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Mommysavers Newsletter -- December 15, 2003 Visit our site for more great resources: http://www.mommysavers.com "Mighty is the force of motherhood! It transforms all things by its vital heart." -- George Eliot ============================================================== Hello! For you last-minute holiday shoppers, I wanted to let you in on a great deal. KBKids.com is running a holiday sale. I found lots of popular items marked down (Barbie, Little Tikes, LeapPad, etc.) Plus, they are offering FREE shipping on orders over $49 through 12/16. Here's the best part: combine with coupon code SEARSKBTOY to get $10 off your $50 order. Click here to shop: http://www.mommysavers.com/coupons/kbkids.htm Scroll down for more holiday savings ideas, gifts for teachers, and much more! Have a great week, Kim Danger ------------------------------ Please Visit Our Sponsors: Work at home with InternetMoms. Join a growing group of women who are working from home without doing sales or the home party thing. iMoms offers a free training program that is personalized to fit your needs. Please go to http://moms.internetmoms.net for more information. TODAY! This is free information and there is no obligation. I'd love to help you start making some $$! Start a Fun, Profitable Home Business with MIA BELLA SOY CANDLES, the new little company gaining BIG recognition fast! Our Gourmet Soy Candles are clean burning, tripled scented and longer lasting. Try one on me! Enter my weekly drawing for a FREE 16 oz. Gourmet Soy Candle and a Soy Sational Body Bar. Please visit http://www.SoyCandlesByDesign.com for business info and to register to win! Debra@SoyCandlesByDesign.com ------------------------------ Money/Time Saving Ideas: Cooking Decorating Instead of buying expensive, fancy gadgets to decorate cookies, I use different sized baby medicine droppers and baby spoons (both sides). It really works well and is a breeze to clean, with very little mess. It's also fun for my sons to finish the last bit of "medicine". You know what they say, a spoon full of sugar helps the medicine go down! -- Shelley, 37, from MI Teacher's Gifts Last Christmas, my three year old daughter and I glued torn pieces of red, green, yellow and blue tissue paper onto the outside of cleaned out babyfood/condiment/etc. jars, put a tea light candle inside, decorated the lid with ribbon and gave these as gifts to her Sunday School teachers. The tissue paper has a wonderful stained glass look and my daughter really enjoyed making them. We made a few for our house, too! -- Carmen, 31, from TX Gift Giving One money saving tip that I am using for my 4 children this year is taking them to the dollar store and letting them shop there for people on their list. It is helping them feel like they can buy anything in the store they want for the person they are shopping for. Grandma and grandpa won't mind the cheap gifts because they really don't need anything anyway and could buy it themselves if they did. The last thing my family wants is for us to spend all of our money on gifts they might not want anyway. It is really nice for me too because as the cheapie toys get broken and lost it is a lot easier to part with than a toy that cost $50, and they seem to like them just as much! This also helps eliminate the holiday toy clutter we get with a large family. -- Stacy R., St. Cloud, MN Gift Wrap Save money on wrapping paper by using the comic pages from the newspaper. The kids usually like this, plus you save money on expensive wrapping paper and you can use it for almost any occasion. If you prefer to use actual wrapping paper, stock up on it during the after Christmas sales. Most stores usually sell it for a few weeks after the holidays at huge discounts. -- Paula, 32, from FL We need YOUR tips for our newsletter! Submit them here: http://www.mommysavers.com/share_tips.htm ----------------------------- What's New: Real Mom Profile: Andrea, 33, from British Columbia Andrea is mom to 15-month-old Macy Belle. Read how she got an entire NEW wardrobe for $40! http://www.mommysavers.com/real_moms/12.14.2003_andrea.htm Picture of the Week: Snowy Day Jackie Burgee of Timonium, Maryland sent us a photo of her trying to get the perfect Christmas photo of son Patrick's first snow and his big sister Mackenzie... http://www.mommysavers.com ----------------------------- Deals: FREE Software Desktop publishing, home creativity, activities for kids - there's something for the whole family! http://www.mommysavers.com/deals/my_free_software.htm Disney Princess Magazine Get a RISK-FREE subscription to Disney's Princess magazine plus a free gift! http://www.mommysavers.com/deals/disney_princess.htm Budget Living Magazine - $2.99/year! An indispensable guide to the good life at an affordable price, Budget Living shows its readers how to save money without compromising on style. The magazine bargain hunts so readers don't have to, combing the market for the best (and best-priced) objects http://www.mommysavers.com/deals/magazine_values.htm Best Deal Magazines (GREAT Holiday Gift Ideas here!) Family Circle, Family Fun, Conde Nast Traveler, Field and Stream, Golf Digest, Men's Fitness, Parents, etc. only $4.69/year! Plus, enter Coupon Code: Save 20% off of your purchase with coupon code REN915. exp 12/31 (Thanks, Cathy!) http://www.mommysavers.com/coupons/best_deal_magazines.htm Toys R Us: FREE Shipping on Toys! Offer valid on select toy and video game orders of $49 or more purchased at Toysrus.com and Imaginarium.com. Save up to 50% in the toys outlet. Spend $60 in the Barbie Store and get a FREE Barbie Cruise Ship http://www.mommysavers.com/deals/toys_r_us.htm Overstock.com $1 site-wide Shipping! Ends 12/16. Down comforters up to 75% off, Burberry scarves 1/2 off, DVDs (i.e. Finding Nemo) up to 43% off! Plus, 25% off Amazon.com's prices on bestselling books! Most books 50-60% off the cover price. http://www.mommysavers.com/coupons/overstock.htm For TONS more deals and bargains, visit our website: http://www.mommysavers.com/coupon_codes.htm ----------------------------- Christmas Resources: A Recycled Christmas by Kim Danger Searching for a way to personalize Christmas for friends and family that doesn??