Money Saving Monday: Bing

Have you all heard of Bing? It's basically Google but instead it's Bing. I've been using Bing for a couple years now along with Google. You might ask yourself, why in the world wouldn't I always use Google? Good question my friend. The answer is Bing gives me gift cards for using them!

Right now I'm sure you are thinking what's the catch? Nothing. Really. Every morning when I need to Bing something I just visit Bing.com and type my search terms in the box, exactly like Google. It spits backs a ton of answers, just like Google. For each 2 items I "Bing" I earn 1 credit up to 15 credits per day in basic searches. Then I can Bing on my phone and earn an additional 10 credits and they always have at least one freebie of the day like a trivia question (that you can Bing for the answer).

By now I'm sure you are thinking that it must take years to earn enough credits to redeem for a gift card but that is not so! In fact, you can realistically earn a $5 Amazon credit every month without much problem at all.

Let's do some math…

30 searches a day on a computer = 15 credits
20 searches a day on a phone = 10 credits
1 (minimum) freebie search a day = 1 credit
Total = 26 credits a day!

I'm currently a Gold Member which is nice because it means I get discounts on rewards.

A $5 Amazon gift card costs a Gold Member 475 credits and a non-gold member 525 credits.

A handful of different gift card options available.

So 475 credits divided by 26 credits a day is roughly 19 days of searches. Which means, if you do as many searches as allowed every day, you will be able to have a $5 gift card every 19 days. Not too bad since you are probably Googling stuff every day anyway.

I don't normally Bing 50 different options a day on my own so what I typically do is click through the basic story headlines on the homepage. You don't have to do anything but click on each one. Takes maybe 2 minutes to click on enough to earn all your credits for the day. I also don't do a lot of bing searches on my phone (not convenient so I don't waste my time) so it does take me a little longer to earn the gift cards but not too much longer.

At this point I have redeemed for three $5 amazon gift card codes and I currently have enough credits for two more $5 codes.

Are you going to get rich with Bing? No. You will earn a few gift cards every now and then though for doing something super simple that you probably do daily anyway. Seems like a no-brainer to me!

Does anyone else Bing? What do you think of it?

P.S. I do earn referral credits if you click one of my Bing links above and use it to earn credits. No pressure… ;)

(No I'm not a sponsor of Bing, I just think it's pretty cool)

Things I'm currently loving...

Anything and everything gold!

The beautiful flowers my husband sent me for no reason on Tuesday.

The Maroon 5 song Sugar. It's so good!!

Gas prices. I can't even believe they are so low. Hopefully I'm not jinxing it.

(Okay, so maybe I used some fuel points on this one.)

Peeling wallpaper. Oh wait…I HATE that. 

Giant greasy hamburgers. Not sure why but almost everyday I want to eat a hamburger. (Don't worry I don't. Sadly.)

My husbands butt in these jeans…

American Sniper, the movie. It was really good and super intense. Makes you appreciate our freedom and what soldiers do for our country. You know it was good when the theatre is dead silent as the credits roll until people start clapping. Check it out. 

The lovely free printable Meal Planner I made for all you lovely readers :) You can find a downloadable file of it on my Blog BFF Kala's page My Breezy Room!

Have a lovely weekend!!

Money Saving Monday

I've realized I have about a million little tricks and tips for saving money. Since I'm pretty sure everyone loves to save money I have decided to do a little series occasionally called Money Saving Monday. 

With this series I will share ways (that I actually use) to save myself and my family money. This ranges from making freezer meals, to couponing, to using certain websites or apps to earn things like gift cards, cash and magazines!

If there is something in particular you are interested in saving money on let me know in the comments below. 

To get started…here's a link to a post I did a few weeks ago. I have currently earned approximately $70 in gift cards just from this app. (Hint: If you use the link I provide I earn bonus points and so do you!)

Free Fall Printable

To make up for my bad attitude yesterday I decided to give you guys a little present.

A Free Fall Printable!

You're welcome.

