Barnes & Noble has some coupons out that will take 30% off Select Christmas themed items, and New releases.  Click here to print.

Groupon is geared up for gift giving, check out the great deals in our city, and don't forget to check out other cities for Groupon's that can be used online. There are some great buys that would make great gifts this season that you can only see by clicking my affiliate link. Check them out here.

If you love Dave Ramsey's philosophies and teaching on money and debt, and want to share it with family and friends you need to check out books, CDs, DVD, and software all on sale for $10 on his website. There are some huge markdowns on essential tools for a "Total Money Makeover". My husband and I have taken the class and love what it has done for how we view and spend our money. This is definitely a gift that keeps giving.

Get a free sample of Elizabeth Arden's new perfume Pretty while supplies last, so hurry!

Matrix is giving away free samples of volumatherapie Shampoo and Conditioner by Biolage. Click here to try it out!

If you follow me on Facebook you may have seen my link to Mamapedia. They have sweet deals for your city or online e-tailers and retailers around the country. Not only is it a great place to get some super sweets presents for your super sweet sweeties, but you can also raise money for your kids school. (Say it with me now, Sa-weeet!) Check your state and city to see if your school is included, add it to your profile on the webpage and start shopping and earning.  Sweetness.

Deals and coupons

Land's End is having some sales through December 11th. Get free shipping, special savings on specific articles of clothing, discounts per total purchase, and more. Get your coupon codes here!!

The Children's Place 15% off coupon for your purchase, in store or online through January 2, 2011. Click here.

Target Coupons for Cyber Monday, free shipping from online store, and coupon codes, click here: 

Get in on some Cyber Monday specials and cash back opportunities here. It's coming, Monday, November 29th!

25% off at Banana Republic in store or online with a coupon code. Click this link to get your code.

Boys lounge pants are 50% off at Kohl's right now, making them $10 each! Great gift idea! Great price.

Need some great grocery coupons? I have recently discovered ShopAtHome for my coupons both at fine retail stores and for my grocery shopping. I have also just become a ShopAtHome affiliate publisher, which means they send me the great deals, I pass them on to you, you help support my page by checking them out! It's a double win! I check out all sources to make sure they are good before I share them, and this one checks out to be pretty good so far. So don't be surprised to see me talking about ShopAtHome more and more. They have a great variety of things you'll love and use! (note: You will have to download the "smart source" coupon printer to access any printable coupons.)  Grocery Coupon Link

Aveda will give you a free sample of their Foot Relief Cream, travel sized, with this printable coupon. Just take it to an Aveda store or retailer and they will give it to you complimentary.

If you have never signed up for Bath & Body Works email, now is a good time. Sign up on their website and get a travel size of a Signature Collection item with any purchase. (A $5 value) Would be a nice stocking stuffer.

Get access to more free samples like those at ShopAtHome.com

Groupon Thanksgiving Weekend Specials

Jump start your holiday season with Groupon. There is a great  selection of gift options available only through affiliate publishers like myself. Chocolate, nuts, and coffee just to name a few. Something for everyone, and a great gift idea for the recipient that has everything. Take a look here.

More Blk Friday (V.S., local businesses, Oshkosh and Carter's)

Victoria's Secret: Buy one bra get one 1/2 off, $25 Pink Sweatshirt or sweat pant normally $49, free supermodel tote bag with a $60 purchase. and more on their website and in store. See the ad from my inbox here, and visit the website here for Thanksgiving day specials.

Local businesses Hannah Banana and Christiane's Closet are getting in on the Black Friday madness, Hb is offering discounts on merchandise from 10-25% off and 1/2 price gift certificates, buy one for $10 worth $20 in merchandise.  Christiane's Closet will be offering 40% off one item from 10-2 and 30% off one item from 2-5, then 20% off additional purchases all day.  Hannah Banana is located on Douglas 2 blocks west of Hillside, and Christiane's Closet is on Central 1 block west of Hillside.  Say hi to the girls and tell them I sent ya'! ;)

Speaking of clothing, Oshkosh is running 60% off their entire site, and $10 jeans and sweaters, $9 sleepwear, and 20% off in store for purchases over $50.
Carters.com is having $5 Melissa & Doug puzzles, and $7 Fleece zip mocks, and $8 PJ's.

