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OREOS
Become an Oreo Facebook friend and get a free package of Oreos. Click here: http://www.facebook.com/oreo?ref=nf
VALU KING
Bananas – .33 cents/lb.
Apples – 3lb bag – 2 for $3
Trying on the cashier’s smock – 5 cents
$5 off $50 coupon in ad
DISCOUNT DRUG MART
Vegetables – $1
Includes celery, salad, cole slaw mix, baby cut carrots, onions (3 lb)
M5 Magnum Razor – free after rebate
Asking the cashier to cut off a very irritating tag from your shirt – 2 for $1
SUPER K-MART
Cheese – 8 oz – 99 cents – limit 4
Pepsi – 2 liter – 69 cents – limit 4
Medium Eggs – 69 cents – limit 2
Cantaloupe – 88 cents
Handshake from overly eager greeter – priceless
$5 off $50 coupon in ad
SAV-A-LOT
Bags o salad – 2 for $1
Beef 73% lean – $1.49 – (purchase 5lb package)
Sharing a smoke with a cashier – free
SKYPE
We used Skype this past week to chat and web cam conference with a Swedish foreign exchange student. My wife was her liaison this past year. By the way, if you are ever interested in becoming a foreign exchange parent, let me know. Our neighbors, run one of the Cleveland area organizations, AFS, here in the Cleveland area. Great program. Click here for more info: http://www.afsusa.org/usa_en/home
Calls are free between callers that have Skype downloaded. Or place calls at very low international rates if the call recipient doesn’t have Skype.
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CELLPHONESHOP.NET
Get cell phone accessories like power cords, face plates, and batteries for up to 80% off.
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LETSTALK
Get cell phones for free or even make money on them. Find cell phone plans and deals on the site.
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TRACFONE
Get cell phone service for less than $9 per month. No contracts. Pay-as-you-go service.
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TALKSTER
Same type of service like Skype. I used it to talk to my cousin from England. It gives you a local number and them a local number. So it like a regular phone call. Can’t beat that.
Click here:
http://www.talkster.com
NETZERO
Get 10 hours of free internet access a month. I used it some time ago before I got DSL service. Great for people that don’t get on the internet much per month. Libraries are also a great place to get free internet service or check out http://www.wififreespot.com for locations where wifi can be found for free locally.
Click here for the NetZero service:
NETZERO DEAL
GOTOMEETING
Web conference for free or at a very low cost. Use their VOIP service for free audio with the web. Click here to set up service:
GOTOMEETING DEAL
ALDI
Oranges – $1.39 – 4 lb bag
Apples – $1.29 – 3 lb bag
If you wear a hat, they will give you a free kitten…after they give you a hug for each purchase.
TOP FIVE LIST
My favorite product names:
5) White Cloud
4) Skippy
3) Palmolive
2) Brut
1) Grit Magazine
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NEW YORK TIMES
They plan to charge for access to news on their internet site in 2011. If that works, look for that trend to follow other news sites. I still love getting a newspaper. Nothing like reading it with my cup of coffee.
HAITI
Haiti suffered one of the worst natural disasters ever with upwards of up to 200,000 dead. The poorest nation in the Northern American Hemisphere, the country was already suffering. A report found that the poorest tenth of the population in Haiti earns $123 annually. Yes, annually. Makes you appreciate what ya have. Check out this pdf:
http://www.worldmapper.org/posters/worldmapper_map149_ver5.pdf
Before you make a donation to a charity, check to make sure the organization will get most of the donation to those affected instead of to the charity’s administration. At least 65% to 70% of a charity’s money should go to its programs and not administration. The site http://www.Guidestar.org reviews charities’ financial info. Also check out http://www.charitynavigator.org, http://www.bbb.org/charity, or http://www.charitywatch.org.
Americans are always generous, even with the tough times in the U.S.
These verses from Proverbs say it all:
If a man shuts his ears to the cry of the poor, he too will cry out and not be answered.
A generous man will himself be blessed, for he shares his food with the poor.
A LITTLE HELP FROM MY FRIENDS…
COSTCO
Costco is now selling Coke again – thanks Scott S for the update.
