My California Wine Club Diary: Mix It Up And Save 4 For 2 Coupon Code

February 25, 2012 By Momstart 7 Comments

I’m so excited to start working with The California Wine Club again. This time it’s going to be a little different instead of just reviews of the wine we’re going to be pairing it up with food and cooking with it. I have no knowledge of wine, I just like to drink it. People ask me all the time, what do you like, I don’t know. I’ve never paid attention to it before. I’m going to start paying attention and taking you along for the ride.

Talking with some friends I found that some wines are best for pairing with food. Food brings out their flavor. Really, I didn’t know this. They also told me that other wines are great for drinking on their own. If they are really light and smooth then they are really easy to just drink otherwise you’re supposed to pair them with cheese dessert or steak.

California Wines just sent me two new wines this month and I can’t wait to uncork them and enjoy them. It looks like I’m going to be making steak to pair with this Three Saints Steak House Red Wine. This red wine is a Cabernet Sauvignon dominated blend accentuated with Syrah, Merlot, Malbec, and Cabernet Franc. This estate wine showcases punchy aromatics of crushed blackberries, dusty graphite and mulled spices. The palate is full and structured with dark berry flavors and warm spices, and a long finish. I’m going to have to keep a diary and my thoughts on Cabernet Sauvignon. A friend also told me that I should store it on it’s side instead of upright. You can keep up with my thoughts on The California Wine Club with my California Wine Club Diary as I start to discover different wine groups, how they pair with food and recipes I can create with the wines. Tip: Wine is good used in the crock pot. I learned that at The Kenmore blogger Summit.

What’s your experience with wine?

SAVE on California Wine Club:

The new promo code is: momstart12

You get 4 bottles for the price of 2 in your first shipment with no obligation to continue. Great savings on wine, 4 for the price of 2.

We received samples.

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WowWee Toy Coupon Code blogpromo5

December 3, 2011 By Momstart 3 Comments

Hey everyone. I have a great coupon code to share with you all. WowWee has a fantastic assortment of toys.

Use blogpromo5 at WowWeeToyShop.com and receive 10% off. Save on Lite Sprites, Paper Jamz, and Light Strike. The discount is available through the end of 2011

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Fantastic Savings Every Day Totsy

July 4, 2011 By Momstart 158 Comments

I’ve been watching my friends on Facebook save money with Totsy for months now. Wondering if I should join in on the huge savings available there and I’ve finally decided to jump on the bandwagon and get me some really great deals on things I need. Totsy is an online private-sale site dedicated to offering apparel, gear, accessories and more for moms, kids and families. Part of the savings fun is sharing with friends, you can gain Totsy credits for free when you invite your friends to join! When your friend receives their first purchase, you will receive $15 in Totsy credits.

Secretly Designed Wall Art 11.00 originally 24.00

Every day you can save up to 90% off merchandise on top-name brands. Yes you read that right, top name brands and up to 90% off. I’m really not sure why I waited so long.

Modern Me clothing 8.25 originally 14.00

Another aspect about Totsy that is near and dear to my heart is that they are a very green oriented company. They recycle at the office, use less packaging materials when shipping products, and they support eco-friendly partners whenever possible. They have partnered with TerraPass, and reduced their carbon footprint by reducing their carbon emissions and sponsoring clean energy and carbon reduction projects. They’re also the first company in private sales to adopt socially responsible business practices. Check out Totsy’s One Baby One Tree program. For every new member who makes a purchase, Totsy plants a tree in their child’s name in a reforestation site in Peru so far, they have planted over 25,000 trees in Peru!

Colour Works Clothing 12.75 originally 30.00

A Tat r’ Tots Plush Blanket (retail $64, super soft and cuddly)

This giveaway has ended. Congratulations to Shari Klyn.

We received samples to facilitate this review.

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50.00 eBay Coupon Code on New Barnes & Noble Nook Color

February 27, 2011 By Momstart 3 Comments

Are you ready to turn the page digitally? Having a Nook Color has been quite a lot of fun. Monday, Feb 28th you can save 50.00 on the purchase of a new Nook Color, so if you were on the fence, you should check eBay and save they have a coupon code for you!

