BlogLove 101: Less Really Can Be A Whole Lot More

In honor of the approaching 2nd birthday of SCB, one new feature I would like to add is BlogLove 101. I will feature fellow bloggers that I find inspiring, help me in my daily life, saving money or I just find neat, encouraging and worth the read.

I get tickled when I do the seminars and I'll mention ProHomemaker.com and people say- "Oh yeah! Harry from California and we love his blog!" So I'm dedicating BlogLove 101 to Harry aka ProHomemaker.com for his great blog, amazing tips and advice but most importantly- his friendship and support from almost 2500 miles away.

My first featured blog was created by another friend where our friendship has grown online because we have common goals to help others. She has started a foundation for single moms, has a book in the final editing process due out this December and my blog is mentioned in the book! Christy and I have spent time together since we are both in Atlanta and her passion to help other moms is amazing. And if you aren't a single mom- we all have a friend, a sibling, a cousin- someone in our lives that is taking on "the hardest job in the world" alone and needs to find others that she can lean on, seek support and aid when needed. Christy's goal is to provide that safe haven and offer her wisdom but most importantly just let single moms know that they are loved!

http://lessreallycanbeawholelotmore.blogspot.com

Please check out the blog or refer anyone that you feel could benefit. And the book would make a wonderful Christmas present!

AND- do you have a blog that you want to share with me? Please send me an email and I'll check it out and share here so we all can enjoy and benefit! And if you have a blog- please comment with a link so we can all check it out immediately!

Living Smart 101: Motivated Moms Cleaning System

I love Motivated Moms and I've talked about it in the past. It's a very inexpensive weekly to do list that if you follow each day and every week, then your house will be spotless with just a short to do list each day. It's also a great reminder to take care of yourself, exercise, take your vitamin etc. or those little things that take care of mom. I also appreciate the reminders to do things I wouldn't think of right off the bat like cleaning hairbrushes.

Every thing is half off for the rest of the year and I assure you it is worth every penny! I like have a list to check off each day and week. But I don't beat myself up if I don't get to everything. My goal is to get through the list by the end of the week. It really does work, keeps everything in focus and in order. And with the possibility of selling our home this Fall- these lists will be crucial in the weeks ahead.

Be sure to use the link on the right so that Motivated Moms know that Southern Coupon Belle sent you! Trust me- after a couple of weeks, you won't know how you kept your house clean without it!

Sign up at Michaels.com and get a 40% off One Regular Price Item Coupon

Head over to www.michaels.com and look at the bottom left to sign up for e-newsletters and to receive a 40% off one regularly priced item coupon for signing up.

I just registered and also signed up for The Knack, a kids and educators resource program from Michael's. I got my email right away for my 40% coupon.

Free $5 Gift Cards from Macaroni Grill!

From 8/16 until 9/30, get a $5 Macaroni Grill Gift Card when you spend at least $20 to be used on future visits.

Get the details here or go to www.macaronigrill.com

Super Cheap Way to be Super Mom at Wendy's!

If you go to Wendy's (may need to check if your local stores are participating) and make a $1.00 donation to the Dave Thomas Foundation, you will receive a Frosty Key Tag for your keys that will get you a free "mini" Frosty with additional purchase until the end of 2010. Plus a mini Frosty for making the donation. SWEET!!

I'm a hit with the girls- we can be out running around and I'll grab a tea plus I bought 2 key tags so we get 2 minis which are the perfect size in my opinion to eat in the car. What a great idea, cheap and makes the kids happy!

Publix- 8/19-8/25

Hi! Remember me?? Ready to go with a new design, look and summer is definitely over!
I have missed everyone!

