Welcome to Mommies with Cents “Here Comes Santa” Countdown to Christmas. We want to help you save money and find great gifts all at the same time. Each week we will be adding to this post. It will post each Sunday with new new additions in BOLD to make it easier to see what’s new. In addition, we will highlight the weekly ad deals right below this paragraph. If you have a deal you’d like us to share, please let us know. Also, what’s better than FREE gifts? Be sure to enter our giveaways– a new one is posted each and every day! Many of the items included in this countdown are our favorite items we’ve reviewed over the past year so you’ll be able to get the inside scoop with a link to our personal review of the product- we hope this will save you some money!
This week’s Deals and Steals
Sears Deals Check out the full post here.
Toys R Us
Weekly Deals
100 free address labels (about $3 shipping & super cute!)
Freebies & Stocking Stuffers
Free eBook: Angel Crafts eBook featuring 45-pages of cheap and easy angel crafts.
The following free magazine would make great stocking stuffers for all different types of people:
Restaurant Business
Website Magazine
Total Landscape Care
Global Finance
Business Week
Get the full list of free magazines here
Baby (2 & Under)
Brainy Baby DVD (review here)
pediped shoes (review here)
Jack and Lily shoes (review here)
Duplo
, Mega Bloks and other building sets*Trains
and Train Table*Musical Instruments
*Little People Playsets
(18 mo)*Play Kitchens
*Dolls
(age 3.5) (age 3.5) (age 3.5) (my son is 2 and loves these more than anything!)*Playmobil
figures and sets*FP Loving Family Grand Dollhouse
(3 yo)*Leapster Learning System
*LeapFrog Tag Reading System
or Tag Junior. (4 yo)*Imaginext
playsets*GeoTrax
Transportation SystemYoung Scientists Club Kits
(review here)
(review here)Fisher Price – Little People Lil’ Movers School Bus
(review here)Klutz Invasion of the Bristlebots
(more info here)Paper Fashions Fancy
(more info here)Melissa & Doug Classic Deluxe Kitchen
$175 originally $250Kidorable kid products (review/giveaway)
Adults/Teens/Pre-teens
Borders.com has 30% off any item with coupon code BSL6887A.
Blendtec Home Professional Blender
$10 off $10 or more purchase at JCPenney.com with code NICE4U (some exclusions apply and this offer is not good on toys) Valid through Dec. 24.
Family Gifts
Nintendo Wii– truly a gift for the entire family. See why here.
Great Games Book (review here) Back up drive (see review here)Kindle Wireless Reading Device
Giveaways
Each Wednesday we post a linky for bloggers to list their giveaways. Find over 100 giveaways to enter here (you’ll probably have to scroll down a little to the post called “Giveaways in Blog Land”)
Frugal Gift Ideas
- Earn amazon gift cards and more with Swagbucks– it’s super easy! See this post for more information.
- Photos make excellent gifts. See the current photo deals HERE.
- Restaurant.com gift certificates or Entertainment books make wonderful family gifts. Right now you can get $5 off and free shipping with the purchase of the 2010 edition Entertainment book. Coupons include lots of local things for families to do like the zoo, children’s museums etc and will save a bundle of money!
- If you do surveys that pay in gift cards, why not use those to purchase gifts or give as gifts? If they are small in value, they’d be perfect in a little gift basket. You can get pretty creative and keep out of pocket money to a minimum. Try putting a $5 or $10 Blockbuster card with some popcorn and candy (that you got free with coupons of course) into a basket from the dollar store. (see survey sites here)
- Visit Abbi’s handmade Christmas Carnival where she will post a new idea each Thursday
- Free downloadable recipe cards, gift tags and more
- Infarrantly Creative is hosting a two-week series called Pennywise Presents. She is featuring a step-by-step tutorial for a handmade inexpensive project everyday
- Make your own gift bows out of recycled materials with this tutorial
- Free holiday gift tags for kids to color
See all of our holiday posts here.
For your daily dose, check out the latest freebies, sweeps & paid surveys