WALMART
Patty W wanted to share this deal. Clearance Black & Decker Cordless Stick Vacuums Model PSV1800 can be found at some Walmarts for $40 – normally $89.97.
GLASSESUNLIMITED
http://glassesunlimited.com/ – Mike G used this site to find glasses $10 on up.
Thanks for all the tips …keep ’em coming.
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Get a $20 gift certificate at TGIFridays for $10. Good at 7 local locations. Deal only good for 2 days. Certificate expires 7/25/2010.
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TGIFriday DEAL
Use the buy-one-get-one-free lunch coupon or $5 off a $15 purchase coupon for T.G.I.Friday’s in the Entertainment® book. Take advantage of the half-off or $5 happy hour appetizer special offered at various times throughout the day, including after 9:00 PM at the bar. T.G.I.Friday’s also has a Stripes Card program that earns points for every dollar spent – earn an $8 coupon with every $100 spent. Sign up and you will get a free appetizer. Look for their $5 entrée specials. Sign up for their e-mails and they will send you coupons. Earn GetGo rewards at Giant Eagle by purchasing T.G.I.Fridays gift cards.
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I use them to order my contacts every year. Free shipping. Rebate offers on some contacts. Easy to order. Save 5% on orders of $150 or more – use code SAVE362.
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K-MART
Take an extra 40% off women’s clearance clothes.
GASBUDDY
Find the best gas prices around town at http://www.gasbuddy.com. Gas stations on Wilson Mills and Berea amongst other area are in the $2.5X range.
CLEVELAND HOME & GARDEN SHOW
Now located at the old K-Mart/Twin Value store off of Babbitt Road in Euclid. Free parking!!! And you can get $3 off coupons at Discount Drug Mart. There are $2 off coupons at Sherwin Williams. Jan 22 to 31. From 7 PM to 8 PM on 1/31 they will sell all the plants and whatever they don’t want to take out at a discount.
WALMART
Are you reading this while chewing on a trinket you bought from Wal-Mart? Perhaps you may want to read this story…and stop chewing on trinkets.
http://consumerist.com/2010/01/cheap-jewelry-finds-new-better-way-to-poison-your-child.html#comment-20049955
TOP TEN LIST
Now this one isn’t the kind of list you want to be on. There were 2.8 million homes in foreclosure in 2009. These are the top then states ranked in order of the most foreclosures:
1) Nevada – more than 1 in 10 homes received a foreclosure notice in 2009.
2) Arizona
3) Florida
4) California
5) Utah
6) Idaho – for a small state, quite high up the list
7) Georgia
8) Michigan
9) Illinois
10) Colorado
Yay, Ohio wasn’t in the top ten. That being said, the home prices didn’t jump tons like they did in the states listed above, so there wasn’t as much of a drop when they did start going down. Until jobs come back, there will continue to be foreclosure issues.
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TIRE RACK
Are your tires slipping and sliding in the snow or slick roads. Find tire deals on this site. Great site for finding out which are the best tires for your car.
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HAIR
After looking at the pictures I’m thinking the squirrel look might do the trick. One guy I know did the “nobody will know I’m bald when I comb over my hair from the left side to the right side look”. When the wind blew it looked like his head was on fire. His swath of hair would unfurl from the crown of his head and just wave around in the wind. I say be happy with whatever hair ya got and don’t try to hide how much is missing. Same goes for the rest of what God gave ya. Otherwise you will look like the head-on-fire guy. Although, having your head on fire without it being on fire does look kinda cool.
We were at the art museum this past weekend for the Gaugin exhibit (I had freebie tickets, of course). By the way, the Art museum is free except for special exhibits. There was a guy there that was carrying his hair. Yes, I said carrying his hair. Unravelled, his hair must have been 8 foot long. It was rolled up and he carried it like a running back would carry a football. I sure hope he isn’t a chef because I wouldn’t want to find one of his hairs in my food.
