Old Navy 25% off your entire purchase today only. In Store and Online

 

 

 

Today may be a day to run into Old Navy if you have some extra time or jump on the computer and do some online shopping! Just enter ONBEACH at checkout to get 25% off your order and as always when you spend $50 or more online you get it shipped free!

I love it!

And I love that you can do in store returns even for online orders!

You also can get 20% off 5/19 or 5/20 or 15% off 5/21 so today really is the best day to shop if you can!

Be sure to shop through Ebates to get 13% more back on rebate!

Top 30 Vegetarian Slow Cooker Recipes Cookbook. Free Kindle Edition

 

 

One of my dear friends was just asking the other day about some ideas for vegetarian meals and while I don’t have a ton of experience trying to produce something lacking meat (Read my lentil post if you don’t believe me!) this book might be just what the Dr. ordered.

Top 30 Easy Vegetarian Slow Cooker Recipes for Busy Women: Set It and Forget It (First Vegetarian Recipes Cookbook for Busy Women)

The Kindle Edition is free today (although that price is subject to change without notice) but remember that you can download the kindle app for your smartphone or pc.

It just  might encourage me to try a few Vegetarian Meals for my family. Just don’t go warning anyone at my house so I at least have an honest chance of pulling it off! ; )

Raley’s Deals 5/16-22/2012

 

 

 

 

Your Friday Freebie:

Other Good Raley’s Coupons:

Other Good Deals:

BOGO Meat Sale:

  • Boneless, Skinless Chicken Thighs
  • Boneless Chuck Steak or Roasts
  • Pork Loin Chops, Rib Chops, Sirloin Chops, or Roasts

 

  • Special K Cereal or Crackers $1.99 when you buy 4 or more. – Use with the coupon from the 4/29 RedPlum

     

  • Ken’s Salad Dressing $2 – Use with the $1/2 Here

     

  • Nabisco Graham Crackers $2.49 – Use with the $1/ 2 Here

     

    Do you see any other Great Deals I missed? Leave a comment and let us know.

     

 

 

Safeway Deals and Coupon Matchups for 5/16-22/2012

 

 

 

  • Safeway Bacon (sold in 3 lb package) $3.33 lb Friday – Monday Only
  • Bulls Eye BBQ Sauce $.99 with in ad coupon
  • Kraft Salad Dressing $1.39 with in ad coupon – Use with the $1/2 that will be in the 5/20 Smartsource
  • Del Monte Fruit Cups $2.50 – Use with the coupon HERE
  • Knorr Rice and Pasta Sides $.89 ea
  • Cucumbers $.99 ea
  • Organic Blueberries $3.99 lb

Do you see any other great deals that I missed this week? Leave a message and let us know.

Creative Ideas for Generating Income for Your Nonprofit or School

 

 

Do you have an organization that is near and dear to your heart? There is one thing that besides volunteers every nonprofit needs to function. CASH. But are you looking for an idea that goes beyond candy bars and cookie dough. Ugh I’m a bit bloated just thinking about it. (And completely craving a snickerdoodle.)

Well I’m here with some ideas.

It could be a small country school that you know has the ability to be amazing even though they lack the funding. It could be an animal shelter that won’t turn away the lost, or a sports team that has raw talent but desperately needs the correct equipment to keep its teammates protected. Whatever the function, without funds, you cease to continue the good works that you have set out to do. And rather than running a number of mass scale fundraisers that are all consuming for the few members that are running them how about a few ideas that can generate some somewhat passive income for your non-profit.

Let’s talk about some areas that can give you and your charity a jump in the right direction.

