Looking for new ways to save money? With this economy (or any type of economy actually), you should always be looking for new ways to save money. You’d be surprised how easy it can be. You don’t have to spend all of your time doing it either. Sometimes something as simple as asking the right question can get you a discount.

If you’ve always wanted to know how to save money on things such as restaurants, movies, your bills, clothes, etc… you may have heard of The Ultimate Savings Guide before. We created it to give you 202 tips on how to save money in different areas of your life. It gives you simple things you can do to save money.  Most of these things take only seconds to do, and can really save you a lot.

What types of tips will you find?

• 30 tips to save on Groceries and Health and Beauty Aids.
• 11 tips for saving money on Entertainment.
• 27 tips to save on your Bills and Services like phone, cable and heat.
• 23 tips on Vacations and Traveling.
• …and more!

Originally we sold it for $29.97. At that price it’s a great bargain. You’ll easily save hundreds of dollars after reading it, and after following even a few of the 202 tips. But we just found a way that you can get it for free!

If you go to The Ultimate Savings Guide, at the bottom of the page by the order link, there is now a “Get it Free” button. What does this do? It’ll bring you to TrialPay. On TrialPay, all you have to do is complete one trial, and you’ll get the e-book for free.

Your next question will probably be “But how much will THAT cost me?” Most likely NOTHING, unless you want it to. What you will do, is be able to choose from many different options of what you want to try. Most likely, you’ll just get a free trial of something. You can choose to purchase something – if you were planning on buying it anyway, but that’s up to you.

Why would a company let you try their product for free? It’s a great win-win for everyone. They are so sure you’ll love their product, that they just want you to try it, hoping they will win you over. You get to try the product, and you’ll get The Ultimate Savings Guide for free. Everyone wins!

We hope that this more affordable option (I mean, what’s better than free?) will help get this e-book into your hands, so that you can start saving money, and growing your bank account.

Also, stay tuned to the website, where we will keep sharing with you great deals, as well as money saving tips to help keep more money in your pocket!

It’s another Tuesday afternoon, which means that the Dreamline Savings newsletter came out just a little while ago, with a bunch of great deals that can be found both online, and in your local stores!

If you don’t get the newsletter (which is FREE!), here are just a few of the deals that you missed. You will have also missed all of the cool freebies we had in the newsletter as well!

• Through tonight, you will get 20% off your order at Luggage Online.
• New customers will get 50 Free Prints + a Free Flipbook at Snapfish now through the end of the month.
• Amazon has 20% off Britax products when you buy 2 now through the end of May, and use code BRITAX20.
• Deep Discount has a few different things going on right now:
  • Fox/MGM DVDs are buy 2 get 1 free now through May 19th when you use code B2G1FOX0804. Shipping is free.
  • Universal DVDs are 48% off, with many at $7.44. Shipping is free.
• Circuit City has Buy 1, Get 1 50% off for selected Wii Games. Shipping is free, or you can buy online and pick up in store.

They have settled, and now you can get a refund! How does this work?

You should have received a paper in the mail. If not, you can still go to this website to fill out the information. You can then either fill out the forms you were sent, or do it online here and you can get some money back.

Here is the nice part. There are 3 refund options:

Option 1: Request an easy refund of $25.00. It’s recommended if you traveled outside of the U.S. for less than one week or had foreign transactions of less than $2,500 using your eligible cards during 1996 – 2006.

Option 2: Request a Total Estimation Refund based on your typical spending during travel and your answers to a few questions about your own travel outside of the U.S. This option should be used if you spend more than $2,500 on eligible cards during the time period. Refunds will be a maximum of 1% of the estimated foreign transactions.

Option 3: Request a refund based on information that you provide concerning your annual estimated foreign transactions during the 1996 – 2006 period. This option is recommended if you had extensive foreign travel or foreign transactions and are willing to provide year-by-year information. Refunds will be a maximum of 1% – 3% of your foreign transactions.

During that time frame I have spent almost 3 weeks abroad, but I’m not sure exactly how much I spent. I decided to do things the easy way, and take my $25.00 refund. I’m very happy with this, especially since it is found money! Until I got the letter in the mail, I had no idea I was getting any money, so I’m very happy with it.

So if you’ve been out of the country during the above time frame, you might want to take a look into it and see if you qualify for a refund!   It’s always nice to get money you didn’t expect!

Here’s what I did today before I could go shopping for triples:

1.  Went through a WHOLE LOT of coupons.  Not only do I have my own weekly coupons, but my relatives are nice enough to give me theirs.  I went through the past month and a half (we had triple coupons about that long ago so I knew I had gone through the older ones) worth of circulars.  I cut out anything that was high value that I might use if it was free (or close to it) as well as anything I normally would buy.