Black Friday eve...

Black Friday has almost begun, here's some sales that may help your planning:

Leapfrog Educational learning toys and games is having an online black friday sale. Catch 25% off Disney, free shipping on orders over $50, and great toys your kids love starting at less than $7.99. Click here to see Leapfrog.

Restaurant.com, the home of discount restaurant gift certificates, is having a Feed it Forward Event, 40 gifts a day for 40 days. They have 40 million restaurant gift certificates to give free, yes free, to your friends and family, up to 40 per day, every day now until the end of December. Connect through your email account, or facebook login. You can send gifts to friends on your facebook list, posting a link to their free gift certificate on their wall. This is a great way to send a little something to friends that live out of town, or friends in town. I know the only place in Wichita that has certificates on Restaurant.com is Shorty Small's! But hey, free is free. And if you don't use all your allotted 40 certificates you can give them back to the Restaurant.com community to be used elsewhere. Just create a log-on on the site and start gifting.

Famous Footwear is running Buy One Get One 1/2 off and 20% off your entire purchase with coupon or Promo code. Get it here.

So the word is that Gap is marking the entire store 1/2 off from midnight until 10a.m. in select stores for Black Friday. I have no confirmation on whether this is in Wichita or not. If anyone hears, comment and let me know! This would be a great way to get gifts for all! See the Facebook invite here.

Black Friday here we come...

A couple of things in my inbox this morning for Black Friday sales, coupons and giveaways:

Gap has released an email with a few of their deals such as $10, $20, and $30 items. View the ad here.

30% off coupon available from Barnes & Noble, they are having "Black Friday Week" with deals everyday. Sign up for their emails to get them daily in your inbox.


Bath & Body Works (my favorite holiday go to) is having a special on a VIP bag worth $115. With any $40 purchase you can buy it for $20.

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Win free Laser Hair Removal from an American Laser Center in your area. There is a long list of states that have this center, and Kansas is on there. Grand Prize is $3000 in laser hair removal, and second prize is $1500 in laser hair removal. Fill out their form with contact information. They do ask for your phone number, but Official rules state you must provide an email address in order to enter. One entry per person, you have until November 30th to enter. Click here to enter.

Get a free copy of a new guide from the What to Expect series, entitled What to Expect Guide to a Healthy Home. This guide is to help get your family through cold and flu season healthier. Should be a great go-to as all the other books in this series I believe are a must for all parents.

Free sample of formula from Enfamil. Print and take the certificate to your baby's doctor to receive it. I think I will get mine and then donate it to The Treehouse to help Moms and babies in need. Check The Treehouse website to see how your donations of diapers, formula, clothing and baby necessities can help Mom's and children in the Wichita area. Get your donations in before the end of the year to use as a tax-deduction on your 2010 taxes. It's a win-win.

Get a free sample of Clorox Green Works natural cleaning product here.

Make sure you print off your coupons if you have any last minute Thanksgiving grocery shopping to do today. There are over 150 new coupons today on Coupons.com.

This freebie will probably go fast so act quickly, free sample of Starbucks Natural Fusions flavored coffee from Wal-mart, this is the bean or ground you brew at home stuff! See it here.

Get a coupon for 10% off Best Buy through December 15th. This link is a PDF copy of the coupon from a website. From what I hear it works, but no guarantees on this one, and read the fine print.

There's also a 20% off coupon for JCPenney's should you use your Penney's card there, or 15% off with any other form of payment. The great thing is that it is valid on sale and clearance items. It can only be used on December 3rd & 4th, which is next weekend. Get it here.

I'm sure there will be lots more deals to post over the next 4 days, watch my blog and Facebook and Twitter for anything new I can find!!

Hope, Help and Healing for Blended Families

*the following is not a paid post. All opinions and experiences are truly mine. 

Statistics scare me. Scary because of what they find. Scary because I don't want to be one of  them.  I happen to think that there are exceptions to every rule though. Some of you may disagree, but not everything is in black and white. Sometimes there are other colors that can seep their way in and change the way it looks. Sometimes it's just how you look at it.

