Deals, Coupons and Saving Money!
Saving Money
Researching TrueCouponing has made me realize just what an amazing team of women are running this website. The originator of True Couponing is Kati, a mother of four who home-schools her children. She has a BS degree in Accounting and previously managed a multi million dollar payroll and fixed assets program for Baxter International Health care. Two additional women have joined her in this endeavor, Kelly and Susanna. They are all three making this website and the accompanying seminars their ministry.
One of the great things they teach you on the website is how to combine BOGO (Buy One Get One) offers with manufacturer’s coupons to bring home items for nearly nothing. They recommend purchasing multiple copies of the Sunday paper for the coupon inserts. They suggest one paper per family member. In fact if you want save even more money the TrueCouponing website offers a link to purchase the Tampa Tribune at a discounted rate, providing you are purchasing multiple copies. The purpose of having multiple papers/coupon inserts is to take advantage of the store sale cycle. They say that stores offer the best deal on products two weeks after the manufacturers coupons come out in the paper. It will be at that time that you will see the BOGO offers and you can use two manufacturers coupons to purchase these items because you are buying two items. So not only are you getting one free, but you are getting even more savings with the coupon! They also say that you should leave the coupon flyer intact and only cut out the coupon on the week you are ready to use it. They detail exactly which coupons to use at each store on their website. They list sales and deals at Albertsons, Publix, Winn Dixie, Whole Foods, Walmart, Walgreen’s, CVS, K Mart as well as coupon deals and baby sales. They also give you opportunities to save even more by letting you know when the newspaper has a save $5.00 on Forty dollars at any grocery store. This week their site listed a coupon for Sweet Bay.
These women are amazing and they are doing this generously and for free. Their website True Couponing is an excellent resource for saving money and offers each of us an opportunity to learn and put our knowledge to work saving money.
Money Saving Tips For Shoppers
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With prices climbing and unemployment still high, saving money is a priority for most people. One excellent way to save money is with TrueCouponing.com, a website run by three women who started with the premise of saving their families money. They’ve dedicated themselves to sharing their knowledge and money saving expertise with others as their spiritual calling. They run the TrueCouponing website as well as offering free couponing seminars in the Tampa Bay area.
To start with they say you should never pay full price for items such as paper towels, bathroom tissue or toothpaste as these are items that manufacturers always offer discounts on. They say that anyone can use these strategies with as little as thirty minutes a week and the weekly coupon fliers. Their website is a wealth of information and will get even the novice shopper excited and motivated to learn more about their money-saving tips and shopping strategies.
Their website, TrueCouponing breaks down deals store by store and teaches visitors how to shop strategically using grocery store sale cycles in conjunction with the weekly coupon circulars and BOGO deals. They offer free Couponing Seminars throughout the Tampa Bay area, you can sign up on their website.
TopStyle Lite – Free Style Sheet Software
When I first started getting my feet wet with web design and support, I had trouble understanding style sheets and how they worked. TopStyle Lite — the free, downsized version of TopStyle — was recommended to me as a good visualizing tool. And so it is. The nature of style sheets is evolving, but I still use TopStyle Lite pretty regularly for sites using standard style sheets.
Download a style sheet (css file) and open in it TopStyle Lite, and both seeing what you have and seeing where you’re going become really simple. Change the attribute on the right side of the screen, and TopStyle will change the related item in the style sheet. It’s nice until one gets comfortable with style sheets…and even beyond.
Trillian – A Free Way to Manage Multiple Chat Platforms
Most of my chat contacts use either Yahoo! Messenger or MSN Messenger to chat. I have email with both, but no desire to have open two chat clients at the same time. Enter Trillian. It is not the tool of its kind, but I’ve been using it for a long time and have no complaints.
There is a free version and a paid version. I use the free and it is more than adequate for my needs. It has the flexibity to personalize, to log into one or all identities, to see emoticons as graphics, to sort contacts by friends or business associates (for example), to save history (especially useful when one receives instructions via chat).
If you use chat frequently, for business OR personal reasons, and your contacts are on multiple platforms, consider Trillian as your chat client.
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