Here's what I like at Publix this week:

Dial Bar Soap- 3 count BOGO
Coupon: 8/15RP Sale Price: .94 Final Price: .24 or 87% off
Dole Fruit in Gel- 4 pack BOGO
Coupon: 8/8S Sale Price: $1.35 (Must buy 3) Final Price: $1.02 or 62% off
Wanchai Ferry Frozen Meals for Two- BOGO
Coupon: 8/8GM Sale Price: $4.00 Final Price: $2.50 or 69% off
Lysol Trigger Spray Cleaner- BOGO
Coupon: 8/8S Sale Price: $1.35 Final Price: .35 or 87% off
Dole Frui Parfait- 4 pack BOGO
Coupon: 8/8S Sale Price: $1.35 (Must buy 2) Final Price: .85% or 68% off
Nestle Juicy Juice All Natural- BOGO
Coupon: 8/1R2 Sale Price: $1.83 (Must buy 2) Final Price: $1.33 or 64% off
Mt. Olive Pickles- BOGO
Coupon: 8/1S Sale Price: $1.40 Final Price: .40 or 86% off
Excedrin Pain Medicine- Be on the lookout for $1 off stickers on boxes to save more!
Coupon: 7/11S Sale Price: $1.49 Final Price: .49 or 88% off

So, if I bought all these items- I would pay $11.39 and I would save over 75% off!

Some changes are happening- bear with me!

Hey! We're ending summer and we're having some "style" issues on the blog.
Bear with me as I make some changes- good news is you can read it on your mobile devices in this format.

It will be great as always... promise!!

Sign up for the Rite Aid Wellness+ and Save!

Go to www.riteaid.com and sign up for the Wellness+ program. They will track your purchases with points and you can earn up to 20% off with your rewards card. Here's the email I received after signing up. You do get a $5/$25 link to print when you sign up.

Welcome to wellness+ online! Now that you've completed the activation process, you can start enjoying all the great benefits wellness+ online has to offer including:


Exclusive savings.
Special member-only offers.
Valuable health and wellness information.
Online tracking of your wellness+ rewards status - the more points you earn the more you save.
One-stop management of your prescriptions at Rite Aid, including online refills, prescription history and important drug interaction information.
If you just signed up for a card, you can expect to receive it in the mail in a couple of weeks. Remember, you can also use your phone number in-store if you don't have your card.

Rite Aid's wellness+ program offers everything you expect from a rewards card, plus much more. You're dedicated to your family's wellness - and we're here to offer the information, support and savings you need to take the best care of them and you.

Thank you for enrolling, and welcome to wellness+ online.

Rite Aid-With us, it's personal.

I'm BBBAAACCCKKK- another Restaurant.com RAVE!!!

Hey! Remember me? I write a blog about saving money?? LOL- I've been busy and pretty much if you don't live in Cherokee County or Georgia then you are just entering about the mid-phase of your children's summer vacation. Me? I'm up to my eyeballs in PTA and our school year starts in drumroll.... 2 weeks from Monday. AND- drumroll and trumpets... I will have 2 and only children in school full time 2 weeks from Monday!

We are actually out of town and enjoying a reunion of my dad's Navy Ship- the USS Wainwright in Louisville, Kentucky. Sounds like an interesting choice for a little vacation but we are getting to do some exciting things like breakfast and back track with the trainers at Churchhill Downs, lots of neat tours around a beautiful city and my sister is coming from Chicago with her fam to sing the National Anthem at the Bats game later today.

Okay- those of you that are wonderful but can't benefit from Restaurant.com- please read just for the heck of it. BUT- yet another example of why I LOVE Restaurant.com and how you can take advantage of great savings even when traveling. I checked out the restaurants in Louisville and some of the most AMAZING restaurants in Louisville were included and I got gift certificates for 80% off. I got a $50 gift certificate to Maker's Mark gift certificate for $4 and had an amazing meal for $73 including tip. It's in a cool area called 4th Street and it had a lot of chain restaurants but also some unique ones to Louisville. And we had so much food for the amount we spent and we got something different from what we can get at home.

I have other gift certificates for restaurants that area historic for the area including The Oakroom (Kentucky's only AAA 5 diamond rated- the menu looks incredible so no stabs or rolling of the eyes from my Northern and West Coast friends). I also found that our hotel had a gift certificate so our only day to get breakfast is taken care of!!

Summer is crazy and fast for us- so sorry I've been moving at a lightning speed concerning summer but at the same time a snail pace on the blog. There are so many great things happening for the blog and summer is always quiet for the most part. I was just laughing with Mike-I'm doing the whole "Southern Mom Summer." You sign up for camps, grow tomatoes, work Vacation Bible School etc. etc. But- the deals haven't been anything to go crazy about.

School supplies are hot but different this year, there is a huge skin care deal for free (I'll write by tomorrow) and get ready for deals on stuff for lunches. I'm back!!

