Are you a bzz agent?

I am.

I kind of gave it up for a while because the first sample I got was kind of cheesy, and it just didn't seem to be worth the time involved to review a couple of packets of hair cream. I completed the job, of course, because when I take on a job, I do it, but never bothered to answer another request for reviews.

I changed my mind when I got a review request from Covergirl the other day...it couldn't hurt to give it another shot. My beauty budget has sunk from Sephora to clearance Tar-jay with each passing baby, so the chance to try the new Naturaluxe foundation I've been coveting without forking over a ten spot.

This is what they sent me...yes, those are full size samples...I can't wait to try it!

I can't wait to see how it is!

Free Candy Deal at Walgreens

Buy 2 Starburst Jelly Bean Eggs $0.75 each
Use $0.50/2 – Skittles or Starburst candy – (smartsource.com)printable

And Use $1.00/2 Skittles, Starburst, Life Savers or Hubba Bubba Easter Item Walgreens April Booklet
Final Price: Free

Thanks Cindy for the deal idea!

Deal of the Week.

Our local Chick-Fil-A is offering free dinner Thursday night, August 26th for everyone in the family!

They are also offering free breakfast every day till the end of August...This morning we got four chicken biscuits for free!

We also found just the right blue in the mistint section of the local Walmart for 8 dollars a gallon, for our bedroom ceiling, and one of the bathrooms. Counting down, nine days to the big move, and six to the big yard sale that will hopefully offset the growing cost of the move!

Samples worth mentioning...

     Everyone knows how I love samples... little packages of frugal goodness that make me happy and stretch my budget just a little further than it already is. I spend a couple of minutes every day scoping out all the latest freebies, and have gotten more than my share of free lunches and mini bottles of shampoo suitable for travel. Everyone once in a while, I'll get a company's offering and think it wasn't worth the postage they paid for it. Brawny sent me *A* paper towel. One towel, folded neatly in a package with a coupon. That one towel wasn't enough to convince me to buy anything. I did buy the product, one time on sale with the coupon, and at the end of the day, even a whole roll of them wasn't enough to convince me that they are anything but over priced. It was waste of their, and infinitely worse, my time.

    Now today's sample of taster's choice coffee was an absolute gift. (See photo, above.) Six little packages of instant coffee in different flavors, including a decaf.

   Well, we've been having a rough kind of day at Casa De Angels, and a little cup of coffee sounded, well, truly fabulous. And here's the kicker... it WAS truly fabulous! What a happy thing! In a world where instant coffee has the bitter metallic quality of a mouth full of seaweed, this was an absolute delight. I was shocked.

   Compared with the Starbucks VIA I received a sample of last month (one single serving envelope), it was absolute heaven. The VIA has that pretentious bitterness that I've come to expect from Starbucks products.

Evidently price doesn't account for quality. Or taste.

Today's Freebies and Other fun things

Well, I updated our computer virus protection software today with a free offer from McAfee. A free six month trial, which considering my propensity for freebie sites, updated virus protection is crucial. I also maintained my PC today, by cleaning up toolbars I don't use and other programs, and then running disk clean up and disk defragmenter. A healthy PC is a happy PC, and keeps my mailbox full of freebies!

This weeks freebies consisted of a nice package of dog food from purina one, a single paper towel (I kid you not) from bounty. A conservative bumper sticker with a request for a donation, the address labels that St. Judes sent around, and two giant packages of boxes from the post office to assist in my ebay ventures. I have over 900swagbucks so that's ten bucks worth of amazon gift cards for Christmas!

Speaking of Ebay, I'm giving it another two weeks. I've netted ten bucks out of two hours worth of work and a bunch of stress... I'm going to get all the expensive stuff I want on in the next two weeks while they are offering free insertion fees for any starting price auction style format, and then I think I'm going to retire my gavel in favor of the yard sale style format. I think the boxes may help, but I made mistakes in shipping prices on at least one item, and lost .45 of my total profit.

Speaking of freebies, my giveaway will end tonight when I get back from running errands, so you have time to click the "follow" button... and don't run away when it's done! I have more good, solid freebies coming your way!

What are your favorite online freebie sites