Some Quick Tips Before Christmas

GREAT WEBSITE

 you miss out on the newspaper?  Would you like a quick one-stop place to see ALL the sales in your area?  Check out ShopLocal.com.  ShopLocal.com will show you all the sales, coupons and deals in your area.  Just put in your zip code and wait on the deals to pop up.


LINK:  ShopLocal.com

FREEBIES

All You and The Celebration Shoppe have a wonderful set of printables available for Christmas.  These are very cute.  It is always nice to have some extra printables on hand when doing last minute wrapping.


LINK:  Printable Gift Tags and Recipe Cards

If you are into business and finance, you may want to sign up for the free 26 week subscription to the Wall Street Journal via Rewards Gold.  You refer a few friends, take a business lunch survey and complete four simple reviews.  You have  to do a little, but still Rewards Gold is one of THE best places for free magazine subscriptions.


LINK:  The Wall Street Journal

GREAT DEAL

Amazon has a great subscription sale going on right now.  There are 19 different magazines that qualify.  Each one is a year for $5.  They are autorenew subscriptions so be sure to cancel that renewal before it comes up (unless of course you want to autorenew).  Amazon is a great place for magazines.  The magazines included in this deal are:

Popular Mechanics
Popular Science
New York Magazine
Good Housekeeping
Country Living
Woman's Day
Car And Driver
Elle
Smart Money
Marie Claire
Redbook
Seventeen
Esquire
Bazaar 
Road And Track
Parenting
Town & Country
Details 
Ski


Follow the LINK:  Amazon $5 year subscriptions


There is also a deal right now on Readers Digest for a year subscription (10 issues) with autorenew for $5 or $10 for a year subscription with no autorenew.  LINK:  Readers  Digest Amazon Deal

FREE EBOOKS

The Everything Family Christmas Book by Yvonne Jeffrey (Amazon) (Barnes & Noble)

A Texan's Promise (Heart of a Hero) by Shelley Gray (Amazon) (Barnes & Noble)

FREE MUSIC

iTickets.com has a free download available for the Newsboys song "God's Not Dead (Like A Lion).


LINK:  iTickets Free Song Download


FreeCCM has Todd Agnew's song "No Room" as well as songs by Phillips, Craig & Dean, 33Miles, Stellar Kart, and Decypher Down.


LINK:  FreeCCM Free Song Downloads

COUPON SAVINGS

Michaels has a printable coupon available for 50% off the purchase of one item.  It is good until 12/24/2011.  Head over to the link below to print your coupon now.


LINK:  Michaels Coupon


Don't forget to stop by Savingstar.com.  If you haven't registered with them still, really you should get on it.  Register your store loyalty cards and then click on the items that you would buy.  The amount listed is not deducted from your grocery bill but it is is added into an account.  When the amount saved adds up to $5, you can cash it in for an Amazon gift card, Paypal, deposit it into your bank account or donate to charity.  It is a great way to get a little extra money for things you already do.  I save everything just in case.  I wont say that I am raking in the extra money, but I have been adding steadily to my account.


LINK:  Savingstar.com

AWESOME RECIPE

There is something about the holidays that make me want to make a yummy breakfast.  Now don't get me wrong, because I love a yummy breakfast any time, but during the holidays, it is just that more special, and when that holiday is Christmas...really it is a must.  Here are a couple recipes that came my way that I thought I'd share with you.


From Cooking.com check out the link below for delightful pumpkin pancakes.  Eggs will be on sale at Safeway on Saturday (88 cents for a dozen - limit of 2), canned pumpkin is very reasonably priced right now, and I imagine you will have lots of the other ingredients on hand.  This does call for buttermilk, but you can make buttermilk substitute by adding one teaspoon of lemon juice to a cup of milk.  Now on to that recipe link.


LINK:  Pumpkin Pancakes

If you are looking for something more savory than sweet, check out the CrockPot Morning Casserole from Recipe4Living.  As I have said many times before, I love utilizing my crock pot for cooking.  Talk about making Christmas morning a breeze.  :)


LINK: CrockPot Morning Casserole


The Christmas Breakfast casserole says it all.  The colorful peppers and Italian sausage will make this a wonderful dish to wake up to!  I'm actually torn between the pancakes and this gem from Taste of Home.


LINK:  Christmas Casserole