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.
Katie
I follow you on blogger. I check you out every day & love that someone does all the “hard” work so I don’t have to!
Samantha W
I “like” The Thrifty Couple on FB
Samantha W
I love to come here because you guys post awesome freebies and great ways to save money!
Samantha W
I subscribe to your emails!
Samantha W
I shared the giveaway on FB:
http://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=164838983540887&id=70001310
Sherri
I’m already a “LIKE”er on FB. I appreciate all your posts.
Anne Marie Chiappetta
I like you on facebook and read your website daily. I especially like how you do the legwork on the store comparisons. Example I found the huggies $2.50 off coupon this morning. I checked your site to see if there was a comparison done and yes you were ahead of me. Yeah! Walgreens won for us because on top of the 2 huggies coupons I had a $10.00 off coupon for that store with $10.00 purchase so 2 packages of diapers cost a whole .98 cents plus tax.
My grandson is so close to being potty trained but still needs diapers in the evening. So we are getting so close to cut that expense out.
Thank you for all you do, you save me so much extra time & money!!!!
Jaymi
LOVE you two!
VIRGINIA
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU….IT MAKES 16 YEARS OF COUPONING FOR ME.OCT 21..MY FIRST COUPON BOX WAS A HUGGIES DIAPER WIPE BOX FROM MY FIRST DAUGHTER….I JUST THREW IT AWAY AND MY BABY IS 16…LOVE YOUR SITE
VIRGINIA
LIKED YOU FOR A WHILE NOW ON FACEBOOK
Traci Wheeler
Love this website! 🙂
Katie H
Happy 1st Birthday!! Cant believe how far you guys have come in 1 year…. well done!!!
Keep up the good work.
Katie
Dawn C
I just recently found out about you guys and liked you on facebook.
Dawn C
When I found out about you guys and saw that I could also subscribe to receive emails, I did that too.
Dawn C
I have always used coupons and try to buy just about everything on sale but it never really seemed like I was saving a lot from coupons. However, when you do all the work and tell me what store to go to, what to buy, what coupons to use, etc. I can really see a huge savings adding up. For that I am very grateful! Thank you!!!
Dawn C
Since I have found out about you guys, I have done nothing but tell all my friends & family so they can find out about all the great deals!
Amy M.
I like Fun Fabulous Fridays!
Amy M.
I’m a FB “liker”.
Amy M.
I’m subscribed!
Amy M.
I shared via FB.
Lindsay Hamer
I love your site.the diaper deals are my fav!
Melodye
I check your FB at least once per day!
Melodye
I have learned couponing basics from your website!
Kim W.
I love your diaper deals!!!
Kim Wellnitz
I am a fan on facebook.
Kim W.
I subscribe to your emails.
Kim Anderl
I love the debt free advice ♥
Kim Anderl
I’m a liker on facebook 😉
Christina
I “like” you on facebook.
Christina
I love coming to your site for all the ideas. I learn something all the time! I’m better at coupons 🙂
Christina
I subscribed to your emails!
Christina
I shared on facebook.
Nicole
You guys have the best deals!
janskycontests
I am so grateful the thrifty couple does all of the searching online for deals. It takes the guessing game out of being thrifty.. Congrats!
martha
Already Liked you…but sure could use this giveaway as a Christmas gift. thanks for your hard work.
Audra
I love that you guys are one of the few blogs that include shopko, I love shopping there
Suzy
Happy birthday! I love seeing your shopping trips, it helps me plan my Target and Wal-Mart outings.
HOLLY T
i’m a liker on fb
HOLLY T
i subscribe
HOLLY T
i shared via FB
HOLLY T
One of the things I really enjoy about your site is that it’s more than just a freebie/coupon blog. You have told your story about getting out of debt and how quickly you were able to do it. It’s an amazing story and very inspirational!
PS would love if you could do a blurp about effective ways to cut down on shop times! Do you use any templets to make list of products? Do you arrange you coupons in a certain way? How do you keep track of all the rebates? etc etc. I have found that I am VERY unorganized in this area and NEED major HELP! thanks.
stacey premoe
I follow your blog and a fan on facebook. I love checking your site multiple times day for all the deals.
stacey premoe
I am a facebook fan
Francine
I “like” The Thrifty Couple on FB
Francine
Love all the diaper deals!
Francine
I Subscribed to The Thrifty Couple email updates
Francine
I shared about this product and giveaway.
Krystal P
I’m a facebook liker~
Krystal P
One feature I like is that you guys are always posting freebies from across the interweb and you guys always seem to be the first place in the “know.” So I can follow you and get free stuff first before it runs out!