I just found a pretty cool new thrifty site, and it’s all green! The site, Ecobunga!, features two ways to save on green minded products:

Save green - features coupons and sales on green goods.

Win green - just like it sounds, features green giveaways and contests.

This comprehensive directory also shows current green rebates, free shipping offers, and bulk discounts. Thankfully they also have a green criteria for listings which rocks because it saves you from lame greenwashing companies. They site consulted resources like Green America, Natural Resources Defense Council and Consumer Reports’ Greener Choices, to come up with a good working definition of “green”. Learn more about how products are chosen at the FAQ page.

You can search by recent sales or giveaways or search by category. You can also snag their email letter or subscribe to Ecobunga! by rss to get all the latest in your feed.

Visit Ecobunga! today and start saving some green on actual green products.

[Image via Ecobunga!]

Over the past year, I have had the pleasure of trying out a few Lands’ End clothing products.  Let me say, I am impressed with the quality of their products.  Until a few weeks ago, I’d never owned a Lands’ End bathing suit.  As mentioned in my review, I’m extremely pleased with the fabric, SPF protection, and the information on choosing a suit for your body shape.

I told you earlier this week that I’d have a special surprise for you.  We’re giving away a $100 credit to Lands’ End.  Woohoo!

Image: Lands' End

As usual, I have several ways for you to earn entries.  Of course, the more times you enter, the higher your odds of winning.  Here are your options:

1)  Leave a comment telling me why you like Lands’ End products or what you would buy with the $100.

2)  Tweet this giveaway on twitter.  There is an easy tweet button to your right.  Be sure to leave your twitter name or status url in the comment box.  You can earn 3 tweet entries per day for each tweet.

3)  Follow @thriftymommy on twitter.

4)  Blog about this giveaway or mention it on some sort of forum. Leave a direct url so that I easily find the info for your entry.

5)  Give this post a thumbs up on Stumble Upon, Digg It, add a link on Facebook, or some other way of promoting the giveaway.

6)  Add Thrifty Mommy and/or Keeping the Castle to your blogroll.

You can earn entries for each of these things that you do.  Please leave a separate comment for each one.  It just makes it easier for tallying entries and choosing a winner.

This contest ends Sunday, June 14, 2009.  Winners will be contacted via email and will have 72 hours to respond.

Good luck everyone!

image from Lands’ End

A Full Cup is a FREE online forum with printable coupons and the latest information on money saving deals.  You can click on links to find sale and coupon information for just about any store.   They are celebrating the new look and enhanced features by offering giveaways on their site and one here at Thrifty Mommy.

I have been challenged to see how much I can save by using A Full Cup.  I am excited about using the online printable coupons and the information on coupon match-ups to find the most savings.  It’s a thrill to find food and toiletries for almost free!  I will be posting my A Full Cup savings later this week, so stay tuned for that.

Here’s a YouTube video that explains a little bit about how the site works. I found it to be beneficial.

Save Green and Go Green with AFullCup.com Giveaway - A Full Cup is sponsoring a Thrifty Mommy giveaway with an A Full Cup reusable shopping bag and a $25 prepaid American Express card!  Woohoo!

Ways to enter the giveaway:

Please leave a comment for each one.  It just makes it easier when choosing a winner.

1)  Register at A Full Cup using the referral link here at Thrifty Mommy.  Leave me your AFullCup name.

2)  Be an active member at A Full Cup.  After you have registered using the referral link, to become an active member you need to post five or more times on the forum.  Leave me your AFullCup name.

3)  Check out A Full Cup and leave a comment below telling me your favorite features of the online forum.

4)  Take the A Full Cup savings challenge.  Since you have to shop for groceries anyway, see how much you can purchase with $25 or $50 while using A Full Cup.  Post your savings on your blog and leave a link here or let us know in the comments.  We’d really enjoy hearing how you did.

5)  Follow @thriftymommy on Twitter.  Leave a comment with your Twitter name.

