If you haven’t entered my Green Giant Gift Pack giveaway, today is the last day!  Go HERE to enter.  Giveaway enters tonight (Friday, 2/18) at 11:59 pm EST.

Go to  Best Deal Magazines HERE to sign up for the magazine subscriptions below as well as hundreds more magazines to choose from.  I have ordered four different subscriptions from Best Deal Magazines and while it takes a while to receive the first magazine, I have had no problems with my orders!

Deal of the Day February 18th:

Oxygen Magazine, 1 yr subscription on sale for $5.39, use 15% coupon code PXCJ220, makes it $4.58/year

Deals of the Week for February 14th – 20th:

Weight Watchers Magazine, 1 yr subscription on sale $3.76/yr when you use coupon code WKLYSPEC

Parents Magazine, 1 yr subscription $3.76/yr when you use coupon code WKLYSPEC

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**Update– This class is coming up soon and I’m getting so excited to meet all of you!!  More than 140 of you have pre-registered and I can’t wait to spend the evening talking couponing and saving money with you! 🙂  I posted this last week and I wanted to remind you that childcare will be provided free of charge!  HOWEVER, you will need to pre-register your children before attending the class.  To pre-register, email Jennifer and let Jennifer know the name(s) and age(s) of your children.  Jennifer’s email is jpassmore @woodlandministries. com  (remove the spaces to email her).  Also – my friend will be taping my class and if you are a follower of Addicted to Saving and would like to give a testimonial after the class, I would love it – absolutely NO pressure though!

My goal for you is that you will become empowered as you begin to save more and more money each month.  I give an Addicted to Saving 101 class that will teach you the skills necessary to save 75%+ each month on your grocery bills.  Register yourself, your friends, your family, your neighbors, the more the merrier!  I look forward to meeting you!  Below is the class itinerary. 

Class Itinerary Includes:

• Introduction to couponing
• Introduction to coupon organization
• Changing how to view shopping
• Introduction to Publix
• How to save 75%+ each week at Publix
• How to save on “Healthy” Foods
• Introduction to stockpiling
• Using your savings as a ministry
• Introduction to CVS & Walgreens

Time: 7:00 pm (class lasts 90 minutes)
Date: Monday, February 28, 2010
Location: Woodland the Community Church, 9607 State Rd 70 E,  Bradenton, FL 34202
Cost: $5.00 per person – Payable at the door by either cash or check.  Childcare will be provided free of charge if you preregister your child(ren) by emailing jpassmore @woodlandministries. com  (remove the spaces). 
Register: Please register so we can get an accurate headcount of how many people to expect.  Go HERE to register!

So… I’m not a big Valentine’s Day person.  Actually, I’m kind of anti-Valentine’s Day.  In my humble opinion (yes, this is a bit of a glass half empty opinion), if you are only treating me nice because it is Valentine’s Day then we have big problems.  Not that I am the type of person who says that “every day should be Valentine’s Day”.. I am just a bit more realistic about life and relationships.  You have good days and you have bad days and hopefully the good days out-weigh the bad.  That said, my hubby and I decided to celebrate Valentine’s Day by giving ourselves a frugal challenge.  We wanted to see how little we could spend on our evening out.  We also planned on documenting the evening.  I have to say, I was a bit of a “pill” last night so I am glad my hubby put up with me.  Looking back, though, we had a great night and ended up not being frugal at all thanks to the darn flowers below…

So the day started out with me receiving a beautiful floral arrangement from FTD.  I don’t know if you remember but I posted about the FTD/Groupon debacle yesterday.  Unbeknownst to me, my hubby ended up ordering me flowers from FTD even thought they were pricey.  Can I emphasize pricey?!?  We are working on getting our money back from FTD (or at least a portion credited back) because of the debacle.  But, in the meantime, Jeff spent $20.00 on the FTD Groupon and then an additional… oh my gosh I hate to have to be honest about this.. he got royally taken advantage of.. $31.33..  The flowers are so beautiful though – they smell amazing.  I just can’t say they are $51.33 worth of flowers because they are not…. He could have done so much better going to Publix.. I bet he could have gotten me at least 2 and a half dozen roses at that price!  So far, we were not doing well with having a frugal Valentine’s Day!!

So for dinner, we went to The Lime which is a Tapas restaurant in South Tampa close to Hyde Park.  (We love the Hyde Park area.)  They had great food and on Mondays they have a $2.00 mini burrito special which we thoroughly enjoyed.  We used a $25.00 Groupon certificate which I spent $12.00 on.  We did a great job of staying in budget so after the $25.00 worth of food that we purchased, we only had to pay tip which was an additional $5.00 out of pocket.  So, for $17.00 we were able to pay for our food and tip.  Not bad!

After dinner, we had grand plans of using a Groupon for City Street Sweets candy store in Hyde Park.  (Have I mentioned I love Groupon?)  The problem, however, was that we didn’t account for the candy store being closed before 9 pm!  So, no candy for us.  (Not like we needed the calories considering what we enjoyed for dessert…)

We ended our gorging at ColdStone Creamery.  YUM.  Our favorite icecream mixture is called “Cookie Don’t You Want Some.”  But we switch it up.  We get cake batter ice cream with caramel sauce, chocolate sauce, cookie dough and reese peanut butter cup.  Amazingly delicious.  We shared a medium sized ice cream and as you can see from the picture, we made sure to eat every last drop.  And the best part?  We spent $0.00.  We had a gift card given to us by a friend.  🙂

Our Valentine’s Day evening ended at our local Redbox.  We had high hopes for the end of our evening – going to see a movie in the theater, taking a walk through Hyde Park, walking along Bayshore, etc etc.  Truthfully, though, we are a bit boring and for us watching a movie at home without falling asleep is a big deal.  So, we took advantage of the FREE Redbox Code I posted about and rented a movie.  We rented The Social Network.  Have any of you seen it?  We really liked it – it kept our attention from start to finish!  And, of course the best part was that the rental was FREE!  🙂

So to sum up our supposed frugal Valentine’s Day Challenge we gave ourselves:

Purchased FTD Groupon: $20.00
$$ Spent on FTD order after using Groupon: $31.33 – UGH
Purchased The Lime Restaurant Groupon: $12.00
$$ Spent on The Lime after using Groupon: $5.00
$$ Spent on Coldstone:$0.00 thanks to a gift card – woohoo!
$$ Spent on a Redbox Rental: $0.00 thanks to the code BEMINE
Total Spent: $68.33 – yup – we bombed our challenge – but we had fun and sometimes, it is okay to splurge right?

I hope all of you had a wonderful Valentine’s Day – whether you celebrate it with enthusiasm or a bit of resistance like myself. 😉  And, most of all, I hope you were a bit more frugal than we were!