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    • Morning Coffee: New coupons + Brita deal, Stamp Out Hunger & More

    May 11, 2013 by

    Morning Coffee is published daily and includes the best of the latest coupons, deals, and info I think you may find interesting. Please note this post contains affiliate links that help support this site at no additional cost to you. Thank you for using them! You can read CFO’s full disclosure here.

    There are some new coupons at Coupons.com, including:

    Stack the Brita coupon with this Target coupon for $3/1 Brita filtration system to get a kid’s bottle for less than $2.

    Amazon is offering a one-year subscription to Every Day with Rachael Ray for just $7.50 (the usual sale price I see is $10, so this is a great deal). I like this magazine for its doable recipes and focus on frugal tips.

    Get a printable coupon for $0.50/1 Sargento Natural Blends Sliced or Snack Cheese.

    If you have a 30% off CVS coupon, here’s a suggestion from A Full Cup to use it on flowers for Mother’s Day.

    Get 3 Swag Bucks when you enter code “WkndSwag” between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. PDT today. Learn more about Swagbucks here.

    Help the Post Office stamp out hunger today by leaving non-perishable foods for your mail carrier to collect. This is a great time to go through your cupboards and find those items that you thought you’d use but haven’t, as well as anything approaching its expiration date.

    Org Junkie has a great guest post on organizing kids’ outdoor toys.

    Fabulessly Frugal shares a tip on making strawberries last longer.

    Northern Cheapskate has a roundup of free summer reading programs for kids.


    Banner ad via Escalate Media Network

    Filed Under: coupons, shopping deals

    Managing Perfectionism

    May 10, 2013 by

    In the last couple of years, I’ve begun to truly understand what it means to be a perfectionist, and why that’s bad:

    Perfectionism = Fear of Failure = No Progress/Success

    I realized that there are a lot of things I wasn’t doing because I couldn’t or wouldn’t do them perfectly:

    I wouldn’t vacuum because I didn’t have time or the desire to vacuum the whole house.

    I didn’t exercise because I couldn’t run due to plantar fasciitis (though I could walk), and I didn’t do yoga because I’d eaten recently and you’re “supposed to” do yoga on a relatively empty stomach.

    I wouldn’t journal because it should be done at night to go over the day, but I don’t have time alone to be reflective at night.

    For someone else, it might be not writing a novel that’s itching to get out due to fear that it won’t come out a bestseller.

    Or denying the urge to decorate a cake because it won’t look like Martha Stewart or Duff Goldman did it.

    And so on and so forth.

    I began to truly understand what perfectionism was doing to me when I finally understood Flylady’s Weekly Home Blessing Hour and the idea that “Housework done incorrectly still blesses your family!” That was a real eye-opener for me.

    I began to accept that doing things imperfectly is allowed!

    I was raised with the “do it right or not at all” approach, so you can imagine how revolutionary this concept was for me. And it’s transformed my life:

    I now clean my house in sections – I’ll vacuum the upstairs one day and the downstairs the next. I’ll clean one bathroom each day, instead of all three at once. I’ll dust one room but not another. The whole house may not be clean all at once, but everything does get cleaned, just at different times.

    I walk on the treadmill now, and take a Pilates class once a week, and while I’m nowhere near the condition I was in when I ran a 5K five years ago, at least I’m doing something.

    I journal most mornings now, because that’s when I’m alone and can think things through. It’s still made a difference in clarifying my thoughts, goals, and perspective.

    I’m still trying to figure out how “do it anyway” coexists with “do it right or not at all,” because I understand the value in putting forth your very best effort. But I guess it’s just that sometimes your very best effort isn’t warranted.

    What do you think?

    Filed Under: personal development, productivity

    Morning Coffee: Pick America’s Smartest Shopper, Spanx at Rue La La & More

    May 10, 2013 by

    Morning Coffee is published daily and includes the best of the latest coupons, deals, and info I think you may find interesting. Please note this post contains affiliate links that help support this site at no additional cost to you. Thank you for using them! You can read CFO’s full disclosure here.

    All You Smartest ShopperYou probably know All You magazine as a great source of coupons, and right now, they want you to help them decide who the Smartest Shopper in America is. Do you think it’s stay-at-home mom Allison, fashion maven Brandhyze, the only male finalist Daniel, or one of the others? Learn their savings strategies, and be entered into a weekly sweepstakes to win a gift card to popular retailers each time you vote. (This week, you could win one of two $125 JC Penney gift cards. One entry per day.) Vote here! Disclosure: All You has offered me and other bloggers a monetary incentive for encouraging entries to the contest.

    There should be Red Plum and Smart Source inserts, plus a P&G insert in this weekend’s newspapers. Coupons to look forward to include $3/2 Covergirl products, $1/1 DiGiorno small pizza, and $0.50/1 Huggies wipes. Note that coupon inserts vary by region, and yours may differ somewhat from those listed at Sunday Coupon Preview.

    Daily deal site Eversave is offering a Compact Backup Battery Charger for just $11 ($49 value) + $2 flat-rate shipping. These devices allow you to charge any USB device anywhere, so you can re-charge your phone or iPod during long car rides. New Eversave members get a $5 sign-up credit when you join here, making your cost just $6 + $2 shipping.

    Amazon’s Gold Box Deal of the Day is Friday Night Lights: The Complete Series on DVD for $39.99 (list price $99.98, Amazon’s regular price $72.19; 4.8 stars in 98 reviews).

    Daily deal site Rue La La has a Spanx Sale for women and men. The women’s sale includes shapewear, swimwear and active wear.

    Through Sunday (5/12), get 10% off any purchase at daily deal site Plum District with code MomPick10. Their current offers include gifts for grads, toothbrush sanitizers featured on Ellen, The Rachael Ray Show and Oprah, and many more.

    Best Buy is offering a $100 iTunes gift card for just $85. That’s a 15% discount, which isn’t the greatest, but definitely better-than-nothing if you need to buy one as a gift or make an iTunes purchase.

    Get a printable coupon for $1/2 Carnation Breakfast Essentials No Sugar Added packages or Multipacks.

    Today only, Ralphs/Kroger shoppers can add a digital coupon for a Free Liberte Yogurt to your store card. Quantities may be limited, so be sure to add it as soon as possible.

    Get a printable coupon for a $10 Toys R Us gift card with a $40+ purchase.


    You only have a couple more days to use the coupon! Banner ad via Escalate Media Network

    Filed Under: coupons, shopping deals

    Update on Gelson’s Coupon Match Ups

    May 9, 2013 by


    Gelson’s is an upscale supermarket in Los Angeles, and although I’ve been doing coupon match ups for their ads for over a year now, they’ve never seemed very popular. Given that, it seems I can serve you better by taking the time I would spend doing the Gelson’s match ups and invest it in other topics that would benefit you more.

    So I’m going to cease the Gelson’s match ups for now, but if you miss them, please let me know and I’ll revisit the issue.

    In the meantime, Ralphs shoppers can breathe easy, as I will definitely continue doing the Ralphs match ups every week.

    Filed Under: announcements, Gelsons

    Winners: $25 Gift Card & 2 Game Downloads from Big Fish Games

    May 9, 2013 by

    Thank you to everyone who entered the Big Fish Games giveaway, and congratulations to the lucky random winners:

    $25 Gift Card Winner: Kirk R. (kirkris****@yahoo.com)
    2 Game Downloads Winner: Liz N.K. (catholic1co*****@aol.com)

    Winners, I’ve sent you an email and you have 24 hours to respond.

    Everyone else: Stay tuned for a couple more fun giveaways going live in the next week!

    Filed Under: giveaway winners
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