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Win-It Wednesday: Where’s Walrus Book + $150 Visa Cash Card (2 Winners!)

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Join me every week for Win-It Wednesday, with 24-hour giveaways just for you!

In the new book, Where’s Walrus, an adventurous walrus escapes when he gets bored sitting around the zoo day after day. To disguise himself, the walrus tries on hats for different types of occupations. Is he a firefighter? Perhaps a walrus construction worker would be inconspicuous.

Author Stephen Savage is known for his illustrations, with Polar Bear Night being named New York Times Best Illustrated children’s book and an American Library Association notable book. In 2008, he received a Gold Medal from the Society of Illustrators.

Two lucky Deal Seeking Mom readers will each win a Where’s Walrus prize pack that includes:

  • a copy of Where’s Walrus
  • $150 Visa Cash Card to build your child’s library

To enter, tell me what your favorite children’s book is.

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Every reader has four methods available to enter this contest. Choose one each of any combination of method one, two, three, or four for up to a total of 4 entries!!!

If you are reading this in your email or feed reader, please CLICK HERE to visit the original blog post to enter. Email entries will not be counted.

Methods of entry:

1. Leave a comment. What’s your favorite children’s book?

2. Join the Scholastic community and the Deal Seeking Mom community on Facebook for more conversation, additional deals and a peek at the freebies I receive in the mail each week. Come back and leave a separate comment letting me know you’ve done so!

3. Follow @DealSeekingMom and @Scholastic on Twitter and tweet the following. Be sure to come back and leave a separate comment with the link to your tweet!

Enter to win 1 of 2 @Scholastic $150 Visa Cash Cards and Where’s Walrus from @DealSeekingMom: https://dealseekingmom.com/?p=72348

4. Subscribe to my feed via RSS or email. You must confirm your email subscription for it to be a valid entry! Leave a separate comment letting me know you have done so. If you’re already a subscriber, simply leave a separate comment letting me know you’re already subscribed. Lovin’ my subscribers! You guys make this all possible.

Prize:
(2) Where’s Walrus gift packs, as described above

This giveaway ends at 7 p.m. EST on 3/10 and is open to all U.S. residents 18 years or older. I’ll use And the Winner Is to select the winning comment. Winner will be notified by email and listed on my Giveaway Winners page. Winners must respond within 48 hours of notification to claim their prize. Good luck!

While you’re in a contest entering mood, don’t forget to check out the Giveaway Gathering for a variety of contests being hosted on Deal Seeking Mom readers’ blogs!

Win-It Wednesday: The Everything Beans Book from Kitchen Stewardship (20 Winners!)

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Join me every week for Win-It Wednesday, with 24-hour giveaways just for you!

Katie Kimball over at Kitchen Stewardship passionately writes about eating real, whole food and working through nutrition, finances and being environmentally friendly. She describes herself as a “‘real food’ foodie,” searching for deals and ways to save on nourishing food for her family. With food prices skyrocketing, now is a great time to work on how you can save money on those real food items your family needs: grains, produce and beans!

Katie’s ebook, The Everything Beans Book, is full of helpful information including: bean nutrition, how to cook with dry beans, storage for bulk purchases, beans for picky eaters, controlling gas and, of course, bean recipes! With 95 pages of goodness, The Everything Beans Book will help you embrace this frugal food to its fullest.

Save 20% on The Everything Beans Book when you use this coupon code at checkout: DSM20. Expires 3/16.

Twenty Deal Seeking Mom readers will each win a copy of The Everything Beans Book.

To enter, tell me what your favorite way to cook with beans is.

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Every reader has four methods available to enter this contest. Choose one each of any combination of method one, two, three, or four for up to a total of 4 entries!!!

If you are reading this in your email or feed reader, please CLICK HERE to visit the original blog post to enter. Email entries will not be counted.

Methods of entry:

1. Leave a comment. What’s your favorite way to cook with beans?

2. Join the Kitchen Stewardship community and the Deal Seeking Mom community on Facebook for more conversation, additional deals and a peek at the freebies I receive in the mail each week. Come back and leave a separate comment letting me know you’ve done so!

3. Follow @DealSeekingMom and @kitchenstew on Twitter and tweet the following. Be sure to come back and leave a separate comment with the link to your tweet!

Enter to win 1 of 20 @kitchenstew The Everything Beans Books from @DealSeekingMom: https://dealseekingmom.com/?p=72392

4. Subscribe to my feed via RSS or email. You must confirm your email subscription for it to be a valid entry! Leave a separate comment letting me know you have done so. If you’re already a subscriber, simply leave a separate comment letting me know you’re already subscribed. Lovin’ my subscribers! You guys make this all possible.

Prize:
(20) copies of The Everything Beans Book

This giveaway ends at 2 p.m. EST on 3/10 and is open to all U.S. residents 18 years or older. I’ll use And the Winner Is to select the winning comment. Winner will be notified by email and listed on my Giveaway Winners page. Winners must respond within 48 hours of notification to claim their prize. Good luck!

While you’re in a contest entering mood, don’t forget to check out the Giveaway Gathering for a variety of contests being hosted on Deal Seeking Mom readers’ blogs!

