Chatbug Karen

I’ll be honest. I have never shopped at Sephora but the opportunity to save money gripped me in its claws. Do you ever buy something just because it is such a good deal? I am not even getting paid to write about this! I am not getting paid to write about how Jon, as in Jon Gosselin, gave his soon to be ex-wife Kate flowers. Thank goodness I am not getting paid to write about it because I am not writing it!

This is the time of year when I shop for other people. People who shop at Sephora! Sephora has fragrance gifts, skincare gifts and best of all, great stocking stuffers. It looks like I have been sorely missing out by not shopping at Sephora.

For a limited time only, get FREE SHIPPING on select holiday gifts at Sephora! Enter the code HOLIDAYSHIP when you check out and you will not be charged for shipping. Awesome.

Again, I am not getting any money or free product to write this. I just like to share a good deal when I see it.

I have to tell you something that strikes me as being funny. My husband and brother in-law went to the mall three times this weekend. Yes, these men who normally whine and beg us not to have to accompany us gals to the mall went there by themselves not once, not twice but let me count the times. One, two, three times to the mall! I must say that there was a knife store there that kept sucking them in. They haven’t become total mall junkies yet!

I rarely go to the mall these days. The Internet makes it possible to order almost everything I normally shop for in the convenience of my own home. I use a wonderful savings site at http://www.couponchief.com that has coupon codes for so many of the shops I used to have to visit at the mall. I am not tempted by all the pretty things I would walk by at the mall when I use Coupon Chief instead. I simply find the shop I need and get the savings code. The link at Coupon Chief takes me directly to the store where I order what I need.

For example, let’s say that I need some lotion from Bath & Body Works. I check at Coupon Chief and get the Bath & Body Works coupons code to use when I check out at Bath & Body Works online. I can even buy my favorite lotion with Lancome coupons through Coupon Chief. I save so much time and most of all I save money by using Coupon Chief.

Shhh, don’t tell the guys that I don’t need to go to the mall.

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I began saving Betty Crocker coupons when I was a teenager. It was fun to sort through them and organize them according to how many points each was worth. Eventually, I had enough coupons to start ordering merchandise from the Betty Crocker catalog. I still use the silverware I purchased many years ago. Betty Crocker sells good stuff.

I saw on Lisa’s blog, Work at Home Mom Revolution, that if you sign up at BettyCrocker.com as a newsletter subscriber you will get a free calendar. Very cool!

Thanks for the heads up Lisa!

I enjoyed sewing today and was able to organize my sewing stuff a bit. Every time I sew I make a mess. I hate to take the time to clean because it keeps me from sewing. It is becoming impossible to find anything under piles of material and thread. Between sewing and organizing my pictures, I keep busy.

I have been working on organizing my pictures. I am so glad I used Snapfish coupons and have both hard copies and online copies of most of my pictures.

We have so many albums of pictures that I cannot possibly remember each and every picture in them. With online picture albums, I can sort through pictures quickly and find the one I need. I have them organized into many categories. It would take too many albums to sort the same amount of pictures.