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Here are just a few last minute ideas for Valentine’s Day crafts and gifts:

Free Valentine’s Day recipes cookbook 

Adorable little Valentine’s Day cards- get 20 for just $1.49 shipped! (make sure to check the shipping times before you order- two day shipping is $5.97.)

Get a custom Valentine’s Day greeting card for free and just pay $.99 for shipping.

Krispy Kreme- Buy 12 doughnuts and get 12 free! 

A free Valentine’s Day Craft Ideas book to download.

Little labels for Valentine’s Day gifts- get 140 for just $3.50.

Believe it or not we have been doing some little craft projects for Valentine’s Day… we made Valentine’s for the class, for teachers, a little mailbox and some other things that were pretty simple to do.  I’ll post some of the stuff we came up with in the next few days.

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Synovate is open once again for new applicants. Usually this one fills up lightening fast and then closes back down for awhile.

Synovate is a market research company and they offer surveys and they compensate you for your time to fill them out. From the feedback I have received, it seems like people are more interested in this company because they frequently offer full size samples of various household, personal care and beauty products for you to try and then respond with your honest opinions.

So if you would like to check it out, you can register for Synovate right now. If you have already started with the program, we’d love to hear your experience!

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Just a quick reminder that you can donate any expired coupons you might have to overseas military families. There are a TON of coupons that are expiring either today or on the 31st.

Many military members stationed overseas don’t have access to coupons and they can use them at the commissary after they have expired.

So this is a very simple thing to do to support our military and their families.  They can use the coupons up to 6 months after they expire but you will want to try and mail them within a few weeks of their expiration.

You can send your coupons to the Overseas Coupon Program.  You will need to fill out a very short form to adopt a base and then you will hear from someone with the details of where you can send your coupons!

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Starting 1/22, first class mail stamps will increase by 1 cent. So, the Forever Stamp will now be  $.45.   This is the first price change for the Forever Stamp in over 2 1/2 years.  The post card stamp will also increase by 3 cents.

The price increase does not effect Express or Priority Mail.

You can get more information here on the postage stamp increase.

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Update: Ok so there was some pretty nasty stuff going on Brita’s Facebook page and they have changed their minds and said once again they will be honoring the rebates.   I would very strongly suggest getting that rebate in if you purchased a pitcher or you intend to purchase a pitcher because there are no guarantees they won’t change their minds again.

Well it looks like the Brita water rebate is no longer available. Brita has reached the limit of rebates they can accept so if you are planning to buy a pitcher just understand you can try submitting the $10 rebate form but most likely it won’t be honored.

While that may be disappointing, I do appreciate that they let people know now rather than waiting several weeks to send some form letter out.

On the upside, from what I understand, Walmart has these for less than $6.  You can still use the $4/1 from 1/15 SS and pay $2 or so for a pitcher!  That is a great deal to me!

If you already mailed your form off, hopefully you will get your rebate check back.  There is a chance it won’t be honored so if you have not yet opened the box, you can always return the product for a refund.

(Thanks Saving Cents with Sense.)

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If you are interested in trying to earn a little money from home, Ipsos survey company is currently accepting applications.

Currently they are only looking for moms of any age group.

This company is one that sends you surveys and you complete those and accumulate points.  The points are then redeemed for cash, prizes or gift cards.

I did research awhile back on survey companies and this particular one most people told me it was a pretty simple and straightforward company to work with.

You can register for Ipsos and get more info here.

One tip if you want to get started with some of these companies is to set up a separate email account so that everything is in one place. I used to do a lot of these programs (before the blog!) and what I would do is just sit with the laptop in the evening while my husband was watching TV.  During commercials or whatever I would get through quite a bit of applications and it always seemed to go pretty quickly and it didn’t feel like such a chore.

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