44,970 SubscribeGeneral Mills Advisory Panel
General Mills wants your opinion! You can sign up for a free membership to the Mills Advisory Panel (MAP) to participate in surveys and studies, give your input on new products, and earn rewards points for prizes.
The Mills Advisory Panel is a consumer panel that reviews products for General Mills and Small Planet foods. They will send you notifications via email about surveys and projects for you to participate in. The company usually sends you 6-12 surveys per year, which can take 10-20 minutes to complete. In return for participating in special projects and studies, you can receive MAP points which can be redeemed for prizes.
You must be a MAP member to participate. Membership is free, and you can sign up in the Join Now section of their website. You will be asked to fill out a questionnaire about the consumption behavior of your household, and then you will be eligible to participate in their projects.
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Save $1.00 on 1 Buddig Deli Cuts (and get a FREE backpack)
Print two coupons to Save $1.00 on one package Buddig Deli Cuts at SmartSource. Just select “Buddig” from the BRAND pull-down menu (at the top right) then click on the small blue “Go” button. The coupon prints at the top of the page (nothing below it) and you’ve got one month before it expires. Thanks goes to Eeendeavors for sharing!
If you are a member of the Buddig Lunch Club then you should have received an email this morning with the subject line “Get a Buddig Lunch Club Backpack!“. The first 1,000 to respond will get a form to print for a free backpack when they mail in the UPCs from packages (there are no shipping charges). If you got two emails, that means there was an error in the first email – try the link in the newer email to print your form! Just one of the rewards for being a Buddig Lunch Club Member, but you do have to read your emails to get the coupons and freebies! Sign-up now if you’d like to get next month’s coupons and/or freebies.
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Catalog Choice Works to Reduce Junk Mail
I continue to be impressed by Catalog Choice, a free service to easily stop the catalogs you don’t want from appearing in your mailbox. It saves you time by being able to request that you be removed from several mailing lists all in one place. Most of the catalogs I’ve entered at Catalog Choice are no longer appearing in my mailbox (many catalogs I at one time wanted to receive, some are true junk mail that I didn’t specifically sign-up for). The great thing about Catalog Choice is that if you continue to receive a catalog after “opting-out” you can report that you are still receiving it and they do the follow-up for you. It’s a great way to save time by letting them contact the companies for you, and a great way to reduce the number of catalogs you get in your mailbox.
If you are using Catalog Choice, leave a comment and tell us what you think about it? If you are using a different free service to reduce junk mail, let us know about it! What other things are you doing to reduce the amount of junk mail you get?
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Snackpicks Rewards Subscribers with Freebies and Coupons
Subscribe to the Snackpicks enewsletter and you may be rewarded with more than just printable coupons for Kellogg’s brand products! Last week I got a free movie ticket ($12.00 value) for being one of the first 1,000 to take a short survey after receiving their latest enewsletter. I’m sharing this tip with you I’m predicting that Snackpicks will continue to offer exclusive freebies to their enewsletter subscribers plus you can keep up on their new printable coupons. You do have to register as a member of Snackpicks to print coupons from their site. But it’s easy to sign-in using your All K-Pass.
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Earn eBox Tops for Education from Kroger
Register your store loyalty card for Box Tops for Education and get 5 bonus Box Tops upon sign-up. Earn more Box Tops when you shop at Kroger family of stores with your store loyalty card. Right now they have three offers: buy 3 Totino’s, Green Giant, or Pillsbury products and earn 3 Box Tops It’s a program similar to Campbell’s eLabels for Education where your purchases earn you labels for your child’s school. I’m adding it to my “eCoupons” section of my “Coupons” tab
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Join The Motherboard Reader Panel at BH&G
Better Homes and Gardens is looking for a million women to sign-up for The Motherboard Reader Panel to share their opinions. Members will receive a weekly enewsletter and previews for special offers and product samples. This might be a great way to learn about new free sample offers and maybe get quoted in a magazine article. It’s easy to sign-up with just your name, email and address.
Other magazine reader panels I know about:
All You Reality Checkers
The Oprah Magaizne DevOtees
Redbook Xpert Panel
Parenting Magazine Mom Tester
Have you been rewarded by participating in a magazine’s reader panel? Please share by leaving a comment!
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Half-Off Vitamin Buying Strategy
If you buy Nature’s Bounty or Nature Made vitamins at the grocery store or drug store, be sure to try this vitamin-buying strategy to save more than 50% on every bottle you buy.
