PennySaverUSA.com Blog – The Best Resource for Online Classifieds, Coupons, and Online Contests!

Happy Memorial Day PennySaverUSA.com friends. We hope you are spending your day with loved ones and enjoying a sunny day off.

Before we proceed, we would like to take a moment to honor our armed forces this Memorial Day and the amazing sacrifices they have given to make our country safe and prosperous. Thank you to everyone who is serving, has served, or has lost a family member. What you have given is a gift we can never repay.

Now, onto the Save Money Monday discounts. We’ve rounded up the best Memorial Day sales from around the web to make your day off even more spectacular. Let’s get this party started.

Home Improvement Coupons

With the extra long weekend, many of you will be picking up a paint can and brush to knock off your home improvement honey-do list.

• Before you get started, head to Lowe’s for exclusive Memorial Day home improvement coupons on almost everything in store, like $20 off select paint and 10% off major appliances (Thanks Coupon Teacher for the tip).
• You’ll also want to stock up garden supplies because Garden.com is offering $10 off orders of $100 or more and $20 off orders of $150 or more.

Clothing Store Coupons

DIY not your thing? Don’t worry, while the rest of us are digging in the dirt, you can spend your day shopping with clothing store coupons in the cool, AC breeze.

• Justice Girls wants you to save up to 70% off on their fashion-forward clothing.
• Old Navy is breaking out one awesome online sale on 5/28 Memorial Day only. Just visit Old Navy’s online store and save 15% off your order (20% if you use your Old Navy, Gap or Banana Republic card) when you use the coupon code ONPLUSUP.

Grocery Store Coupons

Now that your home’s in tip-top shape and your wardrobe’s up to date, it’s time to prep for your Memorial Day Party with some great grocery store coupons.

• Albertsons is offering chicken as low as $1.29/1b, fresh Atlantic 5 oz salmon for $2.99 each, and russet potatoes for only $.49 a pound. We bet you’re firing up the grill already. (Thanks Queen Bee Coupons for the tips)

Last but not least, our favorite daily-deal site SaverTime.com will knock $5 off any daily deal you like. You just have to sign up before 5/31 to claim this exclusive offer.

We hope you’ll have as much fun attending these Memorial Day sales as we had finding them. See you back in the office on Tuesday!

Whether or not you celebrate Halloween, odds are you do celebrate food freebies. Thanks to the haunted holiday, this Free Friday features a significant number of food freebies. For a little balance there are also a couple of beauty product freebies. On with the show …

Take your kid to IHOP today for a free scary face pancake.

IHOP serves as this week’s Free Friday opening act. The popular breakfast chain is offering up a free Scary Face Pancake to all children 12-and–under today (Friday, Oct. 28) until 10 p.m. No purchase is necessary and no coupon is required.

Another kids eat free offer comes from Boston Market. Print this online coupon and bring it in to get a free kids meal, with the purchase of an adult entrée. The online coupon is valid from Saturday, Oct.29-Monday, Oct. 31. (Thanks Free Sample Momma)

T.G.I. Friday’s has its own food freebies this weekend. If you wear a costume to any of their participating locations from Saturday Oct. 29-Monday, Oct. 31, they will give you a free appetizer! It appears the choices are mozzarella sticks, pot stickers or crispy green bean fries. (Thanks The Reali$tic Couponers)

Two corporate titans combine for this next Free Friday food freebies offer. Today (Oct. 28) through Monday, Oct. 31, Walmart is giving away free Starbucks ice cream. Just stop by the Bright Ideas Station at your local Walmart to pick up your free ice cream.

Free Friday has the best beauty product freebies.

The last two food freebies this Free Friday are only available to Southern California residents. KFC locations in Southern California have an online coupon on their Facebook page for two free large sides with the purchase of an 8-piece meal. Palomar Pizza & Pasta in the San Diego area, meanwhile, has a SaverTime voucher for a free slice of pizza that you can redeem at the Vista Palomar Park’s FREE Halloween Spooktacular on Saturday, Oct. 29 from 1-4 p.m.

