Publix match-ups 3/19-3/26

I have decided to bring you the best of the Publix deals each week thanks to the hard work of my fellow blogger at Swaggrabber. Sheri is a dedicated blogger and an excellent couponer who faithfully posts the match-ups each week at Publix and Winn-Dixie. Here are a few of this week's best deals at Publix. For the whole list and/or to get the list of the abbreviations she uses, please visit her post here.

Trop 50 Orange Juice BOGO $3.89-
Use two $1/1 coupons found in the 03-15-09 RP insert
$.94 each after coupons - Great Price!


Ocean Spray Juice BOGO $4.09-
Use two $1/1 coupon found in the All Well & Good Publix Magazine
$1.04 each after coupons


Lipton Tea Bags BOGO $3.29-
Use two $.75/1 coupons found in the 03-15-09 RP insert
$.86 each after coupons

Quaker Oatmeal To Go Breakfast Bars BOGO $3.29-
Use 2 $1/1 coupons found in the 01-04-09 RP insert
$.64 each after coupons

Global Test Market Surveys & Product Tests

Like all of the other survey companies I have discussed, Global Test Market is FREE to join with no obligation. They send me surveys approximately 3 times a week and I qualify for approximately 2 of them per week. I have also received many product tests through this site. A product test happens when you are taking a survey and the survey asks if you would be interested in testing a new product in your home and providing feedback to the manufacturer. You never know when a survey will lead to a product test. With Global Test Market, I have tested shampoo, conditioner, toothpaste, and snack chips! Not only are you getting a product for FREE but it's usually a new product not even on the market and you get to give the company your reviews about the product! Click here to sign up for Global Test Market!



The other surveys companies already reviewed on this blog are Survey Savvy, SayNation, Valued Opinions, American Consumer Opinion, Opinion Outpost , Zoompanel, Ipsos I-Say, HCD Surveys, and university-sponsored sites. Have you signed up for all of them?

Friday FREEBIES & great deals!

Here are great FREEBIES and deals to end your week!

FREE sample of Prilosec OTC

FREE scent sample and coupon for Gain laundry detergent

FREE sample of All-Bran Pink Lemonade Drink Mix

FREE sample of Dove Clear Deodorant (use this if you need help with the translation - request is in Spanish but it's easy!)

Sign up to be a Vix VIP and receive a FREE zebra tote

Email me to request your FREE invitation to Shop it to Me

Don't forget to enter my giveaways - 3 Fiber One Fiber Friend Fitness Baskets and Burberry Watch!

Make sure you've signed up for Freeflys, Shop4Freebies, MySavings, Cool Savings, and Startsampling for many more FREE samples!

Earn money for normal everyday online searching - Swagbucks is powered by google and is FREE to use! Earn Amazon giftcards as you search! Sign up here.

97.9 WRMF Radio Spot 3/19/09

Here is my weekly radio spot on 97.9 WRMF's Jennifer & Danny Show from March 19, 2009:



You can listen every Thursday between 7:00 a.m. and 7:30 a.m. at 97.9 WRMF if you're local to the West Palm Beach, Florida area or online at the station's website.

Winn-Dixie match-ups 3/18-3/26

I have decided to bring you the best of the Publix and Winn-Dixie deals each week thanks to the hard work of my fellow blogger at Swaggrabber. Sheri is a dedicated blogger and an excellent couponer who faithfully posts the match-ups each week at Publix and Winn-Dixie.

Here are a few of this week's best deals at Winn-Dixie. For the whole list and/or to get the list of the abbreviations she uses, please visit her post here.

Lysol Neutra-Air Aerosol $3.49-
Use the $1/1 PRINTABLE coupon-
AND use the BOGO Free coupon in the 03-15-09 SS insert
PROFIT $1.00 after both coupons

Bird's Eye Voila skillet meals 2/$8-
Use the $1/1 coupon PRINTABLE coupon
$3.00 each

Rice-a-Roni/Pasta-a-Roni $1.00 each-
Use the $1/4 coupon found in the 03-08-09 RP insert
$.75 each with coupon wyb 4

$1 Burnless Bakeware - get a new piece every month!

