I get the "Refund Cents" newsletter via email each week (www.refundcents.com) and this promotion was part of it. I just bought a pair of Sketcher's athletic shoes on clearance for $20 after the 25% discount!! Here is the link to the Famous footwear site http://search.famousfootwear.com/?Qu...rid=PERFORMICS


Famous Footwear has two big promotions coming. The first starts today:
*** Get an additional 25% off all clearance items with code 1022SALE. Only good Oct 22. There are 902(!) pairs of clearance women's shoes. If you order 3 or more pairs, shipping is free. You can do returns at their store if you have one close by (or through the mail). Coooool. Also join their Rewards program so you get certificates in the mail, up to $25 each. The link to join is in the upper right of the homepage. If you are new to the Rewards program, and sign up on-line, you get a $10 rewards certificate to use on your next $50 purchase.
*** Buy One Get 1/2 Off One sale with FREE SHIPPING runs Thursday Oct 23 - Jan 1.

6pm.com This site sells designer clothes and shoes at a discount:
All Skechers footwear $24.95 or LESS at 6pm.com (10/24)
All Aerosoles footwear $24.95 or LESS at 6pm.com (10/24)
All Rockport footwear $24.95 or LESS at 6pm.com (10/24)

All these are great ideas!!

Something we just started doing recently is unplugging things, not just turning them off. Nearly everything that we leave plugged in uses electricity when it is off,

You will be amazed at how much these things use. We cut our $250 power bill by a third already, and sometimes we forget to unplug things. Since getting this last bill we are really workin at it now

So unplug that toaster, coffee pot, vcr,dvd players. For the TV's and computers get a power strip and after turning off the items switch off the power strip.

Cant wait to see the next bill!

I dont have very many thrifty ideas but I do one thing religiously when my mom goes shopping...

as soon as she gets dryer sheets, I cut all of them in half, works just the same! I take the liquid detergent and split it into 3 bottles and add water to each. We have 6 people doing laundry and every one using full strength laundry detergent and full sheets is crazy so I do my little part to help split it up.

Mom and Dad get 1 load of their clothes + a few towels
Johnathan and his friend that lives here get their own load + a few towels
Mike and I get our own load + a few towels

and we make sure we put as much as we can in our single load so we dont have to run lots of litle loads, when we could do fewer larger loads.

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We also have a chiminea so instead of taking gross old wood that cant be used from dads construction projects, we burn it in the chiminea and use the ashes at fertilizer...its AMAZING, theres people who have had volcanic ash on their lawns from an eruption, watered it and had 3 foot grass in 2 days! so the ash from our chiminea falls into a bucket and dad uses it on his tomatoes which he has THOUSANDS of.

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We use the sun for EVERYthing in my house, we keep our shades open as long as possible for heat and light and we only use the inside lights onces its too dark to see with sunlight. my dad is really concidering getting solar panels for the house not only for electricity but to heat our water.


hope that helped!