Sears has a lot of fun things going on this holiday season! One of my favorites is the Sears Cheer Tree Mosaic, where real people (like you and me and not those fake people) have submitted photos of their holiday decorating, including their own Christmas trees, house decorations, and more. It’s fun to get a peek at what other people are doing since I’m usually in need of all of the inspiration I can get!

Even better is the fact that you can also find deals hidden within the Cheer Tree! New 30-50% off discounts are unlocked each day!

Also – nestled at the very top of the page is a coupon that will immediately get you $5 off any $50 Christmas order at Sears! Christmas orders include trees, ornaments, decor, and more. These items are already marked down up to 50% off! While it’s maybe a little late to begin the decorating at this point, it’s never too early to start saving up for next year.

Want to participate in the Sears Cheer Tree Mosaic? Just click Add Me to upload a photo of your own holiday decorations to become part of the Cheer Tree!

Giveaway:

One lucky person will win a $25 Sears Gift Card!

To enter, you must upload a photo of your own holiday decor to the Sears Cheer Tree Mosaic! Then, share the link through Twitter or Facebook with friends. Then, leave us a comment below letting us know that you’ve shared the Sears Cheer Tree Mosaic love!

This giveaway will remain open through December 23, 2011. One winner will be randomly selected.

Good Luck!

Disclosure: Sears provided me with a gift card for posting about the Sears Cheer Tree Mosaic, but all opinions expressed above are my own.

Check Out the Sears Cheer Tree Mosaic & Enter to Win a $25 Sears Gift Card! is a post from: Fantabulously Frugal.

Sneakpeeq is a shopping site. Each day you get 20 “peeqs” that allow you to check out new items. In the short time I’ve been using sneakpeeq I’ve discovered a couple of new companies. I’ll let sneakpeeq tell you how they work in-depth:

From exciting new products by brands you already love, to awesome products by brands that we know you’ll love (once you meet them), sneakpeeq is your destination for discovery! Shop with us and share something amazing! Our mission is to bring you the undiscovered at scandalously low prices.

In addition to introducing all things you love, we’ve hidden tons of fun badges and price reducing rewards beneath the peeq button.

Additional discounts will be held individually in your account from the badges and rewards you unlock. The more you buy, share, love, and peeq, the more incentives and surprises you’ll receive. Spend them at anytime, and pay your special price for that thing you love. Check back often because we have new brands and products asking to be discovered daily!

Interested in checking out this new shopping platform? Wouldn’t it be even better if you could start out with a little bit of spending power in your pocket? Today’s your lucky day because Fantabulously Frugal has teamed up with sneakpeeq to offer everyone a chance to win!

Giveaway:

When it comes to the Fantabulously Frugal/sneakpeeq giveaway, everybody wins! sneakpeeq is giving away 20% off your next purchase just for entering, plus a chance at the Grand Prize: a $50 sneakpeeq gift card to use on your favorite food, style and home products. A second place winner will receive a $25 sneakpeeq gift card. Five runners-up prize winners will receive a $10 gift card, which actually goes a long way in sneakpeeq’s amazingly low-priced boutiques!

That’s 7 winners!

Enter the giveaway by clicking on this link: http://bit.ly/uMOSZa and joining sneakpeeq today! There’s no form to fill out or anything. As long as you click through that link your entry will be tracked.

This giveaway will run through January 1, 2012 and all winners will be announced that week!

Good Luck!

Giveaway: Enter to Win 1 of 7 Gift Cards from Sneakpeeq is a post from: Fantabulously Frugal.

We have a ton of winners to announce! All winners have been contacted already. If you didn’t win one of these, well, keep your eyes peeled …

American Express $250 Gift Card – Andrea

Bonobos Gift Card & Cufflinks – April

Red Ginger Cosmetics – Rebecca

Barnes & Noble Nook – Jana

Betty Crocker Cooking Set – Cynthia

Diane von Furstenberg Leni Tote – Melissa

Petunia Picklebottom Gift Set – Tammy

Mila Bracelet from Isabella Rose Designs – Sarah

Furla Clutch – Stacy

Pilates Bundle – Elisabeth

Furla Handbag – Hayley

Betty Crocker Big Red Cookbook – Hayley & Stephanie

Tracy Anderson Perfect Design Series DVDs – @faitcam

L.A.M.B. Clutch Wallet – @egood33

Congrats to all of the winners (only Hayley won twice!) and thanks to all of you for taking the time to enter!