Marriage is tough. Divorce is tougher. Marriage after divorce can be downright disaster. Throw in a couple of kids, maybe mine, maybe his, maybe both, and you have quite a challenge on your hands.

Statistics say 48% of first marriages will end in divorce, (which has gone down from 50%), and an average of 84% of men and women will remarry again within 5 years. 68% of those remarriages involve children, and 70% of those remarriages will end in divorce within 5 1/2 years.  Within the next few years the blended/step-family will be the most common form of family in America.

God does not want your marriage or remarriage to end in Divorce. There is a ripple effect of damage and pain that comes out of a divorce. More and more families are struggling through the challenges of our society and not making it due to the added pain and damage.  There is help though and it comes through God's word.  God is a God of second chances. Only He can take all things and make them into good. As a Christian, I turned to my faith when my second marriage began to fail. I did not want to go through the pain of divorce again, and take my children through more battles in a broken system.

So, I began to do research for Christian help for step-families and saw that there were few to turn to, but I did get lucky enough to find thebondedfamily.com. A couple, in Kansas City, holding conferences and workshops showing families how they could go from broken to bonded and using Christ and the bible as their guides. Dan and Rebecca Snell have first hand experience remarried after divorces with 5 children between the two of them. Adding an "ours" baby down the road, gave them 6 all together.

Dan and Rebecca serve as a testimony to how trusting God and placing Him as the center of your family and marriage can take your family out of the realm of falling into a statistic. My husband, Jason and I,  attended a "Bonded Family" conference just this past weekend. It was tough to get there, and given the trials we faced the week prior, felt like the devil himself was trying to keep us from going. By the grace of God we made it, and through it began to feel that there was a purpose to our marriage, and that God does have a plan for our family. Trusting in Him and praying for his guidance and blessings was key.

We heard other stories from other speakers and who had their own history of pain and heartbreak. They shared how they were able to turn things around keeping hope for the family they care so much about.
We learned how our own personal baggage can weigh down and slow the success of a blended family. Seeing how to apply scripture to your family was eyeopening and encouraging. Topics like dealing with your ex, staying away from the road of "isolation" and keeping on the path of "oneness" in your marriage and Biblical Principles of handling finances were covered as well as Step-parenting fears, and ways to Encourage the spiritual and emotional health of children.  Grandparents are even included as this workshop gets real and gets serious for the benefit of your family.

If you are in a Blended family, I really encourage you to find a Bonded Family Workshop near or in your city and go to it. Also check out their website www.thebondedfamily.com, and follow Dan and Rebecca Snell on each of their blogs, as well as on Facebook (@Dan Snell) and Twitter (@blendedfamilies) to give you encouraging tips and advice on how to strengthen your marriage and each other. You can also hear their podcast at The Bonded Family Ministry Podcast at the PodOmatic website. They will help to take your family from "Broken, to Blended to Bonded."



Statistical findings are quoted from The Bonded Family Stepfamily Workshop material. More information can be found at their website.

Burt's Bees, coffee mate, and test your wrinkles for free!

"Like" Burt's Bees on Facebook and get a free sample of body lotion. Fill out the quiz for "what your body has to say" and then submit your information.  I tried this and all I got was a coupon. But you have to fill out your info and agree to get their newsletter. Hopefully it comes in an email!

If you love to sweeten up your coffee, get a coupon for a $1 off Coffee-mate holiday flavored creamers on their facebook page as well.  One of my favorite things about the holiday season for sure!

(note the preceeding offers do required installation of a coupon printer from coupons.com on your computer in order for the coupons to print off! I feel it is totally safe to install and have not personally had any issues with this software!)

Garnier.com has the 2 week Ultra-lift Wrinkle challenge on it's website where you can sign up and get a "wrinkle test strip",  and a coupon for $2.50 off the product. Click here to get started testing those wrinkles!