2.  Put all of those coupons in my coupon carrier.  I put them in “order” by shopping isle at my regular store.  It makes it a lot easier since that’s the store I am at most often.

3.  Went through the circular to see if anything matched up.  In this case, not much that I was interested in did.

4.  Go to a few websites I like to check out if they found any deals.  Some did, but it wasn’t really on anything I was interested in.

5. Make a list of all of the things I want to buy – both items with coupons as well as anything we need in the house.

I then went to the  store, went up and down each isle, and figured out which were the good deals.  You would think anything that had $2.25 off of it would be a great deal, but I did turn down a whole bunch of items.  For example, I like the Betty Crocker Mini Warm Delights, but even after taking $1.50 off  (the coupon was for 0.50c) it would have still been about $1.29, and I just wasn’t willing to pay it.

A&P isn’t the best priced store in my area, so I knew that I wasn’t going to get as many items as I would have if the triples were at Shoprite instead, but I figured I’d still find a few things.

I ended up getting a few items for free, and a few items for close to free.  I’m happy with how I did, but I think it took more time to find and cut out the coupons then to do the actual shopping!

Of course, the next time there are triple coupons, I will be running! I just hope next time it’s Shoprite that has the triple coupons!

The Dancing Deer Baking Co. has 15% off your order when you use code AF807 now through the end of December.

At Eddie Bauer if you buy one sweater, you will get the second sweater for 50% off. You can get free shipping one of two ways. If you spend over $100.00 and use code EBAUER07, or if you sign up for free to be an Eddie Bauer Friend and spend at least $50.00.

Amazon has many board games at really good prices. You can also combine some of the games with the Hasbro rebate. Your order will ship for free if you spend at least $25.00.

• Don’t Spill the Beans – for $4.00, regularly $9.99. ($2.00 after rebate.)
• Don’t Break the Ice – for $4.00, regularly $9.99. ($2.00 after rebate.)
• Cootie – for $4.00, regularly $9.99. ($2.00 after rebate.)
• Hands Down – for $4.00, regularly $9.99.
• Chutes & Ladders Dora The Explorer Edition – for $4.00, regularly $9.99.
• Uno – for $2.99, regularly $4.99.
• Hangman – for $4.00, regularly $9.99.
• Boggle Jr. – for $4.00, regularly $9.99.

Circuit City has many $4.99 DVDs including Underworld, Cruel Intentions, Black Hawk Down, Terminator 2, and more. They also have a selection of $6.99 DVDs including Godfather, Finding Neverland, Love Actually, Rounders, and more.

Get a free Angelina Ballerina plush doll.

To learn the basics about the newsletter, you can look here.
What is the newsletter? It’s an email sent out twice a week, usually on Tuesday and Friday. In it, we usually have around 10-15 “deals”. We spend a lot of time researching prices – online, in stores, watching television advertisements, as well as looking at newspapers. We put the best deals in the newsletter both for online stores as well as local stores you can go to if you prefer to shop that way.
These deals are in a lot of different categories… clothing, electronics, DVDs, toys, kids stuff, things for the house, travel deals, and more. We also include freebies you can get (again, both online and in store). We also sometimes include different contests you can enter.
The point of the newsletter is to help you save money. There are so many ways to save money on almost everything, and let’s face it…sometimes you have to (or want to!) buy things. So why not get it as cheaply as you can? If you can get a DVD for $4.99 instead of $15.00, the money you saved can go in a savings account, or go towards a great vacation. If you love reading a certain magazine but don’t want to spend the money – you would be very happy to be able to get it for free.

We have seen so many “financial guru’s” go around telling people never to use a credit card, or don’t ever go out to dinner, buy new clothes, or do anything else that you might want to do.  Of course these things will save you money, but that’s not realistic.  Our goal is to help you balance things out.  This way you can still go to the movies, go to your favorite restaurant, buy that shirt you’ve been wanting…but still have money to put into your bank account, and still be able to go on that vacation you’ve been dreaming about.

Every so often we also add tips on saving money, or really good deals that can’t be summed up in a sentence or two. The whole point of the newsletter (as well as Dreamline Savings in general) is to help you save money without changing your lifestyle. You want to save money, but you still want to be able to go out to eat, buy what you want, and go on nice vacations. The Dreamline Savings newsletter is just one more way we help you do this.
Also, if you’re ever looking for something in particular (say a certain brand of digital camera), or are looking if there are any coupons out there for your favorite store, just send us an email. We’ll do some research, and put the answers in our next newsletter!
If you have any suggestions on how to make the newsletter better, please let us know!