Buy books for a cause! Help the Harwood Elementary Library this week!

Hey, I am the PTO president at Harwood Elementary and so I got this email from our Librarian, Linde Brown.

This is a GREAT way to make your dollars count for something AND get Christmas shopping done!

Please do me a favor and copy and paste this letter to your facebooks, to your emails, blog it... just get the word out. Our schools need money and this is a great way to help them!

Everyone has heard of the budget cuts our schools have had to make. The Harwood Elementary Library has felt these cuts deeply. We have decided to hold a book fair at Barnes & Noble to try and raise money to buy books for the library.

• The book fair will be at the Grand Teton Mall in Idaho Falls on Saturday, September 26^th from 9:00 a.m. until 10:00 p.m.
  
• All you have to do is mention HARWOOD at the cash register and we will receive 10 -15% of your purchase. This would be a great day to come and shop for Christmas!
  
• Barnes & Noble has books, music cds, blue ray DVDs, e-books, learning toys, movies, and more.
  
• This is also valid for all coffee shop purchases!
  
• They have Cheese Cake Factory cheese cakes for $35.00. This are pre-sliced cakes available in pumpkin, raspberry, white chocolate, and plain. YUMMY!
  
• If something is not available or you want to pre-order some of the new titles coming out you can do so as well.
  
• They offer FREE shipping on orders of $25.00 or more!
  
• Some of the great new titles coming out are: Dan Brown’s The Lost Symbol, Glen Beck’s Arguing with Idiots: How to Stop Small Minds and Big Government, Jeff Kinney’s Diary of a Wimpy Kid #4, and many more!
  
• Check out BN.com for more information.
  
• There will also be wish lists for all the teachers for classroom books.
  
• Please come and support our kids! This Saturday, September 26^th!!

Albies! Campbells sale! Swoon!

I am so happy! I love the Campbells sales!

Yay! Yay! Yay!

Stock up on the coupons and get ready to do some serious goodness to your food storage!

Deal of the day websites

I love these sites. Simply adore them.
You go on once a day, see if there is a hot deal for you and grab it!

For me this all started with Woot.com and now it seems like there are a bazillion of them.

These are great ways to pick up items at a HUGE discount!

But, be ye warned: you can blow an awful lot of money on these sites if you aren't careful.

Here is a daily tracker for a lot of those sites:

http://dodtracker.com/oneaday/

And I added a bunch of these sites to my sidebar. You're welcome.

Happy dod shopping!

Ideas for putting away food for the winter

Here are a few different ways we put away food as opposed to the regular old canning methods:

Beans: We don't eat canned beans. My kids hate them and they go to waste. However, my kids and husband adore Dilly Beans, so now we can all our green beans "Dilly style"! Plus, they make great gifts!

Plums: We don't can them either. We wash, halve and freeze in sandwich size baggies. Perfect for Plum Pie which is to die for!

Raspberries: We wash, lay out on a cookie sheet and freeze. When they are frozen we toss into a baggie and eat on cereals or put in muffins or cookies.

Strawberries: syrup. 'Nuff said.

Peaches: We wash, quarter and freeze for peaches and cream treats. Or we serve them to the kids frozen for a special treat.

Corn: We blanche, cut off the cob and put in baggies to freeze.

Peppers: we chop and freeze.

Apricots: we make the nectar (use one of those victorios for applesaucing to do it) and have a nice drink for special occasions.

Pears: we sauce or nectar them.

Now toss me some ideas please!

Breaking news! Your opinion is needed right NOW! Comment on this p ost please!

I heard a rumor (and I am quite confident that it is accurate) that a BIG WIG CEO for Albertsons would be visiting our beloved Idaho Falls stores (and I'm betting our very beloved Broadway Albies in particular) because of all the stir over the deals we are getting.

It has been mentioned to me that some of those in power at good old Albies read this here blog on occasion and would be very interested in what we, the every day customers, the couponers, the newbies and the ones who have been to the rodeo a few times (lol) think.

I can't be sure, but I *think* I was asked to get some opinions because it could make some big improvements on our deal grabbing experiences here. This is a big opportunity for our local stores and for us couponers!

So, please comment to this post about whatever you think of Albies here such as:

What we love
What we don't love
What stores work the hardest for us
What could be different
Our wish lists for deals (stock, set up, lines, coupons etc)
If you have a favorite store (cough Broadway) tell them why it is your favorite, who you love there and of course, where it is!
Any other information you think would make Albies even better!


So, do yourselves a huge favor and forward the link to this post to everyone you know anywhere in the region. Every opinion will be read and will count. If we come out and post in droves it WILL help all of us. Facebook it, twitter it, link it on your blog! Give everyone a central location to read all of the comments (lets make it easy for any bigwigs, kwim?). Get everyone you know to post! The more voices they hear, the more seriously they will take this!

This could change how Albertsons is run at a corporate level!

Hannah Montana DEAL!

My girl loves Hannah and so I got this for her birthday. PLUS I got a cert from Disney for a $5 credit for an online download and I can pick what it it! Happy birthday to meeeee!

I bought this the other day and I'm not certain how long this sale will last, but you should snatch it up. This will make a great Christmas gift for your girls!

Cheap deals on Cricuts! Squeee!

Okay, I have coveted these forever, and if I had a hundred dollars or so laying around I would jump on this. But I do not... however, I thought one of you might be interested, so here you go!

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B000W5I9OC?tag=getprionl-20

and:

http://www.hsn.com/todays-special_xh.aspx

When you get it, don't be surprised if I call you begging you to make me that UNwelcome (yep, you read that right) vinyl sign I want for my front door. (If you haven't met me, ask anyone who knows me... it totally works for our house.)