The Bargain Shopper Lady

Stop by Dunkin Donuts between 10 a.m. and 10 p.m. on Thursday, May 15th to get a free 16 oz iced coffee. Yum!

Our flight to New England was from Dallas to Hartford. I am in charge of finding the best deal on the tickets for most trips and I enjoy hunting for them. With kids, we like to fly nonstop but that’s not always affordable. In this case, there was  an $800 per ticket American Airlines flight that was nonstop. I opted to get us $110 a flight on another airline and found the best deal on Orbitz. We knew we could only check four complimentary bags with the new check in rule, but we ended up having eight! (There were quite a few things that we didn’t get to pack on the truck that we needed.) Four bags would be free and four bags would cost $25 each to fly. We checked four in to the sky cap at the entry. Then we headed up to check in. We checked four more bags and apparently the sky cap gentleman did not mark that we had already checked four bags. So they were allowing us to check all eight bags for free, saving us $100!

What we didn’t know is that we were then headed in for a big adventure! We took off from the gate only to pull back and wait an hour for the maintenance man to work on the air conditioning. At this point it was getting extremely hot. Then we pulled off and one of the passengers was having trouble breathing and chest pain because it was so hot earlier. We had to pull back and get medical attention for him.

At this point, we had now been on the runway with TWO toddlers for a total of TWO hours and missed our connecting flight.  They made an announcement and they were going to provide a hotel stay for us all in North Carolina. I called my mom and she said ” Just stay cool and think of it as a fun unexpected vacation.” I took her advise and stayed as cool as possible while entertaining my children. However, we got off the plane in NC at midnight, we got our new boarding passes only to find that we had to race to the hotel and get five hours of sleep.

I was thinking of calling the airline to explain that you never wake a sleeping toddler and we would have to change our flight. We stuck with it, the boys did extremely well under the circumstances, and we made it to Hartford the next morning for Mother’s Day.

We are currently working on our  New England Cottage, which is absolutely beautiful. I am still in shock that God  gave us such a beautiful gift and that the seller took our offer. We have painted the house and I am working on a special faux painting kitchen project like this only in red. The buyer left us beautiful rustic laminate flooring that my husband is in the process of putting down for me. In fact, he found a treasure yesterday, while he was pulling up the carpet, part of the house has gorgeous oak flooring from the 1940’s. We may shine that part up if we can and put the laminate on the rest of the house. Yesterday we saw cute chipmunks that live in our stone wall and a deer about 50 yards from our house! I’ll post pictures soon!

Printing coupons online can save you a lot of time and money. Here are printable coupons to save money for your baby:

Print Cheerios and tons of cereal coupons at coupons.com.

Print Baby Food coupons at Gerber.

Print Huggies Little Swimmers at coupons.com.

Thursday is the last day to get your free $25 for signing up for Revolution Money Exchange. You can sign up here:

I just wanted to take a second to say Happy Mother’s Day Mom! You are an amazing mom.  I love how you are the best example of what it is like to be a godly mom by serving others. Know that even though we moved pretty far from Houston that I am only a phone call or plane ride away. I love you!

Happy Mother’s Day to all of our bargain shopper moms!

Love,
Lori

Hello!  My name is Nikki (aka: The Techie Tutor) and I’m a guest blogger for the BSL today since she’s on her way to her new home.  But, she didn’t want to leave you all without a post so she asked me to find something cool to blog about.  I am honored to do so!

As I began to blog more frequently and learned about all the cool blogs out there, perhaps one of them being your blog (I click on comment links A LOT), Lori mentioned that I could look into a feed reader to streamline the blogs I read most often.   I found Feed Demon and it’s like I am the Editor in Chief of my very own newspaper!  I love reading my blogs all in one place.  But what is even more cool is that each view on Feed Demon is counted as a view of the site I’m looking at.  I know that’s important to many of you out there, as it is to me too!  I like to know that someone actually reads my techno-rants!  So, enough of that babbling, right?  Here’s the link to the full review and how to download this to your desktop.

So, what’s in it for Mom????  A very special ecard!  Hallmark SmileBox is a great program and I recommend the FREE version (you can pay $40 a year for more songs and no ads if that’s important to you).  Just go to the Smilebox site and download the program.  You will be able to send a unique ecard with your family photos on your PC to your Mom or your children’s Nana (see the one I sent below), or pick from many, many others.

Thank you for listening and may you all have a wonderful Mother’s Day!

God’s richest blessings,

Nikki

Our house in the Northeast closed today! Two days before we move. God is so good! Thanks for all your prayers. It was God’s perfect timing! If you have not read our moving testimony, you can read it here!

I have heard a lot about Revolution Money Exchange, but I have not had time to check into it to make sure they are a legit company. I finally took the time to do it and can say that they are legit. They are FDIC approved and there was $25 in my account right away after I signed up. The company is somewhat like Paypal except you can use the account to send and receive money for free.

They are offering $25 to each person who signs up  and giving a $10 referrel fee as well, so go here and sign up to get your free $25! (Then you can afford to buy the cute shoes that are on sale at Shoebuy! )  

Shoebuy.com is having another big 30% off sale for Mother’s Day! Here are some cute shoes for MOM!

Reg $31 Now $22

Blink Reg 43 Now $21

Use online coupon code MOTHERSDAY08 for 20% off! (You can save an extra 10% off if you register during checkout. If you have bought from them in the last 60 days, you automatically get the extra 10% off.) As always, they have free shipping and NO TAX!

They have lots of really cute shoes on sale, you have to check them all out!

Use code 4MOM to get a free 8 x 10 at Walgreens. You can pick it up in store or have it made at a loved one’s store for a mother’s day surprise.