Free Redbox Rental Code!!!

I'm going to keep this short and sweet today...There's a Redbox rental code for a free movie floating out there. The word on the street is that it's ACME26. My source tells me that the code seems to work at most of the Redboxes and that she doesn't know the expiration date for the code. I'm going to run to the Redbox near me to try it now. I'll let you know if it works;)

Santa Claus is Coming...

Disney family.com is offering a free personalized message from Santa himself for your kiddos to enjoy. You'll get to put them on Santa's nice list and see a photo of your child on Santa's PC. It's really cool and easy to do. All you have to do is: 1. Register for free with Disney Family.com 2. Type in your child's first name 3. Upload a Photo Whalaaa...you're done and the video is super cute. You can even email it to friends or share it on your favorite social network. Try it and let me know what you think! Another awesome site is Northpole.com, this site allows for some real interaction at the Northpole for your kiddos. They can write letters to Santa and get a response in their very own mailbox. Watch movies, listen to music and stories with Santa, and even answer questions to see if they are on the naughty or nice list. There's tons of stuff for the kiddos to do. For us parents, we can check out the toy shop and get links to a slew of deals through Amazon.com. It's awesome and free. Click here to check it out. Let me know what you think about this site as well.

Swagbucks!!!

Have you signed up for your Swagbucks yet? If not, what the heck are you waiting for??? I absolutely love this program because I love getting rewarded for stuff I'm going to do anyway. Win gift cards and any number of other prizes just for searching the web as you normally would do. Right now Swagbucks.com is running their Gift Card Swagananza, which is basically a huge discount off a specific gift card each day until the end of the year. Today is day 13 of the Swaganaza and the gift card of the day is from Restaurant.com. You can purchase a $25.00 gift card from Restaurant.com for only 30 swagbucks...and I actually have enough (cool)! Hurry if you want this deal though, it's gone after 11:00am pst. Tomorrow is a new card and I can't wait to find out what it will be;) If you didn't click on the Swagbucks link above to join, then here's a more obvious approach...just click here!

Cyber Monday Deal

Okay, I haven't really had the time to actually do as much shopping online as I thought I would today. Since I had a few minutes I decided to cheat and head over to Couponing to Disney and see what Kristin found. I was very smart to do so because she has a tip for Restaurant.com, they are offering $25.00 gift certificates for $2.00 a piece today only. Of course I had to hurry over there. I found a new restaurant in my area that was offering gift certificates for $3.00 a piece. I ordered two of those and two from a restaurant called the Ounce, which is fabulous by the way. I got to the checkout and typed in the code (SAVE) that she gave, and whaa-la...my total was $5.64 for $100.00 dollars worth of gift certificates. Dang that girl is good! Kristin, you rock! On top of all of that I went under the "find a restaurant" tab and there was an advertisement for a free $25.00 gift certificate if I signed up for another offer. I went with the Vista Print offer, since I needed business cards anyway, and got 300 cards and a website for 5.90 shipping. Then I qualified for the free gift certificate and got that one free as well! I had to tell my sister about the deal. I'm thinking about getting all of my family and friends gift certificates for restaurants and be done with all my shopping tonight;)

Happy Thanksgiving!!

I LOVE Thanksgiving! It's my favorite holiday. Here's ten things that I'd like to give thanks for on this day: 1. Waking up this morning. 2. My beautiful family. 3. Turkey and dressing. 4. Football games (to keep my husband from bugging me). 5. Video games (to keep my children from bugging me). 6. Bravo's "The Real Housewives" series (to keep my mind from making "to do" lists). 7. Positive attitudes, which kept me from killing the dog after chewing up my patio cushion. 8. Having dinner with friends. 9. Close fitting, V-neck shirts (to accentuate the positive and take the attention from my waist). 10. Getting to sleep early for Black Friday sales (even though I shop online;). What are you thankful for???

Toluna

I joined a new survey site to earn a little extra cash, Toluna. I've received several emails that offer anywhere from $1.00-$5.00 for surveys that take about 10-20 minutes. Sounds good right? The problem is everytime I go to fill out a survey, they already filled their quota for the survey. I signed up with the company about a week ago and just thought that I was getting to the survey's too late. I might get a survey in my inbox and not see it for an hour. But yesterday I was already in my mailbox when a survey came in. I got super excited because it was a $3.00 survey. I clicked on it and can you guess what happened?....that's right...they had already met their quota. I was pissed! I'm going to keep trying with them but I must admit, I'm getting frustrated already. If someone knows the secret to actually getting to complete these surveys, please share.

Building My Empire

Today I signed up for a couple of mystery shopping companies. I was reading over at Money Saving Mom, that a few of the girls that have been doing this for a while make pretty decent money. Especially for going out and doing things that we normally do anyway. I had actually done a couple of shops long time ago, when we first moved here to Texas. I got away from it because it was just one of those "gig" type deals and I felt that I needed a "real" job to pay some bills. I can't remember which company it was that I was signed up with but, I remember that I was new to the company and my first shop was at Bennigan's. I LOVE Benningan's! Of course, I was more than happy to take the shop. After my hubby and I had a wonderful meal together. I had like a one page report to do and that was it. The questions were simple enough for me, they were things that I look for in a resturant anyway. They asked about cleanliness, customer service, that waiter or waitresses name, did the manager come by during the meal, etc. I actually enjoyed it. The best part was that I received a check in the mail a few weeks later, for a dinner that I ate and enjoyed! It was great! Anyway, I was trying to get a feel for which company's are good about paying the reimbursements back. I'd heard that some of the company's are not so good about paying sometimes. If you want to read about it go here, you'll have to scroll down a ways to get to the mystery shoppers section but I recommend that you read the comments of the other ladies (and some men) that have been shoppers before. The two company's that I applied for are Trend Source and National Shopping Service. The application process for Trend Source was long and tedious. They even make you write a paragraph about a good or bad experience that you may have had with a healthcare provider. I guess I had to do that because I checked "yes" when I was asked would I like to do healthcare shops. If you've had a different experience with them, please let me know. Then they sent me a confirmation email stating that I'm not technically a Trend Source field agent just yet. They said that won't happen until a shop comes up in my area, then I will be activated. The process for NSS was short and sweet, the way I like it. I'd heard a long time ago that some company has mystery shops for cruises and amusement parks. Those are the ones I'm interested in. I'll keep you posted on how it goes with these mystery shops and I would love to hear about anybody else's experience.