Awesome mail week!

This week all of a sudden I have gotten all kinds of great mail!

MIA

Obviously I have been MIA for awhile, not really sure why, just been in a funk and can't seem to find the motivation to do much of anything. But I have been taking lots of pics to post so I will try to condense them all down to just a few post, starting with mail round ups. These are no longer in the correct order and I had a week or so w/ nothing and then combined 2 weeks so basically the past months goodies :)









*The oreos, cake mix, cupcake liners, and recipe cards are from giveaway on another blog "Wayward Girls Crafts", sorry ladies I have no idea how to link to you, but thanks for the goodies!! :)




This stuff was actually from the "Got to be NC Festival" at the end of May. This year was the first time I have been, even though I have always lived here, needless to say I will definately be going back next year! We had a great time, there was a petting zoo, pony rides, play area for the kids, rides, the expo center was slam full of NC based companies, almost all of which were giving out samples and or coupons! The pony rides, animal food, ride tickets, and entry into the Expo center($2 per adult, kids free) did cost $ but it was still a great cheap day! The only thing we paid for was the pickles, lg bag of biscuit mix, and the freeze pops :)


Here are a few more pics from the day:

Weekly mail roundup

Very late this week, but oh well.
The coupons are dupilcates from a week or two ago that I also sent to my Dad's and he brought to me this week. Yay for double the free product coupons! :)

Weekly Mail roundup

This weeks round up:
1 reusable to-go coffee cup
-inside the coffee cup was:
2 Coupons for FREE breve Creme coffee creamer
5 55 cents off 1 Breve Creme coffee creamer coupons
sample of Eucerin lotion w/ $1 off coupon
1 FREE coupons for Uncle Ben's ready rice
1 75 cent off coupon for Uncle Ben's ready rice
1 coupon for a FREE full size Suave Professionals product

Mail roundup!

This week was a great week for good mail! None of it was reference the apple a day project, but still lots of goodies :)



This week included:
1-1 load packet of Tide
1-3 load box of Tide plus Bleach
5-$1 off ANY Tide!! That means I can use them in the travel section and get free Tide, perfect for all our summer trips coming up!
2 boxes of Playtex Tampons, each included 3 tampons and a $1 off coupon
$32 P&G coupon booklet
Jeffy cookbook
Sample of Vaseline repairing moisture lotion w/ $1 off coupon
1 Orville Redenbacher's Pop Up Bowl, this came w/ $1 off coupon for the popcorn, it also had a B1G1 coupon for Chef Boyardee! And $1 off Peter Pan peanut butter
16 mini red Sharpie Markers

*I realized as I am typing this, that I never posted about my "House Party"! I will post about it tomorrow, which is where the markers come in...they are replacements for the pens I got last week in my goodie box.

Weekly mail round up

This week there was no feedback from the "apple a day project", but I have also really slacked off on contacting companies.

This weeks samples included:
1 individual tide detergent
10 pack of tide stain release packs
1 Degree women's deodorant w/ $1 off coupon
1 can Ocean Spray Sparkling Cranberry juice w/ $1 off coupon

Apple a day project

I am way behind on my postings again, but I wanted to share this idea. I saw it on another blog and it seems like a great idea. She writes to one company every day, something good or bad depending on her family's experience with each product. In return she gets lots on nice emails back and about half the time high value coupons and or free stuff! Seems like a great plan to me. So, I have decided to start doing this also, however, due to my severe lack of organization I can't seem to remember to do it everyday. I have done several though. So far I have written: Goody's Hair products, Oscar Mayer, Nestle, Vaseline lotion, Ivory, Lance, and Hefty. I have gotten a couple emails thanking me for my feedback of the products so far. I am hoping that this coming week maybe I will get some coupons or even free products in the mail. That would definitely help me keep it up!

Also, I discovered that if you "like" Valspar Paint on FB you can sign up to get a free paint sample w/ a roller brush and pan! All packaged up and sent right to your door, how cool is that! I have been wanting to paint Hailey's room, and even though it is not a super expensive thing to do we just don't seem to have the money at the end of the month to buy the paint and supplies so....I sent samples of the same color(plink) to myself, my Dad, my Mom, my Sis, my Step MIL, and her bro's house!! I am hoping maybe possibly it will be enough to paint her room and if not, at least I won't have to buy pans and rollers and such and the samples each come with coupons to buy more paint at Lowe's :) So if you are thinking about changing up a room color you might want to check it out and get your sample and coupon before you shop! The store "re-opens" everyday at 10am eastern time, and they only do 1000 samples a day. They are giving away a total of 100,000, I am not sure how long this has been going on so if interested jump on it and try to log in right at opening, the samples seem to be gone with in 2 hrs every morning.

Hope everyone has a great weekend! We have beautiful weather here :)