Free Christmas Music

Amazon is giving away one free Christmas song download a day now through Christmas. They did this last year and I added 25 songs to my Christmas playlist! To view the song for each day visit this Amazon Page. The site states that the songs are only available to download for "a limited time" and I'm not sure if you'll be able to go back and download the songs from previous days.

There is a free Curious George Christmas song from Amazon here as well.

Amazon offers free songs all the time, not just during the Christmas season. It's a good way to hear new music. Who knows, you may find some new favorites!

If you like Christmas music you can tune into 104.3 or 99.7 on the radio, both stations are playing Christmas music full time now. Or if you are near your computer, I highly recommend Pandora. It's like an internet radio station that you program to songs that YOU like. It's great all year round. Listen to only the songs or artists you like!

New! Subscribe via Email

If you don't want to miss a money saving post take a minute and subscribe to GB Savers via email. Each time there is a new post you will receive an email. Don't worry, you won't be flooded with emails. No new posts means no emails! Don't miss another deal!

December Home Depot Kids Workshop

The Home Depot Kids Workshop for December is the 5th. So head over to make a wagon. No registration necessary, just show up between 9am and noon.

Vanilla Beans

In the past I have made vanilla "extract" by soaking a vanilla bean or two in alcohol for a few weeks (I used vodka but you can also use rum). This make a great gift if you can find some cute containers. You can also put a vanilla bean in with some sugar to make vanilla sugar. Not to mention all the other yummy things you can make like real vanilla ice cream!

Anyway, I want to make some more extract. So after asking around and doing a little searching I found a great deal on vanilla beans. I can get 26-28 beans for $18 (including shipping). If you have ever seen how much vanilla beans are in the grocery store you'll know that is a great deal!

I'm just not sure I can use that many beans! Is anyone interesting in splitting the order with me?

Cheap Chex Cereal

Piggly Wiggly has Chex cereal on sale this next week - starting Wed - through Tgiving - for .99 a box and there is a $1.00 of 2 coupon on that Pillsbury/General Mills flier we just got this past Sunday - you can only buy 3 at a time so I plan to cut out the coupons and put them in my purse and will use them each time I stop there (which is multiple times a week).

FREE-Mom's Guide to Surviving the Flu

Crystal at Everyday Food Storage (and her family) were recently hit hard by the flu. She put together an awesome, FREE flu resource (A Mom's Guide to Surviving the Flu) full of information on taking care of yourself and your loved ones if you get sick this season. I pray that you all stay well... but just in case... download her helpful booklet here.

Free Bread Baking E-book

I just got this in my inbox... a free ebook download from the Urban Homemaker. I bought my grain mill and mixer from the Urban Homemaker and really enjoy her recipes. The book is called a Beginners Guide to Baking Bread. This ebook is free today only... click here to get to the download page. If you sign up for her newsletter you can also download another free ebook called Steps to the Best Bread.

Games!

If you are interested in getting in on the games deal at Toys R Us, don't wait! Jerry stopped by for me on the way home from work this evening and he said some of the games are already gone. I'm sure they'll get more in stock, but obviously the word is out!! :) It is a GREAT deal!

heres a code for 50 free photo cards woohoo

You can order 50 free 4x8 or 5x7 photo cards including free shipping using the coupon code freebies4mom-1109 at SeeHere by Fujifilm. There is no catch, this truly is a freebie and I'm able to bring it exclusively to my Freebies 4 Mom readers thanks to SeeHere. I ordered my 50 free 5x7 photo cards and my order total of $39.50 was slashed to $0.00 with that coupon code. This coupon code expires on November 30 so you have plenty of time to design your free photo cards. Amanda Haigh

Seven Games for Under $4!!!

Just in case you didn't already hear about this deal, I thought I'd mention it here. Toys R Us has seven classic Hasbro kids games on sale for $3.99 this week. If you spend $25 or more on Hasbro games you get a $10 TRU gift card. PLUS there is a rebate for $2 back on all the games on sale! So if you get one of each game you will pay $27.93 out of pocket, get a $10 gift card, and a rebate of $14 making the end price $3.93 for SEVEN games!

Even if you have some of the games already stock up for future birthday gifts or this could be a great way to donate some toys on a budget!!

If you want more details see this week's TRU ad in the paper or head over to Common Sense with Money.

Festival Deals and Recipe

This week is Festival's annual 50% off McCormick spices and extract sale. While I usually just get the cheap 50 cent spices elsewhere, I usually take advantage of this sale to stock up on maple and clear vanilla extract. If you want nice white frosting for cookies and cakes (GBAMOMs!) use clear vanilla! I use maple extract to make my own "maple" syrup.

Nestle baking chips are on sale 2 for $3 and there are tons of coupons available as well. You should be able to get these for about $1 each. No limit, so stock up!

There are coupons for $.88 eggs, $.98 butter, and $.98 flour too. Limit 1. Unfortunately.

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Just in case you are interested here is my "Maple" Syrup Recipe. I found this recipe in a kids cookbook when I was a kid! Unless we splurge and get the real stuff, we have never bought syrup! This recipe has saved me a ton of money over the years!

Easy Maple Syrup

1 cup boiling water
2 cups granulated sugar (or 1 c. white and 1 c. brown)
1 t. maple syrup extract

Optional: 1-2 T. butter (or butter extract)
1 tsp. vanilla


Bring water to a boil. Add sugar. Boil for a few minutes. The longer you boil the thicker it will be. Remove from heat and stir in maple extra. Serve warm. Store in fridge in a container that is microwaveable to make it easier to reheat.

[Shelly's super fast method: Boil one cup of water in the microwave. Stir in sugar (I always use white). Add maple extract and mix well.]

Shopko Express Doubles

Shopko Express is doubling coupons up to and INCLUDING $2 through November 13th. (No internet printables.) There should be at least a few things that are free or nearly free. If you run across any great deals share them here!