I am happy to be having my first giveaway and to announce the winners. I was excited when I had the opportunity from MyBlogSpark to have the giveaway. Thank you to everyone who entered, and for all of you who come to read the sometimes mundane goings on of my life.

I will email the winners with information on how to collect your prize; and the winners are:

Beth (bnorford@)

Andrea (andrea29@)

cwaltz (dazed1821@)

Sarah (misterjimmy@)

My Cashbaq newsletter has a link for a free Kashi sample. We love Kashi at our house. Their cereal bars and granola bars are my husband’s favorite breakfast. Right now you can request a sample of GoLean Crisp Toasted Berry Crumble Cereal, TLC Dark Chocolate Coconut Fruit & Grain bar, or GoLean Crunch Honey Almond Flax Cereal. Just go to Kashi’s site and select the one you would like to receive.

If you don’t have a Snapfish account yet, it’s a great way to get free pictures. Right now Snapfish has two different offers going on:

• Create a SnapFish account and get 50 free prints (4″ x 6″) from MyCokeRewards.com (For new customers in the U.S. only, existing customers are not eligible)
• 100 Free prints (4″ x 6″) with any purchase, use PRINTSNEW by January 27th

A purchase can be something as small as another 9¢ print (Thanks Mrs.Moneysaver). You will still need to pay shipping, but the average cost of each 4″ x 6″ print would only be around 6¢ after shipping. Don’t forget to go through Cashbaq.com to earn 10% back on your actual purchase from Snapfish.com. If your new to Cashbaq.com and don’t have an account, it’s free to sign-up and start earning cash for your online purchases.

Alice.Com is an online warehouse with 1000’s of household products shipped directly to you, free of charge when you order the minimum amount of six items on an order. Alice.com is free, and you can cancel your membership at any time. Here’s how I use Alice.com, and how it saves me to shop through their site:

• Locate the products on Alice.com that I can’t purchase cheaper anywhere else – this is where a price book comes in handy
• Shop “The Best Deals” at Alice.com – these are only available once you are signed in to your account
• No shipping fees – this saves me money since there is no cost involved for me to drive to the store to purchase these items

If you don’t already have an Alice.com account, Swagbucks also has a $5 Alice.com giftcard, redeemable for 20 Swagbucks. If you haven’t signed up for Swagubcks, click the link to sign-up and start earning Swagbucks, then redeem your first twenty Swagbucks for an Alice.com gift card. You are only able to redeem points for one Alice.com gift card from your Swagbucks account, but there are tons of other gift cards available as well.

Ready to sign-up for Alice.com, click the link and start your free account to start saving with Alice.com today. I only purchase the items my family will truly use, and items that I can’t get cheaper somewhere else.

Check out these links for money saving coupon books, samples, and rebates.

Free $17 Conagra coupon book for Conagra products: http://startsampling.com/sm/101044/ (You will need to copy and paste to access the link)

In addition to the $17 Conagra book of coupons, Conagra also has a mail-in-rebate offer of $25 in money saving coupons when you purchase $10 of participating Conagra foods and mail by 3/28/2010.

Procter & Gambles Home Made Simple coupon book with over $35 in savings. This is one of my favorite books offered. It has great coupons with long expiration dates, and they usually offer these a few times a year.

Don’t forget about the free samples that Wal-Mart offers. They are offer a variety of products, and sometimes a coupon is included with the sample.

If you’ve been hesitant to try out All You magazine, try it out with two free issues. You are under no obligation to continue the subscription, just write cancel on the bill.

I love the mail! This is some of the mail I’ve received over the last couple of weeks. It may seem like junk mail to most people, but this is how I am able to access some of my coupons that allow me to get good deals. Some of you may recognize the source of most of the coupons pictured, but I’ll try and list a source for each one pictured.

Garnier Skin Renew sample – This sample came from Wal-Mart and while the size is quite small, occasionally they will send a coupon as well. Check back often on the Wal-mart site to see what new samples are being offered.

CVS coupons – I actually received two different coupons from CVS in the last couple of weeks. One was for 20% my entire purchase, and the other was for Nature Made vitamins. Since the Nature Made vitamins coupon is a CVS coupon, I can now combine my CVS coupon and a manufacture coupon for the same product, and wait for a sale to get a really good price. The coupons are tied to the address on my CVS Extra Care Card so your card will have to be registered on their site with your information in order to receive the coupons.

Kraft First Taste – This is a program that allows you to try out products manufactured by Kraft, and give your opinion on them. If you are able to get into a program, they will generally mail you a coupon for a free item, mine was for Jell-O Mousse Temptations, and a second coupon to give to a friend. Spots go fast, so you’ll need to watch for e-mails from them and act fast to join.

New York & Company – I shop for most of my clothes here. The majority of their clothes are of great quality, and they have numerous sales and coupon offers available throughout the year. Sign-up for e-mail offers right on their front page.

Puffs coupon – I actually don’t remember how I received this coupon. I literally request coupons on a daily basis from multiple places, usually by seeing the offer on someone else’s blog. Find a couple of blogs to read daily if you have the time and request the coupon offers that they post.

Ghiradelli coupons – These came from the SheSpeaks program. This is similar to the Kraft First Taste program. You have to sign-up for the program, and then act fast to sign-up for the offers that they send you.

Don’t let the mail scare you. I don’t receive a lot of junk mail, and the mail is not bursting out of my mailbox, although I wish it was on a daily basis.

Nabisco has a new rebate available that I’m kind of excited about. It’s actually the same one that just ended 11/30/09. The thing that makes the rebate great for us is that we love Nabisco crackers, and there have been some great coupons out for Nabisco crackers as well. Combined with a sale, and the coupons, this makes for a great rebate. Here are the requirements, and of course the link to Nabisco’s site for the rebate. Click on the “coupons” tab on the right side of the page for the rebate which is a downloadable PDF file.

• Keep The Jingle In Your Holiday Offer with receipts dated 12/1/09 thru 1/31/10
• Purchase 10 participating Nabisco Crackers (7oz – 16.5oz), Easy Cheese, or Planters nuts (9.25oz – 21.25oz)
• Must be received by 2/15/10

SheSpeaks is another word-of-mouth marketing company relying on a network of women to test products and have an influence on the product’s development. Joining SheSpeaks gives you access to try out new products, or products that are already on the market to provide feedback on how their product can be improved.

Interested in trying it out, joining is easy. Visit SheSpeaks to tell them a little about yourself so that they can match you to the right programs. I will say that it took a few months before I started receiving anything from them, but since then, I have received multiple offers from them every three to four months to try out new products.

I enjoy SheSpeaks because I not only get to try out a product and tell a company what I love about their product, but I also get to tell my friends and family about the product and share coupons that I’ve received from SheSpeaks. SheSpeaks is free, and fun!