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$2 Puppy Chow Coupon

Purina is offering a $2 coupon for Purina Puppy Chow.  To receive your coupon just register on the Purina site. You can choose to receive communication from them by mail or email. Once you’re registered you can print out the coupon right away.

Hey It’s Free

I’ve found a site that lists free offers. The site is called Hey It’s Free. I expected to find only free items on the site but I also found coupons and hot deals. The site is free to use and no registration is required. The layout and appearance are simple and easy to understand. (How could I say otherwise when it’s running onna theme almost identical to this one? LOL) So, add this to your list of sites to check when looking for freebies and deals.

FreeShipping

If you’re looking to do some online shopping and want to save some money check out FreeShipping.org. FreeShipping is a site that offers free shipping coupons and coupon codes for many stores. Shoppers can browse by store, category, codes expiring soon and the most recent. I saw many popular stores and products on the site, about the only thing that I didn’t see there was term life insurance.  If you’re looking to save some money make sure to check here when you’re looking.

Buy.com offering FREE GoDaddy Domain

I have most of my domains registered with Godaddy. I like the price and the control panel. I got an email yesterday notifying me that shoppers can receive a free domain name for one year from Godaddy when making a purchase from Buy.com. Click here to get the GoDaddy.com Free Domain Name Offer.  Just check the “Check Here” box found on the GoDaddy banner on the Buy.com cart summary page to receive a unique redemption code and get your domain. Happy shopping!

Free holiday gifts from Menu Planning Central

Christine over at Menu Planning Central is offering five Christmas Gifts for Moms, no strings attached. If you’re not familiar with Menu Planning Central, it’s a site that offers three different types of menus for the entire month. Each of the menus includes recipes and a grocery list. The three types of menus are the Family Friendly Menu, the Healthy Menu and the Vegetarian Menu. Visit Menu Planning Central to check out the site and pick out your free gift.

Free Baskin Robbins Ice Cream

Do you like ice cream? Baskin Robbins makes some really good ice cream. There’s a way you can get some Baskin Robbins ice cream for free - join the Baskin Robbins birthday club. It’s free to join and every year you’ll receive an email entitling you to a free scoop of ice cream and a discount on an ice cream cake. As a member you’ll also get some coupons and special offers from time to time, as well as a heads up on new flavors. Yummy!

How to find online stores offering free shipping

I hate to fight crowds and wait on lines so I do a lot of shopping online.It’s also a huge time saver. Two things I always look for are coupon codes and free shipping. I learned about a site called Free Shipping On that offers free shipping codes for more than 500 online stores. It’s free to use. You can search for stores using the company name or the type of product being purchased. With the holidays right around the corner I couldn’t have learned about this site at a better time. Check it out!

Save time and aggravation, shop online

With the holidays approaching people are shopping for friends and loved ones. I work outside of the home as well as inside the home. At the end of the day the last thing I want to do is pack everyone into the car and go to a store to fight crowds and wait on lines. So for the past seven or eight years I have done the majority of my shopping online. One of my favorite stores is Amazon. I can shop for anywhere from two to eight people all on one site. I always check out Amazon books, toys and housewares before shopping anywhere else. They’ve also got a great bargain and clearance section. I compare prices using their site and they offer free shipping on lots of items.

How can you not love online shopping? I click, I pay, I open the door and take them from the delivery guy. It’s definitely my favorite way to shop! What do you think of online shopping?

Hurry! Inkubook Photo Book FREE for a limited time!

 Inkubook is an online photo book creation service. You can create your own photo book or you can collaborate on one with friends. The Inkubook service is an Author Solutions brand and it became available for the public to use in July. In order to let everyone know about their service Inkubook is offering a free photo book to people that sign up for a free account by November 3. After signing up you’ll be able to create your own photo book and all you will be asked to pay is a small shipping charge. Nice deal! To get in on this run, don’t walk, to inkubook.com and register for a free account. Remember, you must do this by November 3. Be sure to use the code TVL655 so that you get your free photo book.  Be sure to let your friends in on this offer so they can get a free photo book too by using the “invite friends” feature within your account.

I’m not making any money by writing about this, I’m just passing on what I think is a terrific offer. I’ve signed myself up for Inkubook just like I described above. I’m pretty excited and I’m already playing with a few ideas on what to put in my book. What are you going to put in your book?

Free office software

Everyone knows how expensive Microsoft software is. In recent years we’ve watched as online office software grew to be a real option whose user base is rising rapidly. Currently the players in this “market” space are Google, Zoho.com and OpenOffice.org, all of whose products output Microsoft compatible documents. The only one I’ve tried is Google Docs, which has free online file storage. I believe I recall reading that Zoho will be offering free online file storage in the near future. Free is always nice, and it means you don’t have to carry a flash drive with you all of the time too.

Menus4Moms, free meal planning

If you’re always on the go and never seem to have enough time in the day, Menus4Moms is a site you’ll want to check out. Menus4Moms is free to join and offers many time and money saving resources. Some of the features on the site include free weekly dinner menus, recipes and cookbooks, menus, meal planning, FDA recalls, calendars, organizers, planners, tips  and shopping list software. Many of the features on the site are free to use. I receive their weekly menu plan email and although I don’t follow it precisley I have gotten many great ideas from it. The well stocked lists for pantry, refrigerator and freezer are wonderful too. Anyone who cooks on a regular basis should take a look at the Secrets Of A Busy Cook section, you’ll be glad you did.

Picasa, free photo organization and albums

Over the past several years digital cameras have become less expensive and more accessible to consumers, even ones with a tight budget. When I first learned of Picasa and tried it years ago I wasn’t terribly impressed. At that time it didn’t do much more than find pictures on a user’s computer and allow them to be organized. Now, Picasa allows users to organize photos on their computer as well as edit them, print them and create movies, collages, slideshows and screensavers. Picasa has improved over the years and now that they’ve added Picasa Web Albums I think we’ll all be seeing a lot more of Picasa. Picasa Web Albums allows users to create online photo albums such as Flickr and is free to use. Currently users have a minimum of 1gb of storage available. Users can upload images to their own albums, download friend’s albums, caption and comment photos and share them with others. (I wonder how many people are sharing before and after acne cream photos and stuff like that.)

Pandora, free internet radio

If you like music you might be familiar with Pandora free internet radio. Or, if you’re like me you might not be. Pandora creates a music channel (or multiple channels) based on the analyzing of songs by the Music Genome Project. I’ll spare the in depth details but what it means is that you enter a song you like and Pandora will find similar other songs. Pandora is free to use. Users can create as many stations as they want. If a song plays on your station that you don’t like you can vote it down and it will stop playing and leave your station immediately. I was impressed with Pandora.

Free 411

Unless you’ve got a calling plan at home that includes directory assistance, you probably don’t call 411 much. And I don’t know anyone who calls 411 from their cell phone unless it’s an absolute last resort.  That’s why I was very interested to learn about a free directory assistance service called Free 411.

Free 411 is an automated voice directory information system that can be used from a land line or a mobile phone. There is no registration required and no fees to join. to use it just dial 1-800-373-3411. The system is paid for by advertising. Before receiving the information you’re requesting all you need to do is listen to a 10 second ad.  And if you stay on the line after getting the phone number you can also get directions to that location. This sounds very cool! Have any of you tried it? I’d love to hear how you liked it.