people, keep it up!
Krystal P
I’m totally a facebook fan of you guys thanks!
sarah w
I love your diaper deals!!!!!
sarah w
I “like” you on facebook!
sarah w
I get your email updates
Shannon
The couponing skills you have taught me have made my husband a happy man 😉
Shannon
I love you on facebook!!
Shannon
I recieve you in email :))))
Shannon
I am telling friends all about you!! Love the site 🙂
Amanda
LOVE YOU ON FB!!!
Sarah N
I like how you always link to coupons, it sure is handy!
Sarah N
I’m a fb liker!!
Sarah N
I receive emails!