Life on a Budget
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This is a Sponsored post written by me on behalf of Cafe Well for SocialSpark. All opinions are 100% mine.
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If you were to create a a health challenge, what do you think yours would be? I think I’d love to create a blogger health challenge. Maybe for anyone that wanted to join to pledge to exercise at least 3 X a week for 30 minutes and eat healthier. We could visit each other’s blogs and comment with words of encouragement. Have a group in CafeWell so we could celebrate each others progress, swap healthy recipe and snack ideas, etc.
I’m a member of the Coffee Mate Brew Crew. To make a long story short, I cashed in my point i earned for completing tasks for a $50 walmart gift card around the beginning of September. When I placed the order it said to allow 4-6 weeks to receive the gift card. After 6 weeks I hadn’t receive the gift card in the mail.
I contacted the Coffee Mate Brew Crew customer service through email. They said they sent it to my other email address (which I did use but had later updated my brew crew account with my other email) only a couple days after I ordered it. As it turns out it was supposed to be an egift card not a physical card they’d mail me. I didin’t know that. But I know I never received it. I check both email accounts daily, sometimes several times a day. And I make sure to check my spam folders at least once a day because sometimes my contest notifications and review offers go there.
I did searches and made sure to check both my email accounts. When I contacted Coffee Mate again they told me that they checked with Walmart and Walmart told them that the $50 egift card had already been used she thanked me for being a part of the team but the email was rather abrupt. Thinking that I just forgot I used it i went into my Walmart account and looked at my order history. It said there was no orders for the past 90 days. I could only use a Walmart egift card on Walmart.com so I wasn’t sure why if it had been used it wasn’t showing up in my account.
My next step was to contact Walmart customer service. I told them my affilliation with Coffee Mate told them the issue I had. I asked them if there was any way to find out if I did place an order and for some reason it just didn’t show up in my account. They told me they had no record of me making a purchase in the last 90 days. Walmarts customer service was friendly and apologized to me for the situation I was in but in the end they weren’t able to help me. I never had the gift code number. My memory is not the best and I don’t ever want to cheat anyone. So I went through every avenue I could think of just to make sure that I didn’t mess up somewhere.
I could have really used a $50 Walmart gift card for Christmas. I did a lot of work of Coffee Mate hosting an office party, doing posts, etc and I feel like it was all for nothing now.
Is there another way I could pursue this or do you think I should just cut my losses?
I know there are a good number of you out there that have a full-plate. Everyone’s plate is a little different. For me I’m a wife and mom of 3 active and social boys. I work outside my home in a hospital part-time. I blog because I love it but it’s almost becoming a work at home job for me (which I’m grateful for). My certification for my job requires that I have 36 continuing education credits every three years in order to keep up my certification. This involves either taking continuing ed courses online, live conferences, or packets that can be mailed in.
My work had given us an awesome opportunity to take a college course from our local community college that the hospital would pay for. 44 credits which is more than plenty for what I need for my next certification renewal. I jump on the rare opportunity then started thinking…how in the hay will I find time to do this?
For me, the saying, “Where there’s a will there’s a way” comes to mind.
I was just recently nominated for a Top Parenting Blog Award from eCollegefinder.com. Many people who visit their site are moms and dads like some of us, looking to go back to school or take college courses. As part of my nomination they asked me 2 questions.
1. How would you describe your blog to readers of our site?
A: In general, I write about ways to save money. I’m also making an effort to live greener. Not only for the ecological reason but also, because I found that living greener off leads to saving money either short term or long term. I also review products/services to let my readers know if it’s worth spending their hard earned money on.
2. What inspirational words or advice can you provide our student parents?
A: With everything going on just remember to take time out for yourself. Spending time with your family and working to keep food on the table is important. Going back to school will better you for the long run. But you’ll have trouble doing that if you don’t find some time for yourself. If it’s a 1/2 a day a week, 20 minutes here and there, or whatever you can find, do it and don’t feel guilty for it.
eCollegefinder.com started giving awards about 2 years ago. To quote eCollegefinder:
” Our nominees include blogs that address how to thrive as a mom or dad, through thick and thin, while keeping a sense of humor, remaining green, healthy, frugal, crafty, working, going to school, or just staying sane!”
To see past nominees and awards winners, go here: https://www.ecollegefinder.org/award-series.aspx
I’m excited to be nominated and can’t wait to see what collection of blogs they will feature.
***I wrote this post in respect to this blog’s award nomination. This was NOT a requirement for nomination. I did not receive any compensation for this post. In the event my blog is chosen for an award, this post will be featured on eCollegefinders.com site.***
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