6)  Tweet this post and leave your Twitter name or status url. To retrieve your Twitter status url, simply click on the timestamp of your tweet. It will say something like, “5 seconds ago from the web”. You can earn 3 twitter entries each day for each time you tweet this giveaway. You must leave a comment for each tweet.

7)  Give the post a thumbs up on Stumble Upon and leave your Stumble name.

8)  Blog about this giveaway and leave a direct link to your post.

9)  Mention this giveaway on any forums or message boards and leave me a link.

10)  Add Thrifty Mommy and/or Keeping the Castle and/or to your blogroll.  You can earn a separate entry for each one.

This contest ends Thursday, April 23, 2009 and is available to those with a U.S. shipping address (no P.O. boxes please). The winner will be contacted by email and will have only24 hours to respond or another winner will be chosen so be sure to check your email. You will not be put on a mailing list, but you must include your email address in the second box under your name (not in comment box).

Good luck everyone and thanks for playing!

Just as promised, we are letting you know of some great products this month for Earth Day.  This time, I had the opportunity to review some of the Bright Green™ cleaning products. Bright Green is a new line of home care products featuring cleaning and laundry soaps made with biodegradable and naturally derived ingredients, energy-efficient light bulbs and paper products made from 100% recycled content.  The Bright Green products are sold exclusively at Safeway stores.

I was able to review the Bright Green dishwashing liquid and all purpose cleaner.  The question that I have often asked myself is, “Is it possible to use green cleaning products and get the same results?”  My experience so far has been a positive one.  In all the environmentally friendly products I have tried, I have not found a difference in the way the product cleans from the other products. 

The Bright Green dishwashing liquid cleaned my dishes very well.  It took the grease off my dishes and had a very pleasant lavender scent.  My son especially enjoyed it.  He asked if he could wash dishes, which in our house means that I put some soap and water in a bowl and he “washes” some of the dishes in the sink.  He ended up using 1/2 of the bottle, so there were lots of suds and my kitchen smelled great for days.  lol  The Bright Green all purpose cleaner is great for the kitchen or garage and it has a refreshing lemon scent.

And now, on to the giveaway!

The giveaway includes an attractive  reusable shopping bag and $1 coupons for Bright Green cleaning products.  Safeway credits customers $.05 each time they use any reusable bag at the checkout.

There are many ways to enter this contest.  You can choose as many as you’d like.

You can earn an entry for each item you complete, but you must leave a separate comment for each one.  It just makes it easier to tally and pick a random winner.

1) Leave a comment telling me why you’d like to win this prize or why you use green cleaning products.

2) Give this post a thumbs up at Stumble Upon and leave your Stumble name.

3) Tweet this post and leave your Twitter name or status url. To retrieve your Twitter status url, simply click on the timestamp of your tweet. It will say something like, “5 seconds ago from the web”. You can earn 3 twitter entries each day for each time you tweet this giveaway. You must leave a comment for each tweet.

4) Follow @thriftymommy on Twitter. Leave a comment with your Twitter name.

5) Blog about this giveaway and leave a direct link to your post.

6) Mention this giveaway on any forums or message boards and leave me a link.

7) Add Thrifty Mommy and/or Keeping the Castle and/or to your blogroll.  You can earn a separate entry for each one.

This contest ends Sunday, April 12, 2009 and is available to those with a U.S. shipping address (no P.O. boxes please). The winner will be contacted by email and will have 72 hours to respond or another winner will be chosen. You will not be put on a mailing list, but you must include your email address in the second box under your name (not in the comment box).

Good luck everyone!

For today only, you can get a $2 printable coupon for All Small & Mighty® laundry detergent.  Hurry, because this fabulous money saving coupon ends at 11 pm tonight, April 6th.  After 11 pm, the coupon value will drop to $1.   

While you’re getting your coupon, please take a few moments to watch the videos on the site.  Melissa and Joan Rivers want to give more to their charities so they have made videos for viewers.  For each video that you watch, All will donate 50 cents to charities.  Watch Joan’s video to donate to Guide Dogs for the Blind or watch Melissa’s video to donate to The Lili Claire Foundation.  Don’t forget to forward this on to friends and family as well.  It’s an easy way to help out a charity.