Gather coupons. The best source of coupons is the Sunday ad insert. But you can also print coupons and coupons will come with your free samples. You’ll also find vitamin coupons in the blinkie machines in the grocery store aisles, and printing out as Catalina coupons at the register. Sometimes you’ll even find them inside the packaging, so keep your eyes peeled!
Only buy vitamins when they are on sale for “Buy One Get One Free”. These sales happen on a regular basis at several stores (Kroger and CVS in my area) and the best way to find out when they happen is to read the weekly store sales flier. Also look for vitamins on clearance, but be sure to check the expiration dates. I typically see vitamins that are clearanced out because of a change in packaging and they are nowhere near their expiration date. You can still use manufacturer’s coupons on those clearance vitamins.
When you buy two bottles, use two manufacturer’s coupons. You can use one coupon for each product purchased regardless of what the store’s sale promotion is. That’s because the manufacturer is giving you the coupon savings, and the store is giving you the sale price savings.
Join the Nature’s Bounty Healthy Rewards and the Nature Made Wellness Rewards programs so that you earn points for every bottle of vitamins purchased. Those points add up fast and will gain you money-saving coupons to use on future purchases. These are higher value coupons (think almost a free bottle) than you can get from any other source. Just remember to log in and enter your codes to earn your rewards. You can earn a $7 coupon from Nature Made with 500 points.
Save your coupons until there is a “Buy One Get One Free” sale. When you get that high-value coupon by redeeming your rewards points, hold onto it until there is a “Buy One Get One Free” sale and keep increasing your savings on your vitamin purchases.
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If you are buying other brands of vitamins you can still save money by timing your purchases to take advantage of sales and coupons at the same time to double-up on your savings.
FAQ Free Magazine Trials
Do you recommend doing free magazine trials as a way to get free magazines?
No, I only recommend that you do free magazine samples because a free magazine trial means that you are automatically billed when the free trial period ends. It’s difficult to remember to cancel those free trials at the right time, so I just don’t recommend them. How can you tell the difference? Look for that keyword “trial” and stay away from the offer if you see that word.
Some readers are confused when they get renewal request for their free magazine samples. This is by design of the magazine publisher. They format that request to look like a bill (but it isn’t) to hopefully sway you into paying for a subscription renewal. If you ever have a question about a renewal notice you receive, then the best thing to do is call the magazine’s customer service center. The keywords to look for on those magazine renewal notices that tell you it’s not a bill are “renewal request” and “rate adjustment”. Don’t be fooled by the due date they put on the renewal request, it still doesn’t make it a bill.
Do you have any more questions about the differences between free magazine trials and free magazine samples? Ask away by leaving a comment!
Baby Clubs To Join
This is a guest post from Gloria, who blogs about coupons, bargains, events, and giveaways at FunandFrugal.com.
If you’re pregnant or have a baby, sign up for these baby clubs to get coupons and free samples! The list is pretty long, so below is a brief version. Click here for a more detailed post, including Southeast regional baby clubs for those who live in Tennessee or shop at Publix, Food Lion, or Save-a-Lot.
Start Healthy Stay Healthy Resource Center from Gerber and Nestle Good Start send you lots of great coupons.
Beech Nut’s E-Newsletter emails you coupons. You can also save your Beech Nut labels and mail them in for extra coupons. Get four $1.00/10 coupons for every 48 labels you send in. I have done this with both my boys and was always excited to get coupons in the mail! Also, you can save labels for Beech Nut Let’s Grow products and when you mail in 16 proofs of purchase, they will send you two $1/4 coupons for Let’s Grow products.
Earth’s Best babyfood has coupons on their website you can get by completing a form. Save your Earth’s Best UPC’s and mail them in plus $1.95 S/H for promotional items such as a free cereal bowl (10 UPC’s); Guess How Much I Love You book (12 UPC’s); or Body Care Travel Kit ($15 in Earth’s Best purchases).
Enfamil Family Beginnings program sends you free formula samples and up to $60 in formula checks along with other goodies. Also, you can click here to print a certificate to take to your pediatrician for a free Enfamil Lipil breastfeeding support kit and click here for a certificate for a free sample of Enfamil A.R. formula (for babies who spit up frequently.)
Similac’s Strong Mom group will send you special offers and savings. They used to mail samples – not sure if they still do.
Sam’s Club Member’s Mark Formula will send you a free sample if you request it on their website.
