Pick up three Hallmark cards and pay as little as $1 for all three with a rare printable coupon available right now.
The coupon is for $2 off the purchase of any three Hallmark cards. The only requirement is that the value of the cards total $2.
That means you can use it on 99 cent cards, paying just 33 cents per card.
The folks who make Nivea and Eucerin lotions are offering free samples of their products.
Head to the Nivea Facebook page at Facebook.com/NIVEAusa. Once there, click on the Make A Big Difference tab to sign up.
You'll be able to choose from four products:
*Nivea Extended Moisture Lotion
*Nivea for Men 3-in-1 Body Wash
*Eucerin Professional Repair Lotion
*Eucerin's Aquaphor Lip Repair 30 SPF
Treat yourself -- and a friend -- to free Starbucks.
All you have to do is sign up via Facebook and you and your friend will get a free tall cup of Blonde Roast. That particular cup of coffee normally runs $2.60 so a pretty generous freebie when you multiply times two.
Facebook updated its Messenger app for Android and iOS allowing users to send brief voice messages to their friends on the social networking site. It is a step toward competing with Skype and Google Voice.
Canadian iOS users can even make free calls using Wi-Fi or their cellular data connection with the freshened Messenger app. Usage does of course pull from consumers' monthly data allotment.
Currently U.S. users are limited to sending brief voice messages, but the calling feature offered to Canadian users could cross the border if all goes well according to The Verge.
Facebook's Messenger app is a separate app from the somewhat ubiquitous mobile Facebook app.
To send a voice message in Messenger, select a contact and touch the "+" button on the left of the text field. Select the record voice button. Hold your finger on the red record button and record your message. When you lift your finger from the record button the message is automatically sent. You can cancel though by sliding upward off the record button rather than lifting off of it.
Here is a decent video walk-through.
If you'd like to start filling your mailbox with freebies and coupons in 2013, start the new year off right with this freebie from Propel Zero.
Head over to the Propel Facebook page to sign up for a free sample of Propel Zero On-the-Go. You must hit the like button before it will allow you to sign up.
Flavors include kiwi strawberry, lemon and grape.
The sample will show up in your mailbox in four to six weeks.
California and Illinois had laws take effect at the start of 2013 that prohibit employers from demanding passwords for social network accounts of workers and job applicants. The two states join Michigan which enacted a similar law in December. The Michigan law also bans educational institutions from dismissing or refusing to admit students who decline to provide account information.
The practice has become more common. Those needing jobs may feel as if they have little choice but to comply. I'm not sure I'd want to work with a company that would even request my passwords, but does North Carolina need similar law?
These laws do not protect workers from action over an inappropriate status update or tweet. So remember, you are what you tweet.
Here's a great deal for all of us last-minute shoppers -- myself included.
Hallmark has reissued its Facebook offer for a $5 coupon on a $10 purchase.
This is a great discount for folks looking for small treats to fill Christmas stockings.
By Sapna Maheshwari and Matt Townsend- Bloomberg News
Even as retailers debate the efficacy of social-media marketing on Facebook and Twitter, they have no doubts about the power of a decades-old technology to drive sales. The killer app is called email.
Retailers as disparate as Williams-Sonoma and Home Depot have become much better at tailoring emails to specific customers rather than the one-size-fits-all blasts that once dominated this type of marketing. Measured by sales per dollar spent, email outperforms social-media advertising 3-to-1, according to the Direct Marketing Association, a trade group founded to provide accurate marketing data. That explains why retailers will send 19 percent more emails this year.
Read more here.
The folks on the Incredible Edible Facebook page have re-released a rare coupon on eggs.
The coupon is good for .55/2 dozen and is good at any store with any brand of eggs.
That's a rare opportunity.
Print it HERE before it disappears.
It's giveaway time, folks.
Every day this week, I'll be hosting a giveaway here on the blog, along with a couple more on the Centsible Saver Facebook page.
All kinds of great freebies end up on my desk and since I can't keep them, I'm passing them all on to you, folks.
If you win, keep it for yourself, or give it as a gift this holiday season. Either way, I won't tell.
So check in every day this week. Please enter each giveaway once.
First up, I've got a Chick fil-A coupon calendar for 2013 up for grabs. It's the new fancy-schmancy digital version that I wrote about HERE. Just to clarify, the calendar is paper, but the coupons are digital, loaded onto a card that comes with the calendar and registered to your email address.
All together, you'll get 12 freebies -- one per month.
Sound good?
Enter to win by leaving a comment or question on this post.
The giveaway ends at midnight Wednesday, Dec. 12. I'll pick one winner at random using random.org.
Please be sure your newsobserver.com registration is up to date with a viable email address because I'll contact the winner via email.
Second, I'm giving away a coupon for one free peppermint chocolate chip milkshake from Chick fil-A. Enter to win that over on the Centsible Saver Facebook page.
If you haven't already, while you're there, please "like" the page, then leave a comment and you'll be entered to win the milkshake. You have until midnight Wednesday, Dec. 12, to enter this giveaway.
I'll contact that winner, chosen at random, through Facebook message.