You also have a chance to enter the All Small & Mighty® Celebrity Apprentice Sweepstakes.  The grand prize is 2 tickets and an expense paid trip to the Celebrity Apprentice Finale! 50 runner ups will receive a 1 year supply of All Small & Mighty®.

Visit all-laundry.com to get the $2 coupon, watch the videos for charity, and to enter the sweepstakes.

Enjoy this great money saving coupon!  I know I will.

image from rocketxl

This week I’ve rounded up some cool deals and sweeps that I’m guessing thrifty people like you might adore.

First of all a really nice sale going on at a killer baby company - aden + anais. They’re having a really nice sale on their Winter Warmth and Dream baby blankets - I’m talking $20 off. Visit aden + anais and enter promo code “wintersale” to receive the discount.

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In aden + anais freebies news, you can enter to win one of their Winter Warmth blankets for FREE.

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Need a vacation? SolarDay 2009 has a great Green Vacation sweepstakes going on at SolarDay. Entering takes about 10 seconds and you could win a fab 3 night-long stay at the first LEED Gold hotel (and solar-powered) Gaia Napa Valley Hotel & Spa in American Canyon, Calif., just south of the town of Napa. While on the trip you can visit some neat green, sustainably farmed, organic and solar-powered wineries in nearby Napa Valley. FUN!

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Enter to win a free green prize pack from the new Disneynature’s Earth movie!

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To plan a less expensive dinner for someone special visit 5 Minutes for Mom where you’ll find a new Olive Garden series and you can enter to win a trip to Olive Garden’s Culinary Institute of Tuscany in Italy! Offered at the site is access to cooking videos, culinary tips and Olive Garden recipes, which means you can cook up a restaurant feast - only at home and on the cheap.

[image via aden + anais]

What’s your biggest complaint about combination locks?  Remembering the combination of course!  How many have you thrown away?  This issue is even worse if you have children that need to lock up their bikes or gym locker.  I was so excited to hear that there is finally a solution for this problem.

Wordlock locks are the first combination lock that allow you to set your combination with words.  Engineer Todd Basche designed them so that he and millions of others could remember an easy four or five letter word combination.  Wordlocks can be set to several different easy to remember combinations such as pilot, flash, words, loop, bike, fast, laser, party, sport, mouse, water, and so much more.

The Wordlock product line includes luggage locks, padlocks, bike locks, and cable locks, which are available at Target.com and Amazon.com.  The locks also come in a variety of eye catching colors such as blue, black, red, and pink which makes it much easier to spot your locker at the gym.

I love to put cool products into your hands so now on to the giveaway!!! :)  Three winners will receive one padlock and one bike lock.

There are many ways to enter this contest:

You can earn an entry for each item you complete, but you must leave a separate comment for each one.  It just makes it easier to tally and pick a random winner.

1) Leave a comment telling me why you’d like to win one of these locks.

2) Give this post a thumbs up at Stumble Upon and leave your Stumble name.

3) Tweet this post and leave your Twitter name or status url. To retrieve your Twitter status url, simply click on the timestamp of your tweet. It will say something like, “5 minutes ago from the web”. You can earn 3 twitter entries each day for each time you tweet this giveaway. You must leave a comment for each tweet.

4) Follow @thriftymommy on Twitter. Leave a comment with your Twitter name.

5) Blog about this giveaway and leave a direct link to your post.

6) Mention this giveaway on any forums or message boards and leave me a link.

7) Add Thrifty Mommy and/or Keeping the Castle to your blogroll.  You can earn a separate entry for each one.

Each prize package is valued at $24.98.  This contest ends Saturday, March 28, 2009 and is available to those with a U.S. shipping address (no PO boxes please). The winner will be contacted by email and will have 72 hours to respond or another winner will be chosen. You will not be put on a mailing list, but you must include your email address in the second box under your name (not in the comment box).