The printable is sized at 5x7 and all you have to do is print it out and put it in a frame.

To download your free printable go here. Then come back and let me know how you used it. I'd love to see photos:)

Enjoy!

4th of July Printable

The 4th of July is just around the corner and I'm so excited that I decided to make you all a little treat! Click here to download my Free 4th of July printable! 

And because I'm really nice, I didn't even watermark it! If you use it, I would love for you to tell me in the comments, or please link back to my site if you post it somewhere:)

What's your favorite thing about the 4th of July? Free printable's maybe? Haha. Mine would have to be the huge reunion we have every year with my ginormous family. Tons of food, fireworks, and freedom! Plus we are getting these super sweet shirts this year....

fun right?!

Check back soon for more 4th of July fun!

xoxo

Linking up with Adventures of a DIY Mom and A Jennuine Life.

Extreme Couponing?

I feel like I pretty much dominated at grocery shopping these past couple days. I managed to stock our freezer and cabinets fairly well while easily saving over a couple hundred bucks. 

To give you an idea of the savings I had on Sunday:

I spent $74 at Wal-Mart for 70 items. 

One item was $20 and it was my dog's flea and tick meds and this was the only item I didn't price match. 

So essentially I spent $54 for 69 items. 

6 pkg of Kraft shredded cheese - FREE

6 pkg of Kraft natural slices cheese - FREE

6 pkg of Oscar Meyer bologna - Free (I don't eat this but I donate it)

6 pkg of Oscar Meyer Deli Fresh lunchmeat - .49 cents each

3 pkg of Oscar Meyer Bacon - .99 cents each

4 - 32 oz bottles of Gatorade - .59 cents each

4 jars of Planters peanuts - .99 cents each

6 pkg of Green Giant steamfresh frozen veggies -.65 cents each

Can't remember what all of this was priced but the total added with the stuff above only came out to $54.

2 pkgs of Crystal Light

3 bottles of Hunts Ketchup

2 Velveeta Cheesy Skillets

3 pkgs of Keebler Cookies

2 - 4lb bags of C&H Sugar

2 - 24pk cases of Nestle Pure Life Water

1 - 12 roll pk of Angel Soft TP

3 - Butterfingers

1 - Cheetos

1 - Fritos

4 pkg of Hamburger Helper

3 cans of manwhich

1 - Ekrich Smoked Sausage

$20 dog meds

Wally world deals.

You might be looking at this list and thinking that's a lot of crap and cheese. I admit, there is quite a bit of junk in here but this is also not what we eat every day and most of this stuff will last my husband and I several months (not the cheetos, they are my weakness;). I honestly go to the grocery store 2-3 times a week and pick up the fresh produce but I tend to stock up every couple months on this other stuff whenever they have big sales. A lot of the stuff "freezes beautifully" including the cheese and lunchmeat so that helps as well. 

Monday I followed up my big food extravaganza with a little bit of shopping at the local Dillons (Kroger). I had to run in to deposit my paycheck and pick up a prescription so I thought I would check things out while I was in there. Good thing I did. 

1 Gillette shaving cream

2 bottles of Pantene

2  tubes of Colgate toothpaste

1 Colgate toothbrush 

3 cans of Van Camps pork and beans (bbq season is upon us!)

1 Dial handsoap

1 Downy Unstoppables (mildly obsessed with these, have you tried them?)

1 head of Romaine lettuce

Grand total $5 and change. Not bad if I say so myself. 

Dillons deals.

If you have any questions about what kind of deals I used just let me know. I use coupons a lot and I also always price match at Wal-Mart. Such an easy way to save money even though it does take a little bit of time. 

Freebie: Recipe Cards

I have a slight obsession with all things adorable and kitchen-y. So, I made some Super Cute (I think anyway) recipe cards for you to use:) 

Just go to this link and/or this link print out on some heavy cardstock. Cut out and voila! Adorable recipe cards for you to use as you please. 

I think the second one is my favorite. 

Which one is your favorite?

Let me know if you like them and feel free to share with a link back here.