This edition of Free Friday might be packed with food freebies, but as promised, there are a couple of beauty product freebies as well. Boss will mail out a free fragrance sample of its new BOSS Orange scent to anyone who provides their name and mailing address.

Likewise, DOVE is mailing out free Dove® Nourishing Oil Care Leave-In Smoothing Cream to anyone who signs up for their email list and gives their name and address.

Have fun Trick-or-Treating if you celebrate Halloween, and if not, enjoy all the freebies it has resulted in!

PennySaverUSA’s Save Money Monday coupon blog is back on the scene and we are devoting today’s entry to detailing the differences between a coupon, a daily deal voucher and a sale.

On the surface, a coupon, a daily deal voucher and a sale might appear to be the same. In fact, the distinctions between the three are very important.

A coupon provides a discount for a particular item or service. There are printed coupons, online coupons and mobile coupons. Coupons can range from 25 cents off a box of cereal to $250 off a $1,000 couch.

Printed coupons can be found in publications like the PennySaver and must be brought to a store in order to get the stated discount off the stated product or service.

This is an example of a printable online coupon.

Online coupons come in two forms. Printable online coupons can be found in PennySaverUSA.com and function the same way as printed coupons. E-commerce online coupons, on the other hand, provide a promo code that you can then use when making an online purchase. When you submit the promo code, the stated discount will get subtracted from the price of your online purchase.

Mobile coupons are redeemable from your cell phone and are rapidly growing in popularity. They function the same way as printable coupons, but instead of presenting a printed coupon to the store, you just show them the coupon on the screen of your cell phone. PennySaverUSA has launched the app Cha-Ching (available for both iPhone and Android phones) to provide you a way to use mobile coupons.

While a coupon requires no upfront purchase, a daily deal voucher must be bought. You pay a stated price upfront for the voucher and in return you get whatever the value of the voucher. For example, you pay $5 for a $15 men’s haircut voucher to the local barber shop. You then take that voucher to the local barber and you don’t have to pay for a haircut (aside from the initial $5 outlay to buy the voucher). PennySaverUSA.com now has daily deals available from SaverTime.

A sale is very different from a coupon and a daily deal voucher, because it requires no action. A sale is a discount offered by a merchant on a particular item or service to everyone. A coupon (printed or online) or daily deal voucher is not necessary to obtain the discount. Check out PennySaverUSA.com’s PowerSites directory to find local sales in your area.

Please leave in the comments if you have any further questions about the difference between a coupon, a daily deal voucher and a sale.

Next to Free Friday, this is our favorite kind of blog post. The one where we highlight the many amazing online contests we are holding!

Earning the distinction as the headliner among the current online contests is our PennySaverUSA coupon contest. Share with us your best coupon experience in 250 words or less and you will have a chance to win a $250 cash prize!

Enter the SaverTime Tweet2Win contest!

Think about it, you will receive at least a $1 a word if you win the contest – not a bad pay rate. The winner will be determined by a panel of PennySaverUSA judges, and there aren’t a ton of entries, so your chances of winning are strong.

Next up is the latest of the incredible online contests from our daily deal site SaverTime.com. SaverTime is making its first foray into the Tweet2Win arena and will be randomly giving out one $25 gift cards every hour from 9-5 on Friday to registered users who follow @SaverTime on Twitter and retweet the message: “Follow @SaverTime and RT to win a $25 Gift Card every hour on Friday 8/26!“ between now and 5 p.m. Friday.

As an aside, let’s take some time to send congratulations to Carrie M. who won six months of free gas & groceries from SaverTime!

For our Florida readers, The Flyer is offering trips to Disney World, Nassau Beach, the Florida Keys and Coco Key Water Resort for lucky winners. Those are some sweet online contests!

Stay tuned for even more online contests on the way and check us out on Facebook.

