If you've got photos to print -- and who doesn't after the holidays -- you'll love this freebie: 25 free photo prints from WalMart's online photo service.

Click here to set up an account. You'll receive an email with your code to print 25 4x6 prints.

Be sure to select in-store pickup so your photos will be totally free.

Now is the perfect time to stock up on BIC pens at WalMart, where you can score yourself 10-count packages for FREE.

The BIC pens are actually better than free. WalMart will pay you three cents per package to purchase them.

Here's how:

Right now the BIC Cristal pens are priced at 97 cents.

Use the $1/1 BIC coupon from the Jan. 8 Smart Source 2 insert.

WalMart's coupon policy states:

If coupon value exceeds the price of the item, the excess may be given to the customer as cash or applied toward the basket purchase.

In other words, FREE pens! The extra three cents will help pay the tax.

These are great items to donate to your neighborhood school, faith organization or charity.

It's another great weekend for coupons.

Look for four regular coupon inserts -- two Smart Source, one General Mills and one Red Plum -- in this Sunday's home-delivered Final Edition of The News & Observer.

And be sure to check for two additional sets of coupons: one from Target and one from WalMart.

Altogether, there will be 242 coupons with a face value of about $324. But, of course, with Harris Teeter offering Super Double coupons right now, those coupons have the potential for additional savings.

As always, I'll have the coupon database updated and the best Sunday deals posted early tomorrow morning, about the same time your paper hits the driveway.

And, I'll have a separate list of new Super Doubles deals using the new coupons.

(Single-copy and State Edition newspapers may not contain all coupon inserts.)
 

The online coupon printing site, Coupons.com, has got a 50-cent off coupon right now for "All You" magazine.

That's 50 cents off a $2.50 magazine full of coupons.

With Christmas just a week away and Hanukkah even closer, the sales circulars are loaded with ads for toys, fragrances, candy and those as-seen-on-TV gadgets and gizmos.

Look a little closer, however, and you'll find plenty of real deals -- freebies and cheapies to fill stockings and help make your holidays more festive. I've highlighted many of them for you in this week's list of all the best deals at CVS, Rite Aid, Walgreens, Target, Kroger and Kerr Drug.

Chocolate chips aren't cheap and neither are basics like flour and sugar, especially if you're buying for marathon sessions in the kitchen this holiday season.

So here's my gift to you -- a cheat sheet on the best prices I could find on seven key ingredients in holiday goodies: flour, sugar, eggs, butter, pure vanilla, chocolate chips and marshmallow cream.

I checked seven stores in the Triangle (Aldi, Food Lion, Harris Teeter, Kroger, Lowes Foods, Target and WalMart) and here's what I found.

A rumored Walmart in northern Chatham County just past the Orange line remains just that. Despite a preliminary site plan submitted last summer, the mega retailer has yet to submit an official development application, county leaders said last week.

“It’s not official at all,” said Dianne Reid, the Chatham County economic development director. “This is a small county. It doesn’t take much for a rumor to get legs and start walking around.”

A possible Walmart off U.S. 15-501 south of Chapel Hill has long concerned Orange County leaders, who feared the traffic it would bring and in some cases didn’t like the retailer’s business practices. Now, some worry a Walmart could kill plans for the Obey’s Creek mixed-use project proposed across from Southern Village.

The potential Walmart site is located on 20 acres of a 62-acre tract owned by Lee Moore Oil Corp. The parcel has a tax value of nearly $3.1 million, according to Chatham County land records.

Dwight Bassett, the town of Chapel Hill’s economic development director, and Aaron Nelson, the CEO and president of the Chapel Hill-Carrboro Chamber of Commerce, said they’d heard a lease had been signed for the property, but neither was able to confirm it last week.

Here's a deal that's bound to make you chuckle: A $1 off coupon on SpongeBob wrapping paper.

The coupon is for $1/1 roll of American Greetings SpongeBob paper. Though it says "redeem at WalMart," it is a manufacturer's coupon so other retailers should accept it.

If you don't like SpongeBob, you can also use it to buy Dora the Explorer giftwrap.

Paired with a sale, this should be a very good deal.

You can find the coupon here at coupons.com. I'm betting these won't last long so print quickly if you're interested. And don't forget, you can print two of each coupons.com coupon.

Halloween may be over but the Halloween clearance deals have only just begun.

Today's the day to begin haunting those Halloween aisles at Target, WalMart and other stores, looking for costumes, paper products and decorations for next year. 

Note: This is the latest installment in an occasional series of posts focusing on ways to celebrate the holidays without spending a lot of money.

If you've got kids on your Christmas or Hanukah shopping lists this year, you'll want to take a look at a new set of coupons on Hasbro toys and games.