Big Coupon Day At Kroger On Saturday

Coupon clippers, get out your scissors. On Saturday (8/15) only, Kroger is doubling coupons valued between 50 cents and a dollar. Cheryl Jackson with Sister of Savings says you can get many items for free or for pennies. She hopes other stores will follow suit. For more information on Kroger or couponing, go to:
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This is gonna be quick!

Well today I have been running around all day nearly! I don't have a lot of time but I wanted o bring in one of the newest elements of my blog. Good Deals: Schwans is giving the first 500,000 NEW customers free food. It's $10.00 worth of free food! So that means if you order something that is $9.99 you pay nothing. That's right it's free delievered to your door. Who can beat that, FREE anything is good especially when its not junk! I have looked and I don't see that there is any fine print anywhere and just so you know you do not have to enter credit card info. If you wish to continue ordering and go over $10 you can pay for you order when they come to your door. Hope you enjoy some free food!




Schwans- $10 Worth of Free Food on 8/1
yea- can you believe all the free food that is available out there? I am amazed sometimes. Now, on Aug 1 (if you are one of the first 500,000) you can get $10 worth of free food from Schwans.

According to their site:

AMERICA'S LARGEST HOME FOOD DELIVERY COMPANY IS GIVING AWAY FREE FOOD TO THE FIRST 500,000 NEW CUSTOMERS

IT'S AS EASY AS 1,2, FREE

1- Go to http://www.schwans.com/FREE
2- Order any one item for $10 or less
3- We will deliver it to your home for FREE

Looking for free food? Who isn't? But you're just a bit early. The Free Food giveaway promotion starts Aug. 1, 2009. Complete details regarding this offer will be available on *No purchase necessary. Offer ends 9/30/09 and limited to the first 500,000 new residential/household customers (i.e., have not purchased any products from Schwan's Home Service, Inc. within the past 14 weeks) who are located in an existing route of Schwan's Home Service.

Limited to one offer per residence/household and may not be combined with any other offer or promotion. Local and state sales taxes may apply. Other restrictions apply.

Ever wondered about Mystery Shopping

Well I wondered about mystery shopping I always saw and heard things about the mysterious supposed underworld. I have been mystery shopping for about 3 months now and I can say a few things. You can not make a living from mystery shopping and you can not make a career of mystery shopping. You can make a few dollars on the side and get some free merchandise and meals. You should NEVER have to pay for mystery shopping opportunities. A few of the really good companies are very plentiful in the larger cities.

If you do not get on the Internet on a very regular basis I would not recommend mystery shopping, if you are not good at acting out scenarios it's not for you. If you are not observant and at times down right nosey mystery shopping is not for you. It is simple enough but it can be tedious and repetitive.

The way I work it is if I have a meeting in Carrollton I look for at least a few mystery shopping assignments out that direction, so basically my trip out that direction is multipurpose and it ends up being paid for plus some change. I can usually do a fast food or restaurant shop so that I end up having my meal reimbursed also.

Another important few things about mystery shopping that you need to be aware of before deciding that it's perfect for you. Just because you like to shop and just because you like to be opinionated mystery shopping is possibly NOT for you. Your opinion is rarely asked for or valid in mystery shopping. They want facts. For example the types of questions that they ask will be "how long from the time that you entered the location did someone greet you?, how long after you ordered your food did your food arrive? was the cashier polite? (yes or no)" and you will give a narrative about your actual interactions. There is no room for you to say for example: I entered the restaurant and the cashier looked rude and it took a long time for me to get my food and then the food was disgusting and cold. There is way to much opinion in that statement. They want things that verify the customer service NOT how each person perceives the service.

There are of course exceptions to every rule possibly. So don't take what I say and consider it law I'm just giving some insight from what I have learned.

Each mystery shopping company has a independent shopper agreement of some sort which states that you are not an employee and if you make over 599.99 you will be sent a 1099 which would leave you with the responsibility of filing and paying necessary taxes. (I will explain some benefits to this later in another post) The companies usually require you to put in your social security number. This is because they pay you and if you earn $599.99 or more they will send a 1099 and they need your social to do that. Any of the sites that asked me for it I placed it in and I haven't had any problems (I pull my credit quarterly and so should you! At least twice yearly!)