Apparently the great $1 burnless bakeware deal I posted about here is available to do again each month! Last month I got a great cake pan for just $1. All you need to do is click here or below to sign up for your choice of premium bakeware products.

Once you've selected your product, go to the checkout and make sure you click that you want the $1 shipping. Once you do that the bottom right hand side will have information about your trial offer. There are several different trial offers, all for 7 days and easy to cancel. The trial I signed up for had automated cancellation and I was able to get a confirmation email that I had cancelled sent to me after trying to log back into their site to make sure my account had been cancelled. The pan is really nice and since you can do this offer more than one time I just may get another to add to the collection!

Burberry Watch GIVEAWAY!

It has been a busy week here at Nicole's Nickels and here comes another great giveaway!
I have this beautiful pink Burberry watch to give away to a lucky reader. This Burberry watch has a pink grossgrain ribbon-type band and a silver and white face with a Burberry design on it. It is authentic Burberry and comes with a warranty. This watch is valued at over $250!

You must enter by leaving a comment in this post answering the question, "What is your favorite Burberry product?" Visit http://www.burberry.com/ for a list of products and more information. Make sure to leave your email address so I can contact the winners. FYI: it is best to leave your email address in this form "nicolesnickels at gmail dot com" so no automatic email scanners are able to read it. I've entered many giveaways doing this and have never gotten SPAM from leaving my email address in a comment.

You can get six (6) additional entries by doing the following:

1. subscribe to my blog (either via email using the box in the left sidebar or RSS feed). If you already subscribe leave a coment saying you do. If you subscribe by email you MUST confirm your email and activate the subscription.

2. follow me on Twitter (http://twitter.com/NicolesNickels) and tweet about this giveaway. If you already follow me that's fine, just comment with a link back to the tweet about this giveaway.

3. blog about this giveaway (leave the link in the comment)

4. email 5 people about this giveaway (please cc me on this email - nicolesnickels at gmail dot com and leave a comment saying you sent the email)

5. grab my button for your site (leave the link to where the button is in the comment)

6. add the link to this giveaway on a Mr. Linky about giveaways or on a blog giveaway site, blog carnival or forum or yahoo group (leave link to where you did this in the comment)

You MUST leave a comment about which Burberry product you like the best as your first entry and then additional entries are governed by the terms above. You MUST leave a separate comment for each entry you are able to make. Feed and email subscribers will need to click on to my actual blog to leave a comment. This giveaway is open to U.S. residents only and the winners will be chosen by random.org. This giveaway will be good until April 3 at 9:00 pm Eastern time and winners will be announced on Saturday, April 4. If the winners do not respond to my email within 48 hours then I will pick new winners. Good luck!

Service Sleuth

Service Sleuth is a great mystery shopping company that I have worked with in the past. It is FREE to sign-up (you should NEVER pay to sign up with a mystery shopping company) and within a few minutes you can search to see what kind of mystery shops are offered in your area. Service Sleuth has movie theater mystery shops, airport mystery shops and retail and restaurant mystery shops - something for everybody! They pay through paypal and paid me exactly when their terms said they would. The scheduler and editor were both nice to deal with and I recommend this company to others, including new shoppers. Sign-up today!


I am planning to do a comprehensive FAQ-type post on mystery shopping so if you have a question you would like answered, please email me or leave a comment!

House Parties

The House Party website is the place to go to host sponsored parties in your home. Sign-up is FREE! You sign in and apply to host a party in your home sponsored by a company and/or product to showcase the product among your friends and family! The sponsor chooses many hosts and parties are held across the country on the same day. Each brand provides you with a a FREE pack of goodies to make your party a success. Usually your guests will also get the FREE goodies as well! Upcoming parties are Clairol Color Connection, Werther's Original Caramel Chocolate, French Cocktail Hour, and Faraway Friends and Family. Sign-up and apply to host a house party today!

SayNation Surveys!

SayNation is the next survey company in the series. SayNation has an adult site and a teen site so that teens are able to express their opinions in surveys designed for them. SayNation sends me approximately 5 emails a week and I qualify for a good number of their surveys. I like SayNation because they have a meter on the left side of the page that keeps track of your progress and ultimate goal of a $25 gas giftcard. I've cashed out for B&N online e-certificates and have gotten some great books and gadgets from my winnings. As always, it's FREE to sign-up and start earning your gas gift card from the comfort of your home!

