Attention Utah, Idaho, Arizona, and Nevada Blog Readers:

If you live in Utah, Idaho, Arizona or Nevada (and want to save money on groceries) I have a great website for you:

Pinching Your Pennies

At this link you can use the drop down menu to select your state and grocery store and they list in a table the advertised specials. The cool part is that they rank the deal by stars so you know if it is actually a good deal. The other cool thing for coupon clippers is that they tell you how to bring your costs even lower using coupons. I don't clip coupons because I don't get the paper, but I will use their links to online coupons on occasion. I really like this site because I often don't know a normal price for a product and then I get excited to see it on sale, buy ten and then the next week the item is even cheaper. Hope this save someone else from grocery buyers remorse :o)

*Side note, in general this is NOT my favorite of all the deal and coupon sites, but I do really like that feature.

Kids' Songs

A deal courtesy of Babycheapskate:

Cheap Entertainment! Download 150 Kids' Songs for .99

Download 150 Fun Songs For Kids--three CDs worth--for .99 right now at Amazon. Got April showers? Says BC reader Stacy, " it has SAVED me the last two rainy days being inside." Thanks to Stacy and Crystal for the tip.



I bought this one and Madi is already enjoying it...right now in fact. I have it turned on in Windows Media player and she is watching that freaky over stimulating "Visualization". She bobs her head with the music and it cracks me up. Enjoy!

Quicken for FREE

Free Quicken

Okay, so when I bought my computer it had this service on it and I just realized it was free to everyone. I love Quicken, I just refuse to pay money to manage money so I haven't had it. But this service is free. It isn't totally comprehensive, but it does the job if you are looking for a simple way to track expenses or keep up with your budget. From the link just click on "Start now. It's FREE" and it really is free. My favorite features are the budget tracker and how the tracking is customizable (that's way better than what my bank offers online.) Ask me questions if you want to before you join, but I'm telling you, I love it.

So, if you don't have software already and you don't need the fancy investment management and retirement plan get the free stuff. You can link it to all of your accounts and they will refresh when you sign in - it tracks all of your spending (regardless of which card you use) in the same place. And, if you like to have it in Excel, you can download it to Excel easy as pie. I used to use the Wells Fargo "Spending Report" but it was not customizable at all...so that's what makes me love quicken so much. Check it out.

Sorry this sounds like an advertisement, I just wanted to pass on FREE and HELPFUL. Enjoy!

Intro

Don't plan on coming to this blog for a ton of deals, this is just so that I don't turn my family blog into a shopping log or deal blog.

Anyway, these will probably be most applicable for you families with young kids and you my frugal friends.

Without further adieu... my first deal (next posts).