Using The Red Sale to Your Advantage & a Link-Up

Having kids can be expensive.  Many of us look for every way we can to save money on household needs.

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Right now, Discount School Supply is running their  incredibly popular annual Red Sale on Arts and Crafts. During this sale, which runs this year through April 4, Discount School Supply offers 20% off of arts and crafts supplies in red.

Twenty percent off their already low prices is great, but wondering what you would do with a cupboard full of red paint, red paper, and red glitter?  (Not that those things aren't great.)

You can use this sale to your advantage.   Here are some things that come in red, even though they don't have to:

Colorations Machine Washable Toddler Smock












Moist Red Clay - 25 lbs













Tap & Glue Cap

 











Easy-Grip Alphabet Sponge Stampers 4 Base - Set of 26










4 Way Acrylic Panel Easel

If you shop the sale, make sure you use the code, or you won't get the discount:

DiscountSchoolSupply.com-20% OFF Everything in Arts & Crafts during the Red Sale! Code:WREDSALE! Thru March 4th. Click Here!
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College Savings...Without the Saving

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Even if your kids are really little, or not even born yet, 

READ THIS.  

College and diapers are closer together than you think.
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I just got finished making payments that total just shy of $1000.00 for a semester of community college for our daughter.

She wants nothing more than to be a wife and mother, but she is pursuing a college degree from home, via online classes, so that she will have the tools to generate some income from home, if necessary.

In the meantime, I am a bit worn out from paying out all that money.  So far, though, every dime we have spent on college has come from her UPromise fund.

UPromise is a company that places a percentage of the everyday purchases that you make into a college fund for yourself or a child.  You earn college money through your grocery purchases, restaurant dining, online spending, gas purchases...etc.

You register your grocery store cards and credit/debit cards...and Upromise places a percentage of purchases made into a college 529 plan in which growth is federal income tax free.  Joining is free.  Even if your kids aren't born yet, you can set up the 529 in your own name, and transfer it their name(s) later.  Anyone....grandparents, friends, etc...can link their UPromise earnings to your child's account.

Are you listening? This is your blog mother speaking:  DO THIS!

Seriously.  It's a good idea.

If you decide to use UPromise, and sign up after clicking on this button...

 ...our family will receive a small kickback from UPromise, which will help with next semester's college bills!  We would be ever so grateful.

But, seriously, you can link directly to their site instead to join, if you prefer.  Either way, look into it.   Truly, I would not make a suggestion like this if I did not believe in it.   It has really been a blessing for us.

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How to Buy and Store Bulk Dry Goods (Without Having a Flour Blizzard in Your Kitchen), in Pictures

("FOOD SAFE" BUCKET)

Airtight, unscrewable, double gasket lid

Curious and perpetually hungry dachshund

25 pounds of flour at bulk price 

           Pouring flour from bag into bucket= fun for toddlers, but not recommended

                                                Place bucket over flour bag

                                     Turn them over, so that flour bag is on top

                                                        Lift bag out

                                                 Label food storage bucket

Snap on airtight lid

 Unscrew inner lid to use dry goods.

Enjoy bulk price savings and security of knowing that

you have stored food on hand

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Online Textbook Buy-back Comparison

We just "sold back" some of Elyse's textbooks from last semester.  I checked four online vendors who "buy-back" used textbooks, for comparison.  The following table shows what I found.  The first four rows are the books we sold, with the price quote from each of four vendors. Row five is the total offer made by each vendor.  

Amazon was the clear winner.  Because Amazon offers just about anything one would need to purchase, I am not concerned that payment will come in the form of an Amazon gift card, rather than cash.

Book	Amazon	Barnes & Noble	textbookbuyer.com	Valorebooks.com
Study Guide for Basic Pharmacology for Nurses / ISBN-13: 9780323057790, ISBN-10: 0323057799	$13.00	$6.50	Not accepted for buy-back	$6.48
Basic Pharmacology for Nurses / ISBN-13: 9780323057806, ISBN-10: 0323057802	$36.80	$21.00	$17.35	$21.07
What is Psychology? / ISBN-13: 9781111347000, ISBN-10: 111134700X	$72.50	$14.00	$37.75	$55.74
Health and Wellness, Tenth Edition / ISBN-13: 9780763765934, ISBN-10: 0763765937	$17.25	Not accepted for buy-back	$22.45	$22.52
Total	$139.55	$41.50	$77.55	$105.81
Payed via	Amazon gift card	Check/Pay-pal	Check	Not Specified
Vendor pays shipping?	yes	yes	yes	yes

All four vendors' websites were easy to navigate.  All four offered free shipping of the books to their location.   Once we accepted Amazon's offer, we needed only to print out the shipping label they provided, pack the books in a box, attach the label, and mail the books by the due date.  We should receive payment once they are received and processed.  The process was simple.

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