Did you know that I am the FRISCH’s Mayor on Four Square? It’s true! My first ever Mayoral role! My son and I go to Frisch’s every week. Since I work full time and he’s in daycare throughout the week, I make it a point to pick him up once a week for a special lunch. After lunch, it’s back to work and daycare, but it certainly gives each of us something to look forward to. Each week, I have posted a picture of my “date”.
My son LOVES Frisch’s because he has such a selection, he gets a “swirlie” straw and even a small sundae after he eats! Don’t forget, he even gets a lollipop as I pay the bill! What more could a kid want?
Frisch’s is giving away a Summer Fun Pack (a $300 value) that includes a $25 Frisch’s Big Boy Gift Card, 4 tickets to Kings Island, and 4 tickets to The Beach Waterpark.
All winners will be notified by email but note this is the official notification due to some emails being blocked by spam blockers, etc. These winners will have 48 hours to respond or a new winner will be selected.
Stacy Teegarden July 5, 2010 at 8:48 pm - Thanks for keeping my car running jiffy lube and my car safe fir me and my kids love u guys and I love nickel-n-dimes
Stephanie Key July 8, 2010 at 11:11 am – My vehicle (Toyota Sienna) has 151,000 miles on it….that is the most I have ever had on a vehicle. It still purrs like a kitten! )
Thank you to Jiffy Lube for sponsoring this giveaway! Gift cards are in house and will be mailed by me and will be immediate upon receipt of addresses!
missy July 23, 2010 at 12:21 am – I “liked” and posted!
Thank you to Crayola and My Blog Spark for sponsoring this giveaway. As noted in your email Missy, this prize is being fulfilled by an outside source. Please give up to (4) weeks for delivery. If you don’t receive in that time, please notify me!
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McDonald’s Coupons for FREE Frappe or Smoothie:
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I will email each of you to get your addresses. I know some of you have won in the past and supplied your addresses, but I request a new address notification with each winning prize so if you don’t mind, please email me your addresses again. I will be fulfilling this giveaway sponsored by The QHunter! Your coupons will be sent out immediately upon receipt of your address!
REMEMBER….in the future, when there is a FORUM giveaway, you MUST be an ACTIVE member to win!!
All winners above have been notified via email immediately before this post was published. Thank you to everyone that participated!!
If you saw my post earlier today about our trip to Bowling Green, you know that I was going to be giving away a month supply of Kleenex tissues to one lucky winner! With back to school upon us and the cold and flu season in the near future, this will certainly prove to be a great giveaway to win!
You will need to refer to my PREVIOUS POST for more entries for this giveaway! We are making this one fun!
HOW TO WIN: 4 possible entries! (NOTE: In order to get up to 4 entries, you must leave a comment for each entry below. After filling out the scavenger hunt, let us know you did!)
Share a Back to School tip to help us all make this transition easier. Your tip(s) may show up on Kleenex’s site!!!
Fill out THIS SCAVANGER HUNT. The answers can be found in THIS POST (opens in a new window for easy toggling). Tell us you did this! You will get TWO entries for this!!
I can’t wait to get your tips and see if you find the items in the scavenger hunt! Good luck!!
This giveaway will close August 1st at 8pm. The winner will be announced and will have 48 hours to respond or a new winner will be selected.
Thank you to Kleenex and to The Motherhood for this giveaway and for the Hands on Learning Experience.
I was compensated for my travel for the Hands On Learning Experience and we were given “goodie” bags in conjunction with this awesome event. Our lodging for the evening and meals were also provided to us at no cost. This giveaway is provided by Kleenex and The Motherhood.com.
Disclaimer: There was some level of compensation and/or corporate involvement with this posting and is described above. For the full site Disclosure and Privacy Policy, please GO HERE. As always, I do not promote or endorse products or services that I do not feel are worthy of the Nickels-n-Dimes seal of approval. ______________________________________________________________________________________
Each Wednesday (sometimes on Tuesday night), I post Want to Win Wednesday so that my blogging friends (new and old) can come and share their giveaways with my fellow nickel-n-dimers.
This is a great opportunity for readers to find new blogs and to get in on a chance to win some really fun and exciting prizes.
This is also a great opportunity for bloggers to share their sites with others that may not have found their site otherwise.
I hope you take part in this each week in one form or another (or BOTH)!
Please keep all giveaways family friendly. Please do not link directly to your giveaway post and not your homepage please. This is requested so that we do not have to search for your posts.
Let’s get to it! I hope your week is off to a great start and ends up on the same great note!
Unadvertised sales are GLORIOUS! They take more to find at times and are easy to miss, but when you find them, they only add to the excitement of our deals!
Sales like we have now at Kroger with the Mega Events are always full of hidden deals that you would not know about if you were not looking for them, accidentally stumbling upon them (or of course, unless you are reading great blogs like this).