WAHM

There is a Work at Home Mommy Revolution going on right now. I talk to lots of Moms' who start businesses out of their homes to supplement their income. Since the lull in the economy there has definitely been an increase of Mom's who need to earn an extra income but can't and don't want to find something in the job market. The cost of childcare alone is enough to turn most people off on the idea of going back to work. Even if you do work outside the home, and maybe you bring your work home with you, you probably understand that there is an art and skill to working, at home, with kids.
After the birth of my daughter 10 years ago, I tried to return to work, on a part-time basis, and I enjoyed my brief time out. Being a first time Mom, though, it felt more important not to miss out on a single moment of everything in her little existence. A move out of state a short time later, with time on my hands, too much shopping, and creative energy, led me to start a business of my own. My inspiration was knock offs of pricier boutique baby items that seemed simple enough to make. I mustered up my best confidence, I got out there, found out what was desired and what was not, and got the ball rolling. I have been selling my items at a friends' local boutique for about 7 years now. Just finally am I burnt out enough that I have been phasing it out. As you can see, I just took on more to occupy my time.
It's so hard to find time for yourself as a Mom let alone being President, marketing director, Manufacturing and sales associate for your very own business. I hear Mom's gasping all the time that they are "just so busy". But yet they still have that passion, that pull, that desire to make an impact on something out there. Maybe it's not the world, but at least a corner of it.
We all have special gifts and talents, and if there's even a slight chance we could make a million, or a even a couple hundred, some of us will give it our all, in addition to being the best Mom's, wives, daughter's, and all the other hats we wear. Owning a business, inventing something that makes it to QVC - it's the American dream. Or maybe there is other reasons more simple on why we do it. Reasons that are closer to the heart.  I appreciate all the Mom's out there that take on doing more than the already crazy multi-tasking we do to manage our homes and kids. This has inspired me to talk to other "Mompreneurs" who are taking that crazy leap of faith to find out what can happen when you put your heart, and your talents to work.  I hope it inspires you, if you have your own passion, or idea, to go for it and give it your best shot. Cause we Mom's, we got your back!
Watch for interviews with some women in the Wichita area that are doing it, and doing it well! Those with a story to tell,  a source for their strength, and rivers of inspiration to guide them.
My first conversation is with a former "career girl" who gave it up, to be the Mom she wanted to be. Watch for her story coming this week.
I want to hear your stories too! If you have a great success story or inspirational story of your own, or know someone I should talk to about theirs, leave me some info on my comments, or email me at Wichitacitymom@gmail.com.

Freebies and deals for Friday, November 19

Looks like Kirkland's is having a Black Friday sale now with special discounts and savings on select items for your home.  See the ad here, and also get a coupon for $10 off $50 or more.

Check out the new Kirklands over in Eastgate Plaza on E.Kellogg.

Print a coupon for $3 off two Glade candle products at the Right@Home website. They have some great holiday scents right now.  Wait for a sale and this will be a great savings!

A Full Cup website has all your Black Friday deals in one place for you to easily shop and compare before you shop. They also have printable coupons and a forum where you can chat and share with others what and where you're saving!

Juicy Juice Coupon here for $1 off their products.

Free sample of Aleve from Sam's club, no member number required. 

Don't forget to check out Groupon today, as the American Apparel Groupon will be good through the weekend. It can be used online or in stores, and I know of at least one American Apparel in KC on the Plaza. Great gift for some great clothing.
Find Today's Daily Deal on the Best in Wichita!

FREE STARBUCKS!!!

Starting 11/18-11/21 go to Starbucks between the hours of 2-5pm and buy one get one free Holiday flavored drinks. All your favorites including Caramel Brulee Latte, Peppermint Mocha, Gingerbread Latte, Eggnog Latte, and more.
Text "12 Days" to 29943 on your phone starting December 1st to get a daily deal sent to you. Just what we needed to warm us up while we're Christmas shopping!
Thank you to my cousin Rachel for sharing this on her fb so I can bring it to you!!! She found it via The Budget Mommy.com. Looks like she has other great deals, so check her out too!

Free cleaner, Sesame Street, Toilet paper holder, b2g2 candles, and $25,000

Mist8 a new all-purpose cleaning spray promising to revolutionize your cleaning and tackling the 8 most grueling cleaning tasks for you.  Get a free sample here.