WalMart’s Parents Choice will send you a free sample of Parents Choice Gentle Baby Formula if you request it on their website.
Huggies Happy Healthy Pregnancy club sends you a weekly e-newsletter for each stage of your pregnancy, Huggies samples & coupons, and a pregnancy calendar.
Huggies Happy Baby club sends you e-newsletters customized to your baby’s age, Huggies samples & coupons, and Play It Up activity book.
Sign up for the Pull-Ups.com monthly e-newsletter (fill out form on top-right) and you will be able to print Pull-Ups coupons once a month. Also, you can request a free potty training success DVD.
Huggies Enjoy the Ride rewards program lets you earn points when you purchase Huggies products and redeem them for prizes. They also have sweepstakes you can enter, such as win diapers for a year. (Huggies codes posted on Freebies 4 Mom here)
Pampers.com sends you Parent Pages e-newsletter, free Pampers samples & coupons, and optional coupons & offers from other P&G; brands. They also have a Gifts to Grow program where you can earn points for every Pampers purchase and then redeem the points for gifts in their catalog. (Pampers codes posted on Freebies 4 Mom here)
Luvs will mail you a $1.00 coupon when you register for the Luvs Network. You may also get some free samples and coupons by mail occasionally.
Babies R Us has a place at the top of their site where you can get on their email list to be notified of special promotions. I posted a lot more about Babies R Us here.
Johnson’s Baby.com gives you free baby care guides & special offers from Johnson & Johnson. They also have great coupons for Johnson’s products.
Yo Baby Yogurt (whole milk organic yogurt for babies) has coupons on their *adorable* site.
Join Juicy Juice’s Growing Up Healthy program (enter your email in the very top-right) and they will email you tips, expert advice, and money-saving offers. Also, check out their Special Offers page for a free refillable bottle for new members and printable coupons.
Ringling Brothers Circus will mail you a voucher for a free circus ticket for your child that never expires, as long as you request it before their first birthday.
That’s all the baby freebies I can think of. If you know of one I’ve missed, please leave a comment.
Gloria wears many hats, including enjoying being the mother of two young boys in their hometown of Cleveland, TN and she loves helping families have fun and save money! You can find her daily posts at FunandFrugal.com.
Join Word-of-Mouth, Try Free Products
Word-of-mouth programs are a great way to try new products for free and get access to high-value coupons. Most are easy to participate in and don’t take much time to do so. I’ve had the most experience with SheSpeaks so I’m listing it first as my top pick! But please browse my entire list because I’ve added some new programs for you to check out.
Here are the word-of-mouth programs I recommend:
SheSpeaks It’s a great “word-of-mouth” marketing program that invites members to try new products, review them, and help spread the word about them. There is no catch, you simply sign-up for free and they will invite you to try new things. I got to try the Ore-Ida Steam ‘n Mash Potatoes and Emergen-C Kidz products for free (plus they gave me coupons to share) and they gave me a free subscription to Ladies Home Journal. I even hosted a SheSpeaks Party for Haagen-Dazs Five ice cream (yummy).
Tryology Can you create a product review video? Then sign-up to try free full-size products and submit your video review. This is a brand new program for me to learn about so I’d love to get some feedback from readers who try it.
VocalPoint Receive great samples and coupons in your mailbox as part of their campaigns. They love to mail you new stuff to try and offer special opportunities that you can sign-up for to get even more free products. Super easy to participate in and surveys are optional.
Kraft First Taste High-value coupons so you can try new products before anyone else.
Pssst General Mills has got something to whisper in your ear, like a high-value coupon for one of their new products.
All You Reality Checkers Specific opportunities to review products and gather info for upcoming features are emailed out. Even if you don’t get to try a product for free you might just get your picture in a future issue of the All You magazine which would be a big thrill.
House Party Throw a party focused on a specific product, TV show, or service and all your party favors are provided! Just apply for the party you’re interested in and keep your fingers crossed. New applications open up weekly and I share them on Freebie Friday at MomAdvice.
BzzAgent Try new products and spread the word among your friends. This program requires a lot of report writing to document exactly how you spread the word, but is still fairly easy to participate in and offers some great things to try for free.
RepNation Fill out surveys and share your opinion to earn “RepRewards”, but even more importantly be the first to join new campaigns because sometimes they offer special “Welcome Kits”
What has your experience been with word-of-mouth marketing programs? What have you gotten to try for free? Which program is your favorite?
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