Discount Coupons for a Full-time Mother

Posted by admin on Aug 24, 2010 in Articles | 0 comments

It’s tough to raise babies and children. Really. Having given birth to three beautiful kids in the course of the past five years, I have come to realize that parenting is no joke, that it’s effectively a full-time job. It feels like so, although of course I am not getting paid any salary for doing it. On the contrary, my personal and household expenses have skyrocketed. Without discount coupons, I wouldn’t know how I’d be able to survive – financially, that is – as a mother.

If I am not breastfeeding, I am looking up the deals being offered at the Baby Center Store, an online destination and resource for parents of children ages two to eight. That is actually where I had bought strollers for when my babies turned to toddlers. That is also where I shopped for clothes, toys, nurseries, and other essentials. I remember being surprised at how many brands for babies and children they carried: Britax, Carter’s, Da Vinci by Million Dollar Baby, Fisher-Price, and Medela, among others. Of course, before I ever made a purchase of anything, I joined the website’s parent community, where I found mothers who used to be in the same situation as I am, and who then offered a kind of web-based support system. On chat rooms and forums, I have asked them questions such as: what do I do when they refuse to drink my milk? How can I convince my husband that it’s necessary for him to learn how to change a diaper? It’s fantastic, really; now we young parents all share tips, advice, and discount coupons.

I have also found another useful parenting resource in Leaps and Bounds. This is a company that encourages a child’s development and offers plenty of affordable toys, educational tools, and activities. Of course, while I want my kids to have fun, I also want them to think, create, learn, and grow at a proper pace; products such as the Gardena Gardening Trolley, the Personalized Art Smock, Giant Building Blocks, and Gears Building Set – all of which I bought at the aforementioned website at a great price – enable my kids to learn many skills even while at play. (The only problem is that these toys can make a big mess of our living room. Maybe I ought to hire a new housekeeper!)

Anyway, as the years go by, I know that my children will grow bigger, have evolving needs, become more complex. This is something for which I am trying to prepare. How, you ask. Well, thanks to the Internet, I have been able to surf for terrific magazine titles that offer specialized content for parents. Without having to leave my computer desk, I have purchased year-long subscriptions to parenting and family magazines such as Family Fun, Parent and Child, Good Housekeeping, Mother Verse, and American Baby. This didn’t necessarily cost me much, since I used – you guessed it – discount coupons searched on the Internet. It’s a thrill to realize that I can save big even as my children’s needs sometimes become overwhelming. Well, not as big a thrill as my full-time motherhood job.

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Home Office Building With the Help of Discount Coupons

Posted by admin on Aug 19, 2010 in Articles | 0 comments

I had long been planning to build my own personal office at home – a private workplace to discourage people who are prone to interrupting. (Cough, children, cough.) This is why, last week, I looked up the Internet for the best online deals and discount coupons for office supplies. There’s a cost-cutting motivation in not deciding to rent office space; to have shopped online and then conveniently find office furniture and supplies on the Internet –all of them priced to meet my budget– made me feel even better.

Being an architect, the first thing I needed was an art and drafting table. You know, that on which I can comfortably draw up plans, illustrate my ideas, justify their wildness, and, of course, place my cup of free-streaming coffee (architects like me need caffeine for precision and accuracy). And so from eOfficeDirect.com, I got a 37-inch-tall Mayline Four-Post Drafting Table, complete with tool and shallow drawers. It was shipped two days ago –fast and free (because I had used discount coupons)– and I easily fell in love with its smooth, thermally fused Birch laminate wood grain. Only a fellow architect would be able to relate to the adrenaline rush a smooth draft table can give me.

But anyway, what’s an office without pen and paper? Being the American boy scout that I am, I had already been armed with pencils and rulers, ink and charcoal, matte sheets, pads, and paper rolls. But I was surprised to find that I could actually get better deals from the Internet than from when I walk seven blocks to the nearest office and supply store. After having researched the products, compared the prices, and read the reviews, I now stock up by making all my purchases online. Buying something as seemingly inconsequential as a jaw-style staple remover, I was even able to save a few dollars!

But I didn’t want to compromise. If I wanted to work at home, then I would work in style. I had to put on some art, and décor, and other such fashionable miscellany. From the Furniture Paradise I purchased, using discount coupons, a relatively cheap walnut-finished Quartz Grandfather Clock with Westminster chime. From FranklinCovey I acquired a really handy desk valet, where I can put my pen and pencil tray and keep my electronic cords detangled and out of sight. Lastly, from Calendars.com I bought a Vintage Advertising Coca-Cola Wall Calendar – for no more than twelve dollars.

These unbelievable deals made my home office building a worthwhile endeavor. Not to mention affordable. These days, I won’t have to kick my wife out of the couch so I can turn off the TV and get on with my drafting blueprints for clients. I won’t have to spank my poor little boys for making too much noise while I am working. Thanks to office supply stores on the Internet, as well as to their discount coupons, I am loving (more than ever) what I do. Believe me: I didn’t think that was possible.

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