Parents and caregivers.com is website initiative providing the tools parents and caregivers need to educate their children.  Sesame Street has partnered up to offer a Happy Healthy Ready for School kit with Free DVD, downloadable kids stories, and parent/educator materials and magazines. You must call them to order the DVD or you can view the series online at the site. There is "Math is everywhere" featuring Sesame Street character Abby Cadabby,  "Learning is Everywhere", and "Happy Healthy Ready for School Kit". All are made by Sesame Workshop using learning techniques your kids know and love from the daily program.
Click here to get started.

Request a free Charmin Toilet Paper, roll holder extender. Because their rolls are so full they won't fit your regular holder, so they say. Limited quantities so hurry as they may not be available long. Get it here.

Buy two large Tumbler candles and get two candles for free at Yankee Candle Company. Print the coupon here.


Health.com is having a Dream Come True Sweepstakes, with the top prize of $25,000. Other prizes to be awarded are a Dell Laptop, an Elliptical machine, a wardrobe makeover and a fashion watch. I'd be happy with any of those prizes. Enter as many times as you want. Go here to enter.

Some facts and trivia to get you in the Thanksgiving Spirit

With all the focus on holiday shopping seeming to start earlier this year, I thought it would be fun to find some weird, interesting facts about Thanksgiving to turn our attention back to this day of appreciation.

 

• Indian corn, the dark purple/black corn is for decoration only and should NOT be eaten. Some Indians considered blue and white corn as sacred. 
• History states that only 5 women Pilgrims survived after the first year on the Plymouth Settlement.  They were the ones to prepare the first meal in 1621. It lasted three days.
• Thanksgiving wasn't actually signed as a National Holiday until 1941 when President Roosevelt signed the bill officially. Sarah Hale, editor of a women's magazine called "The Godey's Lady's Book", started pestering Congress when Abe Lincoln was president,  with letters and messages. She wanted a national Holiday in honor of the blessings the country has received based on the work of the Pilgrims. It upset people when he proclaimed it during his term because he did it just to lengthen the holiday shopping season. Thomas Jefferson thought Thanksgiving was the most "ridiculous idea" he had ever heard.
• The Pilgrims, or Puritans brought barrels of beer with them.
• The busiest travel day of the year is the day after Thanksgiving.
• The Mayflower was built to transport wine.
• There was no pumpkin pie on the first Thanksgivings.
• Over 40 million green bean casseroles are served every Thanksgiving.
• Columbus thought the land he had discovered was connected to India, and the wild birds he found to be a breed of peacocks, (they are actually a type of pheasant) So he named them "tuka" which is peacock in the Tamil language of India.  Native Americans called them "Firkee". ("Turkey" sounds like a combo of the two words!)
• Some say the Pilgrims ate deer and not turkey on the first Thanksgiving feast.

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Thanksgiving

For each new morning with its light,

For rest and shelter of the night,

For health and food,
For love and friends,
For everything Thy goodness sends.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)



Sources:  purpleslinky.com;
coolest-holiday-parties.com; guy-sports.com

freebies and giveaways!

Found some freebies and giveaways this morning you may be interested in.

Tom's of Maine all natural toothpaste is now being sold at Wal-mart. Get a free sample of the "Wicked Fresh" flavor in the mail.

There's a new women's fragrance by Gucci called "Guilty". If you go to their facebook page and "like" them they will send you one.

Holidays at Home, a home and gift shop online is giving away free Christmas ornaments with 2010 on them. As far as I can tell they are still available, but there is a disclaimer that they will order more if they run out. Just provide your contact and email info.


For those of you that have children that are still battling bed wetting, get a free sample of GoodNites underwear.  Select gender and size.

Now I think I have seen this one before, so it's not so new, but sign up each of your children on Colgate's Healthy Bedtime Habits program for a free toothbrush and then one free sample of kid's toothpaste (per household). It does take about 10-12 weeks to get, but still nice to have an extra toothbrush for backup. Remember, if you have signed up for this one in the past, I doubt you can get another one!!

