Cha-Ching on a Shoestring™

Living Large on a Limited Budget

The Cha-Ching Challenge Highlight

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Welcome to the weekly

Cha-Ching Challenge Highlight!

I am pleased to announce our
Cha-Ching Challenge Highlight Winner.

This week’s highlight is Saving in Akron!

Saving in Akron is a blog dedicated to saving money, living well on less.  She submitted not just one, but THREE posts detailing her great savings from last week.  (She saved over 80% at TWO of her stores!) Check them out here, here, and here.  

While you are there, I recommend checking out her Blog Hop posts.  What a cool idea!  It’s also a great way to find out a little bit more about her (i.e. She’s fluent in French!) 

Simply come back on Saturday and join the Cha-Ching Challenge by adding a link to your post sharing your great deals for the week!

 

Upromise: Bonus for New Members

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Have you joined Upromise yet?  If not, what are you waiting for??!

If your answer is that you were waiting for an added bonus for joining, well then today is your lucky day.  Join here and use code: SNYDERS3 to get a $3 bonus added to your account!  (I am unsure when this code expires.)

While you are there, be sure to activate their ecoupons as well for additional savings.  Plus, if you download the Turbosaver,  you will automatically entered in a $10,000 Sweepstakes!

Not familiar with Upromise?  Read more here.

Sweet Kraft Promotion!

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If you live near a Super Valu grocery store, (Acme, Albertsons, Biggs, Cubs, Farm Fresh, Hornbachers, Jewel Osco, Shaws, Shop-N-Save and Shoppers), I have some great news for you!  Starting on Aug 7th through Aug 23rd, Super Valu grocery stores will have a catalina and rebate promotion going on.  When you buy $25 in selected Kraft products in one transaction, you will get a coupon for $5 off your next order AND a rebate form to get $20 back will print at check out.  That’s right–spend $25, get $25 back!  Gotta love FREE FOOD.

Here’s what you need to do in the next few weeks.  Keep your eye out for coupons for the products listed here to make this deal into a moneymaker!  I’m sure there will be plenty.  If you signed up for the coupons at NabiscoWorld.com, you can always hope that they get here in time as well!

Go here for the full details!

Thanks, Money Saving Maine-iac!

Arby’s: Free with Purchase Wednesdays

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Don’t forget that today is another Arby’s Free with Purchase Wednesday!  If your local Arby’s is participating (call around…one of mine said yes and another said no), then you can score a FREE FruiTea with any sandwich  purchase.

Go here for more details.

Great Food Deals Round-Up

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GET YOUR HOT FOOD DEALS HERE:

Check out this HOT Food Deals Round-up!

  • Go here to find out how to get free Blue Bunny ice cream at ShopRite this week.
  • Be one of the first 500,000 to visit the Schwan’s Free Food giveaway page starting 8/1, and you could get $10 in FREE food plus free delivery.
  • Marsh is offering its Fans on Facebook a $10 off your Grocery purchase of $10 or more.  (Must print TODAY 7/28.)
  • Restaurant.com is offering $25 gift certificates to thousands of restaurants for only $2 through July 31.  Use code NAPKIN at check-out.  Go here to learn more.
  • Enter your zip code at the Giant Eagle website and choose to view the weekly specials.  You can then enter your email address and loyalty card number and you’ll get a $2 e-coupon loaded onto your card which is good off your next visit.
  • Get a free Pollo Bowl with the purchase of any Pollo Bowl when you use this coupon at any El Pollo Loco through Saturday, August 1, 2009.
  • Use this printable coupon at any Jamba Juice location and get a free smoothie with the purchase of another smoothie.

CLOSED: Giveaway: Handcrafted Jewelry by Variya

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I am so excited to offer this next giveaway!

Tonya from Variya on Etsy has a beautiful collection of one-of-a-kind hand-crafted jewelry.   Her jewelry is super chic and would complement just about any outfit.  (I personally have my eye on her Jasmine in my Mind piece.)

That’s why I’m excited to share some great news.  Tonya is offering a $20 gift certificate toward any item in her Etsy shop plus free shipping to one lucky reader!  And since most of her pieces are listed for around $20 or under, somebody’s going to have some FUN shopping!

Whether or not this is your style,  I am SURE that this could be a great gift for someone special.  Her pieces are simple yet elegant and would spice up anyone’s jewelry collection.

So what do you have to  do to enter?  So glad you asked!

There are up to 5 ways to enter:

  1. Head on over to Variya on Etsy and leave a comment sharing which piece you would choose if you are the lucky winner.
  2. For an extra entry, subscribe to our feed by e-mail or in a reader and leave a  comment letting us know you did so.  If you are already a subscriber, leave a comment letting us know.
  3. We’ve joined Twitter! Get an additional entry by following us on Twitter and leaving a comment letting us know you are a follower.
  4. If you tweet or blog about this giveaway, add an additional comment for each to receive extra entries in the contest.

This giveaway ends at 8:00 p.m. EST on Tuesday, August 4, 2009. We’ll use Random.org to select the winning comment. Winner will be notified by email and listed on this site.

Update: HOT Kraft coupons!

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Update:  I totally missed the fact that these coupons say, “Redeem at Publix” on them!  You might be able to use them at other stores that accept competitor’s coupons.  If you do have a Publix nearby, you’ll want to use them there by tomorrow as they are on sale B1G1 Free.  With the coupon, you should be able to get TWO for free!

Hurry and print this $1.50/1 Kraft Salad Dressing coupons here (or here in FireFox) before they are gone!

I just saw these at Wal-Mart for $1.59, making them $0.09 after the coupon!

Don’t forget to hit the back button to print two per computer.

Thanks, Short On Cents!

All You Grocery Challenge: Week 3

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The All You Grocery Challenge is proving to be exactly that: a challenge!  While I typically don’t spend more than the $25 per person (not including Lincoln) budget allowed, it’s the special circumstances that are arising that are keeping me on my toes!

For example, this past weekend, we went camping with my family.  This meant that each family was responsible for a meal (for 18 people!) and we would also go out to eat once or twice.  I thought we might fall off the wagon, but WE DIDN’T!

My solution?

For our family meal, we served pulled pork, macaroni salad, chips, and cookies for dessert.

Pulled pork was $2.19 a lb. which added up to only about $.75/person.

I had all of the ingredients for the macaroni salad.

The chips and cookies were purchased with coupons and the Kellogg’s Fuel for School rebate and cost abot $.50-$.75 each.

In total, we spent approximately $20 to feed 18 people…nice.

THEN…for our going out to eat meal, I found this sweet deal at Restaurant.com and purchased a $25 gift certificate for only $2!  There was a great little restaurant right near where we were camping that was listed.  Not only that, but they accepted three gift certificates for our whole family, so every body got in on the savings!

After the gift certificate, we spent only $27 (which included food, taxes, and tip).  We even had enough money left over to go out for ice cream afterwards.

Our total spending on food last week was around $71..we made it!

This week, I actually need to do some real grocery shopping since I’ve cleaned out my cupboards pretty well with my Shopping in my Freezer Challenges.  So I just printed out my E-Mealz shopping list and I’m headed to the store!  (Pretty excited about Primavera Pizza this week…)  Looks like everything on the list will only add up to $32.53.  That should give us some nice wiggle room to buy a few extra things that we need!

Oh, and by the way, I added another rule to my All You Grocery Challenge list:

  • Drink LOTS of water.  I’m putting a shopping freeze on buying other beverages.  Save money and it’s GOOD for us!