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Choose positive motivators.

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Happy Birthday to my sweet husband Matt!!!

He was almost a Christmas baby.

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Merry Christmas to You!! I hope you have a wonderful holiday filled with fun, family and lots of good food.

I will see you back online Monday!

Thrifty Tips to Prepare for Christmas

Katie at Three Blondes and a Redhead has a great post on some pre-Christmas organization tips. Click here to read. I am definitely going to find a few minutes in my busy Christmas Eve to prepare for all of Payton's gifts.

Interesting/Useful/Fun Website

Uexchange.com - Trade Anything, Pay Nothing. U-Exchange is the Largest Free Swap Site on the net that specializes in every type of trade. There are no membership fees, barter currencies or commissions taken on trades. It's Free to contact, post and trade with other members.



This site reminds me of the movie The Holiday with Cameron Diaz and Kate Winslet. The 2 girls exchange homes for a vacation and there lives completely change.

FREE Crock Pot Recipe Booklet

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Don't forget to leave cookies and milk tonight for Santa.

TASTY TUESDAY - REINDEER COOKIES

I "made" these last night for Payton's play school Christmas party. They are so cute and so easy.

Ingredients:

Nutter Butter Cookies

Pretzels

Icing

Mini M&M's

Tube of White Icing

Use the icing to assemble the cookies as shown in the picture.

I found this in Family Fun magazine.

FREE Sample of Don Francisco's Gourmet Coffee

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JCPenny's Trip - Christmas Present to Myself

I received another $10 gift certificate last week. I average about 6 a year and always look forward to what I can find for nothing. I think I did great on this trip.

Regular Price - $23.00

Mark Down Price - $ 11.49

JCP Gift Cert. - ($10.00)

Total OOP (including tax) $ 1.59

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Thought of the Day

Don't compare yourself with others.

THRIFTY CHRISTMAS FUN

Saturday was a fun-filled day that costed us a total of $10. First, we took Payton to see Santa at a specialty store downtown Mount Airy. She was so happy to see him. She went right up to him, crawled in his lap, told him her name and smiled for the camera. I took the picture so it made it free plus I got (4) FREE 8 x 10's from Walgreens using my account and my husbands. There was a craft area for kids so she colored her a picture. Free snacks was also available so she got a cookies and punch before she had to tell Santa bye. Then, we took a wagon ride through the downtown area. She loved that too. Her face just lite up when we took off. Afterwards, Payton got to pet the horses and she was extremely thrilled with that. We had so much and hopefully we have started a new family tradition.

Multi-Use Item - Christmas Garland

Every year I hang garland on my mantle. This year I came up with a new thrifty tip. I needed some napkin rings. I didn't want to buy anything so I started going through some decorations that I did not use this year. I came across some extra garland. This is what I came up with.

I got out my wire cutters and cut a piece of garland off to wrap around the napkin.

AND THE WINNER IS......

The winner of the $10 Papa John's Gift Card is:

#77 - Linda and Greg

Congratulations!! You have 48 hours to respond or a new winner will be chosen.

Stay tuned for another giveaway next week.

Hallmark Coupon

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Thought of the Day

Give up trying to control others.

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Do your share to save the planet.