Good luck everyone!

Last week I posted about the free monthly download from Charity & the JAMband.  Now I have more exciting news for you.  Charity has donated a cd bundle for a giveaway!  I know how much you thrifty people like free stuff. 

Charity and the JAMband’s music is contagiously fun.  I listen to it with my kids and suddenly moods are changed and we’re snapping and dancing to the music.  My little boy said it himself when he said, “Mommy, this music makes me feel better.”  Awwww.

This cd bundle includes 4 cds from Charity & the JAMband.  This prize is valued at $52. 

How to enter:

You can earn an entry for each item you complete, but you must leave a separate comment for each one.  It just makes it easier to tally and pick a random winner.

1) Leave a comment.  Tell me what you would do with these cds or which songs you like.

2) Give this post a thumbs up at Stumble Upon and leave your Stumble name.

3) Tweet this post and leave your Twitter name or status url. To retrieve your Twitter status url, simply click on the timestamp of your tweet. It will say something like, “5 minutes ago from the web”. You can earn 3 twitter entries each day for each time you tweet this giveaway. You must leave a comment for each tweet.

4) Follow @thriftymommy on Twitter. Leave a comment with your Twitter name.

5) Blog about this giveaway and leave a direct link to your post.

6) Mention this giveaway on any forums or message boards and leave me a link.

7) Add Thrifty Mommy to your blogroll.

8)  Sign up for the Charity & the Jamband newsletter.  Simply enter your email at the bottom right of the screen.  Once again, you must leave a comment telling me you’ve done this.

Other info:

This contest ends Tuesday, March 3, 2009 and is available to U.S. residents only. The winner will be contacted by email and will have 72 hours to respond or another winner will be chosen. You will not be put on a mailing list, but you must include your email address in the second box under your name (not in the comment box).

Good luck everyone and thanks to Charity for donating this great prize.

We are very excited to be celebrating our 2000th post and Clorox wants to celebrate with us.  Clorox is donating some prizes for giveaways.

Clorox is giving TEN lucky winners TEN coupons for bleach.  The coupon reads:

ONE FREE
Clorox Liquid Bleach
96 oz regular or 82 oz plus
maximum value: $2.19

That’s ten free bottles of bleach for ten winners, value of $21.90 per winner. 

There are several ways to enter this contest.  You can earn an entry for each one you complete.

1)  Leave a comment.  You can say simply “enter me”, but I’d prefer something more like, “Oh, I use Clorox for the funky smell in my washing machine.”

2)  Give this post a thumbs up at Stumble Upon and leave your Stumble name.

3)  Tweet this post and leave your Twitter name.

4)  Blog about this giveaway and leave a link.

5)  Mention this giveaway on any forums or message boards and leave me a link.

6)  Add Thrifty Mommy to your blogroll.

You must leave a comment for each option that you choose so that each entry will be counted.  This contest ends on January 21 and is only for U.S. residents.  The winners will be contacted by email and will have 48 hours to respond.

Good luck everyone and thanks to Clorox for donating this great prize.

A special thanks to Revka at RS Designs for designing our celebration logo.  Revka is a pleasure to work with and she offers blog designs, mommy cards, etsy banners and buttons, and so much more!

Woohoo!  We have a lot to celebrate at Thrifty Mommy.  This blog has been around for three years and we’re celebrating our 2000th post!

You’ve seen us through a lot here and we’re thankful for those of you that have stuck around and also for you lurkers.  ;)  We hope that you have enjoyed our thrifty tips and tidbits that we’ve had to offer over the years. 

To celebrate our milestone, we’ll be having some great giveaways in the upcoming days.  Stay tuned for some awesome prizes.  In the meantime, I hope you’ll check out 101 Helpful Thrifty Mommy Articles. 

A special thanks to Revka at RS Designs for designing our celebration logo.  Revka is a pleasure to work with and she offers blog designs, mommy cards, etsy banners and buttons, and so much more!