Today marks Barack Obama’s 50^th birthday and PennySaverUSA wanted to share some gift ideas for the President of the United States of America.

Our first gift ideas suggestion for President Obama is a massage! What with that nasty debt debate and then today’s stock market crash, it’s a tough time to man the Oval Office. Thankfully on his next trip to Orange County, he can get 50% off a massage at Body Therapy Center with this SaverTime daily deal.

With gold so incredibly expensive right now and President Obama looking for ways to save money, our next gift ideas suggestion is for a personalized sterling silver pendant! This daily deal is also from SaverTime and even comes with free shipping, so you wouldn’t have to pay to get it to 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.

President Obama deserves a nice big pizza for his birthday.

Nothing says party like pizza. Hence our next gift ideas suggestion for President Obama. On his next trip to the Sunshine State (Florida), PennySaverUSA would be glad to treat him to an awesome pie at Original Pizza II. Even better, they have great online coupons which would help cut down the expenses!

Our last gift ideas suggestion for President Obama’s 50^th birthday is a cell phone app. The United States is the “Land of the free” after all, so we are giving him something that’s free! It’s called MOGASA, and it’s PennySaverUSA’s new cell phone app that helps you find, post and review garage sales (download it for iPhone or Android).

If you have more gift ideas for President Obama’s 50^th, please leave them in the comments.

NOTE: You don’t have to “enter” the SaverTime contest. You are automatically entered just by signing up.

Here at PennySaverUSA.com, we are all about online contests. Our June “Favorite Teacher” contest has generated a fair amount of entries, but we’d really like to ramp it up in its final week.

The final day to submit your entry is Sunday, and we’re hoping for a ton of great entries, so when the voting for this online contest takes place next week on the blog, we have some outstanding nominations.

In addition to the “Favorite Teacher” online contest, our new local daily deal site, SaverTime.com, has an exceptional online contest running now.

If you join SaverTime.com today, you’ll be automatically entered into an online contest for a chance to win a trip for four to Disneyland Resort! The prize package includes roundtrip airfare, a three-night stay at the luxurious Grand Californian Hotel & Spa and four three-day hopper passes. Wait, there’s more! The prize also includes breakfast at the Disneyland Storytellers Café and dinner at the Blue Bayou.

Already signed up for SaverTime, but you want to be entered into the Disneyland contest? Fear not! You can gain entry into the contest simply by referring one of your friends to sign up through your referral link. Each additional friend you sign up counts as an additional entry into the online contest.

That’s about as good as it gets in terms of online contests.

Also, SaverTime.com is giving away a $5 credit if you sign up today. You only have a few hours left, so go get your credit now!

Join our contest email list to get the first notifications about upcoming online contests.

Good luck everyone!

Hip-hip hooray! Hip-hip hooray! It’s Free Friday! That special time of the week when PennySaverUSA.com alerts you to offers for a ton of cool freebies. We know you want to get to the freebies, so we’ll dispense with the pleasantries and get right to the offers.

Earning the top spot among this week’s Free Friday freebies is Nescafe. The popular coffee brand is giving away free Taster’s Choice instant coffee samples for registering with their email list.

Get free popcorn when you go to the movies this weekend.

It can’t be the beginning of summer without some blockbuster movies coming out. Well, Yahoo! is enabling you to check out your desired summer flick with free popcorn. All you have to do is give them your mobile phone number and they will text you the for a free small popcorn coupon, redeemable at any Regal, United Artists or Edwards Theater.

Admittedly, Free Friday has had a bias in the past towards women at times, what with all our beauty product and spa freebies. Well, here’s where we make up for that fellas. Adidas is offering free under shirts and underwear through April 14 at their outlet stores with this coupon. Find your local Adidas outlet now. (Thanks heyitsfree.net)

Okay, sorry guys, back to another of the Free Friday freebies for the ladies. If you head over to the Teen Freeway Facebook page and “Like” it, you can get a free sample of leg creme to get your legs nice and smooth when you visit the beach this summer.

