new Saving Star offers for this month~$5 off $20 for Charmin and Febreze, $0.75 off one Ellio’s!

Save 50¢ when you buy TWO (2) BOXES any flavor/variety Betty Crocker® Fruit Shapes, Fruit by the Foot®, Fruit Gushers® or Fruit Roll-Ups® Fruit Flavored Snacks; Ocean Spray® Fruit Flavored Snacks, Mott’s® Fruit Flavored Snacks OR Sunkist® Fruit Flavored S

Save 40¢ when you buy ONE (1) BOX any flavor Fiber One® Chewy Bars, Fiber One® 90 Calorie Chewy Bars, Fiber One® 90 Calorie Brownies OR Fiber One® Protein Chewy Bars.. Expires 2/28/2013. Save $0.40.

Save 40¢ when you buy any TWO (2) Pillsbury® Sweet Rolls OR Grands!® Sweet Rolls.. Expires 2/28/2013. Save $0.40.

Save 60¢ when you buy THREE (3) Old El Paso® products (Excludes Old El Paso® Refrigerated, Frozen OR Soup products).. Expires 2/28/2013. Save $0.60.

Save 50¢ when you buy ONE (1) PACKAGE any flavor 5 OZ. OR LARGER Green Giant™ Veggie Snack Chips.. Expires 2/28/2013. Save $0.50.

Save 50¢ when you buy ONE BOX (1) Cinnamon Toast Crunch® cereal.. Expires 2/28/2013. Save $0.50.

Save 50¢ when you buy TWO (2) BOXES any Nature Valley® Granola Bars (5 count or larger) OR Nature Valley® Granola Thins.. Expires 2/28/2013. Save $0.50.

Save 75¢ when you buy any ONE (1) BOX Kix® cereal listed: Kix®, Berry Berry Kix®, Honey Kix®.. Expires 2/28/2013. Save $0.75.

Save 50¢ when you buy ONE (1) BOX Original Cheerios® cereal (the one in the yellow box).. Expires 2/28/2013. Save $0.50.

Save $1.00 when you buy FOUR (4) any flavor/variety Totino’s® Crisp Crust Party Pizza® Products.. Expires 2/28/2013. Save $1.00.

Save 50¢ when you buy any ONE (1) BOX Chex® cereal listed: Rice Chex®, Corn Chex®, Wheat Chex®, Honey Nut Chex®, Chocolate Chex®, Multi-Bran Chex®, Cinnamon Chex®, Apple Cinnamon Chex®.. Expires 2/28/2013. Save $0.50.

Save 40¢ when you buy SIX (6) CUPS any variety Yoplait® Yogurt (Includes Original, Light, Light Thick & Creamy, Thick & Creamy, Whips!®, Lactose Free, OR Simplait™).. Expires 2/28/2013. Save $0.40.

Save 50¢ when you buy ONE (1) 20 OZ. OR LARGER Original Bisquick® OR Bisquick Heart Smart® Baking Mix, OR 10.6 OZ. Bisquick® Shake ’n Pour® Pancake Mix.. Expires 2/28/2013. Save $0.50.

Save 50¢ when you buy any TWO (2) Pillsbury® Crescent Dinner Rolls (excludes Twin Pack).. Expires 2/28/2013. Save $0.50.

Save $1.00 when you buy TWO PACKAGES (2) any variety Pillsbury® Refrigerated Cookie Dough.. Expires 2/28/2013. Save $1.00.

Save 50¢ on (1) John Morrell meat product (Does not include whole or half hams). Expires 2/28/2013. Save $0.50.

Buy 1 Truvia® Natural Sweetener (40 ct or larger), Save 75¢. Expires 2/27/2013. Save $0.75.

Get $5.00 when you spend $20.00 on any Charmin®, Mr. Clean® and Febreze® products through March 28th, 2013. After all, you know you’ll need bathroom essentials, so why not save?. Expires 3/28/2013. Save $5.00.

Save 50¢ when you buy THREE 3 boxes of Ellio’s® Pizza. Expires 2/27/2013. Save $0.50. (Only at ShopRite)

Buy any 1 Marie’s® Salad Dressing, Save 75¢. Expires 2/27/2013. Save $0.75.

Save 75¢ when you buy any ONE (1) Ellio’s® Pizzas. Expires 2/27/2013. Save $0.75. (Only at A&P, ACME Markets, Albertsons, Albertsons Market, Albertsons in Wyoming, Angeli’s Central Market, BI-LO, Baesler’s Market, Bashas’, Bel Air, Big Y, Bloom, Brookshi

Did you know that most of us drop our New Year’s resolutions by Spring? Let Smart Ones® help you start AND stay on track this year. Get $10.00 back when you spend $40.00 on Smart Ones before March 24. Sign up with your store’s loyalty card today!. Expires

Now through February 20, 2013, save $5.00 when you spend $15.00 on any Snyder’s of Hanover Pretzels.. Expires 2/20/2013. Save $5.00.

Buy 1 Diamond Crystal Sea Salt, Save 40¢. Expires 2/13/2013. Save $0.40.

Buy 1 Diamond Crystal Salt Sense, Save 35¢. Expires 2/13/2013. Save $0.35.

Buy 1 Diamond Crystal Kosher Salt, Save 40¢. Expires 2/13/2013. Save $0.40.

Buy 1 Truvia® Baking Blend with sugar, Save 75¢. Expires 2/6/2013. Save $0.75.

Save 10% when you buy any Elmer’s Foam Board.. Expires 12/31/2013. Valid for unlimited purchases. Save 10%.