Winner, Winner… is a post from: Fantabulously Frugal.

We’re giving away 2 Bonobos gift cards that will total $50, as well as a pair of Ox & Bull Trading Argyle Rectangle Cufflinks {$65 value}.

Guys or gals can enter, obviously, but I’m guessing the ULTIMATE winner is going to be a guy. {Not that I’m going to pick a guy to be a winner… winner picking will be completely random.}

One thing to note: The Bonobos gift cards expire December 31, 2011 so you’re going to want to HURRY to use them. If you want, I can even email the winner the gift card numbers and ship the cufflinks for quicker ordering power.

Want to enter this giveaway?

Leave a comment below telling me one thing you’re still shopping for this holiday season.

Giveaway ends when today ends. Winner will be randomly selected tomorrow!

Quick Giveaway for the Men: $50 to Bonobos + Ox & Bull Trading Cufflinks is a post from: Fantabulously Frugal.

Thanks to all of you for taking the time to enter. Sadly, only 10 people could win this time around. Here are the winners!

Tara
Kristin
Katy
Anne
Rachel
Kara
Karen
Anna
Christine
Evelyn

We have already sent out the winning emails, so if your name matches one of those above, check your email and then your spam. If you have nothing from us then it is safe to assume someone else with your name won.

More winners coming soon … in the meantime, don’t forget to enter our American Express Shopping Challenge Giveaway! One lucky winner will get a $250 American Express gift card!

You Are $100 Richer… If You’re One of These Lucky Ebates Winners! is a post from: Fantabulously Frugal.

This holiday season American Express challenged me to share a few of my money-saving tips as I purchased Christmas gifts for five of my loved ones. They armed me with $250 and 40,000 American Express points and asked me to both shop and save, all while documenting what I purchased. I, of course, was happy to oblige.

Generally I just shop as I see things, but as the month turned to December I realized I had purchased all of one gift and needed to get on it, so this challenge provided the perfect incentive to get going. I thought about what to write about and what gifts I wanted to purchase before deciding to utilize the same exact money-saving tactics I write about on this site to save money while shopping for my family:

1. Coupons
2. Sample Sale Sites
3. Daily Deal Sites
4. Cash Back Shopping

Below you’ll find what I purchased for my family using the $250 American Express Gift Card, and how I made the most of that money using the money-saving tactics above.

Gifts for Fiance:

While my fiance doesn’t play video games all that often, there are some games he gets REALLY into and Call of Duty is one of those games. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 was on his list this year and I thought I’d give into his one true video game love. To get this deal I did a little bit of price shopping, and I also used this opportunity to try out The Gift Chain from American Express that I wrote about last week. I found this game for $51 at Walmart, which is about $9 cheaper than I found it elsewhere, excluding Amazon which has it for the same price. Walmart is also one of the retailers included in The Gift Chain, so I purchased it through that program, and my free gift from The Gift Chain was a free membership to ShopRunner. With ShopRunner I will get free 2-day shipping from many online retailers, so that’ll come in handy in the future, even if it wasn’t helpful on this specific order.

Total Spent: $51

My fiance asked for a couple of belts, and so I found this Kenneth Cole Leather Reversible Belt at Modnique. Originally $48, Modnique had it for $29, but thanks to some account credits I got this gift for free! Refer your friends to your favorite sample sale sites and you’ll be on your way to a free shopping adventure, too!

Total Spent: $0

Gift for Mom:

My mom is pretty tech-savvy and generally a fan of new gadgets and whatnot. She also loves streaming Netflix to her laptop. Thus, I decided to get her a Roku 2 HD, so she can stream all sorts of media straight to her TV and give up watching things on the mini screen. I noticed this weekend that they were offering 20% off this specific version, so instead of paying $59.99, I paid just $48.

Total Spent: $48

Gift for Dad:

All year I have been hearing just one thing from my dad. He wants just one gift, and one gift only: an Amazon Kindle. This was the easiest gift I purchased because my dad was upfront with what he wanted and the Kindle still sells for the same price everywhere, so I didn’t have much digging to do. I did get free shipping on my order thanks to my Amazon Prime Membership.

