It's almost the end of July and I thought I would get another Blog post off before it clicks over.  This will be a bit more frenetic than usual but it's mostly just links to other pages that I think you will like.

Have you seen the United Dairymen of Idaho's win milk for a year contest?  MILK FOR A YEAR!!  You may enter once per month: http://dairyforayear.com/

There are TWO Box Tops for Education sweepstakes right now.  One is an enter daily for a huge sum of box tops at http://www.boxtops4education.com/ and the other is a fun new sub-site they just created with General Mills: http://generalmills.promo.eprize.com/buildingwithboxtops/:b=ie7/?affiliate_id=1d.  There is one "instant win" on the playground and you can enter twice per day for the sweepstakes (once for signing in and the other for answering Box Top trivia in the library).  Thus far I have won 5 Box Tops.  Okay, I know, .50 cents isn't enough to write up a whole Blog entry about but COME ON!!!  I spent two minutes clicking and one minute winning for Whitney!

School supplies are at their lowest price yet.  Here is how to get the very best deal.  Collect all of the ads with the best prices, for example, Fred Meyer has crayons for .25 cents still and you can buy up to 4 boxes of crayons.  Make sure you do not have to have a customer loyalty card to get the discount listed in the ad (this step is important to make the next step work.)  So, you do not want the ad to say, crayons .24 cents with Grand Central Happy Go Lucky Shopper Card.  Next, take your ads to TARGET or WALMART.  Pick up your supplies and take them to the register ask them to price match.  At Walmart they may do it at the register at Target they will do it at customer service.  It has been my experience that Target is more than happy to do this and you can pick up school supplies at a great savings. 

Happy last 24 days of summer vacation!!

Nikki Rutledge
-Whitney Parent