Next up in this week’s Free Friday freebies is an offer for a free Father’s Day greeting card from Tiny Prints. For liking their Facebook page, they will give you a coupon code that allows you to order a Father’s Day greeting card from their site at no cost. The code is only valuable on the day you receive it, however, so don’t save it for later.

You knew we couldn’t leave out the kids from this week’s Free Friday freebies. There are several free kids activity books to promote safety and environmental awareness being made available by the Environmental Protection Agency.

Join SaverTime.com now to collect your $5 credit.

Closing out the week’s Free Friday freebies is an amazing offer from the daily deal site SaverTime.com. For a limited time only, they are giving new subscribers a $5 credit to use towards purchases! SaverTime.com has several food deals this weekend, where you can get $10 worth of food for just $5. So if you sign up now, you can get free pizza or Mexican food just for subscribing!

Alright everybody, thanks for reading and have fun with this week’s Free Friday freebies!

Remember when you would just sit down with a printed crossword puzzle and escape from the crazy outside world with a little word play?

Now is your chance to reconnect with those glory days by checking out PennySaverUSA.com’s new puzzle section. All you have to do is download the PDF, print it out and put your mind to the test!

Fill out our puzzle and enter for a chance to win $50.

Even better: We are awarding a $50 prize to one random person each week that fills out the puzzle and answers our little riddle.

That’s as good a way as you’ll see of taking a time-honored tradition and making it hip and digital.

Please also check out the other contests we are running currently. If you sign up for SaverTime, our new daily deals site, you are automatically entered into a drawing for a $100 prize. You can also win up to $1,000 by getting the most friends to sign up. That’s about as good a cash prize as you can find for doing something very simple: Signing up people for a great product that they’ll love.

For Florida residents, we have a pair of contests running. There is a getaway to the Marriott in Sanibel Harbor and another to the Marriott in Hutchinson Island.

PennySaverUSA.com is the place for contests.

PennySaverUSA.com will typically focus on jobs during the Make Money Monday feature, but this is a special day that calls for a one-week detour. It’s the launch of our daily deals site SaverTime!

Spread the word about SaverTime and earn credits.

Sometimes the best way to make money is to save money, but with SaverTime you can actually do both. In addition to offering great coupons, SaverTime’s 5-3-2 Rewards Program allows you to receive credits the more friends in your network buy a deal. You can then use those credits towards deals and end up with an awesome coupon without having to spend a penny.

As if a daily deal program that helps you Make Money Monday and save money at the same time wasn’t enough, there are several other advantages SaverTime has over the other daily deals sites.

Unlike so many other daily deal sites that have either national or regional deals that might be completely irrelevant for you depending on where you live, SaverTime stays true to its local focus. When you sign up, you will be asked to select your locations (you can pick as many or as few as you like). You will then only get daily deals emails dedicated to your locations (for each location you add to your favorites, you’ll have to subscribe to get the emails).  That way you don’t have to read through an email with daily deals from some place you will never visit. Not all locations are ready quite yet, so if you don’t see your area of residence, please check back periodically.

Enter for a chance to win up to $1,000 in the SaverTime contest.

Another thing that separates SaverTime from your average daily deals site is that it offers practical coupons you will actually use. It can get frustrating when you get repeated daily deals featuring unusual goods or services that aren’t really functional at all. SaverTime deals are designed to help you save money on every-day expenses like your car or home.

To make it even more convenient to use SaverTime, you can get Deals-On-The-Go using your mobile phone, and as if you needed any other reasons to join, SaverTime is offering prizes of up to $1,000 in its free contest!

You won’t want to get that oil change or gutter cleaned without consulting SaverTime first to see if a money-saving deal is available. Stay up to date with everything SaverTime on their Facebook page and Twitter feed. What are you waiting for? Become a member!

Disclaimer: For now, SaverTime is only offering daily deals in California, but it will be adding Florida over the next month, and is open to adding more states. Please tell us where you’d like to see us go in the comments.