Total Spent: $79.99

Gift for Sister:

I wrote about the Swirl 70% off sale yesterday and decided to pick up a dress for my sister. She’s a college student and loves getting designer clothing that she doesn’t have to pay for. She’s also a bit of a funky dresser, so I thought this dress would be perfect for because it has a lot going on from the multi-colors, to the unusual hem length, and the fab hem pattern. I hope this is something she’ll love. Originally $125, Swirl was selling this Kas dress for $49. Thanks to the 70% discount I paid just $14.70.

Total Spent: $14.70

I love that I’m posting this crazy unicorn hat right after the designer dress, but while my kid sister is definitely growing up, she’s still a kid and I know she’s going to love this Unicorn winter hat I picked up at Modnique a couple months back.

Total Spent: $19

Last week I posted about how daily deal site SaveMore was offering $25 Barnes & Noble gift cards for $15, and I picked one up for my sister. There’s a Barnes & Noble on her college campus, so I’m sure she’ll be able to put this to good use. {This deal is still available for another few hours!}

Total Spent: $15

Future Mother-in-Law:

My future mother-in-law absolutely LOVES the soap from Bath & Body Works. I can’t stress it enough – she LOVES this soap. I like buying it for her as a Christmas gift because there are such awesome deals available. Right now Bath & Body Works is offering 6 soaps for $20, so I loaded up on her favorite scent, Coconut Lime Verbena. The 6 for $20 deal brought the price of the soap down to $3.33 each, but I found coupon code “20WINTER11″ that took an additional 20% off my order and brought the total down to $15.98 before shipping. PLUS, I placed my order through Ebates and  earned an additional 3% cash back, which equals just 48 cents but is better than nothing.

Total: $15.50 after cash back from Ebates

I was in Boston this past weekend for a conference and couldn’t resist a stop at one of my favorite small businesses, Blackstones of Beacon Hill. I’d had a successful shopping trip there a few years back, and this trip proved to be the same. My future mother-in-law loves birds and snowmen, so I knew this robin + {decapitated} snowman figurine would be a hit with her.

Total: $10

Total spent on all gifts: $253.19

That’s 14 total items purchased for $253.19, which isn’t bad at all considering I had 3 pretty high-ticket items in the mix (the video game, Roku, and Kindle). I’m pretty proud of the fact that I only paid the full retail price on two of the items. There’s not much I could do about the price of the Kindle, and the price of the robin + snowman figurine certainly didn’t break the bank.

Next week I’ll share with you how I stretched my budget even further by supplementing my cash with 40,000 American Express Membership Rewards Points!

Now it’s your turn…

Win a $250 American Express Gift Card!

American Express has given me one $250 American Express Gift Card to give away to one of you very lucky readers!

How to Enter: 

1. Mandatory: Leave a comment sharing a tip for making the most of your holiday shopping budget.

2. Extra entry: Leave a SEPARATE comment sharing the best bargain you’ve snagged this holiday season.

3. Extra entry: Tweet about this giveaway. Leave a SEPARATE comment each time you Tweet. (Up to 2x per day.)

4. Extra entry: Post about this giveaway on Facebook. Leave a SEPARATE comment each time you post. (Up to 1x per day.)

This giveaway will remain open through December 13, 2011. One winner will be randomly selected to win a $250 American Express Gift Card.

Good Luck!

Disclosure: American Express provided me with a $250 gift card and 40,000 Membership Rewards Points, but all opinions expressed above are my own.

American Express Holiday Shopping Challenge + Win a $250 Gift Card! is a post from: Fantabulously Frugal.

Alrighty folks, we’ve come to the end of our fun with Ebates but don’t get too sad … FIVE of you are going to win $100 cash! Straight cash, yo!

We’re going to make this as SIMPLE as possible.

Want to be one of the 5 people to win $100 today?

First: You MUST be a member of Ebates. Not sure what Ebates is? Check out one of the first posts that ever appeared on this site – our Ebates Review! I promise it’s a great way to earn back some of your money when shopping online, and they’re offering double cash back today which means even more fab discounts on those Cyber Monday deals!!  Click here to register now if you are not already a member. I promise it’ll take just a second.

