Remain calm.  It’s Black Friday.  Yes, it’s the biggest shopping day/weekend of the year and if want to make it through unscathed you are going to need to prepare.  To avoid having an anxiety attack as you wait in never-ending lines and funnel into stores via massive hoards of strangers

I shopped and used the Walmart Savings Catcher as part of a sponsored post for Crowdtap #WMTSavingsCatcher I always have these grand plans for becoming a couponer, a real savvy shopper that goes to 10 different grocery stores to find the best price on every item.  I do shop sales

This post about shopping for household essentials online has been sponsored by P&G.   At this point, I do the majority of my shopping online: clothes, toys, gifts… now with Walmart.com I can order my household essentials as well.  I mean, who has the time to run errands all over town? 

This post about shopping for energy providers is sponsored by Choose Energy; all opinions are 100% my own. Living in the desert, sometimes things are very backwards.  Like when I grew up back East, winter was the off-season.  We were all huddled inside while the snow covered the yard and

Do you ever feel like the crazy bag lady/man walking into stores to shop because you have a mangled mess of bags with you? If you think you’re being smart by putting them into your cart, you will likely be taking up three quarters of the empty space with your

The holidays are getting so close… can you feel it?  Planning and purchasing for Christmas or Hanukkah can be quite overwhelming, but I also have two kids with January birthdays as well — this is the beginning of my crazy season.  Toy research is a top priority, and I am

With an almost 8 month old in the house, I feel all in.  The milestones seem to be flying by and my house is a whirlwind of diapers, sticky puff food and too much baby gear.  My one-time baby now has two teeth, sits easily on his own, crawls, runs

Happy Cyber Monday!  Earning reward points on purchases you would have otherwise made anyway is always fun, especially when those points add up to savings at checkout.  ShopYourWay is an online shopping community that is built around your social network.  With ShopYourWay you are basically creating an online catalog of

Take advantage of the last of summer by shopping your local Farmer’s Market.  Here in Southern California our traveling market is quite expansive, which means I end up with a lot of bags from a lot of different vendors.  To keep myself stress-free (and my hands pain-free) I use the

I’m seeing more and more people wearing Dansko shoes as well as more shoe stores carrying their line. If you aren’t as familiar with them, they’re the leading women’s comfort brand. I’ll admit this, the Valerie shoe is my first pair of Dansko shoes that I’ve tried on for myself.