Save 3% when you buy any Elmer’s Glue Sticks, School Glue or Glue All.. Expires 3/27/2013. Valid for unlimited purchases. Save 3%.

Save 50¢ on any five (5) Campbell’s® SpaghettiO’s® pastas. Expires 3/6/2013. Save $0.50.

Earn cash while you shop with #Jingit

In recent months, I’ve gotten several Facebook and email invitations to join Jingit. And, I hate to say it, but I ignored them. When you’re involved in the whole couponing thing, chances are you’ve tried other sites that sort of go hand-in-hand with couponing, like surveys. I’ve done several posts about the various survey sites out there and how to maximize your earning power with them. In fact, in the past I used to earn a bit of mad money each month doing surveys. Then I got really turned off to them. It felt like I would answer 10-12 questions at the beginning of each survey, then I’d be told I don’t qualify. It felt really sneaky to me-like they were trying to get some information from me for free and not paying me for the survey. So I stopped doing them. But to be honest, while I didn’t miss doing them, I did miss the extra money in my Paypal account each month.

Then, Collective Bias invited me to try out Jingit. So I did.

Jingit pays you!

Jingit is a website and app that pays you to connect with brands. And, what makes them better than a survey site is that you qualify for all of it.

Connect with brands you already know and love.

You watch videos and answer a few questions about it afterwards, that’s it. The money may not appear to be as much as a survey site pays, but it is. You actually spend much less time doing Jingit than you do a survey. And like I said, it’s a sure thing. You don’t start it and then not qualify, thus having wasted your time.

Get paid for checking in.

And do you do the apps and things that share when you check into a place? Well, Jingit has that too. But what’s even better, you actually get paid for checking in to a place or for viewing an item. The check-in may just involve saying that you’re at a retailer or it may involve scanning a product at the retailer. Still, how cool is it to just get paid for being a store?

You can increase your earning potential by getting your friends and acquaintances to join. It’s easy, just share on Facebook or Twitter and when they join, you earn! I earned almost $1 just while I was writing this post. I open up Jingit in one window and whatever I’m doing in the other, and do them at the same time. (I don’t believe the experts who say multi-tasking doesn’t exist!) I watch the video while I’m working, then do the survey, then another video. I also did a few with the app while we were watching tv last night. I have it on our tablet and during commercials, I checked out Jingit. There were commercials on my tv anyway, might as well get paid for watching some.

If you are looking for a way to get a bit of extra money each month, definitely check out Jingit.

You can find them on Facebook and Twitter.

I am a member of the Collective Bias Social Fabric Community. This shop has been compensated as part of a social shopper insights study for Collective Bias™ and Jingit #CBias #SocialFabric. All opinions are my own.

 

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Tax Time with X-ACTO

Do you dread tax time? For some reason I don’t. I think that reason mainly has to do with the fact that my husband does most of the work. While I’d certainly rather keep my money, overall I’m not really disturbed by paying taxes, I understand it’s my civic duty. We have an unofficial tradition in our household that we do the taxes on Super Bowl weekend, but it didn’t happen that way this year–they’re still not done.

Recently I was asked by Social Fabric, Elmers and X-ACTO to share with you some great office supplies they are promoting, just in time for tax season. It’s kind of funny that they asked me to participate in a project involving the #XACTO Spira pencil sharpener, because we legitimately needed one. A pencil sharpener is one of those so-very-common household items, yet at the same time, many households don’t have one. Including ours! We (read: hubby) is doing some work on our kitchen, and always needs pencils to do markings on walls and stuff. We found a zillion pencils but we had no sharpeners so he whittled one with a knife! I wish I could find it and post a picture, but I think we recently tossed it.

That's our new printer, also from Walmart.

 

Anyway, first they sent me this awesome X-ACTO Spira coupon for the Spira pencil sharpener by X-ACTO. I love printable coupons and I print them weekly, and post them on my site daily. I was psyched to find such a high value one. Now for the hard part–getting to Walmart to get the pencil sharpener. I have two small children, so a “quick trip to Walmart” is anything but. But, as my timing worked out, last Friday I got done with work a bit early and could pop into the store and get it before I had to get my boys at the babysitter’s house.

I had the printable coupon in my purse, but not my entire coupon binder which meant this truly was going to be a quick trip. Normally if I had the time and energy, I’d poke around the store matching up deals and clearanced items with my coupon binder to see what I could find.

 

I heart the office supplies aisle.

 
 The school supplies/office supplies aisle in Walmart is one of my favorite aisles. It just always brings me back to days in my youth, anticipating the beginning of a new school year. I found the pencil sharpener and chose black. They also had red and white but that really wouldn’t go with the yellow, tan and black theme of our home office. So black it was. The clearanced stuff was also in that area of the store and I picked up some cheap stickers for the boys to play with. The X-ACTO Spira pencil sharpener fits in well with the color scheme and styling of our office. It’s easy to use and works quickly. While I am still going to keep my boys away from it, it doesn’t appear to be inherently unsafe–certainly not like a paper shredder or something, know what I mean? I don’t think they could get their fingers in it. My husband is pleased that he no longer has to sharpen his pencils with a pocket knife, so we’re all happy.
 
X-ACTO is a division of Elmers, which seems like a logical business partnership. You can find Elmers on Twitter and find X-ACTO on Facebook. This shop has been compensated as part of a social shopper insights study for Collective Bias. #CBias All opinions are my own. You can see more of my photos from my shopping trip for the X-ACTO Spira pencil sharpener on my Google Plus page.
 
 
 

Our home office--I cleaned off the desk for the photo.