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Cool Cuts 4 Kids stylists are specially trained to work children including special needs or sensory difficulties.  Their salons also offer entertainment zones with tv, video games, and more to help ease your child’s anxiety.  Cool Cuts 4 Kids is dedicated to creating a safe, fun, and trusting environment for both kids and parents.

 

Print this $5 off coupon to give Cool Cuts 4 Kids a try yourself.  Don’t forget to Sign up for the Cool Rewards Club for even more savings.  You can sign up at your local Cool Cuts 4 Kids.

In an effort to be more eco-friendly, I’ve been trying to remember to use reusable bags more often.  Some stores it’s a little easier for me to remember than others.

I have a number of reusable bags that come with a convenient little bag to store them in.  This makes them more compact  and easier to store in my purse when I need it.  The problem is that sometime I just can’t seem to find the little storage bag.

Reuseit.com offers a shopping bag with a great idea.  The ChicoBag rePETe Ultra-Compact Sling bag has the storage bag attached.  That’s right, just pull the bag right out of the little storage back and turn it inside out .  The little storage bag is on the inside of the shopping bag. When you’re done with it just fold it into itself.  So convenient

You can see that this shopping bag is already getting broken in.  I used it for my shopping trip to Bottom Dollar Foods (you can see me tossing it under the cart at the beginning of the video) and most recently I took it with me when I chaperoned my oldest son’s field trip to a local historical center.  This bag holds a lot.  But, it folds into a compact little bag that’s attached on the seam.  You can’t see it in the above picture because it’s inside right now.  Fold it up and it looks like this:

There’s a little carabiner ring on the side so you can clip it to your purse, diaper bag, backpack, or belt look if you like.  Otherwise it can easily fit into a purse or diaper bag to take with you.

If this style isn’t for you that’s ok.  Reuseit.com offers lots of different colors and styles.  Here’s another bag that I thought was really cute.

A few years ago I might have used a coupon if I saw one for one of my favorite products or a grocery staple I was going to buy anyway.   I may have had 2 or 3 coupons at best in my pocket.  It’s only been in the last 2 years that I’ve really been seeking info on how to coupon better.  I had the opportunity to review a coupon course online which was fantastic.  Still, I felt like I could still learn more.

Couponing for me is exciting.  Getting products that I use anyway for pennies on the dollar or sometimes even free. I did pick up some good info from this book that I didn’t already know.  Clarification of some wording on coupons, coupon lingo, Ideas of other ways and other sites for coupons and deals.

Another thing I liked about this book was the fact that they stress ethical and legal couponing.  Explain why certain things can and can’t be done.

This book is an easy read.  If you’re well versed in couponing you could always use the handy contents section to skip around to info you want to read more about.  There’s also a nice glossary in the back that has definitions of couponing terms as well as what couponing acronyms mean.

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I’ve been wanting to try Birchbox for a while.  I hardly ever splurge on something like this for myself so when hubby started asking about mother’s day ideas I emailed him think link from my blogger buddy over at Precisely Mine blog.

I’m a bit of a beauty junkie so something like this is right up my alley.  I told him that his mom might enjoy something like this too for mother’s day.  Well I guess he took my hint err frequent reminders because I got my first Birchbox in the mail today.

I made a little video to show what was in my birchbox for my first month.  I’m happy with it and can’t wait to try the products.

 I’m just starting the LuvSavingMoney Youtube channel so I’d be so excited to get some new followers. I plan to keep adding videos.

If you’d like to get your own Birchbox subscription, you can sign up here: https://www.birchbox.com?raf=zmtps

What I like about Birchbox is that you can sign up for as many months as you want from 1 month to a year.  You can write reviews on their site to earn points.  Points accumulate and can be traded in for full size products of your favorite Brichbox offerings.

Do you have a big mom purse like I do?  You stuff so much stuff in there, just in case.  Your stocked and ready for any emergency, you just have to find it in your purse first.  My big ol’ purse has a convenient pocket for my cell phone but can you guess how many times I actually take the time to stuff it in that little pocket?    Usually I’m distracted by my kids or in a hurry so I just throw it in my purse.  Then when I go to get it out I can’t find the darn thing.  So when I had the opportunity to try Phone Fetcher I had a genuine interest.

PhoneFetcher is a unique, patent pending device that hooks onto your purse, diaper bag, belt loop, gym bag, or backpack.  The other end has a peg that can be inserted right into your phone or mp3 players earphone jack.  This has been really convenient for me with my big mom purse.  I’m able to just pull my phone right out of my purse because I know exactly where it is.

The PhoneFetcher comes in 8 different colors so you can coordinate to match your purse, backpack, or whatever.  The cord itself is a bungee type cord.  The clip is made of plastic as well as the peg that goes into your phone.

I’ve been using this product for a little over a week.  I pull my phone out of my purse at least 3 times a day. It seems to work really well.  My only complaint is that the plastic clip that goes on your bag doesn’t seem to be the sturdiest plastic.  I’m curious as to how long the clip will last with all the punishment my kids and myself are going to put it through.  For now though, it’s been working out pretty well.  They also just started offering metal ones too which might be even better.

You can buy PhoneFetcher on their website: https://www.phonefetcher.com/  $9.99 for the bungee/plastic version or $14.99 for the metallic version.

You can socialize with PhoneFetcher on twitter: @PhoneFetcher
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