Radio last week

Here is my radio spot last week from 97.9 WRMF's Jennifer & Danny Show. I'll be on every Thursday morning from now on sharing deals with you.



You can listen live if you're in the West Palm Beach area or online at the WRMF website. I'll try to post the podcast each week as well.

FREE haircut!

Shelby over at Shelby Making Cents told me about a great deal for a FREE haircut. You just buy 2 bottles of specially marked New Herbal Essences Hydralicious shampoos and/or conditioners, visit the website, enter the UPC codes from the 2 items, print the redemption certificate, and then mail to the address given.
Please note that according to the FAQ's if there is no participating salon within 30 miles of your home zip code they will make alternate arrangements with you. With the many ways to get this product FREE or almost free recently, it's possible to get the 2 products AND the haircut all for FREE! I'm going to check the bottles I bought a few weeks ago at CVS!

Diets!

I found this great FREE diet site for women only (sorry guys!), DietBug

This site contains all of the tools you need to diet successfully and learn to change your habits, including daily meal plans with recipes, workouts, get moving plans, and healthy weight loss support.



The site is tailored to your needs after you complete an assessment of your situation. It pays to be honest here so you can get the most out of the program. You will have your own page to monitor your goals and progress. The best thing of all is that this program is FREE with NO credit card required!

FREEBIES, samples, and good deals!

Here are some FREEBIES, samples, and all-around good deals!

2 FREE issues of Redbook magazine with no strings (I've gotten these short subscriptions before and they do come and you don't get a bill afterwards)

FREE Diet Dr Pepper

FREE sippy cup from Juicy Juice

FREE Toby the Train coloring book

FREE recipe book from Fleischmann's Yeast - the Bread Breakthrough

FREE sample of Goodnites Boxers

Take this survey from Oprah magazine to see if you qualify to get a FREE bra!

Still available:

FREE travel mug when you buy 3 packs of Gevalia Coffee for $3 (just call to cancel if you don't want the auto-ship)

Ideal Bite - Live Greener - FREE eco-living tips


Vital Juice - for daily health and wellness tips

Humana FREE Medicare made simple booklet

PharmDaily IGuard - great tool to keep track of your medications

FREE discount drug card

Don't forget to sign up for Freeflys, Shop4Freebies, MySavings, Cool Savings, and Startsampling for many more FREE samples!

Shop it to Me - sales and FREE giftcards!

Thanks to my friend, Jennifer "The Sugar Mommy", for finding this site and inviting me to join months ago. I love my sale emails and am excited to share this great site/program with you!

Shop it to Me is a website that you register with and provide details about your size, style, and brand preferences as far as clothes go for you and your family. Then, depending on the communication options you choose, you receive an email (I chose daily) advising of all sales on clothing that you indicated an interest in. You can specify brand, color, size, style, etc. I see some amazing prices in my emails! If you are a fashion lover with a budget this is the site for you!

You can also receive a $10 gift card to Ann Taylor, Banana Republic, Bloomingdale's, Gap, J Crew, Macy’s, Nordstrom, Starbucks, or Urban Outfitters each time you refer 10 of your friends to the site. Everyone loves a good deal so this should be an easy giftcard!

If you would like an invite to Shop it to Me, please email me at nicolesnickels@gmail.com or by clicking "contact me" in the left sidebar. As always this site is FREE to sign up for - so send me an email for your invite and get started today!

Fiber One Fiber Friend Gift Basket GIVEAWAY!

I know I teased you with the watch giveaway and that's still coming later his week, but I wanted my very first giveaway to be the Fiber One Fiber Friend Gift Basket. I have three (3) of these to giveaway, thanks to the great people at Fiber One and MyBlogSpark!

Until April 11, 2009 you can go to http://www.fiberfriendfaceoff.com/ and play an instant win game testing your fiber knowledge! You can customize your Avatar to look like you and play against an opponent. You can also download and print valuable coupons for Fiber One products, including yogurt, cereal and pancake mix. Just by playing each week you are entered into a sweepstakes with chances to win great prizes such as a Flip videocamera and a spa trip for 2 to Arizona! I played this game this weekend and thought it was adorable. It only took a few minutes and I did learn some things about fiber. For those of you who don't know, fiber is great for your diet and overall health. Did you know that Fiber One yogurt provides 20% of the daily recommended amount of fiber for your diet?

