BzzAgent & Smiley 360

If you are new to the blog or new to couponing, I wanted to let you know about 2 great FREE programs! With BzzAgent, I currently have the following campaigns: Kellogg's Crunchy Nut cereal (pictured above), and Neutrogena Hand Cream. That basically means I will be trying all those products for FREE, and as you can see above, they usually send coupons too! With Smiley360, I am new and just getting started!

BzzAgent:

BzzAgent is an awesome site that allows you to try products for FREE! Every month they will have different missions available with free items to try. They will email select BzzAgent members to try out the products and if you are selected you can chose to accept the mission or decline it. If you accept the mission, you will be mailed a product or a coupon for a free product so you can go and get it yourself (usually freezer type items). All they ask in return, is you let them know how you like (or didn't like) the product and how many people you told about the product! That's it!

To get started, head over here and sign up. Once you have signed up, click on the survey tab. You should have quite a few surveys to take (will probably take 20-30 minutes to complete them all). You will want to complete the surveys because this is how BzzAgent will match you to a product. Once you have completed or surveys, head over to the "my account" section. You will want to connect your Facebook, Twitter and My Points account. You can also connect any grocery cards you may have (this may help you get special missions that are just for certain grocery stores). If you are not a member of My Points, make sure to head over here and sign up. BzzAgent rewards you with My Points points for the surveys you complete. You can then turn those points into free gift cards, products etc.

The higher your BzzAgent score, the better your chance of receiving an offer is. You can check your score at anytime under "My account". You can keep your score high by writing good reviews, talking to a lot of people about the product and completing the surveys.

Smiley360:

Smiley360 is a lot like BzzAgent. They basically select certain members to try products for free! With Smiley360 you earn "Smileys" by sharing your mission on Facebook and Twitter, writing a product review, and talking to more people about the product. The more smileys you have, the more likely you are to be selected for another mission. You will want to make sure to complete your profile after signing up so they can learn a little about you and the missions you may be good for! Also make sure to connect your account to your Facebook and Twitter so you can earn smileys for sharing your mission.

Organize The Whole Family

 

Cozi is an app that I have played around with in the past and recently went back to as the Mommy Brain was taking up room in my purse as well as the fact that it had one major flaw... No reminders and lets face it we all need little reminders on some stuff!  

Cozi offers connecting the whole family in one place including your busy pets!  Each family member has a different color assigned to them to allow you to keep everything straight! you can do almost anything on here from

• Tracking Appointments, Activities and Events
• Meal Planning
• Multiple To-Do Lists 
• Multiple Grocery Lists (Great for us couponers!)
• Store Recipes 
• Journal Family Events
• Leave Messages For The Family

Some other great features are e-mail reminders, text your grocery list to your husband on his way home from work and much more!

Cozi is available online from your PC, Andoid or Apple devices.

There is a "Gold" version that offers more features however I am not sure I can justify $50.00 a year for an app.

Have questions or added advice on Cozi?  Feel free to comment here or email me at nicole.riens@gmail.com !

David Climbs!

So David got several gift cards for Target for his Birthday. We decided that he needed a play structure as he has recently started climbing on everything he can….

So we decided that he needs this!

Small just the right size to grow with him as he is only going to get bigger :-(  . It is also small enough to bring indoors for him to play because of the heat in the Texas summers.

So I went in Search of codes for shipping, and possibly a discount… I came across this site www.couponchief.com Its very neat, and well organized making it very simple to use, I searched for Target and was given a page with all sorts of online codes and offers, one was free shipping on select toys over $50.00 so I decided to give it a try, and it worked, the link brought me to Target’s site where they are offering free shipping on toy orders over $50.00. www.couponchief.com offers codes all in one place to thousands of online retailers including Macy’s and Carters! They also have a program called Pays-2-Share they pay you for submitting new codes, I am not entirely sure of how it works but I will be looking into it further for future reference because I am always looking into new ways to make extra money, and let’s face it who isn’t wanting to earn a little extra cash as well as save a little extra cash these days!

Product Reviews

So I thought it would be good te review some products that I have tried because they were free or I was getting a good deal with a coupon!

Air Wick automatic air fresheners- absolutely love these in the bathroom and David's room they work great at helping with smells when changing diapers!


Bounce Dryer Bar- I tend to forget to put dryer sheets in plus I hate cleaning them all up while folding laundry, this has been a great solution, clothes are always fresh!

Dove Shampoo/ Conditioner- I got all of this for free a while back at CVS and I absolutely loved it!

Tide Detergent- I have been using this on David's clothes and haven't had any stains since I began using it,  it even removed stains from our bedding that happened in the move due to moister getting in the boxes, these stains were nearly a year old!

Tide Stain Release - I use this in all of David's laundry just to be sure it comes as clean as it
can!


Viva Paper Towels- We honestly hated these Kevin even asked me to not get them anymore!

Vocal Point Reviews

 

So, I got a sample of Downy Unstopables a while back from www.vocalpoint.com, a great website to get samples through, well yesterday David spit up all over the quilt on our bed so I gave them a try finally.  I am very pleased even nabby smelled of fresh laundry after napping on the bed this afternoon!  Also I had a ton of the single wash Tide and it got stains out that had been In for over a year, I am offically a Tide lover!