With eBay’s Daily Deal on Monday, Feb. 28, you can own a brand-new NOOK Color by Barnes & Noble for just $199 (listing price $249 with $50 eBay coupon). With a 7-inch color touchscreen, more than 2 million available titles and built-in WiFi, you’ll find everything you love to read … and much more.

At only $199 with coupon, it’s the lowest price you can find for this personalized, colorful reading experience. And, you get free shipping. But don’t wait – there’s a limited supply.

Visit http://deals.ebay.com/ at 8 a.m. PST on Monday, Feb. 28 to purchase your brand-new NOOK Color by Barnes & Noble. And make your reading come alive!

P.S. For those of you like me who are Android fans, B & N just updated their popular free NOOK for Android app, so customers using Android smartphones and 7-inch tablets can enjoy a new library grid view, wish list feature, download progress meter, and more. (This Spring, they’ll be updating the app for larger 10-inch Android tablets). If you want to learn more about the Android 2.5 Update, click here www.bn.com/nookforandroid, or download the new version from Android Market.

This information was supplied to me by eBay, and Fleishman-Hillard on behalf of Barnes and Noble. I have worked with both companies on past campaigns. No current compensation was provided for this recent post.

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Find the Best Price with JoeShopping.com A Shopping Community Giveaway

December 13, 2010 By Momstart 774 Comments

Joeshopping.com is a plethora of information when it comes to shopping for products you buy every day. It is still in beta, and not a whole lot of activity, but you will find product reviews, active sales in stores, and my favorite grocery coupons. There is also a listing of on-line coupon codes and savings from on-line stores in their Coupons and Deals section.

Joe Shopping is basically a combination of comparison shopping (like amazon.com or shopping.com), crossed with the best parts of various social networks (Facebook, Twitter, FourSquare, etc.). You can post photos to share with friends, add videos of about the products you have tried and what you might find difficult or extra unique, write a product review of the millions of products in their database, write a blog post about their fondest birthday presents, share your latest shopping adventure, you get the idea right? There are plenty of ways to share information. In short, it’s a hefty social network themed around shopping. With each activity you do you earn points and badges.

Oh and did I mention that the points you earned are turned into entries into a monthly drawing? The $1,000 Monthly JoeShopping Sweepstakes is a random drawing. At the end of the month, your total points are converted to entries in the sweeps. So the more active on the site you are, the more points you earn. Which means the more active you are, the better your chance of winning.

You can win even more with the refer a friend program. The refer a friend contest over at JoeShopping.com has a grand prize value of 5,000. I’m pretty jived up about that one, are you? If that wasn’t enough, they are selecting 20 runners-up and if you go and check it out right now there aren’t very many contestants. I’m not even sure if there are 20 total yet. The refer a friend program ends on December 31st.

Enter to Win:

50.00 Gift Card to Amazon.com

To Enter:

Visit JoeShopping.com and tell me what one of the Hot Deals listed on the site are. You can find the Hot Deals in the middle of the page.

Extra Entries:

December 27th. This is a compensated giveaway. All rules can be found under giveaway rules.

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Savvy Savings State to State

October 17, 2010 By Momstart 2 Comments

Savvy Savings and Scholarship are ways to save in different states. When you make a purchase from one of these links you will be able to donate 5% of the purchase to a pre-school of your choice. If you do not choose a pre-school then 5% of the proceeds will be donated to the charity of my choice. This is a great way to support a local pre-school and save money on events to participate in with your own children.

San Francisco Bay Area:
$47 for: Family membership to the Oakland Zoo
($95 value)

Have a zoo-per day with the bears, elephants, lions and more.

Atlanta:
$25 for: Art classes and workshops at The Little House of Art
($50 value)

Get your up-and coming-artist started on the road to creativity.

Charlotte:
$10 for: Three dance and fitness drop-in classes at Funkytown Parties
($20 value)

Get movin’ and groovin’ at the coolest party spot in town

Dallas Fort Worth:
$22 for: Family 4-pack of admission tickets to Dinosaur World
($45 value)

Travel back in time to when dinosaurs roam the earth

Houston:
$25 for: Pop-In Playtime Bounce Card (10 visits) to Pump It Up
($50 value)

Head to the Inflatable Party Zone and get ready to bounce the house!