I have three (3) Fiber One Fiber Friend Gift Baskets to giveaway to lucky readers. The gift baskets contain the following items: coupon for FREE Fiber One yogurt, nutrition journal, water bottle, pedometer with calorie counter, and kitchen scale. This giveaway will be good until March 28 at 9:00 pm Eastern time and winners will be announced on Sunday, March 29.

You must enter by leaving a comment in this post answering the question, "What is your favorite Fiber One product?" Visit http://www.fiberone.com/ for a list of products and more information. Make sure to leave your email address so I can contact the winners. FYI: it is best to leave your email address in this form "nicolesnickels at gmail dot com" so no automatic email scanners are able to read it. I've entered many giveaways doing this and have never gotten SPAM from leaving my email address in a comment.

You can get six (6) additional entries by doing the following:

1. subscribe to my blog (either via email using the box in the left sidebar or RSS feed). If you already subscribe leave a coment saying you do. If you subscribe by email you MUST confirm your email and activate the subscription.

2. follow me on Twitter (http://twitter.com/NicolesNickels) and tweet about this giveaway. If you already follow me that's fine, just comment with a link back to the tweet about this giveaway.

3. blog about this giveaway (leave the link in the comment)

4. email 5 people about this giveaway (please cc me on this email - nicolesnickels at gmail dot com and leave a comment saying you sent the email)

5. grab my button for your site (leave the link to where the button is in the comment)

6. add the link to this giveaway on a Mr. Linky about giveaways or on a blog giveaway site, blog carnival or forum or yahoo group (leave link to where you did this in the comment)

You MUST leave a comment about which Fiber One product you like the best as your first entry and then additional entries are governed by the terms above. You MUST leave a separate comment for each entry you are able to make. Feed and email subscribers will need to click on to my actual blog to leave a comment.

This giveaway is open to U.S. residents only and the winners will be chosen by random.org. If the winners do not respond to my email within 48 hours then I will pick new winners. Good luck!

Walgreens 3/15-3/22

I had some register rewards that were set to expire today so I headed to Walgreens after reviewing Frugal RI Mama's coupon match-ups. Please check her awesome site out to see how to get cheap deodorant and Dove products!

I did 1 transaction and got the following products:

1. Listerine mouthwash (on sale in a 3 for $9 promotion and get $6 in register rewards back. I also had coupon from today's paper for $3 off when you buy Listerine, Reach floss and a Reach toothbrush)

2. Reach Ultra-clean dental floss (see above)

3. Reach Ultra-clean toothbrush (see above)

4. Rimmel Sexy Curves Mascara (on sale for $7.79, had coupon for FREE product from April's All You Magazine)

5. Rimmel eyeliner (Wags is having BOGO free Rimmel deal this week)

6. Vidal Sasson Ecosystems Hairdryer (on sale for $19.99 and get back $10.00 in register rewards)

7. Wet Ones (on sale for $3.19, used in-ad coupon to make it $1.99 then used $.75 off coupon from paper)

I wasn't happy with the cashier - she couldn't get the cash register to mark the mascara for free and also the eyeliner for free. She ended up telling me it went through but it didn't, so I will likely return the eyeliner this week. I ended up spending $6.29 more than I wanted which would have made this a FREE trip otherwise!

Subtotal before coupons was $46.26. I used the $3 off coupon on the Listerine and Reach products, got the mascara for FREE ($7.79 off) even though the cashier was only supposed to give me up to $6.47 for it, used the in-ad coupon for $1.20 off the Wet Ones, used the $.75 coupon for the Wet Ones, used $13.50 in register rewards from previous trips and paid $22.95 out of pocket. I got back $16 in register rewards ($10 from hairdryer, $6 from Listerine and Reach products) though and I really needed a new hair dryer!