™t break your budget? Giving recycled gifts is a fun way to give a thoughtful present without spending more than you can afford. http://www.mommysavers.com/Christmas/recycled_christmas.htm Yard Sale Christmas Shopping by Jennifer A. Krausz I know what you're thinking: "How tacky! Buy other people's used stuff and give it away as gifts at Christmas? I would never do that!" But just give me a chance to explain. http://www.mommysavers.com/Christmas/yard_sale_christmas.htm For more holiday articles, click here: http://www.mommysavers.com/celebrations/christmas.htm ----------------------------- Teacher's Gift Ideas: Gifts to Make *Loaves of poppy seed bread or banana bread or cookies *Brownie in a jar - I have a recipe for all the dry ingredients. You put them in a mason jar and it looks like sand art. Then you add a note with the instructions of what to add (egg, oil) and the baking instructions. This is good if you don't bake. *Note cards - I bought plain cards and envelopes, and a pretty stamp. The boys helped me stamp the design on the front of the cards. I tied up about 10 for each teacher with a ribbon. *Individual note to each teacher was mentioned a lot by teachers that I asked. *Make bookmarkers with child's quotes about each teacher, a picture and hard laminate. Made christmas necklaces last time. *Go to a Pottery painting place and decorate mugs/plate etc. *Stationery - take artwork from your child's cache of 'fine art' and make into stationery. Can be done at Kinko's Printed it on nice heavy stock (ivory is nice) and w/ivory envelopes - cards were under $1 piece and make great gift for grandparents/aunts etc thru-out the year. *A handprint on a piece a paper with a note served as the card or a bookmark. -handpainted containers and fill them with stickers. Teachers are always using stickers during class and that can get expensive, so I like to renew their supplies. -- AK This year the I found coffee mugs for $.69 each and I am making instant hot cocoa and putting the package with direction in each mug. This is going to all of the "other" teachers" ie PE teachers, music teachers, volin lession instructor, art teacher, special classes instructors, etc. The main teachers are getting terra pots painted blue and the statement let it snow with a snow man it. -- Patti These suggestions were posted on our discussion board last week. To view the board, click here: http://www.mommysavers.com/discussion_board/index.html ----------------------------- What's Cookin': Tuna Casserole One pkg or can of tuna, drain One can of cream of mushroom soup One can of peas, drain One box of mac and cheese, prepared Mix all together. Add alittle salt and pepper, maybe some milk. Put in 350 oven or warm on stove. If you put it in the oven, top with crushed crackers, crushed chips or fried onions. My mom made this when I was little. It is still my favorite. -- Jen, 30, from IN We need YOUR recipes for our newsletter! Submit them here: http://www.mommysavers.com/share_tips.htm ----------------------------- Real Moms: Best Bargain Ever I needed baskets for gift baskets I am making for Christmas. I went to Michael's and they had "Fall" baskets at 90% off. I got 11 baskets that should have been $140 for $14! I was very excited. I didn't want to spend a whole lot of my gift baskets but was afraid I was going to put most of my money into the baskets. The most expensive basket I bought that day was $1.59! -- Jody, 30, from MN My best bargain ever was my $900+ wedding dress for $69.12!! I got it on Ebay, it was brand new in manufacturer packaging and had never even been tried on!!! -- Sarah, 28, from MI I wanted Pfaltzgraff Christmas dishes for so long, but it seemed silly to spend so much on something you would only use for a few weeks out of the year. Well, my sister lives near a Pfaltzgraff Clearance Outlet, and in February of last year, she got everything imaginable from my favorite Christmas pattern at a HUGE discount. I have place settings for 12, glasses, platters, gravy boat, cream and sugar, everything. I got over $1,800.00 worth of dinnerware for $162.55!! -- Natalie, 26, from PA These great hints came from our Real Mom Profiles. Keep 'em coming! To fill one out, click here: http://www.mommysavers.com/real_mom_profiles.htm ------------------------------ Fun for You and Your Kids: Cotton Ball Snowman You'll need: Cotton balls Clear contact paper Construction paper Scissors Stapler Cut three circles from clear contact paper. The circles should be in three different sizes ranging from a diameter of 1 1/2-2 inches to 4 1/2-5 inches. Staple the contact paper, backing side up, to the construction paper to form a snowman shape. Your child can peel off the backing and stick cotton balls to the contact paper to cover the snowman. If you like, cut additional snowman features such as a hat or carrot from construction paper and glue to the snowman. This idea came from: http://www.mommysavers.com/toddlers_busy_book.htm ------------------------------ Please Visit Our Sponsors: Hop N' Go into your own business for ONLY $79.00 starting January 1st and ending Feb. 29th, 2004! Country Bunny Bath and Body offers high quality, natural family products, multi-level compensation plan, NO purchase minimums, NO inventory requirements, many ways to sell your products ~Flea markets, your very own Web-store, Spa Shows, & person to person, & wonderful Hostess program that is paid for by the company. Please contact me for information today! -- Kim Swords www.cbunnyrep.com/3698 ktswords@theramp.net 815-433-5502 Attention Moms! Are you interested in any of the following? Working AROUND your family time instead of vice versa? Earning extra income.$400-$9,000/month? Working Part time? ENJOYING your work? 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