Minneapolis:
$26.5 for: An ‘I Get Around’ journal kit and Open Studio 2 Experience at Kiddywampus
($53 value)

Inspiring little ones to create and explore

New York:
$42 for: Pioneer Membership to the Brooklyn Children’s Museum
($85 value)

With all-new exhibits and programs, little ones will be seeing the world with fresh eyes

Philadelphia:
$10 for: Paint your own pottery at The Mud Room
($20 value)

Mud, masterpieces, and memories!

San Francisco Bay Area:
$50 for: Family and Caregiver Membership to Aquarium of the Bay
($100 value)

Go beneath the waves of the San Francisco Bay and discover an underwater world.

Seattle:
$25 for: Eco-friendly toys and crafts at Planet Happy Kids
($50 value)

Making kids happy while keeping the planet happy

Filed Under: savings Tagged With: Atlanta, charity, Charlotte, coupon code, savings, Savvy Savings, Seattle, WA

Save 20 percent at The Sak and Elliott Lucca

November 17, 2009 By Momstart 1 Comment

Head over to http://www.thesak.com/ between today and 11/30 and receive 20% off your next purchase just by signing up for our mailing list. Simply enter your email in the bottom, right corner and a promo code will be emailed to you.

Head over to http://www.elliottlucca.com between today and 11/30 and receive 20% off your next purchase just by signing up for our mailing list. Simply enter your email in the bottom, right corner and a promo code will be emailed to you. Happy Shopping!

Both websites say the discount is only for 10% but go ahead and request one, there should be blogger option, or reader of blogger, and then you get 20% instead.

Elliott Lucca and The Sak are proud supporters of Mom Start. They make a donation once a year to charity through this blog.

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Mom Start Saving Coupon Trunk #giveaway

October 4, 2009 By Momstart 85 Comments

The weekly meme

Welcome to Mom Start Saving, where moms can come and leave their link about the hard work they do saving money; and where other moms can find great deals.

Saving money can be a very lucrative way to make money when you have a family. You can get so many products for free or next to free if you hunt down the great deals. Even stores that I once never thought about shopping in like Rite Aid and Walgreens are gold minds of deals. Yes, if you buy things off of the right formula then it is very expensive to shop there.

So a lot of the moms that write about saving money know the formula. Look at the ads, play the grocery game, clip coupons, participate in rebates. I learned a lot from The Coupon Mom, but I don’t use her site. It may sound crazy but her site doesn’t work for me. I can save more money just figuring it out on my own or taking some ideas from some other blogs.

I was writing about the savings myself, but it took so much time and so many other moms do it all. I want to start bringing attention to those other moms by inviting them here where we can all comment on each other’s posts.

I’m also trying to get sponsors to make it a little more fun.

This week:

Enter To Win 25.00 to Amazon on behalf of Coupon Trunk, a great place to find coupons, coupon codes, and discounts. Find major store coupons like Walmart Coupons, and Reebok Coupons.

To Enter:

Please visit the Coupon Trunk and come back here and give us your impressions.

Extra Entries:

Visit Each link from last week’s link up and leave them a comment. Come back here and tell me you did.

You can also add your own link and I recommend that you do because we have another sponsor next week. Please only add links about saving money, coupons or finding free items.

You can Blog about Mom Start Saving and also be kind enough to link to the sponsor.

Here are last week’s links:

I’ll be commenting this week on last weeks and this weeks. Good luck!

Giveaway ends October 11th at Midnight and winner will be announced next Monday

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Save 10 % at eebee.com

September 18, 2009 By Momstart Leave a Comment

Do you remember eebee. I did a giveaway quite a few months ago.

You can save 10 percent by using the code “eebee” at checkout.

They make videos, books, and toys for early childhood development.

About eebees:

eebee’s adventures are designed to engage you and your baby with rich play experiences that provide powerful lessons that memorizing letters, numbers, colors and shapes simply can and do not.

Watching and, importantly, “doing” eebee’s adventures will allow you and your baby to see and learn first-hand what happens when you explore a crinkly, crunchy, smooth and bumpy paper mountain or roll, bounce, bop, bang, slide and toss your way around a world of balls and ramps.

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