  • Coca Cola has “My Coke Rewards” It is simple as pie to get your school set up with them and coke points (which come in the form of codes under the cap or inside the packaging of coke products) can be entered online and redeemed for merchandise for your school. And no, every dry erase marker or P.E. items doesn’t come with the name Coca Cola stamped all over the entire item. Your members, friends, or family members can enter their codes online and automatically donate to your organization. Or you can designate a drop off location and have someone within the organization volunteer or assigned to entering those on a regular basis.
  • Common Kindness- CommonKindness.com is an online printable coupon site that you can link to your nonprofit and when your members, family, and friends print their coupons online your organization gets the benefit. Talk about a win-win situation.
  • Good Search is a search engine that utilizes the same principles as “Swagbucks” if you are familiar with that to generate rewards in the form of cash back to your own organization. www.GoodSearch.com You can download a toolbar, use it for online shopping such as you would with Ebates and instead of cash back to yourself it would be donated directly to the organization. You can link your card and dine at local various locations with a percentage being donated back. How about a Taco Tuesday Fundraiser all year round? That feels like it takes quite a bit of the work out of the process if you ask me.
  • Raley’s Quality of Life program links your card to a specific charity and every time you shop you can scan your card to get a percentage back. The organization must set itself up and order the cards. And then every card is already linked to that charity.
  • Dutch Brothers has a fantastic fundraiser program if you live in the west that gives back 20% of every gift card purchase. The key is to automate your list so once a quarter or three times a year you do a Dutch Brother’s Campaign where any friends, family, or neighbors can put in their orders during a certain week and the organization can reap huge benefits. Why wouldn’t you take advantage of money that your market is going to be spending anyway regardless of if it benefited your organization?
  • Set up every single piece of online correspondence with a donate link. Are you e-mailing an online newsletter out. How about an shiny update box with progress for project X with a Donate Now link. There are a number of different companies that specialize in online charitable donations to help reduce fees and keep more of your organizations money in its pocket. The point is that just by human nature a huge amount of the population are motivated to respond based on being presented with a need. If they are not given the opportunity to easily do so immediately there is only a minute percentage of people that will actually follow through after the fact. I’m just saying I am a busy person with short attention span. If you want my money you better be ready to take it right now!
  • Facebook and Twitter linked with a SmartyPig account would be an awesome way to generate knowledge about where our need is in relation to our actual monies received. What better way to update your facebook and twitter fans with each deposit in the form of a super cute little piggy that monitors progress and can publish that process encouraging others to get involved. And YES, they allow contributions to be made directly into your “Goal Account”.

What other ideas do you have? How have you generated funds for your nonprofit?

Our Menu Plan this Week

 

 

 

Although last week was a tough week for getting other things really dialed in I did replenish a few meals for the freezer.

For the Freezer I made:

1 Extra Spinach and Chicken Enchiladas (which was wonderful) I will update the recipe at some point this week.

2 Spinach Casseroles (One the boys ate while I was gone last weekend)

 

3 Bags of Cream of Portobello Mushroom Soup

AND 1 Extra Cornbread Casserole (This recipe was given to me from my sweet dear friend Judy. It was a huge hit and if I ever find the original that she actually gave me I will post that one in addition to how I actually made it from what I remembered being on the card. Sorry Judy! I’m so thankful for you and that you can appreciate my complete lack of mental competency.) Here is how I made it.

Here is what we are eating this week:

Leftover Spinach Casserole

Parmesan Crusted Pork Chops with Corn on the Cob

All beef Hot Dogs before our awana’s carnival

Beef Tips in Gravy with Mashed Potatoes

Homemade Pizza

Spaghetti with Turkey/Lentil Meatballs

Need some recipe inspiration? Check out here for a number of different menu plans to fit anyone’s food needs and lifestyle.

This Weeks Goals

 

 

Last week ended up being a lot of extra things come up that had to be addressed. And my biggest boy turned 6! Daddy brought him home a doughnut, (which his mean mommy made him eat with some hard boiled eggs. J)


So needless to say I just didn’t really accomplish a whole lot of my goals last week. Because of that, this week I am keeping things lite. I am working on basics and trying to get back on track.

I am also trying to mentally transition into the summer time routine and it is going to take some planning on getting organized and remaining productive over the summer. Which leads me to the question? How do you handle your summer time routine? Do you just throw in the towel during those summer months and spend them all about fun and family? Or do you hire a sitter for a few days so you can have scheduled work days? I’d love to know how you have or plan on handling that alteration in schedule.

