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LivingSocial is offering a special through the holidays where you spend $5 to donate to the Marine Toys for Tots Foundation, your $5 will be matched by the corporate partners, making your donation worth $10, to a maximum of $1,000,000. This is a great way to help kids in need! Limit one per purchaser.
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Looking for more opportunities to get your kids involved in giving this season? The Red Cross has a program to help lift the spirits of servicemen and women who are overseas during the winter holiday season. By participating in Holiday Mail for Heroes, you and your children can do a lot of good with just a little time and effort.
Buy or make holiday cards, and address them on the inside to Any Serviceman or Woman. Write some words of encouragement and support, and mail them to:
Holiday Mail for Heroes
P.O. Box 5456
Capitol Heights, MD 20791-5456
Cards will only be accepted through December 7th, so get started now! Any mail received after that date will be returned to sender. Please do not send care packages, monetary gifts, glitter or include any inserts (like photos) with the cards. You don’t need to include envelopes. Once received, the cards will be distributed to members of the military and veterans in the U.S. and overseas.
This would make a great activity for a playgroup, moms club, or your family. I hope you’ll join my family in participating!
It’s the 20th year for the Stamp Out Hunger Food Drive! This is an easy way to get your family involved in helping hunger in your community. Just leave a sturdy bag containing non-perishable foods such as canned soup, canned vegetables, pasta, rice or cereal next to your mailbox before your regular mail delivery this Saturday, May 12, 2012. Your postal carrier will collect the donations. Last year, over 77 million pounds of food was donated.
Thank you for helping others with your frugal shopping!
LivingSocial is offering a special through Thursday where you spend $5 to donate $10 to the Marine Toys for Tots Foundation, and then they match the $5, for a doubled donation of $10. This is a great way to help kids in need. When you click over to LivingSocial, you’ll need to click “Families” on the left hand side of the page, and look for the Toys for Tots deal under National.
Limit one per person. For each $5 donation made during promotional duration, an additional $5 in toys will be donated by corporate partners of the Marine toys for Tots Foundation up to a maximum of $1,000,000 in toys.
It’s the easiest food drive ever! This Saturday, May 14th, is the United States Post Office’s Stamp Out Hunger food drive. Just put out your non-perishable goods for your mail carrier, and they’ll go off to your local food bank. Get more information at the Stamp Out Hunger website, where you can also print out Campbell’s coupons.
Thank you for helping others with your frugal shopping!
As I’ve mentioned before, you can help Japan’s earthquake relief by donating your Swagbucks. Many of you have done so, and Swagbucks is reporting that they’ve raised the equivalent of $20,000 so far! Take a moment and donate some Swagbucks to the Japan Earthquake and Tsunami Relief Fund. It’s an easy way to donate to help Japan for FREE.
If you haven’t signed up for Swagbucks yet, now is a great time, because you’ll start off with 80 Swagbucks in your account. Just use my referral link and code HelpJapan for 50 bonus Swagbucks plus the regular 30 you get for signing up (this code is valid for new members only and expires May 2nd).
I talk about Swagbucks often because it’s one of the easiest ways to earn FREE stuff like Amazon gift cards and Paypal cash just by using the Swagbucks search engine to search the internet.
There are SO many ways to earn Swagbucks:
I prefer to redeem my Swagbucks for FREE Amazon gift cards. It only takes 450 Swagbucks to get a $5 credit at Amazon, and it’s the best ratio of Swagbucks-to-money that I’ve found. You can use your Amazon GCs to buy everything from holiday gifts to specialty groceries to carseats!
Disclosure: I earn Swagbucks along with you when you sign up under my referral link.
I talk about Swagbucks often because it’s one of the easiest ways to earn FREE stuff like Amazon gift cards and Paypal cash just by using the Swagbucks search engine to search the internet.
If you haven’t signed up yet, now is a great time, because you’ll start off with 80 Swagbucks in your account. Just use my referral link and use sign-up code HelpJapan for 50 bonus Swagbucks plus the regular 30 you get for signing up (this code is valid for new members only and expires April 8th).
All Swagbucks members can donate their Swagbucks to the Japan Earthquake and Tsunami Relief Fund. It’s an easy way to donate to help Japan for FREE.
There are SO many ways to earn Swagbucks:
I prefer to redeem my Swagbucks for FREE Amazon gift cards. It only takes 450 Swagbucks to get a $5 credit at Amazon, and it’s the best ratio of Swagbucks-to-money that I’ve found. You can use your Amazon GCs to buy everything from holiday gifts to specialty groceries to carseats!
Disclosure: I earn Swagbucks along with you when you sign up under my referral link.
LivingSocial is offering a special today where you spend $5 to donate $10 to the American Red Cross, and then they match the $5, for a doubled donation of $10. This is a great way to help the people of Japan. When you click over to LivingSocial, you’ll see the banner at the top of the page.
**This offer is only good through 1:00pm EST. on Friday.Looks like they’ve extended this!
Each year, my family participates in the various food drives and toy drives at our schools and in our communities. Since they’re 4, 4, and 7, it’s usually me who participates, but this year we did a lot of talking about those who have less, and I included them in the shopping and drop off. We also talked about how we share with others different times during the year.
My kids like participating in the Walk for Babies every spring; they love the balloons and attention they get, but giving up toys at holiday time is hard. It’s the same thing we go through every time we give a friend a birthday present, but they still struggle. Over their lifetimes, I want them to know how good it feels to give, how lucky they are to live where they do, and how even one person can make a big difference in others’ lives.
Donating to Toys for Tots each year is a small step, but it’s age-appropriate for them, and it gives us a lot to discuss and work through in their little minds. Many Toys for Tots collection locations are ending pickup this Friday, so I hope you’ll consider adding a few toys to the box next time you see one.
I hope you’ll join my family and me in participating in Holiday Mail for Heroes, a program by the Red Cross that helps lift the spirits of American service members, their families, and veterans al over the world. By participating in Holiday Mail for Heroes, you can do a lot of good with just a little time and effort.
The mail will be distributed to members of the military and veterans in the U.S. and overseas. Cards will only be accepted through Friday, December 10th. Any mail received after that date will be returned to sender.
To participate, take a holiday card, address it (on the inside) to Any Serviceman or Woman, write some words of encouragement and well wishes, and mail it to:
Here’s how you can participate in the Challenge:
Everyone who links up here or posts their results in the comments will be eligible for a special PRIZE from me! I will be choosing 3 random winners on Tuesday, November 30th.
See an example of how to post your results. Thanks for joining in!
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