WAITER THERE IS A FLY IN MY SOUP
Wanna know how clean the restaurant is you just ate at? Check out the Cleveland food inspection report at:
http://www.clevelandhealth.org/Enviroment/FoodSafety/Inspection.html
Reminds me of some incidences I had with my lunches at some eateries. For the most part I’ve had no issues with the restaurants around town. But there were a couple that really irked me. This one happened many years ago. I had some wonton soup and I wasn’t paying much attention to it because I was reading the paper. Well, after a good many spoonfuls I looked down in my soup and saw a three inch cockroach. Umm, yuck. I went back to the Chinese restaurant I got it from with Wonton soup and drowning victim in tow.
Now here is where it got even more unpleasant. I presented the soup to the lady that ran the restaurant…and get this, she accused me of putting the cockroach in the soup. That’s when I got loud and said I should let the people in the restaurant know what I found. I told her I should get my money back for the meal. The meal was lemon chicken and I loved it. But she said that the soup is free with the meal. Oh, what was I thinking!? I guess if I ever found a pack of cockroaches in my free bread that they hand out at restaurants, I should just eat away since, by golly, it’s free and off limits to complaints. She said they kept all the cups upside down. That should’ve been my clue to dump the remaining wonton soup upside-down onto her head, but I kept my cool and had my say and left it at that. No reasoning with dum-dums. I just let everyone know what happened and hopefully that put a dent in their business.
Another place I went to I found a gnat in my soup. I pointed it out the owner. He says in his thick accent “what can I do. They fly in. They fly out.” It didn’t help that there was a smattering of mouse dung around the window sill area by the register too. They aren’t open anymore. Hunan Gourmet still is. Dang, why did that lemon chicken have to taste so good.
E-MAIL LIST
The service I used for my e-mail mailing list went kaput without any warning. It was a free service offered by Zeop. So if you added yourself to the e-mail mailing list earlier this month, I wasn’t able to get you added on. Please send me an e-mail at joe@joethecouponguy.com and I’ll add you to my e-mail list. And conversely, if you’d like to unsubscribe just e-mail me back and let me know you want to unsubscribe.
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Mushrooms – 8 oz package – 69 cents
Green Peppers – 2 pack – 69 cents
Bag o’ salad – 49 cents
CVS
Free after extra bucks:
Soy Joy bars – 6 pack
Oust – 99 cents – (limit 3 on extra bucks) make money after using recent BOGO coupon
Look for $1 off 4 Pepsi 2 liter coupons on the bottles and use them for the spend $20 on Pepsi products, get $10 in extra bucks deal. Two liters area 4 for $5. Same type if deal is available at Walgreens.
RITE AID
$25 gift card when you transfer a prescription coupon in this weeks ad. Also get $75 in coupons with the coupon.
90% off Christmas Candy.
Find a $5 off a $25 purchase coupon at:
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TARGET
75% off items, including toys, hockey equipment, clothes. It may vary by store.
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Apples – 5 lb bag – $2.99 – (or 60 cents/lb)
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BALLYS
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YMCA
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YOUCH
The median home price in Southern California was $505,000 in July 2007, $385,000 in April 2008, and $249,000 in May 2009.
A LITTLE STORY
I’m due for a new hairdo. I saw that Kate Gosselin of Jon and Kate with Eight fame changed hers and it made me think that I was due for a change too. I think I’ve had the same haircut since 7th grade. Before then I used to part my hair on the side. I forget if it was on the left or right side, but it forced me to carry a comb at all time because I had to separate the left side of my hair from the right side. Joining the puberty parade made me realize that I needed something that looked hot, much more hot. There were girls that just had to see my hair in a different pattern and it would drive them crazy. So I went with the feathered-back look or at least that is what happened when you comb your hair back after parting it for years.
My hair now is short so I can’t do much with it. It’s either cut it short or shorter. I used to have my hair long enough where I would twirl big knots in it. I just liked the way it felt. One day I went to Uncle Bills where I forgot I had a knotted twirl left on my head. I believe I started a slow-developing trend that day because now I see rappers like Snoop Dog with that look.
There was a time that I did have a moment when I did change my hair. Remember the Wild Thing haircut that Charlie Sheen had for the movie Major League. Yah, I did that zig-zag thing to the back of my hair. What can I say, I’m a big Cleveland Indians fan.