My very first find of an unadvertised deal was at my beloved Kroger. I noticed that Gillette Shave Gel (priced at the time at $2.09) was on sale for just $1.09. As soon as I saw it, I KNEW I had a $0.55 off coupon. I also knew that coupon would double to $1.00 making this shave gel just $0.09! HELLO! This was a GREAT FIND! I could not wait to share my find as I felt I finally had something to contribute to my Cincymoms friends!
When shopping, keep your eyes peeled! Always watch for these unadvertised gems that are waiting to be discovered. If you notice your stock in a certain item is getting low, continue to check the prices at the stores in the hopes that you might stumble onto one of those great (hidden) deals!
Do you recall your first unadvertised find? Did you share it with the world or keep the find all to yourself?
Cindy from THE Q HUNTER sent me 5 coupons for FREE McDonald’s Frappe or Smoothies to giveaway. I am tossing in one more for the fun of it!
If you have not purchased your coupons from THE Q HUNTER, I recommend checking her out!
To win one of these coupons, you have to be a registered user of the FORUM. You can’t register now (for this giveaway) – too late for that, but if you are already registered and would like one of these, respond quick and I will get one right out to you! Leave your comment here on this post if you know you are a registered user of the FORUM!
Just a note for future purposes…there will be other giveaways for those registered in the forums, but more than likely, will you have to be an ACTIVE part of the FORUMS to win! Makes for an interesting reason to sign up and start sharing / chatting and making friends!
As you know, just over a week ago, my son and I took a trip to Bowling Green Kentucky to spend a day in Kindergarten learning about germs, the importance of washing (AND DRYING) our hands and we got to see first hand just how easily germs spread.
We met the rest of the group in Bowling Green for our fun!
We had a great dinner and the kids not only had the chance to meet and play but also had a great opportunity to meet their teacher, Mrs. McCrary! We late headed back to our room to get a great night’s sleep before heading to class the next day. Upon waking, my son was READY to go. The highlight of his morning was the thought of riding a school bus. Seriously, it does not get better than that for this little kindergartner!
As soon as we saw the buses outside, he could not contain his smiles. Loading that bus gave him a sense of accomplishment – HE HAD MADE IT! HE WAS A BIG BOY NOW!
Our day was spent checking out germs, doing great arts and crafts and learning why it’s so important to wash our hands, cover our mouths when we cough or sneeze and the kids were able to see how just by touching something, their germs had already spread. Very cool!
I really wish I could have gotten the Wheels on the Bus music to work with this one!
Mrs. McCrary gave so many great tips. It’s no wonder she’s an award winning teacher. She spoke with such softness to the children. I almost wondered if my kid would be able to hear her as we an overall loud family! LOL
Some of her tips included:
Have your children collect their shoes, bags, jackets, etc and have a basket in one location for them to place everything so it’s ready to go the next day for school. This is great for us because I can’t tell you how many times we were running wild around the house looking for things in the morning.
Let them pick out their clothes the night before and have them ready. While we are in a private school setting with uniforms, having these our each night and ready to put on will certainly save time.
Engage your child’s mind by having them cross their mid-section. Watch the video. At the end, you will see her doing this with the children. So cool!
Having trouble getting the kids down for the night? Try moving their bedtime up slowly starting now so it’s not such a huge change and adjustment the week school starts. Assign a place for your child(ren) to pick out 3 books and have them waiting. This will give them something to look forward to at the end of the night and will help them relax and get ready for bed.
Talk to your children about their day but not in an overall sense of “what did you do today”? Instead, break it down for them. Ask them “what did you make in art today?” or “Did your teacher read a book for you today?”. This makes it easier for them to remember and discus their thoughts, feelings and the events of the day.
The night before we went to class, there was an incident where Ellen’s daughter was crying. Mrs. McCrary jumped to work and asked to see her hurting finger. She smiled and said, “do you know what the doctor would say? He would say this needed 4 and 1/2 rubs”. With that she rubbed it once. Twice. Then three and four times having Ellen’s daughter count with her. By this point, the little girl had stopped crying and was fixated on counting. With yet another smile, Mrs. McCrary said…oh wait…we need that 1/2 and gave it a 1/2 rub. All was well and everyone was back to having fun just that fast! We learned that by taking their mind off of the problem and getting them to focus their attention onto something as simple as counting, you can calm even the greatest of tears.
Kleenex wants to help us all prepare for the start of school so make sure to stay tuned as I will be posting VERY SOON about how YOU can win a ONE MONTH supply of Kleenex! Start thinking of your great back to school tips – they might win you a month supply of Kleenex!
I was compensated for my travel and we were given “goodie” bags in conjunction with this awesome event. Our lodging for the evening and meals were also provided to us at no cost.
Disclaimer: There was some level of compensation and/or corporate involvement with this posting and is described above. For the full site Disclosure and Privacy Policy, please GO HERE. As always, I do not promote or endorse products or services that I do not feel are worthy of the Nickels-n-Dimes seal of approval. ______________________________________________________________________________________
Good luck!!
