Feed It Forward: Free $10 GC from Restaurant.com

Wow!  Restaurant.com typically drops their already discounted prices down to 70-80% off throughout the month but I just found out that they are letting you give away FREE $10  gift certificates to your friends. 

Can you believe that?  It’s true!  Here’s the details from their site:

The gift of giving lifts spirits, spreads joy, and strengthens communities. Feed It Forward™ provides you the opportunity to help give away up to $30 million in free restaurant gift certificates—over 30 days—and allows you to treat friends, family, and colleagues—anyone deserving—to savings on a great meal out. Best of all, it’s FREE to Give and FREE to Receive.

Through Feed It Forward™, you have the opportunity to give from the heart and enrich the lives of people around you through the gift of meals and memories. Give a free $10 Restaurant.com Gift Certificate to 30 different people, everyday until Christmas. Simply choose whom to give to and we take care of the rest.

Give to family. Give to friends. Give to neighbors. Give to anyone who has touched your life, but most of all, give! Thank you for helping to Feed It Forward™.

If you like freebies and food then you definitely need to forward this deal to all your friends. 

These gift certificates are awesome to use for cheap family outings or on birthday occasions.  I would much rather enjoy eating at the one restaurant in my town that participates in this program instead of all the fast food choices that are available to us.

So, what are you waiting for?  FEED IT FORWARD! 

Thanks for the details Coupon Journey!

Everyday Coupon Book for $13.59 to benefit Susan G Komen

Have you heard about the Everyday Coupon Book available on Amazon for $13.59?

I look at this book like I look at the school coupon book.  Yes, I may be paying for coupons but I definitely get my monies worth out of the coupons and I’m not the only one benefiting from the purchase.  The coupons are good through August 2010 so definitely worth buying in my opinion!  (You could always use your SwagBucks to get it for FREE if you’ve been cashing them in for $5 Amazon gift cards.  Just a thought…)

The Everyday Coupon Book will save you more than $500 and was created to benefit Susan G. Komen for the Cure^®, the world's largest and most progressive grassroots network of breast cancer survivors and activists.

Everyday Coupon Book contains hundreds of valuable coupons for products you love and brands you trust, including:

• Advil^®
• Tyson^®
• Lean Cuisine^®
• Lady Speed Stick^®
• South Beach Bars^®
• Centrum^® multivitamins
• Quilted Northern^®
• Pampers^®

The book also features delicious, easy-to-follow recipes, preventative diet tips, and other valuable wellness information to help you stay healthy, live well, and keep more money in your pocket! Coupons good through August 2010.

Help Lunchables donate a meal through Feeding America

I just made my Lunch note promise and donated a meal to someone in need…have you?

All you have to do is make a promise to put a loving note of encouragement in your child’s lunch and Lunchables will donate a meal to families in need. 

For every parent that makes that promise at www.lunchnotepromise.com, Lunchables will donate a meal to children and families in need through Feeding America, which serves an estimated nine million children each year.

Can you help Lunchables reach their goal of turning 100,000 promises into up to 100,000 meals?

Know something even better?  They’ll even help you save a buck on your next meal. 

Yep!  After your promise they give you a coupon for your next Lunchables purchase saying “It’s the least we can do for your help”.

What an awesome company, right!

Thanks for the Lunch Note Promise info Resourceful Mommy!

A Time to Give: Paying it forward and loving it

This post is linked to the weekly Meme hosted by Jennifer at Saving and Giving.  The Meme is not about bragging but a way for everyone to share their ideas to others about sharing, giving and being generous.

Knowing how someone in need feels gives you a whole new outlook on things because you can understand and relate to their situation entirely.  Having been on the receiving end of donations before I truly believe that what comes around goes around which is why try to donate as much as I can by using coupons & stockpiling.

One of the most rewarding things about my stockpile is that at anytime I can fill bags up full of stuff to donate to someone in need.  After phoning a friend one evening and noticing that her phone was disconnected that is just what  I did recently.  Why?  Because I know that when money is tight that the phone is one of the first things you can let go.  I also know that the other thing shaved or ignored is the food and personal care budget.

I greeted my friend with bags of items that I picked up for free with my coupons and she responded like I had given her a handful of cash.  The bags were filled with many things like in the picture below. Toothpaste, dental floss, body wash, bandaids, neosporin, chapstick, deodorant and more.  And the plus side was that she actually needed several of the items in the bags which brought added warmth to my heart.

Here's some ideas for where you may be able to donate:

          –Churches

          –Food Banks

          –Nursing Homes

          –Senior Citizen Centers

          –Homeless shelters

          –Salvation Army

          –American Red Cross

          –Friends and family

          –Gift Baskets

* The picture is of a housewarming basket. I didn’t actually photograph the donation in this post.

Coupons have really changed my life entirely and my whole outlook on donating, recycling and many more things.  I never knew something as simple as a $.25 coupon could make me a better person but it has. I have received help in the past and truly appreciated it and I plan to pay it forward for as long a I can.

For lots of ideas for sharing and giving, be sure to check out A Time to Give hosted by Saving and Giving each Thursday.  And, If you have any questions about A Time to Give , please feel free to contact Jennifer directly at savingandgiving AT gmail DOT com.

My Box Tops Helped Win My Son a Pizza Party

Do you save Box Tops?  I snag them off of everything from items in the kitchen to my surplus of Free Cottonelle and Kotex (LOL).  They seem to be in alot of places that you don’t think to look!

I literally had hundreds saved up when my son’s school asked for donations.  Kaching! and his class won a pizza party! So, start looking and donate them to the schools.

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