Now you know I love locally owned "Mom businesses", and from what I understand, both the ladies that own these boutiques are mothers. Today's Groupon is for half off at "Wild at Heart" boutique. What great timing for gift-giving season. Find Today's Daily Deal on the Best in Wichita!

And finally if you love giveaways, you may want to visit my fellow blogger over at Blankies and Booboos. She is doing a week of giveaways and I heard that a Bradley Fair gift certificate was on the giveaway list coming up. Check out her blog at blankiesandbooboos@wordpress.com
Also "like" her on facebook to keep up to the minute on those giveaways.

Have a great Monday everyone!

Shopscotch

Earn cash back rewards and share your deals with friends when you shop with Shopscotch. 

Shopscotch is an online shopping forum where you can earn as much as 10% back on online purchases to use towards future purchases. (The average payout was about 4%) The great thing is it keeps track of it for you in a "piggy bank" and once you get to $25 or more, you can use it, like cash, to purchase other items at any retailer or service provided that's listed on their site.  And there are quite a few:  Gap, Overstock.com, Target, Toys r us...there wasn't a store I could think of that was NOT on there. Holiday time is a big online purchasing time in our house, so getting some return on our purchases will definitely help our holiday budget!  There's no fees or memberships to sign up, just create an account and get shopping.

The more you spend, the more you earn, and you also can rank up your bonuses with badges and referrals.
Also see what your friends and others are earning and saving, and share your own savings, to keep you up on where some of the best deals are!!

I signed up as "Citymom" (of course), friend me and let's get saving and shopping together!!

I am an affiliate publisher for Shopscotch. Any links or promotions on my site helps to financially fund what I do. Please note that I carefully investigate any links and endorsements thoroughly before promoting to make sure you get the best, and safest offers out there. If you have any problems or issues with anything I promote, please email me and let me know! I want your experience to be perfect!

Holiday Open House

Get your gift-giving on and stop in at a Holiday Open House event in Bel-Aire. 45th Street and Woodlawn.
Featured are vendors from Avon, Silpada, Mary Kay, Premier Jewelry and more.
Get some college team bags and purses and specialty items you can't get at the mall!
Sneak a preview and see a full catalog at http://www.mythirtyone.com/nataliew 


Tomorrow, Saturday November 13th only, just follow the bright signs!
Thanks Natalie W. for the tip!
You can email me about any craft show and open houses at Wichitacitymom@gmail.com
I will make sure I post as much information as you give me to help promote your business or show!

Infertility support

Infertility affects 1 in 6 couples in the U.S. About seven and a half million women in this country.
Metabolic imbalances, stress, increasing age, smoking, alcohol, exposure to toxic chemicals and drugs, and nutritional deficiencies or excesses can all negatively affect fertility.
There are infertility prevention and treatment strategies that involve simple lifestyle changes and nutrition. If you have been struggling to conceive, perhaps you feel isolated in your journey. Afraid to tell family and friends for fear you may fail again.
If you are interested in finding other women who are experiencing the same frustration and heartbreak, and learning more about a natural approach to infertility, attend the free Fertility Chat Group, hosted by Kali Day, acupuncturist with Bohemia Healing Spa, and Body-Mind Coach Sarah Yost. 
The first meeting will take place December 4th at Watermark Books from 12:30 - 1:30 in their downstairs community room. It is a free event open to anyone who could benefit from or provide some support to other like-minded women.
Contact Kali Day at kaliday@gmail.com with any questions, and rsvp your attendance.
You can also get more information at Shen Qi Acupuncture.com

Black Friday Shopping Tips

Black Friday will be here before you know it! If you are like me, you want to strategically plan all of your stops and to be the most efficient and most effective for your morning, or day.
Daily Lozo.com has all sorts of daily tips on saving money.  (Get their emails, they are great!) So Black Friday apparently isn't what it was last year, there are even more sales and deals that are "Pre-Black Friday Sales" to get a head start on all the madness. Daily Lozo  is bringing you a two-part story on preparing and finding Pre-Black Friday sales to maximize your money and time. They are getting down to the nitty gritty on what to expect now, how to plan, and how to compare, snagging the ultimate Christmas gift for your loved one. You can also jump over to my little tip on some online deals on Wal-mart.com I posted last night to get you in the mood!)