Back to what I should do with my hair now. Do I give myself a Mohawk? A permanent? Should I add hair attachments? Do I go blonde? Should I shave my head? I’m thinking I should start a new trend again. As I get older I want things to be more practical. So I’m going to have my hair done so that it’s in the shape of a hat. It’ll keep the sun and rain out of my eyes and It’ll save me time with putting a hat on my head besides the few dollars it will save me from having to buy new hats. To get it into the shape of a hat I will have to keep from washing it much. The grease and the bonding agent of dust, lint, and errant dandruff will help concrete a hat shape on my head.
I need an side accersory to go with my look. I don’t want to be one-dimensional with it. So I will also grow my eyebrows out so that I have two mini-hats above my eyes. I’m talking Leonid Breznev eyebrows, but manicured. To make my eyebrows grow faster I will have to scrunch my face as if I’m concentrating heavily.
The new look will stroke my ego some because of all the attention it will get me. People will point at me and fawn over my new look. To add to my look I will also develop a new hitch in my walk. I will add a little kick thing to it. It might take me longer to get where I’m going with an added kick, but this is a package deal with myself. After all, this new year means a new me. Or until I get bored with it after 30 years.
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Hi, I'm Leonid Breznev...remember me? You're likin them eyebrows ain'tcha. Unibrow power!
Andy Rooney’s eyebrows…they look like butterflies napping above his glassy eyes.
LAWSUIT
PBM, a leading infant formula company that supplies store-brand infant formulas to Walmart, Sam’s Club, Target, Kroger, Walgreens, and other retailers, has won a $13.5 million damages award in its false advertising lawsuit against Mead Johnson & Co. PBM’s lawsuit claimed that Mead Johnson engaged in false and misleading campaigns against PBM’s competing store-brand of infant formulas, suggesting they do not provide the same nutrition as Mead Johnson’s brands. PBM’s store-brand infant formulas cost up to 50 percent less than Enfamil® LIPIL®. The $13.5 million in damages awarded by the jury in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia is one of the largest damages awards ever for a false advertising case.
CLOSING
Foot Locker – 117 stores
Blockbuster – Strongsville & Middleburg Heights (Southland) – Redbox is really beating up the competition.
CLASS SCHEDULE
2010 NO EXPIRATION DATE TOUR
All the library classes are free. Most will request that you register for the class. The fee classes are longer. Times subject to change. If you’d like to book me for a speaking engagement, please contact me at joe@joethecouponguy.com.
Jan 14, 2010 – Thursday – 7:00 to 8:00 PM – Pearl Road PTA
Jan 20, 2010 – Wednesday – 7:00 to 8:30 PM – Orange Seniors
Jan 27, 2010 – Wednesday – 7:00 to 8:30 PM – Euclid Library
Jan 28, 2010 – Thursday – 7:00 to 8:30 PM – Crestview Elementary – Brunswick
Feb 3, 2010 – Thursday – 7:00 to 9:00 PM – Solon Community Center – Call 440-349-6245 to sign up – $10 fee
Feb 9, 2010 – Tuesday – 7:00 to 8:30 PM – Rocky River Early Childhood PTA
Feb 10, 2010 – Wednesday – 7:00 to 8:30 PM – Brecksville-Broadview Heights Preschool Mothers Club
Feb 24, 2010 – Wednesday – 6:00 to 7:00 PM – Willoughby Hills Library
Mar 1, 2010 – Monday – 8:00 to 9:30 PM – North Royalton Early Childhood PTA
Mar 10, 2010 – Wednesday – 7:30 to 8:30 PM – Fairview Park Early Childhood PTA
Mar 25, 2010 – Thursday – 12:30 to 1:30 PM – North Olmsted Seniors
Apr 8, 2010 – Thurdsday – 7:00 to 8:00 PM – Olmsted Falls PTA
May 3, 2010 – Monday – 7:00 to 8:30 PM – Wildwood Recreation Center – Mentor
May 13, 2010 – Thursday – 5:30 to 6:30 PM – Madison Library (Mansfield area)
June 14, 2010 – Monday – 7:15 to 9:15 PM – Lakeland Community College – $29 fee – Call 440-525-7116 to register – 2 hour class
July 13, 2010 – Tuesday – 7:00 to 8:30 PM – Parma Hospital
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