Birthday Savings

  Did you know that you can sign up online for special birthday offers?  For instance, if you join the e-mail club for Carlos O'Kelly's, they'll send you periodic coupons for things like a free appetizer or $5 off a $20 bill.  Around your birthday, they'll also send you one for a specific free dessert.  (I think it's sopapillas, IF I remember correctly).

  Also, if you're close to Riverside Casino in Riverside, Iowa, you get something special during your birth month.  They will provide you with $10 to spend on the machines and a free buffet meal once during your birth month.  The buffet, at supper time, is worth a few cents short of $17.  So worth signing up for!!!  I went to Riverside this weekend, got my free buffet meal (seafood night on Friday!) and free gambling money.  I spent a total of $13 of my own while I was there, and won a total of $29.31.  Not bad at all for an evening of entertainment for cheap!

  These are only 2 examples.  Do a little research and you'll find all kinds of cool deals to use around your birthday!

My 95 Cent jar of pickles

  I needed pickles for the next time I make tuna salad.  The other day, I found a coupon for 55 cents off a jar of Vlasic ones.  Cool!  And then today, I just randomly decided to look online at the Hy-Vee ad, and found that Vlasic pickles were on sale, 2/$4 I think.  Even cooler!  Once I got to Hy-Vee, I found that some of them were actually below ad- 2/$3. SO cool!

  I have been a total geek all night, excited about my 95 cent jar of pickles!