Giveaway Gathering Week of 3/6/11

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Got a great giveaway going on this week? List it here so other Deal Seeking Mom readers can find it easily and enter. If you’re reading this via email or in a feed reader, be sure to {CLICK HERE} to see all of the great giveaways listed!

Be sure to come back on Wednesday for Win-It Wednesday, with one or more 24-hour giveaways that you won’t want to miss!

Every Sunday I’ll start a new post with inlinkz for you all to share your awesome giveaways with Deal Seeking Mom readers! If you have a giveaway you’d like to list, just leave your link below.

To keep it neat, I suggest that you list your blog name and then the the item you’re giving away in parentheses, ex. Deal Seeking Mom (Flip Digital Video Camera). The only requirement is that when asked for your URL, you link directly to the giveaway. Links directly to your homepage will be deleted.

NEW: You will be able to choose a picture from the your giveaway post page or upload one of your choice to go along with your link!



Saturday Sweeps: 3/5/11

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It’s Saturday again and that means another round of Saturday Sweeps. Come back each Saturday, and I’ll share my favorite sweepstakes for the week. I’d love to hear about a DSM reader winning big!

  • Woman’s Day wants to send one lucky reader to Hawaii with their Hula Hawaii Sweepstakes in partnership with King’s Hawaiian. Ends 5/22.
  • Enter the Casino Imaging Square Sweepstakes for a chance to win their weekly drawing for a trip to Tryx Out in NYC or to try a new Tryx Camera. Twenty prizes totalling $4,000
  • Enter to win the Meet the El Montereys Sweepstakes by voting for your favorite character and you could win a trip to San Diego. Every entry will receive a FREE printable coupon just for entering.
  • Classic Heartland is giving away a Sony PSP (Piano Black). Ends 3/18. Be sure to check out their other sweepstakes while you’re there, too!

LED Light Bulb Results + Win a $50 The Home Depot GC!

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Back in January I shared some interesting facts about LED light bulbs and I took you shopping with me at The Home Depot as we replaced all of the fixtures on the first level of our home with LEDs. I’d hoped to wow you by reporting dramatic savings on my electric bill, but sadly our bill is actually slightly higher year over year. BUT I have some good theories on why this is the case which I’ll share in a moment.

The installation process was easy as can be — we just unscrewed all of our old CFL bulbs and screwed in the new LED light bulbs. Note that we chose not to discard our CFL bulbs since they’re all still in good working condition. Instead we boxed them up and put them in the crawl space in the basement so that we can take our new LED light bulbs with us when we move. However, if have CFL bulbs that you need to dispose of, I’d encourage you to read the information here on CFL cleanup and disposal.

What immediately struck me after replacing all of the bulbs was the difference in the quality of light. It’s not necessarily a good or bad difference — it’s just brighter and, well, different. I found it most noticeable in the bathroom where the light is forced out of the bulbs rather than being dispersed evenly from the entire bulb because of the way the bulbs are constructed. You can see in the image above that only the forward half of the bulb is giving off light. However, I quickly got used to this within a few days and now it’s not even noticeable to me.

So I mentioned that our electric bill is actually up slightly year over year when I had anticipated it going down based on my research. I have a few theories about why this is occurring:

  • First, we already had CFL bulbs installed throughout the entire house courtesy of a great deal at Target a few years ago. Because our electric usage from lighting was already incredibly low, we’re not seeing a noticeable decrease from switching to LEDs. We’ll still see savings in the long run; however, they will come from the fact that we won’t have to replace the bulbs for many, many years to come. I’m also glad to not have to worry about the complications of cleaning up the mercury if a CFL bulb should break.
  • Second, we also already have many electricity-saving measures installed in the house. Our kitchen light is on an automatic switch so it shuts off automatically after no movement has been sensed for five minutes. We also have a device that monitors our electric usage constantly so we can see how high our load is. And we tend to use our large appliances like our washer and dryer and dishwasher in the evening and early mornings outside of the peak load times which have a higher cost.
  • Finally, as our children get older we’re naturally using more electricity as they start using more technology and such throughout the day, taking more frequent showers instead of baths, and increasing our laundry with sports involvement.

I found it interesting to note that my father’s electric bill was roughly the same as ours. We have houses of similar size; however, he has a two-person household with a regular work schedule outside of the home. In contrast, we have a seven-person household where there are nearly constantly members home since I work from home and my husband is still unemployed.

Overall, I’m impressed with the LED light bulbs and I think they definitely have an integral part in saving on our electricity. I just believe that our savings will take more time to become apparent than a household that was not already somewhat frugal with their electric usage.

Thanks for following along with me as I gave this new technology a try, and I’ve got one more $50 The Home Depot gift card to give away!

To enter: Just tell me — have you given LED light bulbs a try yet? Or after reading more about them, are they something you’ll consider when making your next light bulb replacement?

This giveaway will close at 3:00pm EST on 3/3/11.

The Home Depot works with bloggers such as myself to conduct product reviews. They do not tell bloggers what to say about their products or how to say it. THD fundamentally believes that people should be free to form their own opinions and share them in their own words. The Home Depot often provides product – free of charge – to bloggers for review as they did for this post. The Home Depot’s policies align with WOMMA Ethics Code, FTC guidelines and social media engagement recommendations.