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What We Won Wednesday Dec. 1

What We Won Wednesday is a weekly post to share your wins in the last week. The idea of What We Won Wednesday is:

1. To visit your winner post, share, and congratulate each other on our joy of winning.
2. Encourage others
3. Show that people really do win giveaways and sweepstakes if you enter.
4. Give some exposure to sites that are offering sweepstakes and giveaways

Your wins can be from anywhere. Whatever you’d like to share. They can be blog giveaways, national sweepstakes, lottery ticket wins, 50/50, basket party, Fantasy Football, etc etc.

If you won online and remember what site you won from or the name of the company feel free to include it. It would be nice to see where people are winning from. You can post your own wins on your blog then link them up in the linky below so we can hop around and congratulate and marvel at the prizes.

My Wins:

I don’t have a typical “win” this week but I’d like to say I’m very excited about receiving my very first Blog award from: http://twinkiemommie.blogspot.com/2010/11/this-my-second-blog-award-thanks-so.html

I was super excited about this.

How about you? Have any wins?

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Learn and Earn opportunity — 30 Recyclebank points

Here is another great opportunity from Recyclebank.com to learn about green living and earn yourself some recyclebank points. Trade your recyclebank points in for rewards!

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I LOVE CYBERMONDAY!!! Here’s Why…

—Ok all. It’s been a while since I did a meat and potatoes post. You know, what my blog is really about. Saving money! I found some super awesome online deals i wanted to share with you. I took advantage of some of them. Wish I could do them all but even at these great prices I’m still a poor gal. Anywho, hope I save you some money here:

–The Children’s Place has a “Fleece Frenzy” This weekend only. $5 fleece for boys, girls, and babies. Includes Fleece pants. Also if you use code FSholiday you get free shipping Too! You kind of have to search through the “sale” section in the categories for them but they’re there. Some of the big boys fleece is already selling out so jump on it if you want some. I bought an outfit for the baby.

–Urban Decay cosmetics has awesome $6 and $12 deals. It’s only while supplies last. If you are an Urban Decay fan you know that these prices are less than half of what they normally are for most of the items they have on sale. There’s a lot so I won’t list them all here but you can click the hyper link in this bullet and it will take you there.

–I totally took advantage of this one on Drugstore.com. Drugstore.com is having a “Cyberweek sale” I found this “Splatter Mat: The Magical Color changing activity mat” It’s supposed to change colors with body heat and/or warm water. You can draw on it with your body heat. And no mess. They are originally $35 but they have them on their Cyber week sale for $5! I bought 3: 1 for the baby, 1 to donate to toys for tots, and 1 more just incase. Why not at that price? I ordered the 3 splatter mats and the digital keychain and my shopping cart said “you saved a total of $102” LOL

They have lots of other deals too like a Magellan Roadmate 1424 GPS originally $150.00 for $90, a digital photo keychain originally $20 on sale for $7, 40% off select energizer batteries, and lot of other stuff.

–Toys R’ Us buy one get one 50% Lego sets, and 50% Kung Zu’s for today Sat. Nov. 27th Only. BUT the ad in the email I got says that is the “deals of the day” so they must be doing different deals each day.

I’m definitely not a Black Friday Shopper but I am certainly a Cyber Monday shopper. As I find more I’ll add them to the list.

If you look around, especially on Monday but many started their online sales Friday. Many places like The Children’s Place, Old Navy, Toy R’ US(orders over $40 I think), and more are offering free shipping. Overstock.com has free shipping but excludes music, books, Movie, games, and international orders.

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Win a $500 Amex gift card and a year return protection onChampagne living

Champagne Living has an awesome giveaway for a $500 Amex gift card and a year of premium return protection. This would be unbelievable to help with holiday expenses.

Here is the link if you want to enter: http://www.champagneliving.net/2010/11/no-more-regrets-from-american-express.html

Giveaway ends 12/10

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My favorite road trip memory

I’m one that would much rather drive if I can than fly. There’s several reasons for that. One reason is that it’s less expensive (generally), you get to see the change in the scenery and find those neat little shops and restaurants along the way, and you can stop whenever you want to.

I used to do traveling therapy. I received a placement in Texas. I’m from PA and I had never been to TX. I was very much looking forward to it. While my company offered to pay for a rental car and the plane ticket to get me there, I chose to drive. I would take this road trip by myself. I was to be there the beginning of May. I made sure I took a bunch of my favorite cds, my sunglasses were in the car, and route was planned. It had to be one of the most relaxing (and longest) road trip I’d ever taken.

It was so amazing to see the change in the scenery. To see new places I’d never seen before. I started around 6 am. I went past Cleveland, Ohio. Down through Kentucky. I remember driving down a highway and saw these amazing rolling hills covered in blue grass. I never really knew exactly what those terms meant “rolling hills” and “blue grass” until I saw it for myself. It was beautiful. I enjoyed the ride so much. I drove until midnight . I remember calling a friend in Texas on my cell phone and telling them that I finally decided I was going to stop and find a hotel to sleep for a while. As I was on the phone I remember telling my friend “oh my, there’s a huge bridge and big body of water coming up” (long bridges over water make me a little nervous for whatever reason). My anxiety changed to excitement when I told my friend “oh my gosh I’m about to drive over the Mississippi river!”

I finally got a hotel. Woke up early the next day and started again. I remember the change in scenery in Texas alone until I finally got to my destination. Everything from driving near Dallas to driving past actual ranches. For a Pennsylvania girl seeing a for real Texas ranch was exciting.

I like being alone on this trip. It was the quiet alone time I needed for myself at the time. To do what I wanted to do. Sometimes I still wish I could jump in the car and take that drive to Texas again.

I wrote this blog post while participating in the TwitterMoms and Discount Tire blogging program, making me eligible to receive a $50 gift card and be entered for a chance to win a prize valued at $1,000. For more information on how you can participate, click here.

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