CVS 3/15-3/22

I hope you enjoyed reading the CVS match-ups at Frugal RI Mama's site last week. Please head back over there to read about how to get an OVERAGE on Dry Idea deodorant, an OVERAGE on Irish Spring Body Wash, and FREE Ritz crackers. Frugal RI Mama also has a scenario for a newbie to CVS to spend only $5.00 out of pocket, end up with $3 in ECB's at the end and walk out with $27.00 worth of products!

I did 2 transactions at CVS this morning:

Transaction #1

1. Colgate Max Whitening Toothpaste (on sale for $2.99, used $1.00 off printable coupon, got back $2.99 in ECBS's)
2. Bic Soleil Razor (on sale for $6.99, used $2.00 off coupon from today's paper, got back $2.00 in ECB's)
3. Bic Soleil Cartridges (on sale for $6.99, used $2.00 off coupon from today's paper, got back $2.00 in ECB's)


Subtotal was $16.97. I used a $3 off when you spend $15 that printed from the scanner in the make-up department, then used $1.00 coupon off toothpaste, $2.00 coupon off razor, $2 coupon off cartridges. I used $2 in ECB's I had from last week and paid $7.75 out of pocket. I got $8.99 in ECB's though!



Transaction #2

1. Irish Spring Body Wash (on sale for $4.99, ised $.50 off coupon from today's paper, got back $4.99 in ECB's so was a MONEYMAKER!)
2. Physician's Formula Organic Wear Mascara (on sale for $9.99 but product had "try me free" peelie on it, will be FREE after rebate).
3. caramel candy for $.33 - needed as filler


Subtotal was $15.31, used $3 when you spend $15 that printed from scanner in make-up department, then gave my $.50 coupon for Irish Spring, then rolled the $8.99 in ECB's from transaction #1 and paid $3.04 out of pocket with the tax. I'll get back $9.99 from the rebate though so all items were FREE!


TIP: Make sure to give the cashier the coupons in this order: CVS amount off when you buy a certain amount, and then manufacturer's coupons, and then any ECB's you want to roll into this transaction!

Pillsbury Spring Recipes & Ideas

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This is a newsletter full of great spring recipes with photos and tips. Banish the winter blahs and freshen up for spring today!

The infamous $36.34 Wii and Wii Fit!

You probably read the title to this post and don't believe it. Well, it's true. I did this by doing an online offer. Now, I'm not the expert on these offers, but Carrie over at Money Saving Methods has done them for a while and as of September of 2008 she had made over $15,000 doing these offers. I was skeptical but I trust Carrie, so on December 29, 2008 I completed the 8 offers required for the prize and site I selected. I ended up receiving the brand new Wii and Wii Fit on February 20, 2009 so the whole thing took less than 2 months and around 3 hours or so total. The next one I do will take less time though, now that I am familiar with these offers.

You have probably seen these offers/banners before and said, "yeah right, that's not legit." Well, the ones I am highlighting here are legit. The parent company for these offers is I-deal though there are subcompanies such as Top Notch Media, Bullseye Media, etc. Once you do your first you'll be hooked - but you can only earn $1,000 per sub-company in a 6 month period.

You'll need a credit card (ideally one capable of giving you a virtual card number - look on their website or call customer service), a calendar, pen, and some patience but you can do it! Block off at least 2 hours the first day to complete all the offers. You'll want to get them done in one sitting.

Choose the prize you want. Here are a bunch of options below. All the ones in this post are I-deal parent company site with different sub-companies. Please be advised that sometimes a component of completing an offer is to refer people to do the offer as well. Those can get complicated (not to mention ruin friendships) so all the ones included here are DIY (do-it-yourself) offers with no referrals needed at the time of posting (terms can change so please read the front page carefully to see how many offers are required and whether or not referrals are a part of that).

