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 Thursday 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!
If you are doing any of your shopping online you’ll want to start here to save some serious cash!
This week’s Deals and Steals
Hot Amazon Deals
Message from Santa
Christmas Portraits Printed Immediately- 6 sheets only $18
Christmas Cards Etc.
Freebies & Stocking Stuffers
Free Photo Calendar or Mug from Snapfish and Hershey
CVS: Free $5 Gift Card wyb $25 Worth
Free Photo Flipbook (shipping charges do apply)
Baby (2 & Under)
Children
Little Miss Matched $20 Gifts
Amazon: 17 Days of Video Games
Candyland
*Gears! Gears! Gears! Building Set (age 3.5)
* Legos (age 3.5)
* Hot Wheels (age 3.5) (my son is 2 and loves these more than anything!)
* Automoblox
* Playmobil figures and sets
* FP Loving Family Grand Dollhouse (3 yo)
* Leapster Learning System
Adults/Teens/Pre-teens
Tortuga Caribbean Rum Cakes (review here)
By Nieves (review here)
Jon vanDyke Neckties (review here)
Snug as a Bug Family Pajama Sets (review here)
American Express Gift card (review here)
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.
- Give an “I Owe You.”
- Photos make excellent gifts. See the current photo deals HERE.
- 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)
- Free downloadable recipe cards, gift tags and more
- Make your own gift bows out of recycled materials with this tutorial
- Free holiday gift tags for kids to color
- Gifts for under $5
See all of our holiday posts here.