SAVE ON HEALTH
We've purchased our vitamins and herbal supplements from Puritan's Pride for years and years. Great customer service, excellent return policy and fast shipping make them a pleasure to do business with. But the best thing is the buy one, get multiples free deals they offer. Watch their catalogs and web site for monthly special offers.
FOOD AND FUN FOR HALF PRICE
Get an Entertainment Book for your summer vacation destination.
The Entertainment Book is a great resource for two-for-one dining coupons at restaurants from fast food to beautiful resort settings. It also provides discounts for museums, hotels and great savings on rental cars (we received a better discount from Entertainment than from AAA, Sams or Costco). We've purchased these books for use at home and also for our summer vacation destination cities and saved hundreds of dollars in a week. 
A subscriber turned us on to Restaurant.com. We tried it for our anniversary and had a $35 meal for only $18. The selection of restaurants is great. You just need to be careful and calculate the cost of the gift certificate, the gratuity that is usually included and the minimum purchase required to know if you will really save. Give it a try and let us know how much you save.
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HEALTH INSURANCE
In September 2007 we cut our monthly health insurance premium by $200 simply by quoting our health insurance coverage through eHealthInsurance.
Read more here.
Health insurance is your first line of protection against financial disaster. If you can't afford health insurance, please, please contact your state department of insurance and see what they can do to help you.
Help your college student save money on text books. Renting them eliminates the high cost of buying and the hassle of selling them back.
Years ago, Annette's dad, Syl Meola retired from a sales job in the electronics industry and took a job at his local church as the head of the maintenance department. Syl is the consummate organizer and master of efficiency. One thing he noticed was that whenever there was a reception or some sort of meeting where drinks were served from a coffee pot or cooler, inevitably some of the liquid ended up on floor.
Over time he developed a simple yet revolutionary idea - The Original Drip Catcher was created.
It's an inexpensive way to eliminate this sticky and messy problem.
After years of selling thousands of these products by word of mouth, we've finally helped him to put up a simple web site to let the world know about his invention.
Visit Syl's web site: www.OriginalDripCatcher.com
GREAT WEB HOSTING/ GREAT CUSTOMER SERVICE
Our web site is hosted by www.GoDaddy.com . To be honest, there are other providers who may be a little cheaper, but we like the fact that we can call (480) 505-8877, usually spend less than 3 minutes on hold and get a live (English speaking American) on the phone to help answer any questions we have. No joke, a real person who is well trained and speaks English. We've been to their offices in Scottsdale, they run a great organization and give you real help. (The are the largest registrar of domain names too — GoDaddy.com $1.99 Domain Names ). Here's a link to GoDaddy.com Hosting Plans 
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GET CONTROL OF YOUR MONEY!
This is the best computer based budgeting system out there. MVelopes uses the same system we describe in our book. It's better than Quicken and MS Money, both of which only track your spending after the fact. Mvelopes helps you save money in advance of your purchases. That's exactly what we've been doing since 1982. Give it a free try — we think you'll love it.
TIRED OF OUTRAGEOUS
CELL PHONE
BILLS?
How many families have been stunned by their teen's cell phone bills. We're talking shockers of over $400 in a month!
Put a stop to this budget busting habit.
First, have your teen be responsible for most, if not all of their cell phone bill.
Second, if you want to help them control costs, get them a prepaid cell phone plan.
Get PREPAID without getting BURNED! 
We like T-Mobile prepaid plans and just purchased a pre-paid phone for emergencies. T-Mobile's customer service is phenomenal. Their best deal is to buy 1000 minutes of air-time (1 year expiration) and then roll-over any unused minutes by purchasing any denomination of minutes before the end of the year.
Do your research and start saving.
GREAT PARTY SUPPLIES
When our kids were younger, we'd buy lots of party decorations and party favors from Oriental Trading Company. Whenever the catalog would arrive, each of the kids would spend hours circling the "cool" things that they wanted to have for toys and as trinkets to decorate with when guests arrived. We experienced good delivery and good customer service.
More recently, we hosted a Medieval Party and a Pirate Party at our church for a young adults group. We ordered great background murals and other decorations from Oriental Trading, they looked great and the guest's thought they were fantastic. If you're putting together a theme party, start here — you'll be amazed at all of the stuff they have.
SEE PHOTOS HERE
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