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I have SwagGrabber on my RSS feed. She posts a lot of deals and freebies, some on the internet and others in physical stores. She’s been posting about free Redbox rentals for awhile now but Jeff and I had never tried it.

Today we rented City of Ember. The promo code worked and the movie was free. Unfortunately, the movie was disappointing. Based on the preview, I was expecting some grandiose statement about life and about conquering environmental concerns, external conflicts, etc. For a kids/family movie, it was decent. But as an adult looking for content, it fell short. Oh, well. At least we didn’t waste any money on it.

If you have Redbox in your area and are interested in a free movie, check SwagGrabber’s website. She posts a free rental code once a week.

My developing frugality skills finally paid off. hehe

Over the weekend, my brother bought this really nasty Fry’s brand imitation cheese. Sorry Josh, but it was nasty. I looked on the website, and Fry’s has a satisfaction guarantee on all of their store brands. This morning, I took two packages of the “cheese” back to Fry’s and asked for a refund or store credit. Even though I didn’t have the receipt, they offered me a cash refund. Yay!

Fry’s has their Fry’s brand “real” cheese on sale right now, so we bought a block of that instead. Walmart had pasta salad noodles discounted and combined with the ingredients we have been saving at home, we’re having pasta salad for dinner! It’s been ages (well, several months) since we’ve had pasta salad and we’ve been scraping the bottom of the cupboards for food to eat the past couple days. The pasta salad cost us a few minutes of time to return the icky cheese and $2.25 for the noodles. The olives, frozen peas, and salad dressing was being saved for this day.

Hurray for yummy dinners! This will be so much better than hot cereal or canned chili…

I wasn’t sure if I was going to post today, but when I found this offer, I had to share.

Visit this Quizno’s site and register for their email list to receive a free small sub. The first million people will receive a printable coupon which can be redeemed at their stores. Hubby and I each signed up so we’re getting a free lunch tomorrow!

Thanks to SwagGrabber for posting about this deal.

God has blessed our willingness to sacrifice some of our possessions. I have been leaning toward an attitude of “less is more” ever since I started being a housewife. Fewer possessions mean less maintenance, less time wasted, and less cleaning. This time of unemployment has prompted us to sell some things to raise money for paying bills. Jeff has been out of work for 7 weeks and we have not yet missed a payment.

I wanted to mention two ways that we’ve been selling things.

Craigslist – This website has been hit or miss, depending on the item being sold. Our Wii was snapped up very quickly, but I haven’t had any luck selling clothes. We’ve made $335 on Craigslist.

Half.com – An Ebay affiliate, Half.com is an incredibly easy website to use if you already have an Ebay account. The website hosts a virtual yard sale for books, movies, music, and video games. All you do is enter the ISBN of the items you are selling, list the item’s condition, and select a price. When the seller buys an item, you are notified immediately and mail out the item. Half.com reimburses you for a set shipping amount, takes a small commission, and deposits the balance into your bank account. In the last 24 hours, we sold four video games and one DVD for a total of $104.65!