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How to Get Your Christmas Shopping Done in One Day (Plus $500 Giveaway!)

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Do you hate the thought of shopping for a moth? If so, here's how you can get all of your Christmas shopping done in one day.Do you hate the thought of shopping for almost a month? Would you rather get all of your shopping done in one day?

If so, you’re in luck!

You can not only get all of your Christmas shopping done in one day but you can also save a ton of money while doing it. Here’s how to get started.

Know Who You’re Shopping For

To make things as easy and as stress free as possible you have to know who you’re shopping for, what kind of gifts they would love, and how much you can spend.

Start with your gift recipient list, a few gift ideas, and a budget.

Once you have that mapped out you’re ready to get down to business!

Shop Online and Do This…..

With your list right beside you visit Chippmunk to begin your shopping.

Once you visit the site you’ll see this:

Chippmunk

Now you can choose a retailer, department, and budget for the first person on your list. Once you enter that information Chippmunk will pull up all the deals that fit your criteria. You can not only get great deals by doing this but you’ll also be able to get more gift ideas! This is especially great if you were stumped for ideas to begin with.

Use Online Promo Codes

Don’t buy anything online without first looking for a promo code. During this time of the year all of the retailers are majorly competing so you better believe that there’s a coupon code for you to use!

You should also look for retailers offering free shipping.

Get Your Shopping Done in One Sitting!

Really it’s not that hard to get all of your Christmas shopping done in one sitting. As long as you have your list right beside you all you need is an hour or two to scope out deals. The best part is you don’t even have to leave your house.

Win a $500 Visa Gift Card!

And now, to make your money go farther we’ve partnered with Chippmunk to give one lucky winner a $500 Visa gift card!

This giveaway is open to residents of the United States and will end at 12:00 am on 12/15/14. You can enter the giveaway through the Rafflecopter widget below and the winner will be chosen at random. See the rafflecopter for terms and conditions for more info.

Good luck and Happy Cyber Monday!

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The Choose Your Gadget Giveaway

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Choose Your Gadget GiveawayIt’s almost the holidays – can you believe it?  That’s why we’ve been covering things from Black Friday to holiday shopping.  But what better way to make things easier for you, than giving away the gadget of your choice (up to $800)!

That’s why I’m joining this amazing group of bloggers to give away this to our readers.  Make sure that you sign up and enter below!

 

Welcome To The Choose Your Gadget Giveaway

Organized by: Mom Powered Media. Co-hosted by the following amazing MPM Network Bloggers: Bay Area Mommy, My Dairy Free Gluten Free Life, A Medic’s World and Barefoot In Bluejeans.

Emperola.com is the easiest way to create giveaways on any Facebook page. Just simply create new giveaway here and Get thousands of new fans NOW! All giveaways are strongly promoted at Emperola.com

Do You Think Electronic Device Insurance Is Really Necessary?

Some analysts suggest that insurance such as for your smartphone is expensive and unnecessary. While consumer research strongly indicates that the popularity of such phones, and the ease of breaking them, makes insurance on the devices extremely important to consumers. In fact it indicates that 80 million cell phones of all varieties will be lost, stolen or damaged this year. Now that is a lot of money lost on your favorite electronic device.

Asurion Saves You from Mobile Mishaps. In fact a complete Asurion protection package, available through most wireless carriers, provides consumers with (1) Software that protects mobile data against the growing number of cell phone/smartphone threats and helps them locate a lost or stolen phone and (2) A replacement device, usually overnight, in the event a phone is lost, damaged (even water damaged) or stolen. Even better this piece of mind insurance costs a few dollars a month.

What device will you protect?

One lucky reader will receive the Smartphone or Tablet of their choice {up to $800 value}!

Giveaway ends November 21st at 11:59pm, open to US, ages 18+. To enter please use the Rafflecopter form below. Good luck.

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Disclosure: Kids Ain’t Cheap is not responsible for sponsor prize shipment. Please contact teri@mompoweredmedia.com with questions or to see your business or blog featured on the next big event!

Free iPad Mini Giveaway at The College Investor

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Part of Kids Ain’t Cheap is highlighting great contests and giveaways around the web that anyone can benefit from.  Well, The College Investor, along with 11 other awesome websites, is hosting a giveaway that includes an iPad Mini and other great prizes.

Not all of the giveaways have started yet, but the goal of them is to highlight the 12 Days of Christmas.

Great Giveaways

Good Luck!

Invent the Next Diaper Disposal System

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Edison Nation is looking for your invesntion of a diaper disposal systemFisher-Price is looking for the next great dirty diaper disposal system.  Could you be the person to invent it?  They want you to put yourself in your own shoes and envision the best diaper disposal system that you can think of.  The main catch, they have to be able to make the product and sell it in WalMart for $30 – $60.

The chosen design will get a minimum of $2500 upfront + a percentage of sales for 20 years or a buyout. That’s a pretty sweet deal if you are good at coming up with ideas. But act fast, the deadline is Monday, August 1st at Midnight.  You can check out all the details at Edison Nation.

 

Have you ever invented anything? Do you think you have it take to win this contest?

Guess The Money in the Jar!

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RetailMeNot, is an online coupon directory. They are similar to our own coupon directory but have been around a lot longer and have a much broader audience.   They are running a pretty fun Twitter contest right now.  They have a picture on their web site of a jar full of money.  If you guess the right amount of money and tweet about it on your Twitter account, you win the money!  Pretty easy and they let you make a new guess every day.  You can check out all of the details at RetailMeNot’s Money Jar page.

RetailMeNot contest

So, what was your guess? That looks like a lot of moolah to me!

Have you ever entered a contest like this? How well did you do?

Win Free Diapers for a Year

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Huggies US PromotionsHuggies has a pretty cool giveaway running right now.  I don’t know how long it’s been running but I stumbled across it today.  Each day, they are selecting one person and giving them free diapers for a year.  That is a pretty big chunk of change when you add up diapers over a full years time.  The giveaway runs until 12/31.

Why free diapers?

We know why they do something like this.  It’s been shown in study after study that parents who find a diaper that works for their baby, generally stick with that diaper and get it over and over again.  Not only that, they buy the diaper to use in diaper cakes when giving baby gifts to friends and they recommend their favorite brand to new mothers.  They get free publicity for running the giveaway, a database of people who are interested in getting diapers and get one lucky winner comfortable with their product by having them use it for a year.  It’s a great way to market themselves to parents and a great prize for the winners.

If you sign up for the giveaway, the only negative I can think of is that you will end up getting junk mail from Huggies but much of that junk mail will probably include coupons so it balances out if you have an interest or need for their products.  If you want to try your luck, you can signup here.

What is your favorite diaper brand?

Contests Coming Soon

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