Frugal Living Today

From the wonderful folks at Heinz comes today’s freebie offer and it is especially for those who are expecting or have a newborn of their own. By joining the Heinz Baby Club you become eligible not only for a couple of great freebies (more on that in a minute), but also for coupons, information and special offers for all stages of your baby’s first year. The information sent to you is customized for the stages of your child’s development, so it is timely and useful when you receive it!

Now as for the freebies, these are really cool!

When you sign up for the Heinz Baby Club, there are a few options you need to pay attention to. One allows you to receive a free reusable eco-friendly shopping bag with coupons, a growth chart and a full sized sample of Heinz Nurture infant formula. There’s a special bonus offer going on right now though that - for a limited time - will include a case 12×385mL case of Heinz Nurture Infant Formula Concentrate - that’s a $30 value!

What are you waiting for? Oh, that’s right! You need a link!

If you haven’t heard about the digital tv transition yet you must have been hiding under some rock because I’ve seen the commercial every 15 minutes of every day for the past six months.

In short, if you are still using a television with rabbit ears and only receiving local channels on tv, you have something to worry about because 31 days from today your tv isn’t going to see anything but snow. If you don’t want to spend big bucks on cable you don’t have to fret though; just get a digital converter box for your analog television and all will be well with the world when the transition takes place.

Again, you’re a little late to the party and the coupon program has reached its ceiling but don’t let that stop you from signing up to be eligible for a $40 off coupon for the converter box. As coupons that have already been issued expire, new coupons will be issued to customers on the waiting list. Fill out that application today and get on that list!

Michael Nolan has a TV that he doesn’t watch and a dog that stares at him sadly. He is currently working on completing his first novel and he loves comments!

I bet as soon as you saw that headline, you though I was going to offer you one of those pie in the sky trips to Vegas, right? Wrong.

The odds are pretty good that you (or your spouse) have taken part in a friendly wager among friends at least once in your life. Who knows, maybe you enter the football pool at work even though you know you’ll never win. I mean, someone has to win right?

What if I told you there was a web site where you could bet on all kinds of sports events without ever spending a cent of your own money.  That’s right - free gambling and you can start right now!  The web site is called Cent Sports and just because it sounds too good to be true doesn’t mean it is.  In fact, Cent Sports’ business model is brilliant by design.  The site uses generated advertising revenue to give you a few cents to make your first wager.  What you do with your bets is up to you, but you’re playing with someone else’s money so why not shoot for the moon?

Michael Nolan is a full-time writer who blogs on topics related to saving money here at Frugal Living.  He is currently working on completing his first novel.

The time is upon us once again my frugal friends.  The time when Americans from coast to coast scramble to ensure we have all those receipts and W-2s in order, wondering what exemptions we might dream up to claim on this year’s taxes.

If you have collected your paperwork but don’t have the massive income to justify the use of a tax preparer or Certified Public Accountant to do the dirty deed for you, why not take advantage of the free edition of Turbo Tax that you can use online at no cost to you?

Bear in mind that the free edition is only for basic returns that use the 1040 form for the return so if yours will require more detailed paperwork than that you should get everything together as early as possible and call the IRS toll free hotline for help as early as you can, before the telephone lines get backed up for hours!

Michael Nolan is a full-time writer who blogs on topics related to saving money here at Frugal Living.  He is currently working on completing his first novel.

As of today we are officially two weeks into Get It Free Month and I hope you are taking advantage of these great free items! 

Since the dawn of the digital photography age I have been an addict. I’ve got to admit that somehow the very idea that I could take as many photos as I wanted and not have to pay for them was pretty awesome. Now SONY is making an appealing offer to digital photography enthusiasts with a $10 FedEx Office Digital Photo Printing Gift Card by mail just for registering online to use the SONY Picture Station at any FedEx store.

It sounds complicated but I have to tell you that these kiosks are made with the most technologically deficient people in mind.  My mother could use them and she can barely turn her computer on!  With the SONY Picture Station you can edit and crop your photos and print everything from wallet size up to 8×10 in no time at all.  I’ve registered for mine and I can’t wait to print some new photos for my office.

I’ll admit that for general use I don’t print many photos but as an amateur photographer I do tend to have some images that I want to see in full glossy glory, like the image in this post, for example, that hangs in my living room.

Michael Nolan is a full-time writer who blogs on topics related to saving money here at Frugal Living.  He is currently working on completing his first novel.

Is there anyone alive who doesn’t love the classic film The Wizard of Oz? I can’t imagine that such a person exists!

Today’s freebie is the second audio book to make my Frugal Living Get It Free Month list and it is none other than L. Frank Baum’s timeless tale of Dorothy, the Scarecrow, the Tin Man, the Cowardly Lion and the wonderful wizard in the magical land of Oz.

If you have only ever seen the movie then I have to suggest that you grab your kids, curl up on the sofa and listen to J. Hall narrate the beautiful story, bringing the cast of characters to life in a whole new way.

This book is in the public domain and is therefore entirely legal to download and come on, how can you not?  It’s The Wizard of Oz and it is free!

Michael Nolan is a full-time writer who blogs on topics related to saving money here at Frugal Living. He is currently working on completing his first novel.

Twelve days of freebies so far; I hope you’re grabbing some of these great giveaways! Today’s Get It Free Month freebie is free money. You read that right, this web site gives away money every day of the week and you’re not getting any - why is that?

Coupons.com is the site I’m talking about and if you haven’t caught on by now, a coupon is free money.  Every time you take one of those magical little pieces of paper into the supermarket with you, you are spending less of your money in favor of spending more of the company’s marketing dollars.  If you don’t see a coupon as free money just stop for a minute and think.  Let’s say a loaf of bread is $1.00 and you have a coupon for $.50 off.  Take that coupon, two quarters and whatever the tax would be in your area to the cashier and you have yourself a loaf of bread, right?

How is that not free money, and why do so many people not use coupons?  With just casual coupon-hunting the average-sized family can easily save $50 every month on groceries - most will save much more.  Is it not worth it in these financially challenging times to spend a few minutes time to save a few dollars at the checkout?  Methinks it is!

Michael Nolan is a full-time writer who blogs on topics related to saving money here at Frugal Living.  He is currently working on completing his first novel.