Deals and freebies for today...

I love shopping at Hobby Lobby! And I really love shopping with a Hobby Lobby coupon!
I know this is not really any news to you that they have coupons, just visit their website to get whatever coupon is current, it's just a friendly reminder to use your coupon! (I, unfortunately, seem to always forget it!) They also have stopped running the 40% off coupon every week, and run other offers instead. Hurry, there's only two more days to use this one.


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FREE sample of Hugo boss perfume for either woman or man. With a chance to share one with a friend.
Fill out the usual requests and get yours too!


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President Bush will sign a limited number of Decision Points bookplates in honor of his new book. To request an autographed insert for your copy of the book, please write:

Decision Points
Office of George W. Bush
Post Office Box 259000
Dallas, Texas 75225-9000
Be sure to include a self-addressed, stamped envelope; your full name; and the name of the bookplate recipient (if different).

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If you are already starting your christmas shopping or just like good deals, check out Wal-mart.com for their online specials. Lots of variety of items from all departments perfect for gift giving. Electronics, home decor, toys, and even personalized gifts. All have free shipping and some items ship to the store for pickup. I imagine alot of the really good deals will go fast the closer we get to Black Friday!

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Clip and print some healthy coupons from Quality Health.com  Savings on Nature's Own breakfast items, Slim Fast, Land 'O Lakes butter and Hefty to name a few.

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Click on over to Vistaprint.com to get 20 holiday cards for $1.99! Choose from custom or flat photo cards that will allow you to upload up to 6 photos! Sweet deal!


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and lastly some Glade coupons, promoting their new automatic spray freshening system.  You may like the other offers from this website as this link takes you to the Johnson family website who also have Ziplock, Saran, and Shout! to name a few.

Pump it Up play time

  Today's Groupon is great for those upcoming cold, dead of winter days when you've been stuck inside and have exhausted all other play options. Need to get the kids out and about?  Purchase today three drop in play times for $8 at the inflatable fun zone.
Click my links on the sidebar to support my page!! Thanks!

Oshkosh sale

If you love Oshkosh for your kids, jump on over to their website and check out some of the deals they have going on, with today only Free Shipping.
Thermal tees are buy one get one free, classic overalls are just $12, and  holiday wear is 50% off.
It's not too early to start Christmas shopping and get in on some deals while they are happening!

Freebies

Get a Pop-Tarts all access fun-pass when you sign up your family's preferences and contact information.
Included are coupons, plus an opportunity to test the latest in pop-tart flavors, and earn free promo products. 

If you like loose leaf teas, check out TEASTA Teas. Use coupon code TRYME and get a free sample. Free shipping as well!

Get a free sample of Pantene Shampoo and Conditioner when you signup at P&G Everyday's website. Get a monthly email with coupons and sweepstakes as well as beauty and health tips. Get the Pantene sample just for signing up.

General Mills has some of the best products and brands on the market, sign up to receive news about new products and even to get coupons and samples sometimes.

And if you're a blond you would love the John Freida line of blond hair care products developed to bring shine and health to blond hair. Sign up at the website to get a .28 oz packet sampler of Sheer Blonde Highlight Activating Shampoo for Blond Hair and a Conditioner for darker shades. You will also get the latest in news and offers straight to your inbox.

1/2 off at Build-A-Bear

Build-A-Bear is always my go to gift for the little girls and boys that have everything, and fills my kids with giddiness every time they get to go.  With the holiday shopping season upon us, today's Groupon is SUPER exciting. Get half off, $10 for $20 of merchandise. I feel another server crash coming!!  Find Today's Daily Deal on the Best in Wichita!

coupons to go

If you want to save some money on your next trip to the grocery store, but are terrible at remembering all the clipping and sorting that's required, I recommend getting cellfire for your phone. You can add coupons to an app that customizes coupons for the stores you shop at. Just select and load your savings, then present them at the check out to redeem, or save to your store loyalty card. Pretty easy.