Living Large on a Limited Budget
Thanks for all of your encouraging comments about my race this past weekend. It was a cold, rainy day, but we survived!! In fact, I was very happy with my time–it was much better than I had hoped.
Now…who wants to join us next year?!
We are heading out the door to Philadelphia, where we will stay with my brother and his family. We will then get up on Sunday morning bright and early and head into the city with about 26,500 other people who will be running the Broad Street Run Ten Miler. I will be one of them.
I just need a little reassurance that I’m not crazy, maybe a few ‘go get ’em, Tigers’ and a whole lot of prayer. Other than a half marathon a few years ago, this is the longest race that I have run and I feel much less prepared than I’d like.
Thankfully, my cousin is running it with me and we plan on taking things at our own pace. It’s Ok if we don’t win. =)
Besides, If I need to feel like a winner, I always have swagbucks.
Now pardon me while I go sing “It’s the Eye of the Tiger” at the top of my lungs. I need the inspiration.
There are two new codes out for the Huggies Enjoy the Ride Rewards program.
You’ll also be glad to hear that they have added new instant win prizes, such as a $25 Visa Card, a $25 Applebee’s gift card and a $10 Subway gift card. I’m considering using my points all willy-nilly on some of those sweepstakes, however. Why not?
If you missed our first Coast to Coast Florist Giveaway OR if you simply didn’t win the first time around HERE is your chance to enter again!
We are delighted to team up again with Coast to Coast Florist to offer you a whole new chance to win some FABULOUS prizes.
If you’ve ever ordered flowers from coasttocoastflorist.com, you know that every floral arrangement is “hand delivered”, NEVER in a box. No assembly required. We like that fact.
Here’s what we want to give away. Just like our previous contest, we are offering some GREAT odds–three grand prize winners and two second prize winners.
GRAND PRIZE: $50 gift card
SECOND PRIZE: $25 gift card
AND
EVERY new entrant will win a
$10 e-voucher, courtesy of CoasttoCoastFlorist.com!*
(Check out their extensive ‘Under $50’ section. They offer not only beautiful bouquets, but birthday cakes, party baskets and more.)
We will also hold this giveaway one more time
before Mother’s Day!
*PLEASE NOTE: If you are a previous grand prize or second prize winner of this giveaway, we ask that you not enter this time around. However, if you entered the previous Coast to Coast Florist giveaway and did not win, you may enter again. $10 e-vouchers will only be given to completely new entrants.
Here’s what you need to do to enter:
This giveaway ends at 8:00 p.m. EST on Monday, May 4th, 2009. We’ll use Random.org to select the winning comments. Winner will be notified by email and listed on this site.
Have you ever had a bully on the playground or on the school bus ride home? You know the drill–you try not to make eye contact. You walk completely around the playground just to keep from being seen by them.
There was a guy in high school that liked to pick me up and give me an airplane spin in the hallway whenever he found me and was feeling particularly strong. I learned that if I just let him do it, it would be over faster. Deep down inside though, I rather he left me alone.
About six months ago I was hanging out in our kitchen with Kaley when I glanced over at one of the bullies in my life, the Phone “Bill”. “Bill”, as I will refer to him, was sitting on our counter staring me down. Bill had been kicking us around for years and it seemed there was nothing I could do. Every month he beat me up in front of my wife and boys.
This day was different.
I was tired of getting bullied so I grabbed Bill and picked him up, his feet dangling off the floor. He was trembling in my hands as I stared him down. I decided right then and there that I was going to make a call and have someone “take care of Bill”, if you know what I’m saying (cue the Mobsters and cement boot references).
By the time I was done with Bill he was quite literally HALF the man he used to be.
I made the call and walked through our current bill with our phone company. What I realized is that we were paying around $5.00/month for the “right” to only pay $.07/per minute when making long distance calls. Go back and read that again. Somehow that doesn’t sound like much of a ‘deal’ to me.
Our solution for long distance is OneSuite.com. We pay less than $.03 cents per minute with no monthly fee. Yes, less than 3 pennies per minute. OneSuite works similar to a calling card, but you can add the number into your speed dial to simplify things.
We estimate that we’ve saved ourselves approximately $20 a month since making that one phone call. If my math is correct, that’s $240 a year. Not bad for 10 minutes of my time.
How about you? Have you had success in cutting corners with your phone bill? Or are you still getting kicked around? What other ways have you learned to cut corners?
Bill still kicks us each month, but it only hurts half as much as it did before.