Archives for March 2010

Savings.com – Mega Site For Savings

This post is brought to you by Savings.com. Savings.com is a monster site! I’ve been exploring on there for over an hour and I’m nowhere near finished! They have some very cool features there! 

I love shopping online and I absolutely love online coupons, savings, coupon codes, you name it! So I was excited to get to check out this site and tell you all about it.  The first thing, the very first thing, that I noticed …was the logo! I really, really like their logo and the connecting/continuing background.  The text is like one connected string and in various places the string makes different pictures after the word.  You can see it here a little bit, but, you’ll have to go to the site to see what I mean about the groovy pictures that are connected to it. Love the look and feel of it, though.

A major plus is that there are tons and tons and tons of retailers and their accompanying discounts and/or coupons listed.  That should definitely be said.  But there are many other things, also, that really made me like this site, the first of which is the community and the way that Savings.com embraces the community.

Once you join the site, which is super easy to do – they have social networking profiles available for members, in which you can fill out your bio, add a link to your own site, write a blog on the site, and it will also keep track of any coupons you voted for, comments you’ve made, any deals that you have submitted – and more!

They also have a very active blog for the main site, that super active members can contribute to.  And they are on Twitter and Facebook and have their links right on the homepage.  And there is a newsletter that you can sign up for so that you don’t miss any deals! And there are tons of helpful articles on the site!  It really is a great site!

Ok, so I went shopping around to see what I could find that I needed and let me tell you what! I need a new camera. In a bad way, in fact, it’s so bad that some friends have nicknamed me “1972” just in reference to the camera I’ve been using!!  It’s my husband’s digital camera from 2002 – it. is. horrible.  Now, to be fair, I do have a nicer camera, but, less than a year after having it – it went kablooey.  Kodak thinks they can fix it for about $100, but, I’m doggoned tired of Kodak software not working with Windows software! That’s right – Kodak gives you .mov files and Windows Movie Maker does not work with .mov files. What a pain!

So I started out looking at Sony ecoupons and I found some interesting discounts and coupons.  Once you find one you want to check out, you click the link and it takes you directly to sony and OMG! ya’ll! I found the coooooolest camera. And just go ahead and guess what it’s called! OMG!!! It’s called the “bloggie”!! I’m not even kidding you – this things looks so awesome!! It takes video and stills and the viewfinder flips around so that when you’re self-recording, as we bloggers tend to do – you can make sure and get yourself in the shot! I seriously think I might NEEEEED this camera! Coolio!

Now see? See how much fun looking through online coupons can be? I don’t know about you, but, I’m pumped!

Here’s a quick video from Savings.com explaining the process a little bit more!

Entertaining Little Ones With Sliding Glass Doors

What? Lisa, are you crazy? What on earth are you talking about?

I know, I know – I can tell that’s what you’re thinking. Just hear me out. I’m missing my little munchkins a lot lately – when my kids were shrimps, that is. They are all three teenagers and the boys are taller than I, with these uber deep ‘man’ voices. It is so weird.

Well, the other day I was in the dollar store with my daughter. We were just browsing around, not looking for anything in particular. I had purposely left my debit card in the car, as I’ve been known to cause some *shiver* damage in a dollar store. Something about everything being just ONE DOLLAR makes me go a little on the crazy, loony bird side!

The store had put out all of the Easter goodies. And there was one section that really caught my eye and almost made me tear up. Window clings. That’s right, window clings. For Easter.

You see, I used to have window clings for every. single. holiday. imaginable. I had them all organized in their own envelopes and set up neatly on a shelf in my office closet. I knew right where they were, I could get them out at a moment’s notice. I was so much more organized when the kids were little.

Anyway, back to the window clings. We had this uber huge sliding door in our kitchen that was glass. It was awesome. I’d never seen one so big in a house before. It was “Window Cling Heaven”! So every holiday that popped up, I’d run back in my office and pull out the appropriate clings and the kids and I would sit on the floor and divide them up evenly and let them go to town on that big door!

It was so much fun! And more often than not, that door was covered with clings! I’m telling you what – kids love those things! (And so do I!)

But then, the unthinkable happened. Mark started remodeling that house. Eeks! Yep – that door was outta there! He put a regular door in there and installed a very nice window beside it. The window was cool – some fancy new thing that was very expensive. (You won’t believe the things people THROW AWAY off of job sites – nuts!!)

Not getting to do window clings anymore was not our only problem with that door, either. The door handles were so completely awful, that the children absolutely could not do them. They would get stuck outside all the time. It was really awful, would totally freak them out.

We moved out of that house to our next not long after that, though. And besides, I think the kids were getting sick of window clings.

(I still love them, though!)