We have a winner!!

Congrats to Harry from Escondido, California! I've contacted Cellfire with your information and grocery store choice!

Harry really upped his odds for winning by increasing his entries all throughout the month of June! He participated in every contest and promotion to attract more readers to the blog and to enter the contest. The results were awesome!

Hopefully there will be more contests coming in the near future. I'm working on one right now so I'll share the contest when I can!

Now a challenge to Harry- let's see how far you can stretch $100 at Vons and do a guest posting on the blog with your results!
Thanks again for everyone's participation and be on the lookout for more contests!

Color Scheme of SCB- Answer and enter to win $100 GC in Free Groceries...last chance!

It's the end of June and it's here- Cellfire.com is great!
I'll add one more chance to enter to win the $100 Gift Card for free groceries.

Comment and answer why the color scheme of the blog is significant on 2 levels in my life. 1 comment is an entry, 1 right answer is 3 entries and if you get both- you get 25 entries last minute.

One week away- $100 Free Groceries ends on 6/30!

There's still a week of June and if you haven't done so- take a minute to comment about Cellfire, downloading coupons with ease or how much you save using ecoupons to be entered into our $100 Gift Card to the grocery store of your choice for free groceries!

Great response and I love having something so fun to do for all of my readers.

Not familiar with Cellfire?
Go to: http://www.cellfire.com/affiliate/fullpage.php?cf_tlc=dlb
Log in or sign up- super easy! You'll give them your cell phone number but your ecoupons will be downloaded to your Kroger (of Kroger affiliate)loyalty card.
Then select the coupons that you think you will use and they are downloaded automatically. Buy the products and your ecoupon will automatically come off your total when you check out! Best part of ecoupons is your can pair them with paper manufacturer coupons to save even more money!

Thanks again for participating and make sure you download your ecoupons through the link above. Let Cellfire.com know that Southern Coupon Belle sent ya!

Cinderella Coupons are back this Thursday! 3pm EST/12 Pacific

Got a message from Cellfire that the Cinderella Coupons are back and available this Thursday at 12 noon Pacific time. You must use this link:
http://www.cellfire.com/cinderella


Glitches are fixed, coupons will be limited and the value of the coupon is greater than $1.00. Coupons are downloaded to your Kroger or affiliate card and will be taken off your next purchase.

Get ready and be on this right on time- they are gonna go fast!!

Hey! I'm giving away FREE GROCERIES!!!

Response has been slow concerning the Cellfire $100 Gift Card to your choice of store giveaway! $100 in FREE GROCERIES!!

I'll repeat one more time... $100 GIFT CARD FOR FREE GROCERIES!!

What do you need to do? Definitely #1 and at least one of the rest.
1. Click on the Cellfire ad on the right. Sign up if you haven't already and click on the coupons you want to download to your Kroger card. Must be done through my ad on the right so they can see you are coming to the Cellfire website through my blog.
If you don't have Kroger- see the bottom of the ad to the right of this post and click to see other stores.
2. Comment on posts to receive an additional entry to the drawing.
3. Email me for a promotional code to have refer your friends to the website. They can comment or email me with the code and you will both get entries into the drawing.
4. Email me a question I can answer, share a recipe using one of the featured products that you can click in Cellfire for a coupon or tell a funny story about one of the featured products.

It's easy- I've gotten a good response but I want you to go for your chance at $100 in FREE GROCERIES!!

Featured Products:
Morton's Season Salt
Fruit Loops
Apple Jacks
Frosted Flakes
Corn Pops
Hamburger Helper
Nature Valley
Betty Crocker Supreme Brownie Mix
Fiber One
Bisquick
Betty Crocker Fruit Roll-Ups
Trix
Lucky Charms
Chex Mix
Yoplait Fiber One Multipakcs
Yoplait Cups
Yoplait Delight
Wheaties Fuel

Great Sears Father's Day Apparel Rebate

Click here or go to: https://www.mysearsrebate.com/ohanapdfs/H100100.pdf

The details? Buy $50 in Men's Apparel and please note the exclusions like Lands End by 06/20/10. Fill out the rebate form by 07/20/10 and receive a voucher/coupon for $50.

I won't be doing this deal so please read the rebate form and get all the details and restrictions.