Wii and Wii Fit - this is the offer I did (FYI: The terms have now changed on this offer and you need to do 2 silvers, 2 golds, and 8 platinums PLUS refer 2 users and have them complete the requirements)


$500 in gas gift cards to your choice - Hollister, Abercrombie or American Eagle

Unlocked Blackberry Pearl Flip Phone

$500 giftcard to Kohls

$100 in Restaurant giftcards (Chilis or Fridays)


$500 Ikea Giftcard


$100 Visa Giftcard and Game Jersey


$50 McDonalds giftcard


$500 Orbitz.com giftcard


Pair of Nikes (your choice of Air Zoom Kobe IV, Air the Six or Air Jordan Retro 15 LS

There are more so please email me if you are looking for something different and I'll look around.
Ok, so now that you have found the prize that you want, look to see how many "offers" you will need to do to get the prize. Offers are divided up into 3 categories - silver, gold and platinum. Usually for a $500 value prize, you will do 2 silvers, 2 golds, and 4 platinums. It may be less offers if there is a referral or two involved. Again, I did not include any referral sites here at the time I posted but these offers can change so be sure to CAREFULLY read the fine print on the first page - you should also open the terms and conditions and copy them into a wordprocessing document that you will use to keep track of this offer.

Set up a new free web-based email address for this - you will get spam from the offers you sign up with. Use this new email address for every offer you do.

Fill out the registration on the first page. Then you will get page after page of questions. If there is a "skip" click it, if not make sure to select "no" for each and continue. You'll finally to get the page that has silver offers on it. I keep going until I reach the platinum offers, then I work backwards. The platinum page will have the fewest and most expensive offers so if there's nothing on this page for you, pick a new prize and start over! You should figure out which offers you are going to do before starting to do them. Make a plan. This is a good time to research the offers you are doing. You are only allowed to do one offer per parent company. The sites don't tell you who their parent company is so you'll need to do some research. For instance, if a site looks similar and/or especially if the checkout page looks similar then they are likely from the same parent company.

Now you're asking what an "offer" is - offers are trials for things like Netflix, skin and make-up products, book clubs, etc. Each offer will have its own terms. Make sure to copy and paste the terms of each offer (including price of offer, how long trial period is, price of trial, price after trial expires, number to cancel, etc.) on the same document you used to copy the general offer's terms and conditions. Make sure to reference the first page to make sure you are doing the right number of offers under each category. Please make sure to read each offer's terms VERY CAREFULLY.

A helpful hint is to open an offer, wait a few minutes and then log back in under "check gift status" on the main page to make sure that the offer shows as "pending". Many may show as pending, don't worry. Each offer that you open should show as pending whether you complete it or not. If you have an offer open and it doesn't show as pending, close it out, wait a few minutes and start over until it shows as pending.

Another hint is to use a virtual credit card number for these offers. My Discover and Citibank cards have that feature available on their websites. Using the feature I am able to disguise my true credit card number by getting a virtual credit card number. Check your credit card company to see if this number is good for one use only or for one vendor only. Each company has different terms.

Sign up for offers that interest you. These companies are subsidizing the fabulous prize you chose so try the product and give it a chance - maybe it would make a great gift for someone on your list?

After you have completed the requisite number of offers, you play the waiting game (on pins and needles). With my experience, all of my offers had approved within 2 weeks. 2 of my co-workers just did one and they were also approved within 2 weeks. It is also common to have an offer or 2 not approve. If this happens, you need to do a replacement offer. Replacement offers generally credit within a day or 2.

Once all offers are approved and you "check your gift status" from the main page it will say that you have completed all offers and link to a redemption certificate. You must fill in and print this certificate as well as a W-9 form (these earnings are taxable) and send them in. I send them priority mail with delivery confirmation. I then wait until I see confirmation on the postal service website and give the company 2 week to process my redemption certificate and paperwork. If, after 2 weeks, your status has not changed, you need to email them with your delivery confirmation number. My status changed exactly 2 weeks from the date they received it and it said that my prize would arrive within 6-8 weeks. It arrived earlier than that, on February 20, via FedEx.

Ideal gives you 60 days from the date you first register until the date that everything must be completed and all paperwork mailed to them. Do the offers on the day you register as your clock starts ticking then. Keep track of all dates, company names, terms and conditions, cancelling instructions, phone numbers, etc. I found it easy to create a table (or spreadsheet if you're more Excel-literate than I am) with that information for each offer I did.

Whew, this has been a long post and I'm sure many of you will have more questions. Please leave a comment or send me an email through the "contact me" button on the left sidebar and I'd be more than happy to help. Please remember that organization is key to successful completion of these online offers! Good luck!