Second: You MUST leave a comment below telling us how you’d like to spend your $100.

That’s it. 5 winners will be randomly selected to win $100 from Ebates. We will verify with Ebates that you are a member before announcing the winners, so make sure the email address you use to leave a comment matches the email address you used to register for Ebates.

You CAN enter this giveaway even if you already entered our Black Friday giveaways. HOWEVER, you can only win 1 of the 10 prizes. There will be 10 winners total combined between Black Friday and this latest promotion.

This giveaway will remain open through November 30, 2011.

Good Luck!!!

Giveaway: Win One of 5 $100 Checks from Ebates!!! is a post from: Fantabulously Frugal.

Going to a holiday party and don’t know what to bring? If you want to bring something easy, that doesn’t take a lot of time but looks homemade, consider these Betty Crocker Molasses Cookies.  I was given a package to try (as well as a cookie sheet, apron and spoon), and I have to say these were very easy to make and tasted delicious!

All it took was an egg, butter and water, mixed with this package, to create delicious cookies.  I was pretty lazy and didn’t want to spend more than 30 minutes baking, so I made sure to make some super big molasses cookies to reduce the amount of times I needed to put the cookie trays in the oven.  The cookies took about 5 minutes of prep time, and 10 minutes to bake.  I had to make two trays of cookies and made about 18 cookies, but you can make up to 36 cookies if you make small cookies instead.

The result? Super big molasses cookies that my roommate and I thought were delicious – and were gone pretty quickly.  The cookies were soft and chewy, and you definitely could taste the cinnamon and spice.  My one tip after making these cookies is to make sure the butter is softened and cut it into little pieces – rather than throw the whole stick in – so it’s easier to mix.

Want to try these cookies for yourself?  Enter to win a Betty Crocker Molasses Cookie Prize Pack!

Your prize pack will contain a Betty Crocker Molasses Cookie Mix, a Betty Crocker apron, non-stick baking pan, and a mixing spoon.  Simply fill out the form below, and the prize could be yours!

A winner will be selected by 11:59 pm EST on November 30. Good luck!

Disclosure: the information, product, prize pack and giveaway were provided by Betty Crocker through MyBlogSpark. Opinions are my own.

Giveaway: Betty Crocker Molasses Cookie Prize Pack is a post from: Fantabulously Frugal.

Ebates is giving away $1000 CASH to 10 FantabulouslyFrugal.com readers!  *Happy dance for everyone!!!*

10 very lucky winners will each get a check for $100 from Ebates!  All you have to do is stop by here to enter the giveaways.

We will be giving away $500 on Black Friday and another $500 on Cyber Monday.

Entering is going to be SUPER easy but you MUST be a member of Ebates to win.  Not yet a member? Click here to register for Ebates now!!! Registering will take you approximately 2 seconds and they’re not spammers so you won’t receive a ton of junk from them. And … you’ll probably end up saving money, which is never a bad thing.

So come on back Friday because we’re going to be continuing our own Thanks-Giveaway party, plus covering all of the hottest Black Friday shopping deals, and now we’re giving away CASH. {I kinda wish I was a reader right now. }

You’re going to want to register for Ebates regardless, because they’re going to be offering DOUBLE CASH BACK  at an insane number of stores on Black Friday and Cyber Monday.

Those of you that win the cash will definitely want to shop through Ebates to get the most of your $100.

Click here to register for Ebates now!!!

Ebates & FantabulouslyFrugal.com Are Giving Away $1000 on Black Friday & Cyber Monday! is a post from: Fantabulously Frugal.

Want to win one of two lovely Missoni scarves? {And this is the opposite of Missoni for Target, aka this is the real deal.} Head on over to our Facebook page, like us if you haven’t already, share with some friends and you will be on the path to #winning!

I – and all of the lovely ladies of Fantabulously Frugal – have one of these scarves and they are beautiful. Soft. Colorful. Lovely. Everything you’d expect from Missoni.

This giveaway is open through November 28, as well.

Click here to enter over on our Facebook page!

Please note: No comments left here will count toward the giveaway. You must go to the facebook page above to enter.

Facebook Thanks-Giveaway: Win 1 of 2 Missoni Scarves! is a post from: Fantabulously Frugal.