Free or Super Cheap Splenda Brown Sugar at Target!! PLUS...a yummy recipe for the Splenda Brown Sugar.

I LOVE Target and I have been having serious withdrawal since we got up here to New Hampshire. Yesterday, I decided that I would head over to take advantage of the great deals on Edy's ice cream and see what else I could find on clearance. I walked the perimeter of the store first since I know that's where they hide most of the good clearance stuff. I then headed to produce to see what they had available. I've been craving shortcake (peach, strawberry, blueberry, or raspberry would have been great)! There wasn't much in the produce aisle, but I decided to pick up the fixins for shortcake anyway. I figured I could get fruit at the Farmer's Market of at another grocery store. As I was wandering down the baking aisle, I stumbled upon 8 oz bags of Splenda Brown Sugar. These bags were priced at 78 cents each. The 16oz bags sell for $3.78 at WalMart, so I was quite ecstatic. I was able to use $2/2 Splenda product coupons to get these bags for FREE!!!

Here is a super yummy recipe which we make almost daily at our house!
Peanut Butter Cookies

1 cup peanut butter
1 t. baking soda
1 egg
1/2-2/3 cup Splenda Brown Sugar blend

1. Preheat oven to 350
2. Mix brown sugar and peanut butter til it's nice and creamy! (try no to eat this all before you get to the next step!)
3. Beat egg and add in baking soda.
4. Mix peanut butter and egg mixture together.
5. Drop by teaspoons on ungreased cookie sheets.
6. Bake for 7-9 minute....they should be slighlty brown and soft to the touch.
7. Let cool on cookie sheet for around 2 minutes. These cookies will be a little more crumbly then typical peanut butter cookies, but they are darn good with a glass of milk! Enjoy!!!

Free Mocha Mondays

I am not a coffee drinker, but my husband is and he's a big fan of the mochas at McDonalds and if you haven't tried their mochas yet, you can do it now for free!  McDonalds has a new promotion going on between now and August 3rd.  They will be offering a free 8 oz hot mocha or 7 oz iced mocha on Mondays between 7am and 7pm.  Click here for more details.   Thanks Moms Need To Know!

Free Fiber One Sample PLUS $5 in Coupons

We love Fiber One around our house and right now you can get a free sample of Fiber One cereal, a Fiber One bar (these are sooo yummy), AND $5 in Fiber One Coupons by clicking here! You definitely want to take advantage of this!

Free Movie Monday from Redbox

Here is another code for a FREE rental from Redbox. 4J7LF6 This code is only valid until 11:59pm, 7/6/09. Don't forget, you can use this code once per debit/credit card, so if you have more than one card, you can rent more than one movie!

Old Navy Weekly Coupons Reset

So it is currently 2:23 and I am awake and anxiously awaiting the refreshing of the Old Navy Weekly Site. OldNavyWeekly offers incredible coupons that you must search their site to find! Check it out! It's quite fun! And if you score a big coupon, you also get a chance to pass one on to a friend through Facebook. (Hint! Hint! I'm on Facebook) Hope you can find a great one!

Another Day...Another Dollar (or Six Dollars in Our Case)

One of my favorite ways to get coupons is printing them online. We don't have a printer in New Hampshire, so I've been doing without, but there have been quite a few coupons that would have come in handy (especially since groceries are quite a bit more costly up here!) Fred and I have been looking on Craigslist, eBay, and various store websites as well as looking in stores. We finally found a printer, scanner, copier at WalMart for $39. We were pretty impressed and we brought it home last night. We were so tired when we got home that we never took it out of the car (which turns out to be quite a good thing!).

Today we went garage sale-ing...which is one of my favorite pasttimes. I was looking for lampshades and a sewing machine and Fred was looking for power tools. I also hoped to find some books and puzzles for the girls. At our first garage sale, we were able to get a bag full of new earrings (over 10 pairs), 2 puzzles (100 piece and 500 piece), a 3D puzzle of the White House that had a $20 price tag and hadn't been opened and an old picture frame for $3. Our next garage sale was even better. We got a Lexmark printer/copier/scanner and a 9 books (Nancy Drew and Baby-Sitters Club) for $3! The printer was in it's original box and doesn't look like it's ever been used! We were able to take the other printer back to Wal-Mart today for a refund. I love getting good deals like this! I can't wait to try out my new printer.

I have a list of things that I am looking for this summer and a price limit in mind for each. It doesn't do you any good to buy a bunch of random things that you don't need. Our cottage is extremely small and I need to be getting rid of stuff, not adding to the clutter. With that being said, I still need a few pieces of furniture, some bedding, some decorative stuff, a sewing machine and a few lamps and lampshades. I'd also like to get a few more puzzles, books, and board games for the girls. Although I usually get books from the library, it's nice to have a selection of books around here that the girls can take with them to the pool or the park without worrying about them getting lost or rained on.

I hope you are taking advantage of your area garage sales. It's a great way to spend a morning or afternoon and it's a great way to stretch your dollars! I usually check Craigslist or the paper to find local sales that have what I'm looking for and then I head off in that direction. I'd love to hear what great things you've found lately!

Free Paint from Glidden

One of the cheapest ways to change the look of a room (or a piece of furniture) is with paint!  As I mentioned earlier this week, this summer I am going to attempt to fix up our cottage on a shoestring budget and I have spent the last few days looking at paint.  I stumbled across this deal from Glidden and am so excited to share it with you!  

Starting today, June 25th, Glidden is offering a free quart of paint!  I know that a quart of paint won't paint a room, but it will paint a piece of furniture or a small wall.  It's also great to have around as touch up paint!  Simply go here to pick out your favorite color of paint or call 1-800-GLIDDEN!  

Enjoy your paint!