Last Week’s Goals:

Business:

  • Get new antivirus software done and installed on all business desktops and laptops.
  • Run whole inventory for our car lot Roger Funk Cars.
  • Spend 1 entire work day as a creative day for both businesses.

Household:

  • Get caught up on laundry.
  • Do one extra meal for the freezer.
  • Take in our donation bags and get donated!
  • Take in our recyclables for our “pennies in the jar”!
  • List 3 items on E-Bay or Craigslist.

Family:

  • Work with Boys on our last week of Awana’s Verses.
  • Spend some special time with the boy’s for Bay’s Birthday Wednesday.
  • Read the next three chapters of Chronicles of Narnia with the kids.
  • Plan a date night with The Husband in May sometime.
  • Take Bay Birthday Shopping.

Personal:

  • Exercise 4 times (to equal at least $15 in our “earn your vacation fund”).
  • Do 4 days of my new fitness 5 minute app.
  • Go on an out of town girl’s trip and buy brown and black summer shoes! (I bought both but really didn’t love either so I took them both back.

This Week’s Goals

Business:

  • Get inventory updated for website
  • April portion of B of A shop
  • Do 2 Design alterations for website

Household:

  • Take in recycling
  • Order new cell phone

Family:

  • Attend boys western carnival for the Awana’s end of the year party
  • Read next 3 chapters of Chronicles of Narnia

Personal:

  • Finish last of the current books I’m reading and pick next 2 books
  • Exercise 4x
  • Run 2x (adding .25 miles to last run length)

Jump Start Your College Savings Funds for Free

 

 

 

Have you heard of Upromise? If you have been around me a while you most likely have but I am still amazed that there are people around that have never heard of this program!

Upromise is free to join and something that every single person in my opinion should be a member of.

But…I don’t have kids!

You may someday! Or have you ever wanted to go back to school? Or do you have nieces, or nephews, or dear friends with kids?

Then Upromise is for you!

But……I’m already in school!

Do you have any student loans? Are you still attending?

Then Upromise is for you!

Are you starting to see a trend here?

Upromise is a Sallie Mae program that is free to join and allows you in about a million different ways to generate kickback income that can be linked to a 529 College Savings Plan. I started my Upromise account 2 years before my first child was born. I had myself set up as the beneficiary because honestly I intended to actually finish my master’s degree I had almost completed at some point in my life. But I also figured if I didn’t I would at some point in time change the beneficiary to one of my own children (if I ever had them) or to one of my nieces or nephew.

They have expanded greatly over the last 10 years and now allow you to also apply the funds to an eligible Sallie Mae Student Loan, Request a Check, OR get an annual 10% match by sending your Upromise earnings to a High-Yield Savings Account!

So how does it work you ask?

You set up an account!

You link any of your store club cards. (Think Safeway, CVS, Rite Aid) When you shop a portion of the purchase price of certain items gets automatically deposited into your account.

You shop online through Upromise at ton of popular retailers. (They automatically send your earnings back to your account)

You can print grocery coupons to earn cash back.

You can apply for a Upromise Credit Card and earn 1% back on all of your purchases.

Don’t use credit?

Link your debit card to your account and at thousands of different restaurants they automatically give you up to 8% back when you use that linked card.

Are you starting to get the idea here? It will take you 5 minutes to set up and input your rewards cards and then operate as normal and watch the earnings add up!


Do you have any great ideas for college savings? I would love to hear your thoughts on that. Leave a comment.

Free Shipping on Diapers @ Target – Plus new Lower Prices

 

 

 

Target is touting new lower prices on Diapers. They are also offering Free Shipping on any diaper order over $50. And while I may not have any kids in diapers anymore I am so in love with the idea of diapers being shipped to my door.

Vitacost Free Shipping and $10 credit for a New Account – Today ONLY!

 

 

 

Have you used Vitacost yet? They have some great prices on quite a few organic items. I have ordered from them a number of times. AND Today May 10th, ONLY! You can too and get free shipping on your order of $25 or more. No promo code required.

BUT if you are new to Vitacost and shop through this link you will also get a free $10 credit.

If you love Weleda products all natural products you can get 40% off this week too!

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