OKAY HERE ARE TWO IMPORTANT THINGS for you to know: Most of the companies pay 30-45 (4-6weeks) after you complete an assignment and submit your report and it's accepted. (the report is usually accepted right away the same day or within a few hours of submission, however if there are questions or inaccuracies they will send you an email and ask further questions or for clarity as needed.) Meaning you will receive a check in the mail or a payment into your pay pal account (just depends on the company but most pay one of these two ways). If your shop requires a purchase whether $0.25 or $25.00 you will pay out of pocket up front and be reimbursed when you get paid your shopper fee. DO NOT GET CONFUSED here! Some jobs pay you enough to cover the purchase and do not necessarily do a reimbursement. If you have any questions on any of these things feel free to email questions to: icyunvluckieme@yahoo.com. I've done a very nice amount of research and I am happy to say I have made about 600 dollars from different companies over the last few months. I've eaten free at a few restaurants and I've gotten free stuff (after my reimbursement) from a few stores.

More info on the do's and do not's of mystery shopping can be found at: http://bucarotechelp.com/getpaid/freelance/95022404.asp

A few mystery SHOPPER RESOURCES: www.marketforce.com, www.xec.gapbuster.com, www.beyondhello.com, www.qams.com, www.aboutfacecorp.com


JOBS THAT ARE HIRING in the DFW area: Arbitron is hiring currently part time.

How to earn extra money

Okay this is the first entry into this blog. It will be brief but I will enclose a few MONEYMAKER tip. I have decided to start a blog about making extra money. My friends all tell me that I have a way of making money out of no way and that I will do some of everything for money. Well everything legal at least now anyway. Sorry play on words don't let your thoughts get the best of you.

If you have infinite amount of money or live in the hills of some city and haven't driven in the past few years because someone else takes care of that tedious task for you.... this ain't your blog. Now to everyone else those who may live paycheck to paycheck, or is a single parent, or who has been laid off or just need to supplement income, or is a stay home parent this blog IS for you.

I hope you will subscribe and enjoy my daily tips which I will SOMETIMES get from other sites and friends and blogs to which I subscribe or check on a very regular basis. So this is like one big compilation of information. If you have any questions or areas of interest that you would like for me to cover let me know. Email me @ icyunvluckieme@yahoo.com.

All I ask in return is that you click on some of my GOOGLE ADS! Yes this is the TIP for the day! Google AdSense is a program that pays you when someone clicks on one of the advertisements on your page. I have enabled AdSense on this blog. To find out additional information or to sign up visit



Google has a program called AdSense. AdSense is an ad serving application run by Google Inc. Website owners can enroll in this program to enable text, image, and more recently, video advertisements on their websites. These advertisements are administered by Google and generate revenue on either a per-click or per-impression basis. Google uses its Internet search technology to serve advertisements based on website content, the user's geographical location and other factors. AdSense has become a popular method of placing advertising on a website because the advertisements are less intrusive than most banners, and the content of the advertisements is often relevant to the website.

Some webmasters create websites tailored to lure searchers from Google and other engines onto their AdSense website to make money from clicks. These "zombie" websites often contain nothing but a large amount of interconnected, automated content (e.g., a directory with content from the Open Directory Project, or scraper websites relying on RSS feeds for content). Possibly the most popular form of such "AdSense farms" are splogs (spam blogs), which are centered around known high-paying keywords. Many of these websites use content from other websites, such as Wikipedia, to attract visitors. These and related approaches are considered to be search engine spam and can be reported to Google.

A Made for AdSense (MFA) website or web page has little or no content, but is filled with advertisements so that users have no choice but to click on advertisements. Such pages were tolerated in the past, but due to complaints, Google now disables such accounts.

There have also been reports of Trojan horses engineered to produce counterfeit Google advertisements that are formatted looking like legitimate ones. The Trojan downloads itself onto an unsuspecting computer through a web page and then replaces the original advertisements with its own set of malicious advertisements.

Due to concerns about click fraud, 'Google AdSense' has been criticized by some search engine optimization firms as a large source of what Google calls "invalid clicks", in which one company clicks on a rival's search engine advertisements to drive up the other company's costs. To help prevent click fraud, AdSense publishers can choose from a number of click-tracking programs. These programs display detailed information about the visitors who click on the AdSense advertisements.

The payment terms for webmasters have also been criticized. Google withholds payment until an account reaches $100, but many micro content providers require a long time—years in some cases—to build up this much AdSense revenue. However, Google will pay all earned revenue greater than US$10 when an AdSense account is closed. Many website owners complain that their AdSense accounts have been disabled just before they were supposed to receive their first paycheck from Google. Google claims accounts have been disabled due to click fraud.

This information is from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AdSense.